The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-08-19
August 10, 1922
Vol XVII. No. -
WELL, WHAT ABOUT MoRALsi
By Dr.. n. A. Majors

The mother used 10 tax OF gooS
behavior to the child, the breaches
used to preach about decency anC
moral sobriety and the teacher USED
to give fancy descriptions of the
good and the bad, lecturers used tc
paint lucid pictures of the debaset
reprobates. Now we do not hear
about such things any more. Nor
Atty is almost sign post of the de-
cent and respectable past 1t is used
to make contrasts with the present
times and the metaphor used to con-
vey the meaning of whoever is speak
ing is That's old fashioned" you're
away behind the times" That's out
of date" people are not like they
were thirty years ago"
First liberty, then license, finally
has come privilege. This privilege of
the present spells harlotry, the bean
brummel of the present spells de-
struction to homes, death to deceney
and responsibility, and a long train
of the towards footsteps.
The insipid upstart will tell you
quickly you are meaning me-" II
has no future, never had, doesn't
want any and it wouldn't like to be
bothered with one. 1t usually has
about as much brains as you would
expect to FIJI a chicken gizzard, and
about as much responsibility as you
would likely to find around Twenty
second street at two in the morning.
Chicago is filing up with big eyed,
straight haired, yellow and high brown
wild women, and who are working
the wits overtime, and their artificial
tiles. make ups, bleaches, powders,
paints, some grease, and pomades,
fine raiment of all harlotry Of the
past Of which the Bible tells u.s.
, We have even been told that people
are not good any more, and then we
occasionally hear someone say people
never were good, they simply hid
their evil, they were careful, and took
especial pains not to get caught, and
they back up their statement with
what Christ told His disciples, There
is none good but the Father"
Wen. people are different in many
respects, but when It comes to sus-
tanning the highest principles of life
people ought to be better in moral
sobriety than they were in the past
Everybody is not good, could not ex-
pect to be, and besides great many
people believe in certain questionable
methods because they have not got
the decent 6neness. and lack in inteiIi-
gence that which Is required to help
them determine the fitness of moral |
decency. That is the cause of the
immortality of the present age. II
seems that they ought more to be
pitied than censured. We have been
asked what credit does one get for
being good? What benefit arises from
trying to be better than others? life
Is 50 short I want to have a good
time" They do not mean a good
time AZ al. they mean bad time,
Questionable time of privilege, of
ugiihess, often desshliness, always
disgraeefuiness. whether the fact be-
comes known or not. Always we have
. conscience standing guard presiding
over our destiny and that spirit Of
our better nature condemns that
wrong foreyermore. As long as the
memory can last We are faced BY that
greater, nObIer other self and con-
demned tilI We die for the wrong
done to the BODY in which lives a
part Of the spirit Of God
The character Of = person Is their
strongest or weakest hrman fortress.
A mar or woman Of strong character
are honored loved. and feared. while
on the other hand = person whose
character IS weak Is looked down