Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-05-26

Whatever else TO be SAID sunday ne certainly can
draw the audiences The tabernacle seating $4,000
full the night heard him and there had been steady
rain falling for two hours previous to the meeting time
thousand people, remember is about three times
as many adult men and women as there are in the
whole of Stevens county.
On the streets leading to the tabernacle were
boohs where cushions rented and soft drinks
and refreshments Sold Even the familiar hamburger
there tho whether all these connected with the
"bg show I do not know.
Here Sundays ten commandments, typical of
his manner of presenting the truth
THOU SHALT NOT GOSSIP.
There are three ways spread the news-telephone,
telegraph and tell The devil is afraid of
you women wouldn't get within twenty feet of
you.
III-THOU SHALT NOT COVET.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours cook, nor his
automobile his rubber tired carriage has private
wife. You let her alone
III-THOU SHALT NOT TANGO.
I'm against the rotten licenous, hell begotten dance
that sends more girls hell than anything else. I'm in
favor of everything that the devil is against and I'm
against everything the devil is in favor of.
IV-THOU SHALT NOT BE STINGY.
Some would.be Christians are so stingy that they
would steal flies from blind spider. There others
that they sing through their to wear
and tear on their false teeth.
V-THOU SHALT NOT HAVE TOO MANY BEATJX.
It's hard to fool real sutton, and man doesn't
want to marry girl that's been paved by every
young buck in the community The frizzle-headed girl
that sits ur in dark paror until all hours of the
ing with buck after another the way to perd
ton.
VI-THOU SHALT NOT BE CONCEITED.
conceited is like a cheap-skate restaurant
where everything is in the window and nothing on
the table but hot air Self-conceit will always be
milestone around your neck.
VII-ThOU SHALT NOT DRINK.
The man who says he can drink and let it alone lies
No intended to become a drunkard Every
drunkard started out to be simply moderate drnker If
you believe you leave it alone, why don't you?
VIII-THOU SHALT NOT CUSS.
One of the things that show the foundation of man IS
character to be rotten is hear him and vomt out
oaths would not trust profane man any too far in
any transaction
IX-THOU SHALT NOT DODGE THY DEBTS.
Some haven't religion enough to pay their debts.
Would that might have hook, and for every debt that
left unpaid might jerk off piece of cothing If
did, of you would be left with celluloid collar
and pair of socks.
|X-THOU SHALT NOT FLIRT.
Society takes note of the filtration on the street.
1t waits until the girl has lost her virtue and then
slams the door in her face 1 wish could make girl
who rts herself others her. If you make eyes
at on the street he will pay you back.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, reminds me ever so much of
Duluth 1t bears the relation ship the Cushing
oil feldthe richest oil field in the word-that Duluth
does to the iron rangesthe richest iron deposits in the
world 1t has population of IS 900 or so several thou
sand of whom monaries and the expect be.
1t the newest ceanest city and prosperity
abounds every hand for Tulsa is only the center
all the gamble of the oil business but also the
OF the marketing of the production of the
rich field adjoining, and the yearly oil production, be
lit known, is roughly equivalent to bumper wheat
crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Nothing is toe
good too big for the progressive citizens of Tulsa
gt if they decide they want it whether it be hotels
office buildings railroads. electric lines, manufactures
If should convince the Tulsa business
that they ought to have ship canal to the seaboard
they'd rest till they got it. 1t is town where
the young do things talk deal in thousands
millions-men young that the average business mar
of Morris would be scandalized in trusting then
to buy bill OF shoestrings. Tulsa is bound be thu
commercial center of Oklahoma. Whether she will be
not don't know, but if the other cities of Oklahoma
capable bunch of trying to put their city int
place. then while all cannot make their city first
their united efforts will make their state pass many
which has the advantage of in years of develop
Iment.