The Ocala banner., 1922-02-03
PENALTY

III TIE little Writing nave uOue, 1
am reminded of my early life in the
West. Many times when / thought
was the first there, soon / would be
made to know, by looking around and
going ahead, that others had been
there before me. So with this writing
business, in trying to say something
If you will look around or backward
you viii find some fellow has done
said it. So if / say things that have
been chewed over, don't think don't
know it. Don't think that I presume
to tell an American writer, thinker
or reader, anything. Possibly | may
| help him to act if he does and we
are right, that is all the glory want.
How about sister? Not one word.
Why / believe all evil is man-made
from his education and environment.
How about mother Eve? / don't be-
lieve Old Adam was much of a man
for giving Mother Eve away. Do you?
Understand me, | am not or ever will
try to lead anyone to think / doubt
Divine word, but when / can use Di-
vine law and word to prove my point.
| know OF no better authority. AS |
understand Holy Writ, this very act
of disobedience comedies with all 9TH
ers so written of husbands and faith
er's responsibilities, of wives and
mothers. Then and there was our
first lesson of penalty. l believe if
Old Adam had kept his mouth shut
about Eve "beguiling him" our good
Lord would be better pleased and our
world better world. In making this
statement, please take from me the
world and God would have been better
to me than have to the world and God
and firmly and truly as | believe in
God, believe if man had obeyed his
teaching in his practical living, no
normal sister would ever be given
trouble. God bless and love her.
Show me one place in Holy Writ
God or His Son held or holds sister
responsible for mans political govern
ment except in the home as mother
and wife.
What is government, society, church
and commerce? Man. Let's look over
this set Of books and be honest. Where
has man or men ever committed
crime against either in which he has
not against God, country and home.
So warning both by precept and ex-
ample in Holy Writ with it's penalty
attachment here and hereafter. We
have been told that the rights OF man
have been crucifled on all kinds of
crosses from gold to the corn crib.
but it seems to me we are reaping
the reward of penalty of the violation
of Gods word and law and few out
side of being a criminal against man
made law more guilty than T. What
/ is that which is anything in love,
mercy, justice or government which
we have and receive full reward that
does not have to be gained by penalty.
1t seems to me the editorial writer
of the Tampa Tribune in his euIogy
on the death of the last one of the
old past masters, Henry Watterson
by closing his beautiful tribute in say
ing such men have no place in iourn-
alism of today that / would not pre-
sumo to ask the gentleman what is
plainly apparent to all, for the same
reason they do not want the political
principles of Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Blaine and last, he who ap-
peared the greatest of all, Woodrow
Wilson. as an American statesman.
Ii we did, our glorious nation would.
share Americanism equal in both
pleasure and penalty
Burning and having our products
rot is mighty sad. It's worse It's
sad when we see in it's face what our
National Administration is not doing
in facing us and it.
They remind me when once coming
down from the Red River of the
north many years ago, late in the fall
when | got on the summer range of
the buffalo They were all gone but
one and this old fellow was square
on my trail. / soon saw he was dis
turbed and galloped up briskly This
was also the winter home of our large
gray wolf I soon saw the old fellows
trouble and tried to get there to help
him but | was too far and when / got
there, they had cleaned him clean.
and SO have been made to wonder If
this bunch keeps appointing commit
tees and drawing checks whether our
National Treasury inside, now the
/ worlds monarch of finance, won't look
outside like that once great monarch
of the prairies cid when / rode up
OF course they will leave the build
ing, ETC., so did the wolves-horns.
! bones, boots, etc. Who is paying the
penalty as did the buffalo-the Amer
lean peODle.