The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16

pended upon cheap package of cigar
cues TO steal away the brain of some
thoughtless boy Can Won def5nit=Iv
iocitte dime of which YOU can sol
"li'lE take your oath that IL has never
Deen guilty Of the crime Of fu~tberirer
the circulation of pernicious literature
III me shape of weekly papers fun Of
naughty pictures or dime novels a bOut
Jesse James that inspire light minded
youths TO leave home and seek tho
VICIOUS pleasures of a bandits life on
the prairie2 What quarter known 70
you, Redface, can honestly say. i'm one
OF thoSe rare moments when money
talks, that it has never been spent on
cocktail or some other agency for
Iurthering the cause of intempzranceq -
never met the gentleman" muir.
INJURED Redface meekIy.
Or been an active particiDart In -
game OF poker. won on "A mere bluff
IN a twenty-five cent limit continued
the knocker fiercely. "Or given to a
rotten waiter in a public restaurant
because the giVeT was actually afraid
not 10 ZIP the cuss, and so NOT honestly
taIhed: tell YOU, my boy. there's
precious little in the way of small
change that hasn't at some time heen
mixed up IN crooked piece of work
out 1 don notice that the clergy are
stNerse 10 keeping it when il turns M
III the plate Sunday morning Every
penny OF It Is accepted without a.
question of its right to associate with
respectable people and 10 60 ont INTO
the world again TO do what good il can
as a sort of compensation for its mis-
uredS. know a wan who won 81 600
IN a game Of roulette one SATURDAY.
hlght IN gilded gambling den that
all the retOrmers in the nefghborhood
We're condemning as a sink of iniquity.
ana give you my word that the next
morning $500 of il was put i'm the
contribution box as 4 sort of SOD TO
mat mans conscience. and up to the
hour OF going to press it has not even
been suspected of a low origin. and I
doubt not has succeeded in doing a
vast lot of good in the world. SO YOU
see, RedfaCe. when you come right
down 10 1t the man doesn't live who
can say that any dollar or fraction Of
dollar in existence is as clean as a
sharks tooth and as pious as an arch
angel, and if that * true, why choose
a piclIayune 500 900 out of all the bill
lions in the world to be cast into o,1ter
darkness, to be OStra Cised forever from
all decent human society and to be de-
med the privilege of carrying the good
work to the heathen2 1t isn't fair
Then YOU advocate the church
taking i'm every dollar il can Law its
hands on. eh?' said Redface
That is a Christian habit" said the
knocker- AS well as A Jewish custom
OF course. Treat the dollars lust as
you would people. No church in
Christendom would refuse to take in
d sinner and turn him into a saint If it
could. The more tainted the sinner
the greater the opportunity of the
church 10 labor with him Same way
with the dollar. If the dollar is a low
down sneakiuE offender against decen-
cy. grab him. labor with him. pray over
him, set him upon the legs Of respect
ability and then when his reformation
is complete send him out into the world
10 do good"
Wei that's sensible" said Redface.
still nobody likes to be a receiver of
stolen goods"
'Oh. don't know" said the Knocker
There's that eminently respectable in
stitutiOn, the British Museum-it's Jam
med fun Of 'em and even you have kept
that five dollars you borrowed from me
last October"
What's that got. to do with it,
grOWled Redface.
Nothing, only 1 stole it from Charlie
WnlieBoy," said the knocker. 4 bet
him Twenty-Five to five on Roosevelt.
j. was a regular hold up