The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-12
1900 CONVICTS
scensinusd from FIRST Y.ss).

right 10 safe. No man ever wins by
doing wrong. He may steal and 20
free through life. but he will a to
answer for his sins. People here may
not see him, but he can't fool God. God
has never gone to the mat for the
count. We all know right from wrong.
You don't have to know the ten Com
mandements to know when you are
doing wrong. People before the Flood
knew they were doing wrong. People
who cannot quote a chapter from the
Bible and have never seen a church
know right from wrong.
] No Excuse for Wrong.
There Is no excuse for doing
wrong. II you do wrong here and then
say you did not know 1t was wrong.
the law will not excuse you. You will
have to suffer the penalty. The Bible
don tell o 10 is right TO steal. You
call q man a thief and watch him clear
for action. II IL was not wrong 10
steal he would thank you for the com
pliment OF calling him a theif.
1T is like the clerk who went out
20 get FIVE dollars changed. He asked
, a negro II he could change the V. and
the negro said No. boss, but I thank
.On th0 tOhlPAAiathNs
Lying is an evil You don't want
people lying about you. especially II
IL IL wronging you. Maybe there are
some of you fellows here to-day that
some lying witness sent here. Now.
you don't like him. do you? Every
man hates a liar. That's why We hate
hypocrites and call them four nushers
and excess baggage.
It's Wrong TO cuss.
Every fellow knows II is wrong 70
cuss. II IL was right to cuss we would
teach cussing in the Sunday schools.
We don't need to read the Bible 10
know that IL Is wrong I be a crook,
that u Is wrong TO be a yegg. that II
Is wrong to run away with some other
fellows wife. that II Is wrong to keep
come other woman on the side.
One day in Chicago Jailor Whit
man OF he Cook county Jail phoned
for me TO come over. hat a fellow
wanted to see me. l went and there
found an old friend OF mine. ] said,
BIZ. what's the dope?' He told me
that he had got on a skate that was
enough TO float a battleship, and with
some other guys stuck up a store.
The bull could do a hundred yards In
ten nat he said. so they got me. The
fellow was given an interdeterminate
sentence or from 1 10 II years and
asked me TO help him and that n
j would he would trot square. Well
had some political friends and wrote
them and Bill was given a short term.
He got out and has been trott.ng
square Vi since.
"A fellow knows that II IL wrong "a
Kill and he does not have 20 read the
Bible 70 learn this. Every fellow tina,
started
On the Wicked Path
knew II was ron when he started
You knew ~ then and you know 4,
now. No nan ever came 20 mi,
penal Institution that walked the path
of The righteous You would not Be
here IN you had followed the teaching.
~ the Bible n you followed What fhs
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