The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06

the devils stool pigeon - can't see
any harm.
The more a man waits for the dew
IL, the harder the devil will try to
down him and the more anxious he is
to have him play on his side. You
let a ragged, blear-eyed, bloated-fac-
ed bum dare go around to a genteel
saloon and see how quick they will
kick him out. They don't want the
young bucks in there to see where
they are going to. That's what's the
matter with them.
That's why they wont allow a bum
around a saloon that is patronized
by the guys that wear Tuxedos and
silk lids. They didn't want that poor
young boy to see that he is headed
right for that fellows position.
And the thing that says, mo
HARM" that is something to fight shy
of. The mouse-trap says to the
mouse, mo harm" The fish-hook
says to the fish, "No harm" That is
the devils attempt at self-defense =
| mo harm"
Remember, please, boys and girls,
| the devil is the best debater on earth,
and what chance have you got with a
fellow who can make black look
white? None whatever; no, sir.
And never were vice and wicked
ness SO antagonistic to prosperity and
success as today. Morals have become
an economic question. The merchant
doesn't want an immoral man. They
don't want an immoral girl They
don't want drinking young man in
any factory, office, shop or store, nor
railroad nor anywhere on Gods earth,
and there never has been time in the
! history of America when vice and
Wickedness were so antagonistic to
prosperity and success.
| say morals have become an eco
nomic question, and every young man
who forsakes high moral standard,
: he becomes less and less a part of
national greatness, every time. Just
think of that
| | am not preaching that you as an
individual might benefit from religion,
/ but preach that the communities and
/ the people you associate with and
in Richmond, and America, might be
better because you are decent. That
! is why
| My whole conflict against the devil
/ is because he undermines and makes
US unfit for husbands, sons, mothers,
daughters and citizens; and so | am
preaching for higher ideals of woman
hood and of manhood for our coun-
/ try.
! But l thank God l am not one of
those who believes that all the young
men of America are devoid of virtue
and of goodness. Oh, there are mil
lions of them! They are poor in
purse, but they are pure in heart, and
they are the salt of the earth.
When your Uncle Sam called them
they shut their books in the institu-
tlons of learning from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and rushed to the colors
to bare their breasts to the bullets
! people of all walks of life willing to
do anything and pour out their blood
and their money in the hours Of dis
tress and of need
| Now, somebody has said that this
is an age of competition and women
are the most formidable rivals of
young men today. Women, as a rule,
make a more thorough preparation
for their chosen pursuit, it is alleged.
and women are more subordinate and
less selfish and less meddlesome and
apply themselves more closely to
their tasks, and are more accurate
and rapid and industrious.
Women Are of
Great Power.
| They neither smoke nor drink nor
gamble nor loaf around billiard halls,
and they are always on duty and thew
| rarely prove dishonest. Two-thirds
| of the money taken in by the great
department stores of America is TAX
/ en- in by women; and two-thirds of
the letters written by the great insti-
buttons of this country, the govern
ment and states as well, are written
| by women. and unless the young men
today reform and stir themselves to
redeem their captured domains, they
I will find themselves out-distanced by
/ the girls of our day.
1 | want you to win. I want you to
win | am trying to be your friend,
II you will let me. Have fixed pur-
pose in life. You will never win if
your life is regulated by impulse.
never, and if you haven't made up
your mind to say, "Get thee behind
me, Satan you will take a long walk
with the devil every time you meet
! him.
A stray dog will follow ANYBODY,
but trained one, his master. And
- - liz JOOAt6 WuO VIII HOL say
! 81 will never taste liquor" who is in
danger of being damned by drink:
and just as surely as young man
knows how to play cards, that will
open the door to a certain class OF
temptations that he never would know
anything about if he didn't know how
l-never would know.
Do Not Listen
To DEVILS Overture
So, the more you listen to the devil
and do, the more doors of temptation
are opened for you to go into. The
way to protect yourself from the
gamble robber is to be able to say
Il don't know how to play"
And the moment a young man
makes bet, the devid has got a rope
around his neck. He is gone. He Is
gone. No matter if you win or lose
if you win, then you are fired with a
desire to win more. If you lose, you
are fired with an ambition to regain
what you lost
Death is the penalty for being on
/ speaking terms with vice. The wages
of sin is death, death to your man
hood, death to your ambition, death
to your character and death to your
immortal soul.
Yes, sir! The first mile toward the