The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-04-11
Ripped Into "Vices" Of
Modern Society Last Evening


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the world. Love knows no
such word as defeat. Worlds die for
the manifestation of the love of Jesus
Christ. The hope of the world is love
and charity"
Goes After Amussments.
Mr.. Sunday flung wide open his por-
tails to figures which were staggering
In their immensity of money which
he said was wasted for foolish amuse-
ments. He cited $S00,000,000 as the
amount spent in amusements last year.
He said that the Ringing Bros. made
S400,0 900 clear profit out of their circus
last year. That amount was net after
paying every item Of cost OF conduct
ing the circus over the country, in
cluding incidental claims for damages
outside the cost of operating the circus
He said that $32,000,O00
was spent last year for soda water,
nearly the same for chewing gum and
$500, 900 for dogs.
Il like dogs Mr.. Sunday said, "but
the place for dogs is in kennel, not
in the arms of a woman in a motor
car where it is being hugged and
kissed and coddled. No wonder men
stay away from home nights, at the
lodge or some other place, rather than
go home where all the love and af-
lection has been lost on a beastly ugly
pup. Show me the man who wants
to play second fiddle to a brindle-
faced bull dog. More money is spent
for such rubbish than all that is given
to missions and churches. Because.
some people are so stingy with their
gifts to God that when their pastor
asks them to sing the Old Hundred
they sing the Ninety and Nine so they
can save the per cent"
seernsd Divorce.
'T am with the Roman Catholic
church, through and through, when
It comes to divorce. God onlys al
lows one reason for divorce and that
is when adultery has been committed
1T is plainly stated so in the Bible.
I will not and / have refused time and
time again to marry man or woman
who has been divorced when the one
from whom they have been divorced
is still living. To do otherwise may
be legally right, but 1t is morally rot
ten.
Marriage Tests.
Following along the lines Of Bishop
Anderson and Dean Sumner OF the
Episcopal diocese of Chicago, who
short time ago made an edict, that
they would decline to marry persons
in the Episcopal cathedral or any
where else, unless they had with them
a certificate from reputable doctor
that. both the man and woman were
IN good health. Mr.. Sunday said, III
l could make the laws 1 would require
for marriage to show more
than the price of a marriage license.
They would have to satisfy me that
they were sound in mind, body and
morals.
Like produces like and 1t is so
more in human life than anywhere
else" To illustrate his point Sunday
cited the mothers of Sir Walter Scott,
Napoleon, Lord Byron. In their great
ness was reflected the splendid quail
tiles Of their mothers.
GrilIed the Sins of Society.
''Now listen, / am not against so
ciety, 1 believe in it, but the sins in
the so-called society 1 am after.
hate with all my heart that booze
drinking and bridge playing society in
which the Lords prayer is made 20
read, Give US this day our daily
bridge The best society is not made
up of men and women booze holsters,
card players and cigarette smokers,
not people who spend half Of the win
ter playing cards for cream pitchers
and cut glass dishes.
"I am afraid of the influence of the
kind of women who spend their time
that way, meeting in swell parlors,
dressed in gowns which were prin-
cipaIIy skirts and their collars under
their armpits. I'd be more afraid of
my boy associating with those kind Of
women than IL he were with the
bIeary-eyed, booze soaked card sharps
oil Moorhead.
Listen again and listen hard. The
mother who will allow her daughter
to float around the neighborhood in a
narrow gauge buggy with a cheap
sport is opening the front door to dis
grace and shame for her daughter. If
you don't know the company your
daughter keeps, your howls and
groans when the gossipers get busy
will be like tune OH a Jews harp. l
would rather my daughter would kiss
a blind shoat through a barbed wire
fence than to have her sitting in the
parIor with the lights turned low
kissing some lobster,
II wouldn't go to my room unless
had a hole in the ceiling and a
gatling gun trained on him. 1t is as
hard to marry off girl who has been
paved over by every Tom, Dick and
Harry as it Is to fatten a hog on
pineapple ice. You can't gold brick
your share eyed suitor. They gad the
streets vita everyone and more than
likely if fellow kisses one of those
fragile topped sissies, he would die of
painters collie.
How He Sizes Up a Town.
when / want to size up town !
quiz the BARRIERS, the cops and the
hack drivers. Don't leave nothing
but an epitaph on your tombstone.
God calls men to business just as he
does to the ministry It is time TO