Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
True as Preachin'.

Will Allen White, of the Emporia ga
zettc meyer wrote anything better than
the following, which appeared i'll his pa
per recently:
Sometimes young men and women
give way entirely to the desire to make
the world better, and then frequently
they go sailing oyer the seas to foreign
lands where the heather dwell. Now, 1t
is assumed that the heather are worse
of, morally, than the Chrstans-an as
sumption that often has little warrant
in facts. There is, for instance, Just as
much immortality in New York city as in
Pckin. There are bad people i'll New and
good people in Pekin.
There are, for instance, enough people
in Emporia who need help to use up the
surplus energy for doing good that the
town can spend. There are now hall a
dozen womcn's foreign missionary socie-
ties in Emporia Their intention to do
good is laudable, but their direction is
absurd.
In this town is woman who sells
whisky and keeps place. She has been
arrested and convicted time and again.
She has an immortal soul that needs saw
ing lust as surely as Chinaman. But
do you suppose that one of these women's
missionary societies would go to her,
bind her moral wounds, pour over her
the oil of kindness and the stimulating
wine of good cheer, set her on the beast
of honest employment and take her to
the inn of decent society?
Well, not for a minute.
These womens foreign missionary So
cieties would line up with the priest and
the Lcvite and pass by on the other side,
with their skirts showing six inches OF
red petticoat and blushing every minute
the woman was in sight.
There are four or five girls going wrong
in this town. These women's societies
know who they are-at least they gossip
about the girls enough-but do they help
them? Do they try to divert them from
the daily and hourly contemplation oil
the old devil of vanity and lust and friv-
olity that is soaring these poor girls
hearts? Do these womcn's missionary
societies trv to make life easier for the
girls in their own kitchen? Do they
make life easier for the poor and the
weak? Have they ever been in String
town, where there is as much need for
them as in the Tien Tsin district?
WHY should we shed crocodile tears
over the heather i'll China, and let
good Americans 90 without encourage
ment and sympathy just because they
didn't wear good clothes and battle in
porcelain bath tub'
The thing to do is to get down to cases
where you want to do good Fighting
Satan is lofty phrase, but getting out
and helping the morally crippled here at
home is much more important, Take
the case of Theodore Marshall-lnglis, OF
Usage City Her life is worth all the
squint-eycd Cinnamon this side OF the
Bad Place-or in it, for that matter
And what is more, there is enough to
keep missionary busy right here in Ly
on county.
There should be more concentration o.
good works at home Put into the de
sire to do good the human interest; make
it personal; help the man actually before
you lying bleeding in the Jericho road
When a girl or hoy gets into trouble
quit gossiping, and see if you can't help
We're all bad enough, God knows; onl,
when one OF us gets caught, let's see
we can't help him or her, rather THAI
gloat over him. Let's put down TIL
! long stick between here and China will
which we touch evil and reach out anC
touch sin with our bare hand. Their
| isn't a man or woman in this town who
will be contaminated by personally try
ing to do something kind for the loves
| wretch IN town