The Tupelo journal., 1905-08-11

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SHE HAvIN' CUT LOOSE FROM ALL
PURITAN RESTRAINT.
I took her for if she would drive to
condemnation with him with two gray
horses and a top buggy.
And he said my idees and hers about
Sunday wuz old fashioned and obso-
lete. And he flew round in a hurry
9ittin' ready for Serbia, | havin' no
right to spank.him and shet him up in
a dark closet as | wanted to. But
while we wuz eatin' dinner, for I
don't want to starye saint or sinner, he
and | had a few words. He repeated
| agin that my Puritan idees about Sun
day amusements wuz old fashioned.
And | seq. Il know it. 1t has been
some years since the Puritans on
over and knelt down on Plymouth
on their new home. It's quite a few
| years since them that founded our
republic set the seal of their blood on
the document, preachin' personal lib
arty to all. but putin Gods laws
| above all. They believed in the Chris
tan Sabbath, John Waddle Allen" SEE
I. George Washington believed in it
and he has passed away a number of
years ago, it is real old fashioned"
He SEE: Our country is made up of
| different nationalities and their wishes
crt to be respected"
SEE [: God said let the stranger
within our gates conform to u ways
in keepin' the commandments, and not
we give up to them. If they come and
| enjoy the blessings Of a Christian
country they ort to be willin' to foller
its customs
SEE Jack: "a Sood many eminent
statesmen and church dignitaries be-
lieve in a continental Sabbath, all
kinds of ~recreations, a-nusements,
open saloons. etc"
SEE L: Saint ard sinners ell agree
that drunkenness is evil and only evil.
the most fruitful cause Of crime, mis-
cry and poverty, ana if there is one
day in the seven that it can be con-
trollea a little why lcse that little
GAIN"
SEE Jack: 1T is sold now more or
less, it is better to sell it openly than
to have it sold on the sly"
well" SEE I, open liberty in that
respect VIII lead us into strange
places. If a man has a right to sell
whisky Sunday he has a right to sell
other things. 1t is surely no worse
to sell good dress goods that are need
ed for comfort, than to sell the stuff
that clothes the body in rags; to sell.
food to nourish the body instead CT
pizen to destroy K: to sell shoes WIKI
good stout soles to protect from sick
ness instead of stuff that destroys the
immortal soul"
But it will be sold anyway" SEE
Jack, folks always have had it and
always will have it; if you make a
law aginst it it will be evaded and the
law brought into contempt"
Well" SEE l, kinder wore out with
his arguments, Tets be consistent and
have always been done since the first
man wuz born into the world, and so
| let's abolish the law agin it, ruther
than have it brought into contempt.
| Let's call the roll in the Rogues' Gal
lery and when they are all lined up
before US, ask 'em very polite how few
murders they could git along with
durin' the comm year and feel COM
Portable, and as if their personal lib
erty wuzn't tempered with. And so
with stealth and kidnapin'. Be real
peticular about that. find out for sure
how many innocent little children they
would feel they must drag off for ran
som. Ee very polite and genteel with
EN-, for some on EN- are our guests
from foreign countries, penal colonies
and such, and they might feel real
hurt if we insisted on fewer murders
and assassinations and kidnapins than
they felt free to agree to. For per-
sonal liberty is precious to 'em. And
they feel that they must shoot and
stab and drink and steal and kidnap
or they hain't havin' their rights"
ooh, shawl SEE Jack, you know,
Amt Samantha; such talk is absurd"
Indeed it u.s. SEE /, and it is the
logical effect Of what you approve on"
But he kinder shrugged his shout
ders as il to throw off my powerful
arguments, and sot off for Serbia with
his head up, but as found out after
wards with a sad heart. for he loved
Lucy dearly, and | felt bad, for / loved
Jack and Lucy, and wanted 'em to be
happy and. Il knowed he wuz goin' in
jest the very direction to find lastin'
onhappiness, and ! hoped he would see
where he wuz and make a change.
And whilst | wuz washin' up the dishes
entirely 'onbeknown to myself / broke
out ~a-singin':
Whilst the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return"
| And Josiah thought | WIZ practicin'