The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-08-24

| gle for an existence; they never KNOW
anything about the temptations that
are before every man; they never
know anything about the hardships
of life, until suddenly they get a
church of their own they blossom out
, as full fledged encyclopedias without
the slightest experience or education.
They are imposed upon, they mean
we'll, but they are imposed upon;
they are made jokes of by those fell
lows who live upon this kind Of agi-
tation. Down in Pennsylvania there
are a lot of people they call Pennsyl-
vania Dutch. They are fine people,
been there a great many years, but
they are just as Dutch as their ances-
tors, except that they don't wear
wooden shoes, and they are very fond
of practical jokes, and some of their
practical jokes are very cruel and
very unkind. A party of these young
chaps went to New York once and
came back home in this little country
village of Pennsylvania, and one of
their friends says, Hans, did you do
any jokes in New York; He says,
Yes, We do very big joke. We heard
the fire engine coming down the
street and there was house all on
fire, flames all the way up, and on the
| top floor was a woman and she cry,
Help, help me-" and so Jake and
Heine and me We get around and say
"Yump, yump in the net" and she
yump.' Well, his friends says What
was the joker And he says we
didn't have no net That was that
mans idea of a practical joke; it
wasn't very funny for the woman.
Aud this prohibition movement, with
all respect to the ministers. they don't
know anything about it and they grab
hands and say to you men in Wenat
chez. 'Yump, yump in the net but
they haven't got any net.
81 always think after an evangel-
ical campaign call these evaugel-
ical campaigns, prohibition move
ments, you know when Billy Sunday
or any of those fellows come around
and hold meetings, everybody gets
religion; some of them get it in the
ear, some of them get in the hands
I don't know where they get it, but
they get it somewhere. Did you ever
go out to the circus ground after the
circus had gone and see all the empty
peanut bags and shells and the bust
ed balloons? Does the circus ever
come to Wenatchee? Well. after one
of these prohibition campaigns have
come and gone the city is covered
with all of these promises that they
have made, this reformation they
have promised, all of the reforming
they have done, the whole city is
strewn with busted promises; they
viii get together and tell stories
about the iniquities of rum, and they
will have moving picture shows on
Sunday night when they won't let the
moving picture people have them Zap
plause), and the same identical NOV
ing picture show That is the very
lesson am trying to teach to you to-
night; that they show the reformed
drunkard on that living picture. They
show the picture of the man as he
comes staggering in and he beats his
wife and breaks up the furniture; but
he talks with Doctor DOty and comes
back cured; he throws the bottle in
the fireplace and they are rich, they
are rich. Oh, my friends, that is just
what we are objecting to in this anti
prohibition movement of ours, that is
the blind-pig picture; we don't want
a man to take quart bottle of booze
home and drink it and lick his wife
and that is what he does when the
saloons are CiOSSu. Anu tuC SCly piS-
ture they are showing down there
tonight, if they had any sense. is what
should appeal to them as the result
if this city were filled with blind
pigs and iisreputable joints and not
with the reputable saloons as they
are now. This was just handed to
me here, a clipping from the news
paper: "A clergyman who would
treat himself to an occasional drink
hired an Irishman to clean out his
cellar. The Irishman began his work;
he brought forth bottle after bottle,
all empty. He would look through
each one at the sun and throw 1t
aside. The preacher. who was walk
ing around there, said: "Pat, they are
all dead ones" They are" says
Pat. "but they all had the minister
with them when they we're dying"
| (Laughter.)
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