Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-08-09

DATION."
Jonas Teachout, whose barn faces the
| highway a mile outside of this town,
allowed the circus wagon to paste up
! pictures on three sides of the buildin.
| How many tickets for the circus he
| got in exchange l do not know, and it
| has nuthin to do with the question.
What I'm sayin Is that them pictures,
| in my solemn belief, shocked the NOR.
ais of this community fur worse than
as If ten saloons had been opened in
| the town. The circus wagon is ag'in
| approachin. 1t is creepin along in its
| sly, insiduOus way, leavin the blight
| of destruction in its path, and if sun
| thin amt done Jonas Teachout's barn
| will ag'in be enwrapped in the allurin
| colors of vice and degradation. l move
| that it Is the sense of this meetin, and
of the community in gineral, that 10.
mas be struggled with"
1T appears to me-" says Deacon
| Spooner as Moses sat down, that q
| pint has bin made. When Moses talks
| of allurin colors of vice and degrade
| ton, l seem to see before me them pic
lures of wimen jumpin through paper
| hoops. However, I'd like to hear from
| Silas Lapham. | reckon he's interest
| ed in the moral welfare of this com
| munity."
81 amt blamin Jonas tall" says ST.
| las. He got II deadhead tickets fur
| the use of his barn, and l don't believe
anybody was the Wickeder fur it. If a
| man can't gaze at circus pictures with
out goin away and stealth a bari Of
soft soap, then he amt no man. Did
any wife run away from her husband
because of them pictures? Did any
husband elope with the hired gal be-
cause of them"
That's a pint, and l says it's q
pint" eXclaims the deacon as he hus-
ties about. Them circus pictures was
on that barn fur two months, but what
family was busted up through their in
| tiuence? It's fur Moses to specify
whar vice got it's toehold."
81 amt sayin that any families was
busted up" continues Moses, but Pm
| talliin bout the gineral influence on
| gineral morality. A circus picture is
nuthin but a picture, but it suggests
lemonade and peanuts and whisky and
poker and bein out late nights. They
are like pizen ivy. You come across it
in the woods, and it is fair to look up
on, and it seems to be rooted in inno-
cence and thrivin in morality. You
handle it, and you begin to itch and
scratch and find yourself pizened. Like
a hydra headed sarpint, it lays in wait
to work destruction to the unwary. |
hope this meetin and this community
air with me and that it will be decided
to wrassle with Jonas Teachout."
Moses didn't seem to make a pint
on the peanuts and Lemonade" says
the deacon as he scratches his ear
but he was powerful strong ON that
piZen ivy bein rooted in innocence.
kin almost see whar circus pictures
might influence me to go home and
pound my old COW with a sled stake il
she didn't keep her tail still while ]
was milkin, but I'm willin to hear more
arguments. Enos Williams, you driv
by that barn twice day all summer
How did them pictures affect you"
'Not much different from a huskiI
bee" says Enos. 81 didn't feel NJ
feelin's of wickedness stealth Ger me
but did sort of make a fool of myself
l found soft spot in the barnyard ant
tried to turn a handspring, and flu
about two hours they thought my necl
was busted. I'm thinkin that hard eide
has more ginera1 influence on ginera
morality in this community than cir
Gus pictures"
Its a p'intr' shouts the deacon a!
he waves his cane on high; otis &
pint nobody kin git over! It's hard
cider that's backin vice all over thi:
county and h'istin innocence over the
fence whenever they meet However
1t may be that circus pictures also
T<'"-s .~@,.4.- -"
have their influence. Moses, have YOU
got any more arguments"
"Of what use?" says Moses as ht
heaves sigh and turns away. WASN'T
Sedan warned? Did Sedan heed it
When vice stalks rampant through ev
cry household in Jericho and innocenc,
is driv' to the fields to sit under {
blackberry bush and weep, then re
member what / have said here tonight
amt denyin that hard cider 10 blunt
In our morality, but when you add cir
Gus pictures to hard cider what dt
you do?"
Eyes, Sedan was warned, and Sod
am FELL" says the deacon as he shakes