Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-19
SETTLEMENT OF HOME QUESTION Is
MOST IMPORTANT THING IN WORLD

three whoops how popular it may
| be with you. So. that is the way
| to win oUt-get rid of the things
that are producing it all in the
| world, and when the child leaves
| home it will be morally and So
/ cially and religiously according to
! the influence that surrounded it
when in the formative period.
| Napoleon Bonaparte never ex-
hibited a truer conception of the
nations than when, in response to
| the inquiry as to what he regarded
J the greatest need of France, he Pc
I piled, Mothers"
Woe betide the nation when you
sink down to the level Of brutes.
1 Oh, what would the world be If
| the beasts had birth control? You
would not have any milk to drink.
| What would you be? You wouldn't
have anything to eat on your ia
| bles. What If the chickens would
| refuse to lay eggs? You would
not have anything to eat. What II
the seeds would refuse to grow?
Then we would all starve to death.
We would all starve to death II
nature could be governed as we
hear a lot of harping nowadays
around the land.
l have no faith in a woman who
talks of heaven and makes a hell
out of her home. None at all. If
/ was going to investigate your
piety. I would ask your cook. l
would not ask your preacher. He
sees you on dress parade one day
in seven. This talk about a clean
hi G
look as though it was raining dirt.
And you can read of mother S
care, my friends, in the hieroglyph-
les we call the garments, the I'M
combed hair, the ripped dress,
stockings hanging down like the
skin on the back of a meTino sheep,
diKty nose. that doesn't mean the
wisdom of a prophet, mothers down
in the club perhaps.
Blood Will Tell.
believe in blood. Blood tells.
In quadrupeds, in horses, hogs,
dogs, and in human beings as well.
Blood tells, my friends, o! 1 be-
lieve in blood. good blood, bad
blood, proud blood, humble blood,
honest blood. thieving blood, heroic
blood, cowardly blood, infdel blood,
Christian blood. drinking blood, So
Der blood, Hcentious blood, virtu-
Gus blood.
The large thick lip of the house
Of Hapsburg of Austria tells of Ii
centiousness. If you don't believe
it. read the history of the house of
Hapsburg. And the house of Stu
art tells of cruelty and bigotry and |
of sensuaIities from the days OF !
Mary. Queen of Scots, to King |
Charles 1. Charles II, King James |
I. who showed the world what a !
big fool a Scotchman can be when !
a Scotchman is a fool.
King James II, Scotch blood |
stands for persistency, bulldog |
tenacity, stick-tO-it-iveness, never !
give up, fight to the last ditch and |
then refuse to acknowledge defeat. |
know a good deal about the
Scotch. Mrs. Sunday is a full
blooded Scotch.
And English blood stands for tho /
reverence of the ancient as shown 1
by the fact that England spent |
fifty million dollars to put a crown |
on Georges block Danish blood l
stands for love of the sea. Welsh |
blood. religious fervor and zeal for |
Jesus Christ. And the Jew blood, |
capacity to make money. from the
DAYS of Abraham until now.
l have Travelled up and down this
land and I have met every beast
upon the arena, and 1 am convinc-
ed now that neither law nor Cos
pei can make a nation great with
out home authority and home ex-
&c ~
the principal causes of the failure
of boys. Judicious control and
moral training are absolutely in
dispensable; neglect is not less Ia
tai
The fool-doting parent who can
not bear to correct that boy, may
be compelled to see him corrected
in the reformatOry and by the SOW
ereignty of the power of the state.
l know a good many people go
around and sheer at the boy and
say, "Oh, he is tied to his mother
apron strings" But that is an an
Gent term of reproach and it is
designed to separate youths with
pink hair from the last vestige OF
self-restraint and from self-re-
spect. and that sneering use of that
phrase will convert fairly decent
boy into a loud-mouthed, swaggcT-
ing tough with the vocabulary of
a Bowery bum and all the refined
tastes of a wharf rat, and the
are:
Ability to absorb more fine-cut
than a two-story cuspidor can
hold: a lie on his tongue that
would make old Ananias look like
a chrome of truth crushed to
earth; and when a boy begins to {
hang his hat over one ear and hit I
the cigarets and the booze, and
calls his father the old man" and ;
puts in a good share of the night I
chasing with some chicken down I
the White way. and trying to win |
a jackpot on two tours, and lays
Up against a quart of red-eye in
some suds parlor, and crawls into t
the hay from the last dance with I
4 three-step headache, it's dollars [
10 doughnuts that some cheap {
skate of a sport has called upon {
him to assert his independence of '
hat string dangling from his {
mothers waist line known as her '
apron string s
But, say, the young fellow who t
allows himself to be laughed into I
| cheap imitation Of a three-carat i
sport, is a weak sister, take it from {
ne. And the indifference of some l
DOL parents helps the game along.
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