The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-24

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But I'm going to do all can to stop
you.
There are men in this town who
walk down town Of a morning like
they had warts, cOrns, bunionS and in
grown toe-nails, but you let Woodrow
Wilson or Teddy Roosevelt hit town
and they hop around like school boys.
Pull down this old tabernacle, run
out your churches, pastors and Sunday
school teachers. Then take look at
your town and see what you've got
Was it the old beer-guzzling, GIN
sizzling, whiskey.soaked, bloated-face,
bloss boweltanned boozers
| who cuss and damn and blight and
destroy and wreck and ruin and cor
rode and corrupt everything that's
| good and decent, that put the saloons
out of Iowa? Not on your life 1t was
the people of God.
| A blind tiger is better than tiger
with two good eyes. If you ever do
bury him, though, for heavens sake
he'll scratch back down into the hell
place
They used to tell me I'd lose my
vote if l cast it for prohibition. I'd
rather run a rabbit from now until
Christmas and never catch it than to
run a skunk into a ballot box and
bump into it.
There are some old sissies In this
town-these Kangaroo-shaped, French
lheeled, frescoe-faced fuSsy-wusSies-
who trot off to card fight or some
social blowout like a two year old
mare But you couldn't get them to
attend prayer meeting or go to their
neighbors about Christ for love or
money.
When some little squirt comes pop
} ping up to me, saying he doesn't be-
lieve in revivals, just let him bark.
He has a wart on his shoulders he
thinks is a head His brains wouldn't
fill a horse hair after the pith had
:, been squeezed out.
America is the land she is today be-
cause she believes in God. The more
the Bible is preached the more Old
,, Glory will be revered. would to God
that the day would come when the
American flag will be protecting the
churches and schools instead Of the
, accursed saloon.
God bless the pastors. They're
fine bunch but a mighty hard bunch
j., to convert
:, I'd rather drop dead on this platform
: tonight than have this campaign fail
But it's your meeting, not mine. In
; here in the name Of the Omnipoten
i God, not in the name Of Brother SEQ
3 Vile.
"If I ever hit church where the!
charge pew rent, I'm going to graz
my nose, say "pugh!" and get out.
The fellow who is always throwing
=, rocks at his neighbor needs a looking
: glass, not a telescope.
u There are just two kinds Of peopl
=, here tonight-lost sinners and saw
ed sinners, and take 1t from me
, you're in one bunch or the other.
The church that isn't goer Is
- eoner Christ said Co.. into all tn
~. world, preaching the gospel to ever
a creature.
q We're fooling around here in kec
!. kuk with dinky, two by four praye
= meetings when we are building dam
p across the Mississippi like ma1o
g generals.
q We're fooling with swaddling band
q when we ought to be wearing robes c
ii Righteousness. We are monkeyin
along in baby cabs when we ought I
o be riding in chariots of fire.
;e You cram your heads and leave you
d hearts empty. You sell your soul
&c for money and other things that ca
}! never do you any good.
IS Some people say revival is abnorn
N nj. It's the beer-guzzling. gin-sizzlln
g bunch of boozers and knockers, VIII
Is are half human and half demon, WI
le are abnormal-not the revival. TIL
crowd of fox-trotting, bunny-hugsin
folks. They're the gang.
e What fc Mnmo