El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-24
CHURCHES.
DR., WRIGHT TAKES A FALL OUT Of
THE MAN WHO SITS ON THE FENCE
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my text. Well. am going &c stick to
|. it tonight-He hat : not with me is
against me-
The Man Afraid.
"St. Paul first fought FOR things that
were not right, Until he was converted /.
then he fought Jas s hard for what
he thought was a -irh-. On fer more
men who viii dare - take sides; 1t
lis the hardest thing in the world for
he to have respect for a man who is
fraid to do so and so because he
doesn't know how other people will
ike it.
Il am not dealing with personalities
and pigmies. 1 lead life above thar,
TIL have you understand.
Take the prohibition question. Men
will say they just can't make up their
minds on it and are therefore not going
to vote. They just back off from the
greatest issue that ever faced the
American people. 1 have the least re-
spect for a man who won't be On 9ne
side or the other that 1 have for any
man in the world.
Politics and Booze.
'T knew an old man back IN my boy
hood town who held every office with
in the gift of the people. AMI every
body always knew where he stood =
was a whisky community. but old Hank
always came out fatty and said: If
you stand by me. boys. we will drive
liquor out OF this county He con-
tinued TO hold office and finally he
drove LIQUOR out He was repeatedly
elected in a district that tolerated the
saloon although he always fought 4.
They knew where he stood and re-
spected him for it
Corrupt politics has its birth in the
LIQUOR traffic. Hit the serpent on the
tell if you can't hit It on the head
curfaiI this nefarious traffic. Some
men viii say. well If 7 take a stand
against the saloon I'm liable 20
get my head cracked It won't be the
first head that was ever cracked in the
cause Of righteousness.
The Cracked Head
I'D rather be a man and let some
fellow crack my head because stood
for something than TO try to be popu-
lar with both sides by not taking either
side.
IF a thing is good fight for it If
IL is good. what is wrong in taking
stand for it?s It II is wrong. what is
wrong in taking a stand against it2
Gods spirit will not always tolerate
the debauchery and crime that comes
from the liquor traffic
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in every church who are sitting on the
fence and the world sits off and laughs
at them; II calls them little weaklings-
Get on one side or the other; don't
ride the rail.
Church on the Fence.
''The church and the moral influence
IN FL Paso ought to control the city
and it can when it gets off the fence. A
man debauches his day and generation :;
when he compromises on any great
moral question. Who are you going to |
serve-the master Of righteousness and
right or the master of unrighteous- |
ness? Get off the fence"
The Saloon TrembIes.
DR.. Wright read an extract from a |
speech made by the secretary of the |
Prohibition league. in which 1t was /
declared that during 1908 just 1000 |
saloons were voted out of business and /
1000 were forced out by restrictive !
measures, while since January 1, 1909, /
Just 10 saloons day have been closed (
in America by the ballot The same /
authority declared that II, 200. 900 peo-
pie out of the sO.000.000 in the United /
States now live in prohibition COM
munities. while 90 percent of the area
of the United States forbids licensed
traffic in liquor.
saloons and Preachers.
TT is nots strange" he declared after
reading the paragraph, that the liquor
men want the preachers to stick to the
gospel and quit EMBEDDING
'Unciean politics run coincident with |
the liquor traffic" he declared eff you
want clean politics, strike at the root |
Of the evil and get whisky out.
Il am not villlfyfng our public Off
GERS; don't want you to go away and
say that ] did; we have some worthy
men and some men ] love, holding pub
lie office in FL Paso-but I want TO
say that politicians generally have been
dictated TO and throttled by liquor in
terests until noble and tried men In a
measure have failed to do their duty.
An era of clean politics and politicians