The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-25

Laughter. Amt you sorry for poor
woman who, every time she goes to
church, has to put her tender arm in the
hands of an old demijohn? Laughter.
l put it in this way: The liquor traffic
ought to be made so odious that nobody
but an internal scoundrel will sell it and
nobody but an Internal fool will drink it.
Cheers Separate these liquor dealers 8
from their liquor and they will be all
right. The church that will house a
man who sells whiskey is o detestable
fraud. Applause. The church that
will house man who rents house to
sell liquor in is a hateful hypocrite.
Applause. Some of these churches in
Atlanta are doing just that thing.
Laughter here. If there is in this vast
audience one man or woman who never
had relative or loved one hurt or ruined
by whiskey, 1 want him or her to stand
up right now. You have oil had a
brother, or son, or father, or son.in.
law, ruined by whiskey. My goodness,
these sons.iu law I'd rather have a
boa constructor around my neck than to
have drunken aon-in.law. Laughter.
The devil can't do any worse than that.
Laughter. Some of you old hypocrites
that are dilly-dallying with the whiskey
question are going to get caught just that
way. The devil is going to slip up on
you with drunken son.in.law and I'll
bet he will make you Prohibitionist
with vengeance. Laughter.
1 look around your city and see the
barrooms as thick as stars in the heavens.
Each one of the three hundred bars in
Atlanta represents at least ten confirmed
drunkards. Three thousand men in At
lanta across the line and gone to ruin !!
You can stop it if you want to. There
are church members enough in this town
to turn out any day and vote liquor out
of it. Cheers. You are afraid to do
it. You will let some barkeeper with an
old rusty pistol cuss and rear around the
polls and scare you home. You don't
want to have fuss. Laughter. Well,
I'll tell you every good man breads
fuss, but he don't fear anything that
walks on the earth. Cheers. The
church lays back on the idea that it must
have peace. Old Joshua went out one
day and fought all day long. He was
crowding the enemy when he looked up
and saw the sun going down. He said:
"Lord, if you will just give me three or
four more hours Of sunshine, I'll clean
these fellows up off of the face of the
earth" And the Lord just made that
old sun rack back on the dial, and Joshua
won victory the fame of which has
lasted until this day. Great cheering
God despises a coward. I had rather die
at the mouth of a cannon doing my duty
than to run away from it because 1 was
afraid. God entrusts all the noble causes
on this earth to men who are game.
[Cheers.
One enthusiastic, brave man in each
county in this State can carry prohibi-
tion in Georgia. If you haven't got one
in your county import one. Applause.
Talk about high license for whiskey !
I'd as soon have high license for small
pox. Laughter. don't want liquor
at any price. Cheers. If you fathers
who have sons who are your pride and
your country's hope, will give your en-.
thusiasm, your money into this cause the
day will soon come when a mother can
kiss her boy when he leaves her side in
the morning and know that he is safe.
Applause. want to see the good
people of Atlanta 60 to the polls and
work as they did in Gainesville and this
blighting curse will be lifted from your
fair city" Long and continued ap
plause.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Jones' speech
there were loud calls for Judge George
N. Lester. The judge rose and returned
thanks for the compliment, but said that
little could be added to the speech that
had already been delivered. The quiet
crowd then adjourned.