The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-12
Delivered an
Excellent Address on
the Home Last Night
Continued From Page One

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Iather and mother had been divorced.
Broken homes and broken lives seem
to be connected. We are facing the
conditions as they exist and not as
They and birth in your imagination.
Look at the sons and daughters who
are brought up in tdleness! They rap
Idly acquire bad habits and f~reuuent-
ly get themselves in disreputable es-
capades which make you sometimes
feel ashamed that you are q man.
They indulge In fast horses. fast
women, wine and gambling and all the
sports of the idle rich. Many have
squandered the fortune left them by
their father, and they go to untimely
graves and are to be remembered only
by he gambling hells, the grog shops,
the rotten dissolute lives they have
lived Ind the number Of young girls
they have ruined, from the time they
crawled from their mothers arms un-
Ill the undertaken screws the coffin
lid on their shrinking carcass. Do you
think l can make that any palmer?
You don't understand it, do you?
And of the women in our smart set
nowadays! Too much >-~nnot. be said
in condemnation of them. Too much
time is spent by them outside Of their
homes. They have thrown to the wind
all womanly modesty and prudence.
, hey are battered and cajoled, IND
they lend their presence to vaudeville,
and have vaudeville performances in
their homes, and their children are al
lowed to witness performances which
border on the obscene. And they in
dulge in gambling to such an extent,
poker chips, roulette wheels, cham
payne, and the whole, long list, my
friends, and they are more familiar
with poker chips and gambling devices
-end frivelity than they are with their
Bible the9E English language or classic
literature.
Train the children in the way they
should go. The only way to get rid Of
thieves il TO stop raising thieves; the
only way to get rid Of prostitutes is
to stop raising prostitutes. Whatever
that child is when it steps out from
the threshold of the home, nine times
out of ten that is what it will be when
it "butts UP" against the world. And
when he bios his ma goodbye and
heads GU into the unknown to earn
his bread, what he is beneath that roof
he will be, nine times out of ten, out
in the world.
Gladstone anc Talmadge were one
time talking about the questions Of the
day. Gladstone asked Talmadge what
he thought was the question of the
day and Talmadge replied that there
was but one question; settle that
question right and you viii settle all
questions, and that question is the
question Of christianity.
And / say settle the question of
christianity in your homes and / will
settle the question CT drunkenness, the
question Of brutality, the question OF
vice, You settle the question of chris
tianity in your home and I will knock
every saloon into hell and / will clean
our state establishments CT the damn
able old rubbish and the grating bull
neck politicians that stink up and
down their halls. The national life
than the home life.
When Napoleon was asked the
greatest need Of France he said
mothers. If you should ask me to-
hight what is the greatest need Of
America / could answer in a sentence
that would ring down through the
eyes,. / would tell you that the great
est need of America is the principles
Of Jesus Christ taught beneath the
loof Of your home. Don't let your
children run like wild asses, ] have
no faith in the woman who will talk
about salvation and make a hell out of
her home. ! have no patience with
her at all. There is no use talking
about clean hearts when your children
look like ragmuffins. Don't talk about
a perfect sanctihed life when the kids
have no patches on their breaches and
no buttons on their clothes. ! can read
of the mothers love-or the lack of it
lin the ~hicroglyphics of the kid.
Henry w. Grady, that magnificent
~southerner, whose life was altogether
too short for the good Of his native
land, said that he was in Washington
for the first time in his life. He stood
on Pennsylvania avenue and looked off
to that magnificent pile on the hill
known as the capitol of u country.
The tears rolled down his cheeks and
he said, Well. well, WELL that is the
capitol Of my nation, the home Of nay
nation, that magnificent pile yonder
IN the hill" He stayed for days and
wandered through it's halls, then turn
ed his footsteps to his south land, and
on the way stopped TO spend several
days with a southern planter, n he
said that three times every day they
opened the Bible, gathered the children
around them and read and prayed and
committed the little brood to the keep
ing Of Almighty God, and he said, u
was mistaken; that pile on the hill Is
not the home OF my nation, but the
home of my nation is found In the
planters home. in the dugouts and in
the log cabins, where beneath the
roof they teach the little ones the
teachings of Jesus Christ
What makes nations great? Not
high raised battlements. not cities
proud with spires and turrets crown
ed. No! Men, high minded men,
these make a nation greet. So train a
child in the way 1t should cd.
I believe in blood. I believe in good
blood and In bad blood; / believe Ia
proud blood and in humble blood; ]
believe in religious blood and in infdel
blood, in honest blood and In lighting
blood; in virtuous blood and in licen-
tious blood; in heroic blood and In i'm
t~e.lsctual blood. / believe blood will
tell beneath the roof OF the home the
same as it will among jackrabbits,
canary birds and tom -cats.
The HOUSE OF Stewart was famous
for cruelty and vice from the days Of
Mary queen OF Scots to King Charles
], King Charles II and King James 4
who showed the world what a fool .
Gcafchnan can be when q Scotchman