The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-12-29

was walking home with another lad
about that age when he remarked Il
am going to get it when | get home,
for dad is after me-" Don't you know
was sorry for my lad chum? | |
hated to see him get switched, and yet |
we were pretty thoroughly convinced |
that that was what was coming, for |
he had violated his fathers commands |
He did get good tanning and it |
hurt like the mischief too. Six years |
ago got in the mail pamphlet
showing what Belgium was backing
its king Leopold to do on the Congo.
They were literally marketing the
Congo people as so much rubber. Bel
GUM murdered hundreds of thousands
Of the Congo people for no other rea-
son than that they were making money
out of their dead bodies. 1t was
for naught else. Old King Leopold
sat on his throne and gave the orders
that brought Belgium millions of dol
lars by marketing the dead men on
the Congo for about ten dollars worth
of rubber each. The pamphlet asked
me to send two bits to the committee
that was trying to stop Belgium in
that, the worst inhuman thief and muir
der, of modern history. l did not
send the two bits. but | did say, My
Soul, what will God do when he gets
around to it? Well, God did get
around to it, and he is still doing to
Belgium just what the father of my
lad chum did to him. just refer to the
case of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and
all the rest He is switching France.
I France legalized prostitution and
scorned the idea of the family. France
declared that she would take care of
her own business and wanted God to
let them alone. Russia comes in for
her whipping, for what has she been
doing to certain folks for century,
See how she aided the Greek church
in opposition to the spread of Gods
word. Recall the worldliness and the
opium traffic, the atheism and all the
rest, of the British Empire. Only rs
per cent of their subjects under any
circumstances even enter church or
! favor churches. London today, and
for fifty years, has been guilty of sins
I that would make Sodom and Gmorraf
blush with shame, and wonder how
{ things so dastardly low and vulgar
and mean and wicked could be pulled
off by even an insane negro or lido
cannibal. London today knows She
Z would have to be seriliZed to entitl'
3 much of her population to one Of thu
s best regions of hell Is any one foo
s enough to suppose that all this vii
3 pass Gods final adjustment here OF
Z earth? Nations and cities and hemis
> pheres do not go to heaven in body
therefore God has said what will toucl
= them up while here. Look upon SOM
of our boosted cities. Twenty year
since was writing newspaper story
sitting in the Russ house in San Fran
cisco. | had been around the othe
hotels, just looking about me, | wrot
then that San Francisco would be spill
in two inside of ten years. | writ
now that she will either repent of he
| present sins and straighten up wit
| God in this generation or else the ba
| will close over her and end her sin.
Here is that which the Hired Ma
| calls genuine stuff. You may melt
and wash it and horn it and strain
| and stew it and fry it and boil it an
' hammer it, and yet you will not fin
glimmering of alloy about it. II
n all the prest of pure stuff. | was OF
at little doings where there was
ol nice crowd of young folks. Their
as was one girl there. the mother of
!, fine boy about four years old, an
III she had never been married. She ha
G once been desperately in love with
OF young man. He loved her, but deaf
Il: took no notice of conditions, and la
OF him low in his grave. All she ha
CT remaining of her lover was the unbor
e babe. Did she look around for quat
ne doctor or an unframed nurse? Not
OF all. Did she cry and wall her predic
OF ment? Not at all. Did crime wor
ny than murder present itself to h
10 girlish mind? Yes and was told
en- take a hike instanter. Did she hear
pf.e how she might cover her disgrace
III Yes, but she said, you go to the de,
ne with all your suggestions: Did 81
Oh see some of the bad advertisements
\ our home papers. Yes, and wouldi
read it. Did she try to get somebo'
to get up bogus marriage certiticat
Not on your tin-type. She sat doy
ial and thought the whole matter out.
a mad hour when controlled by my
ice FERROUS force stronger than reason a
nd wilder than temperament, meeting h
list half way whom loved her, succumbi
ing to a cyclone of onrushing dazzle a
the whirl and flashing and darkness a
ma light and wishing and hoping a
,ne dreading and fearing and wanting a
of praying and trusting, she had thro
the her earthly possessions into the me
nst ing pot with the endowment OF
lover, and for the time, had forgot
ma mother, home and heaven: She la
at faced her life as it was, and won. /
to child is to be her child. 1t is to
no mothered by herself. She works "
She her own hands to support it.
e is owns him whenever it is fitting.
of spurns no relation with him.
nen loves her babe and he loves her.
art course society must draw her SIX
ling aside lest they get contaminated.
,ble course society must condemn
| it girl in loudest terms and other 20!
folks must be made to dread the
are but when this girl enters the vestih
Jol La,,,o, I th;pk che will find n NJ