Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-19

ICOmfortS and COnVenienceS. Talk about
preaching temperance and conducting
Temperance work. When will be ever
learn to make our temperance practi-
cal?
~ very worthy clergyman, in fact
Il bishop of the church, once said to
me. Why. if | was in a strange city and
wanted to clean up I'd go into Il hotel
and do it, Yes, that is all right for a
bishop; but how about the workingman
in jumpers and blouse? If he went into
a hotel just to clean up he'd mighty
soon find that there were bouncers in
that hotel.
II once tramped over most of a city
with my son, hunting for a place to
wash and clean up. was sinfully dir
ty; longed for wash. ! couldn't find
ii. There wasn't place that l could
go. Finally / took my own boy into q
saloon with me and throwing down q
dime got two glasses of milk and then
asked the man if could wash up. He
replied, Certainly, make yourself at
home 1 had dollars worth OF wash
ing up there.
Il went into reading room in Balti-
more one Sunday. They had taken away
every magazine and periodical except
ing UNCONVENTIONAL papers, and they
are not exceptionally interesting read
ing as a rule to the average working
man. However, | sat down and started
reading, when a man came to me and
said: There's meeting going on in
the next room I didn't care if there
was n meeting. / didn't want to so to
it, but he repeated what he said, and ]
asked: DO you mean that I've either
got to go to the meeting or get out and
lie replied yes. Well, I got out, for L
don't intend going to meetings just be-
cause somebody says I've got to.
I'm Baltimore, also, 1 went into n
saloon on Christmas day and saw a
saloonkeeper serving hospitality to
twenty eight Dagoes. Don't make fun
OF the Dagoes. I'm Dago myself, so
far as working is concerned, and l re-
member that Raphael and Michael An
cello We're Dagoes. Well, there was that
saloonkeeper and his wife. as nice and
plainly dressed woman as any of you
here, dispensing hospitality; it was the
only place that the Dagoes could get 1t.
The only man keeping open house and
giving good cheer on Christs own
birthday was the man behind the bar.
And those same Dagoes going across
the street to sit upon a church step to
eat their dinner were fired Off by the
church board because the members OBJ
iected to those dirty Dagoes missing
up the step and sitting on it, would
like to get that church board, the pas
tor of that church and the principal
people in it together and have that sa-
loonkeeper and his wife address them
or how to reach the masses.
Were any of you ever hungry?
don't mean this hunger that comes after
y, big breakfast of beefsteak and pota-
toes and bread and butter and coffee,
and about 10 o'clock you say, TIM so
hungry: I'm just starving death. Tina.
isn't hunger; that's appetite. by nun
ger I mean when all nourlshment is
gone: when you dream about nice
Juicy steak and wake up to find it's only
Il dream and the steak has vanished.
Well, one day was genuinely hungry.
| took a Ratchet 1 had into bakers
shop and wanted to know ii [ could get
to eat on it. The man ques-
toned me, doubted my honesty, fairly
insulted me and then gave me IL cents
worth of food for that Ratchet l got
hungry another day, but didn't 80
back TO that bakers. took the hatchet
i:.to a saloon and asked if l could get
some food on it The man replied, Well,
I should say. whatll you have" | got
:. glass of milk, and then asked ii
could have a piece of cheese. expected
:, i;+.I, ,,+,fa,. like Won i'm good So
oiety. but he cut me off 4 chunk as big
as my hand and l ate it; then ! got an
other glass of milk and another piece
Of cheese. and / asked If could have
some bread with it. and he pointed
ever to the counter and said: Go help
Now, YOU couldn't expect q
preacher to get on to everything the
first time, so | reached over and took
couple of slices. when the saloonmah
said. Quit your fooling; fill your pock-
cts | hesitated and looked at him and
saw he was in earnest and filled my
rockets and went out of that saloon,
my hunger satisfied and my pockets
filled with food. A saloonkeeper treats
lis customers as a hotel treats its
guests. The saloca is the workinsnan's
friend ] go into a saloon almost every
iay; i'm it's hospitality it is a good thing.
Il ii Mere only without the whisky ANA
The beer.
People come to me almost every day |
md say, Mr. McNutt. | should .hlnk
NTH your experience you WOULD eslab-
ish :, nottingham S church. My God, |
aas il come to this? DO we have to
nave a Jim-Crow car on the Gospel