Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13

n dead, there to live until at last he wal
i gathered to the rotten remains of tn,
dead. That was the law that governed
lepers In those days. All others shrunl
2 from him he went forth alone. Alone
: No man of all he loved or knew was
! with him; he went forth his way alone
sick at heart, to die alone.
SIN is INFECTIOUS
"I'll bet my life against slug cent that
there Is many a man here bound In the
chains Of vice.
''Leprosy is an infectious disease like
typhoid fever smallpox or diphtherla, and
goes through community like an cpl
demlc; when one leper comes In contact
with the clean, he becomes infected And
so II Is with sin. Sin begins in so-called
innocent Irritation. The old, God-forsaken
scoundrel of a llbertine, who looks upon
every woman as legitimate prey for his
lust, will contamnate a community; one
drunkard staggering and Numbering and
muttering his way down to perdition Will
debauch n town.
You don't live your life alone, Your
life affects others. Some girls will walk
the streets and pick up every Tom, Dick
and Harry that will come across with the
price of an ice cream soda or a JOY ride.
$50 with the boy. He will sit at your
table and drink beer, and | want to tell
you If you are low down enough to serve
|
serve 1t you are as low down as the
saloonkeeper, and l don't care whether
you do 1t for society or for anything else.
If you serve liquor or drink you are as
low down as the saoonkeeper in my
opinion. So the boy who had not grit
enough to turn down his glass at the
banquet and refuse to frink is now
! blear- eyed, staggering, ermin- covered
drunkard, reeling to hell. He couldn't
stand the sneers of the crowd; many
fellow started out to play cards for beans
| and tonight he would stake his soul for
n showdown. The hole in the gambling
table is not very big; 1t is about, big
! enough to shove dollar through, but 1t
| is big enough to shove your wife
| through; big enough to shove your hap
piness through; your home through; your
salary your character just big enough
| to shove everything that is dear to you
| in this world through the little solid top
of the table.
TWO KINDS OF LEPRoSY
Listen to me. Bad as it is to be af-
flcted with physical leprosy, moral lep-
rosy is 10000 times worse. I don't care
If you are the richest man in the town,
the biggest taxpayer in Philadelphia |
Ccunty, the biggest politician in the con-
gressional district or In the State. 1 |
don't care n rap If you carry the political |
vote and If you can change the vote from |
tJon"if aster S,o,,r u,or1di,, coroer 10 |
closed my text would make you fitting |
epitaph for your tombstone and obituary |
notice in the papers, then what differ
He was leper, He was a great /
noIitician-h,,t ,be was n lener' What |
difference would it make?
"Ill tell you I was never more Inter-
ested in my life than In reading the story
of on o1d Cnnfederata coInneI who was
s,in,,fnr co., ,,,a,,tiaI disciniine One Gav
bo nod trintn~ case Of insubordination
He ordered his men To half. and he had
tbo offender shot They dug tbe crave and
bo raya tha command to n,nrcb and thew
had stonned inst three minutes by the
cIocl, Al +be close ~ the war tbev made
bin9 cbief of no1ice of q Southern citv
amI he ,y,s co Wiz and cnrruntihIa that
.ho neonIa arose nnd ordered his diamIs- |
sal Then a great earthquake swept over
the civ and the people rushed from their
homes md thousands Of neople crowded
tho streets and there was great excite
ment
WHEN "AUTHORITY" FAILED
"some asked. Where is the colonel?'
and thev said, You win find him in one
of two or three Dlaces.' So they searched
and found him in n den of infamy. He
was 80 drunk that he didn't realize the
danger he was in They led him out, then
nut him on n snow white horse. put his
spurs on his boots and his regimentals
on; the mayor pinned n star on his
breast and put n cockade on his hat
and said to him: Colonel, command you
as Mayor of the city to quell the riot
You have supreme authority
"He rode out among the people to quell !,
them squirting the white side OF the
horse until the crimson howed out, ana
mass m @ of humanity. /
HE rode out among the people with
command here torrents OF opscehity
there ana IN 20 minutes stliihcss OF ueati
relgned In Clty square, SO sreauy ulu
they FEAR MIN, SO wonaertul MS power a
over men. lie then roae out, uisthouhleu' 2
took OH MS cockaue, tore the star rom Ii '
MS breast ana tnrew II Gown, threW OIL
ms reSlmehtHls' tooh Oh MS sWoiu, men
ne STAGGERED pach 10 Tue nome Vi III v
famy' where pireI nioLltns later ne uleu' y
away iroIh nus Wiie a""S tIoli w ttue' ?
away from ",Siuits' Ts II1 Ia.,e s,sso,
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