Jack Watson War
speaker
512 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Jack Watson War’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let us not block up the wave, but say we had our good times, now let others have theirs.
As our children come on, let us cheerfully give them our places.
How glad will I be to let them have everything my house, my books, my place in society, my heritage?
By the time we get old we will have had our way long enough.
Then let our children come on, and we'll have it their way.
For thirty, forty, or fifty years we have been drinking from the cup of life.
And we ought not to complain if called to pass the cup along and let others take a drink.
But while we have a right to the enjoyments of life, we never will countenance sinful indulgences.
I here set forth a group of what might be called the dissipations of the ballroom.
They swing an awful scythe of death.
Are we to stand idly by and let the work go on, lest in a rebuke we tread upon the long tail of some popular vanity?
The whirlpool of the ballroom drags down the life, the beauty and the moral worth of the city, and
In this whirlwind of imported silts goes out the life of many of our best families.
Bodies and souls innumerable are annually consumed in this conflagration of ribbons.
This style of dissipation is the abetter of pride, the instigator of jealousy, the sacrificial altar of health, the defiler of the soul, the avenue of lust and the curse of the town.
The tread of this wild, intoxicating, heated midnight dance jars all the moral hearthstones of the city.
The physical ruin is evident.
What will become of those who work all day and dance all night?
A few years will turn them out nervous, exhausted imbeciles
Those who have given up their midnights to spiced wines and hot suppers, and ride home through winter's cold, unwrapped from the elements, will at last be recorded suicides.
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