The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-08
MINISTER SCORES
 LOCAL CONDITIONS
SIX MARSHALS NEEDED
REV. CULPEPPER DECLARES GAMBLING AND BLIND TIC
 FRS EXIST AT CONWAY.

As an introduction to his sermon last night, Rev. Burke Culpepper gave his hearers a small sample of what they might expect tonight in his sermon on Civic Righteousness" He urged the business men to lock their doors from the outside and not from the inside. He declared that the most cowardly thing in the world IS sin and shining. 'I am going to salt and pepper you down for king dom come tonight he said. q am going to talk on common thievery to- night" and he did.
 He took for his text Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods. How much do you owe and when are you going to pay? Just common honestly"
 The preacher began his discourse by saying that we Americans are a nation of debtors. When can we pay? All are in debt. A business man is measured by his ability to borrow money.
 Then the speaker got off his i'm mediate subject again and declared that he had smelled more mean whis- key since he had been in Conway than he had for six months. He told of the gambling in Conway and asserted that our officers are all blind to the local conditions. Instead of needing a marshal here we need six of them. he asserted, and he declared he had been told that game was in progress almost every night at a local hotel annex He said that this. town had better go to praying and clean up: that his opinion was there were four or five blind tigers in Conway that were not so blind as reputed . "Wherever you find a bunch of bug zards there is surely something dead and the buzzards are right here, all right, declared Rev. Culpepper. Then he announced that tonight he would preach on civic righteousness and extended an invitation to the mayor and marshal of our city to have seats on the platform eff they had the nerve"
 Rev. Culpepper sard we are all debt makers and debt payers. He jumped with both feet on the man who will die and leave his family unprotected with life insurance or will leave a bundle of debts for his wife to pay. He declared that man who would not pay or try to pay or was careless about his debts was not a desirable citizen and should be so considered. He said that no bankrupt act or homestead law had ever yet discharg- ed moral obligation; that while a man might be free from his debts from legal standpoint, he had not spared himself and should pay them with 100 cents on a dollar.
 Rev. Culpepper made this state ment: II do not believe a man can ever get to heaven who is careless about his debts." Then he severely criticised the man who would dodge his drygoodsman, groceryman, butch er druggist, doctor or banker whom he justly owed and buy car, go to the soda fountain or picture show. He said he had no fight on the picture show or the automobile, but declared that it was crime to indulge in such pleasures when you had to do them on credit or when you owed for the necessary things of life. He declared such a man was nothing but com- thief. 'I think we should pay as we go. If we haven't the money to. pay the cash, don't buy. is my doctrine" He declared that he actually knew people who owed for the beefsteak they chewed and for the false teeth they chewed it with.
 l The preacher seemed to be at him. self last night. He seemed freer than usual. He said that he was preach ing the first sermon here that he real ly felt like preaching. He said he was preaching just like he would if he were ''in Little Rock or in hell and up against the real thing"
 The the preacher launched into a most ardent and caustic rebuke for the people who consistently patroniz- ize foreign mail order houses with cash and then ask credit of their To- cal merchant. He appealed to his audience to buy in Conway and help the big strong men who pay their taxes here and do more than any one else to hold our town together and keep it in the front ranks of progress. Spend your money where you make it." Use a Conway merchant, doctor, dentist, banker. preacher Conway. should be town of 5000 people, and would be if Little Rock, Memphis and other cities did not drain its money away"
 The man the preacher was after last night was the man who is dis
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