. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ells him to go home along mit his fader, and he say he vould. I dinks to mineself, 41 got dat poy now. I look at him, and he look at me, and den I cry, and _^ he cry, and we bote cry. And den I dell him to stood up, and he stood ii]). And I look him right in de face, and lie look me right in de face, and I put my arms rount his neck, and — it vas not him. If this course of so-calledmoderate drinking goes on,then the ranks or he drunk-ards will be filled. And whatshall we do? That is the ques-tion. Fight the drink ! Fightit, fight it whe
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ells him to go home along mit his fader, and he say he vould. I dinks to mineself, 41 got dat poy now. I look at him, and he look at me, and den I cry, and _^ he cry, and we bote cry. And den I dell him to stood up, and he stood ii]). And I look him right in de face, and lie look me right in de face, and I put my arms rount his neck, and — it vas not him. If this course of so-calledmoderate drinking goes on,then the ranks or he drunk-ards will be filled. And whatshall we do? That is the ques-tion. Fight the drink ! Fightit, fight it wherever we findit, fight it in the social circle,fight it in the dram-shop,fight it at home, and fight it abroad. No compromise!I am not one of those who believe in compromises. Thesecompromises are very curious things. I once heard of anegro who was talking with another negro about his expe-rience, and he said, Oh, Im awfully tempted, dreffullytempted. Well, how are you tempted ? Oh, I m temptedto steal, dars where Im tempted — tempted to steal, cant. DE DEBBIL SAYS TAKE EM. L26 A -FKAKFlL KXAMILE. resist. Why, I went into a bool and shoe store de odder dawDere was a handsome pair of boots; handsomest pair of bootsI eber saw in my life. Dem was bery expensive boots, demwas; de best boots I eber set my eyes on. An 1 wanted debbil says, Take em. De Lawd says. Leave emalone. Now what was I going to do? I wanted dem says, -Take em,1 and de Lawd says. Let em alone. Dat s two toone: we is inclar majority,an I dontknow what todo. So I jes1made a compro-mise wid deLawd, an tooka cheap pair ofshoes offanodershell, and walkoll wid em. Someof thesepeople who re-gard theni-seh es as advo-cates of the cause do more harm than good. 1 rememberleading a story of a man who was drunk, and a gentlemancame to him and said. What are you doing? Doing?Well, that s just what Im doing. No. but what are yonabout? What am I about? Thats just exactly what Iam about. But what is your
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