Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17

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+! Jerusalem by the side of Pennsylvania
politics, and I am Republican at that,
too. Pafl1hurst started out and would
have won the fight right there. Aud
old Tom Plat, poor old Tom. taking
the count every day. l say we need
brave men to rise up and lead in ey.
cry community. There is not town
in the world that doesn't need to be
! taken down to Gods bath house and
| the hose turned on it and rinsed out.
| Up in Wisconsin, everything was
rife and rampant, saloons open on
Sunday, houses of ill-fame. A COM
mittee went around and asked to have
them closed and the mayor gave them
the Ha Ha. Then the preachers got
up and began to preach and the PEG.
pie said, That is right. we haven't
been doing our duty. Lead and we will
follow Why in Gods name don't
some Of you fellows lead? You are
! afraid of losing the sale of porus
plaster or pair of shoes or some
| thing else. That's what's the matter
with you You are scared to death.
You are tied up If you hit some old
sinner in business and he happens to
be member of your lodge you would
let him run the community rather than
hit the old scoundrel. Well, these
people in Wisconsin went on having
baseball games on Sunday in open de.
flance Of the state law. They were
asked to enforce the law. Warrants
were sworn out and they arrested the
mayor and a lot of the city officials
and members Of the baseball mines
and trotted them to the police station
until they could get bail, then they
went after the grog shops and the
houses of ill-fame, but somebody had
warned them and they lad taken their
| fight to other fields. Then came q re-
vlval and thousands of people were
swept into the Kingdom of God There
! is not town but that needs the lid
put on it and then somebody to sit OH
the lid
Need Brave Preachers.
| | once got into a town where Il
preacher said: Il have seen my mem
Ders come to prayer meetings dressed
for the ball, or for the opera, or for
a card party and knew it, and knew
that just as soon as we were through
at prayer meeting they would be at
| those places, and I didn't have grit
enough to rebuke them want you to
understand though that you are going
to get it from me now if my heal
falls off and goes into the basket" I
never heard of preacher starving to
death because he told the truth. but I
know o. lot that ought to. We need
brave preachers.
He was brave man. for by him
the Lord had given de]iverance to
with coward
We need brave men in Office. We
need brave presidents Yes, and we
have one there and don't you forget
it for on minute. It seems to me that
these old grafters and multimillion-
aires and trusts are going to have a
hard tussle.
We need brave governors.
Need of Brave Officials.
We need fellows that are not in
office under the thumb of a lot of
gcod-for- nothing two by four rat-hole
tin-horu politicians Brave men in
office. Brave mayor, We need brave
officials everywhere. like to see peo-
pie who are on the side of the law
and against law breakers. tell you,
when you get d lot of officials, wheth-
er state, city or county, and they will
stand by the law and by the enforce
ment of the law, then you ought to
stand by those men irrespective of
wnethe they are your politics or not.
And when you get a lot of men in
ONCE who will not stand by the law
and endeavor to fight evil, then you
have set of the worst things this side
of hell, and YOU can find, too often,
that that is the kind of people holding
Office.
We want brave men. Many a man
when he enters Office is a falsif1er be-
cause he took the oath of Office to en-
force the law. If some of you old fell
lows had the back bone taken out of
you there would not be lime enough
to powder your face. 1t Is hard to tell
which the devil can get the most out
| of, a, fellow with little brains and a
| lot Of back bone, or a fellow with lots
of brains and no back bone
Brave men, that is what we need.
to clean things up for God and Gods
| truth and decency. | like to see a
man who will stand for right even if
it does cost him the sale of hat, !,
ton of caol, bill of lumber or some
thing Of that kind.
Stand by Right and God.
You stand by right and God will
stand by you. I like to see brave
men. like to see brave man in
his home. / like to see man who
fills his place as husband and as faith
er in the house. l like to see man
who stands by his wife and by his
children and brave man will do it.,
my friends, at the risk of mourning
the hatred OF his neighbor, his bust
ness associate or the members of his
lodge. A brave man is going to work
to keep his home and his children on
the right side All sorts of perplexin s
society questions will come up in your
home. Your children will want to do
what your neighbours children do They
will want to go here and there and
will nag, and go to their mother and
coax her and she will say: go to
your pa and they will go to see the
old man and he will say: go back
to you ma and whatever she says
will be all right" 1t taxes the moth.
ers patience and at last, against her
better Judgment. she gives consent for
hpr cbi1drau ~ do what bo <.