The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-03

some one else down with you. and IL
you 20 to heaven you're going to take
some one else with you.
You say you hate sin. OF course
you do II you have respect. But you
never saw anyone In this city who
hates sin worse than or who loves a
sinner more than i. I'm lighting for
the sinners. I'm fighting to save yotr
soul. just as doctor fights to save
your life from a disease. Tm your
friend and you'll find that IN not
aas Ia = CIR s. III. f. 4 -
argue that sin 10 n good thing. Not
one who does not believe that the
community would be better of IL there
was no sin.
f~preach against vice to show You
that II will make your girl prostitute
and your boy q drunkard. I'm nght-
ing everything that will lead to this
and II have to be your enemy 10 nsns
IL, God pity you. for I'm not gong 70
aght. people do not sfght sin until 1t
becomes a vice.
You say you're not afraid OF Gin You
ought to be for your children
II doesn't take boys long to get on
the wrong track, and while you are
scratching gravel to make one zap
your boy makes ten: We've e,I g'' , h,nr
hreeches who knows more ABOUT SIN
and vice than Methusciah.
There are little frizzled top sfssfes
not yet sprouting long dresses VINO
know more about vice than did theit
gray-haired grandmothers. the g'ri
who drinks will abandon her virtue.
What did Acthuselah Rno" Aoo"'
smoking cigarettes7
know there are some sissy fellows
ont there who object to my talking
plain and know you shirk from talk
ing plain Noted physicians ten me
that today self-poliution Is almost
universal In youths Of immature years.
n anyone ever tells you that you
can't be virtuous and enjoy gooo
health. brand him as low. infa-
nous. black hearted liar. Why. they
will he telling you your daughter can't
be- healthy and be virtuous before long
and want you TO let some one keep her
on the side just like you are keeping
that woman.
Ask any afflicted man you see on
the street. If you could only reSeai
the heart of every one OF them. In
mos. you would find despair and dis
ease.
How~7rtue he thiks when he is nurs-
ing that lust that he la nursing a De-
mon which, like a vampire. will suck
his blood and wreck his life and black
en-. and blight his existence. And II
any little children are born TO him
,hey will DO weak anemics, without
the proper blood in their veins to sup
port them.
Young man, shrink from that vice
as you would a viper. Our young men
ought to be taught that no sum they
can leave 10 a charitable institution
can blot out the deeds OF an ignomin-
lous life.
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reason why so many young men fall
why they 60 through life weak amba'
tioniess useless
Let's be common folks together to-
day. Let's be men and talk sense.
As Il rule man wants something
better for his children than he has
had for himself My father died be-
fore / was born. and l lived with my
grandfather. He smoked. but he did
.,ot want me to- He chcwed, but he
admit want me to- He drank, but he
didn't want me to. He cussed, but
he didn't want me TO. He made wine
that would make n man fight his own
mother after he had drunk IL. ] re-
member how I used to and the bottles
and suck out the wine through a
straw or an onion top.
One day a neighbor was in and my
grandfather asked him for chew
He went to hand 1t back and wanted
some. He said I couldn't have IT.
said l wanted II anyhow. and he
picked me up and turned me across
his knee and gave me crack that
made me see stars as big as moons
Wants son to &c Sober.
II there Is "A father that hits the
booze, he doesn't want his son TO. II
he In keeping some one on the side
ne doesn't want his son to. In other
words. you would not want your sou
10 live like you IL you ara not living
right
An old general was at the bedside
Of his dying daughter He didn't be-
lievc In the Bible, and hts daughter
said: What shall l do? You don'i
believe In the Bible. Mamma does
II obey one / am going against the
other" The old general put his arms
around his daughter and said: Follow
your mother; II Is the safest" Man
wants his children to have that which
is sure.
have sometimes imagined tina,
young fellow in Luke Is He came to
Mis- father and said: "Dig up; I'm tired
Of this and want to see the world
His father didn't know what he meant
Come across with the mazuma. come
clean, divvy ] want the coin. see 7
FINALLY the father tumhled and said:
II got you" he divided up his share
and gave II to the young man. Then
he goes down to Babylon and starts
out on a sporting life. He meets the
young blood and the gay dame.
I can imagine that young fellow The
first time he swore. II his mother
had been near he would have looked
at her and blushed rose red. But he
thought he had to cuss to be a man.
No man can be good husband. nc
man can be a good father, no can car
be 4 respectable citizen, no man car
he q gentleman. and swear. You car
hang out a sign of gentleman. but
when you cuss You might rs well take
IL In.
There are three things which will
ruin any town and give II bad name
Open license saloons. open stores on
the Sabbath day, and a dirty. cussing
swearing gang of blacklegs on the
streets. Let a town be known fol
these three things. and these alone
ana you could never start boom hall
big enough to get one man there
Old men. young men, boys, SWEAR,
What Go you cuss for7 1t doesn't do
you any good. gains you nothing In
business. society: II loses you the es-