The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-22
Says He's Winning the Opening
SkirmiShes.
FOOL DOGS AND HIT DOGS
RECEIVES LETTER FROM PARK
CITY.
Makes Distinction Between Dancing
Now and When It Was Practicsd
In Biblical Times-Flagrant Of
lenses Committed Under the Cloak
of Religion.

OA 4eC1tSl Ou
Evangelist French Earl Oliver had an
other wrestling bout with the local devils
OF iniqrity, drunkenness and vice at the
liin Methodist church last evening. He
raked the Terpsichorean art, as practsced
TO-DAY, fore and aft, and between the
oroadssdes turned his rapid-fre guns on
the weak-kneed minions of the law. the
oesecrators of the Sabbath. and those
specimens OF humanity who chew tobacco
liquid. ~'''''' - " - "a ' -
I understand that the people are be-
, ginning to. howl because we are winning
TO great victory he said. Now there
are only two kinds of dogs that howl
dogs that are hit. and fool dogs: did that
hold. and through the medium Of the
day. SoS Psop-s !"
Letter From Park City.
n had letter from an old heifer up in
PARK City today, saving that the Bible
I IUs nor condemn dancing. A lot she
irving to teach her granny how 10 raise
ducks; In the Biblical days the dancing
t was done done separately; there was none of
see today. The Bible is a Simple hook.
filled with figures of speech. metsnhors
Slmlles, hyperbole and lowperbole for the
low down to understand.
Ihere is a sadness about the life of a
nan or woman who is taken in fault.
drunkenness is the most dep.orable plight
6 6ouay. ana you've got nasty. low-lived
VINO lure the men from the honest walks
pI me- MI them up with their insidious
Prev. and then kick them out doors
mere is a peculiar sadness about a
woman who has gone astray: and want
10 say that for every woman that walks
Inc streets of dishonor. there is a hairless
httle biped of a man responsible to AL
mighty God for her state
Religion as cloak.
Some of the most fragrant and danna-
Die lmmoralttieS that the world ever saw
are disguised under the cloak of religion.
we nave more sympathy for the out-and-
out forsakers OF Gods word than we have
for SUCH grant hypocrites. They have
lorsaken God, the fountain of living wa
ters, and set to work to dig unsavory
little cesspools for themselves What
proof have We Of the authenticity ard
of us.
God has spoken to America. Instead of
sucking to the high moral standard that
was laid out for us. and trusting to fhes
fountain Of living waters. we are digging
broken cisterns. How many of you are
aware that the name of God does not
occur in the constitutions of the United
states? Look at France; there is ma
ton that has forsaken God and gone over
10 Voltairism. militarism and every other
ism and schism. and is today routed By
terror and anarchy.
Attacks Whisky Evil.
Whisky ard the United States stand
hand in hand. We have paid out hun
dreds of millions for the deadly fluid in
tne past year. We have become a nation
OF ,bSae s and are guilty of the double
waters ard going into the whisky bust
ness. Away back in the dark DAYS Of
the civil war we sacrificed over 60o.C0o
men that slavery might be lifted: that
slavery was nothing compared to the
numbers that have been enslaved by the
whisky habit.
7 have had people say to me that the
only way to remedy this evil is to vote it
down How can you do that when two
tnlras or the church members are sup
porting the industry. They won't vote
principles: Principles, Look at your city
council. for instance: they're loaded to
the muzzle with principles. Look at your
jails; they are crowded with chain gangs
who have forsaken the fountain of living
waters Whisky is at the bottom of it all.
Sweeping Bribery Charge. l
THE courts the officials and the rev.s-
papers are subject to bribery. and $50 will
buy any. police court in the country. We
sign and whine about the slaves in for
L
our very doors. am in this business to
fight it 20 a finish. and for one am ready
TO shoulder musket and sweep it off the
earth.
Another thing is the dissertation of the
Sabbath. The man who keeps his shop
open on Sunday is an anarchist. whether
he has red hair or not. The old ROSTERS
ought TO be shaken up and taught that
they cannot fiaunt the red flag in the face
of the Almighty. I am in this fight to
stay; 1 was not formed in the mould of
fNrrafG 4 l.
bitter end.
What can you do with CITY council
and officers that will not enforce the
bath-house and scrubbed to the bone.
Can a man be a Christian and use to-
bacco? has been asked. l say. yes, but n
mighty dirty one If any of you have the
on the outside of this building; you'll find
them there when you go home. The dir
tiest yellow dog in town wouldn't touch
wouldn't touch it. No. nobody except a
man would contaminate himself with the
filthy stuff
Must Be Pure Gold.
God cannot bless hypocrisy He can
rot stand n segregated. nicke,-plated
liar. You must be pure gold and If you
assaii YOU. and calumny ABUSE and vitu-
peration viii not harm you. The butchers
and grocers say that they. cannot be
Christians because the rch-gofng peo-
pie order their meats and other things
delivered on Sunday morning. man
who will order such things done is a
double-barreled thief.
Now as to dancing. I say 1t is the
cause of an immense amount of immor-
ality. 1 never saw a card-piaying. |
dancing. theatre going church member
that was worth his salt. They say, what |
is the harm in il? l say, what is the !
good in il? That post is as good a Chris |
tan as any of them II is Just as potent |
for good. 1 am loading up with local
ammunition. and before many days l am
make the fur fly so it will blind them. !
would to heaven that the preachers would I
get at the thing and she'll the woods. |
But there is the salary-they can't AFFORD |
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