The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-01
JURY REPORT X +.
TEXT OF SERMON
Document Of the Big Twelve Is
Freely Quoted by the
Evangelist
'N.!!!E!7 o. CHILDREN
When IL oungsteHfs are Permitted to
Roam Streets at VIII Crimi
nall will Be the Result.
DUTY Of Parents,
ENEG[ECT or CHILDREN

The evangelist took occasion be
fore the sermon last night to make
few remarks about the lawlessness
in town. Fe said: t have been hear
ing that some people in Waxahachie
have been calling in question some
remarks | made in the first part of
the meeting and have been saying
| was mistaken in my statements, but
l want to say that | know whereof |
speak and want to give you some ex-
cerpts from the grand jury report
issued April 26, 1908: We have
been in session thirty days. we find
that crime in our county is very
much on the decrease with the ex-
ception of the crime of burglary and
petty theft These crimes are very
largely chargeable to boys and young
men of our county. We note with re-
gret the too common practice of par
entail indulgence and neglect is, in
most cases. responsible for this con-
dition, and SO long as boys between
the ages Of twelve and sixteen years
are allowed to quit school and are
turned loose on the streets of our
towns day and night without objec-
tion Of parents or guardians we can
not hope for change for the bet
ter :"
| Said the preacher: Il want to say
that the parents are responsible for
this condition and should see to it
| that the boys are not allowed to
roam around. All during our meet
Ing 1t has been a problem how to get
the boys out to the meeting. They
| came to the watermelon feast all
! right, but they haven't come to
| church. You can go out on the street
now and see boys running around
playing" At this place Rev. Mcclure
| spoke up: There are some playing
out here on the lawn now and their
| parents are here in church
| The evangelist continued, "A mo-
ther who neglects her children is
| guilty of crime. Walking along the
street with prominent physician
of your town last week he pointed
| out lady to me who he said to
his certain knowledge had murdered
six children. | asked him to explain
and he said she did 1t just by being
SO solyenly as to neglect to wash the
baby bottles. 'Is that isn't neglect
I never heard of it. Just such wom-
en- as those are the kind that neglect
their boys and girls when they get
| older and allow them to run any
| where and with anybody. Some wom-
en-, | am sorry to say, are still so
little interested in the meeting that
they are still sending in orders dur
ing church time. | want to read
another excerpt. We have carefully
inquired into the violation Of the To-
/ cal option law and believe that a
| great deal of whiskey is being sold
In Waxahachie and Ennis and in
4 ouSh qudutltICS tudt we Itci sure IL
Is sold in violation of the law, these
two places being the hot bed Of this
Illegal traffic We have sufficient evi-
dence If we could have extracted the
truth from few of the witnesses, II
their memories had not become SO
suddenly paralyzed and wrecked
that we would at this time have had
Waxahachie Jail full of violators OF
the local option law
/ Isn't it strange how soon some
people forget when there is an effort
made to ferret out sin in high pla-
ces? Listen to this next paragraph
We believe there are people in Wax
ahachie getting rich from the sale of
whiskey Through legalized pres
cription house) and this grand jury
is in possession of sufficient evidence
to justify this statement. This should
not be in local option county with
dense population of highly respect
able, intelligent and cultured people
a majority Of whom are in favor OF
the local option law being enforced
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