The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-22

what he Is talking about or his heart
is blackened and calloused with In
EQUITY. He has lost all respect for
God, decency, virtue-or he would not
talk like that.
When you sin you are not the only
one who will suffer. Your wife will
suffer more than you do II you are
keeping a woman on the side. If you
are living a life OF sin our mother
and sister will suffer more than you.
/ tell you If there was only n sim
ner / would work just as hard for
him for others have got to suffer for
the iniquities OF hat one man. IL a
man staggers home drunk, reels and
pukes into his wife's arms, his wife
suffers and his children suffer, and
others suffer for his iniquity and in
diligence.
To illustrate the power OF a sinful
life; a man went into a red light dis
trict and took a girl from a house OF
prostitution. He went into the noun
tains with her and squatted. The
generation developed was traced down
for several years, and the rag-shag,
pug-ugly hoboes overran the commun-
ity. In a few years there were 1900
individuals. In a period Of seven
years there were 140 in the court rec
ords, and had spent an aggregate of
1,400 years in jail and p~enitentiary.
There were 220 out of wedlock, 200
public prostitutes, and the taxpayers
OF Pennsylvania paid 50, 100, 900 to con-
troll that generation.
well" I heard a man say, at Is
nobody's business how / live, this is
a land of personal liberty. A man
that says that is a low down, vile,
dirty, unmanly, contemplate I'M
American, hellish person, If you can
find a human brain rotten enough TO
think those words and a tongue bad
enough to say them,
Everybody's Business.
Nobodys business? 1t is every
body's business. what he does. A man
has a right to do and go just as far
as the law Of God and decency and
virtue will let him, and II he over
steps that power then he loses that
right. There Is a story Of suppoS.tion
that a man walked down the street
and heard a woman's voice cry out
in terror. He heard children scream
ing and entering the house he saw a
low-browed, weasel-eyed devil going
for his wife, dragging her about the
room by the hair. He had already
kicked two or three of the children
senseless into the corners of the room.
l say stop, what's the trouble here I"
and he replies: us that any OF your
business. Get out OF here. Is this
your fat? Is this your wife?" No,
and 1 am sorry she has to call you
husband. Are these your children"
No, but I am sorry they have to call
you father. I'd knock seven kinds Of
pork out Of that old hog.
Governed by Law.
We win fight It in the name OF de-
cency and home. I am an American
and taxpayer in Illinois, but I have
no right or personal liberty that does
not conform to the laws Of God and
no other man has. Personal liberty
is not personal license. 1t never has
been and never can be. Personal
liberty Is governed by law. II you
were the only maj in Fargo you
would be at personal liberty to drive a
team Of horses down Broadway
at breakneck speed. If you were the
only man in Fargo you could build a
slaughter house in the public square.
But when there are $1,000 people here
you can't do it. II you were the only
man in Fargo you could build a soap
or glue factory In your front yard, you
own the lot and could do It. But when
there are $4,000 people here, you can't
Why? The liberty Of others Is In
terfered with by exercising yours.
I can stand on this platform and
extend and lower my arms, but If
this platform were crowded with men
my personal liberty to raise and swing
my arms would stop just this side Of
your nose. Personal liberty is left to
the discretion Of the conscience Of the
individual. If it interferes with the
public, we have got to have liberty
regulated by law. The majority gov
ern in this country.
Moral Law.
IL I see by exercising my personal
liberty it is making 1t harder for 9TH
ers, / have no right to do so. If I
do, I forfeit all right to be called a
decent man or an American citizen.
There is a law higher than the law OF
civilization. 1t is the moral law. I
would brand with a black brand the
man whose iniquities and sins are ir-
responsible for their influence on 9th
ers. 7 don't damn the sinner. You
never saw a man work harder in your
life to help a sinner and You never
saw a man more incorporating
than / am.
While you are scratching the gravel
to make one lap your kid will hit the
grit and make seven. The boy who
has not yet sprouted long breeches
and the girl who has not sprouted long
skirts knows more about sin than
their grandfathers or grandmothers.
Apply the doctrine of liberty instead OF
license to many Of the evils OF the day.
including the saloon and the house OF
prostitution. Realize the effects of
sexual vices and the sins of the faith
ers that are visited in their descend
ants to the third and fourth genera
tons, possible for sins had meant the
the law OF n standard Of virtue for
men and women alike.
Something Better.
There was an old army officer who
had no use for God in his life, but
when 1T came time to die. told his
daughter who asked, Follow your
mothers way, 1t IL the safest" Al
man wants his children TO have some
thing better han he has had. He
doesn't want them to be booze fighters,
he doesn't want his boy to keep some