The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-12-25
SAM JONES ON PROHIBITION.

The Mountain Evangelist made ?
Atlanta, Ga, in the course of which he
said: They talk about prohibition stop
ping building in Atlanta. One who would
not give his name writes card, aud says he
had great plans for building. but lie
stopped until he sees how the election is
going. He don't tell us who he is. have
racked my brain to see how whiskey helps
building. We show that iii every town
where Prohibition has been tried building
has gone right ahead just the same or better
than before. They say it viii do very well
fer small places but not for Atlanta. At
lanta is nothing but big family You,
Mr.. Mayor. are the father, and the aldermen
are the uncles and aunts Newman is
small family. Prohibition does wonderfully
well there, but it won't do for this big
family. 1t is good enough with a father
OF two sons. If he has been more fortunate
and has ten sons, it will never do. Some
of the ten are obliged to get drunk. Talk
of injuring Atlanta trade, Do you know
that three-fourtlls Of the dry goods and
grocerymen IN Georgia are Prohbitionists?
The trade of Atlanta daesn' I come from
the red noses of Georgia. The people out
side Of your city are interested in this con-
test. 0ne-half of the men and women Of
Georgia are on their knees every night
praying that the great capital city of the
state may redeem herself from this curse.
On the 2jth of November, when Atlanta
puts legs on her demiiohns and whiskey
barrels, and says Git she will start a
grand movement that viii sweep far and
wide throughout this country. Macon will
come into line; Augusta will be with you,
and ii you don't look sharp Birmingham
will get there before You do. ! never saw
a place go dry so fast. The trouble with
you Prohibitionists in Atlanta is that you
don't '.crystalize" You don't walk up
and say: Here's my 800, or my $500.
These whiskey men in and ont of Atlanta
have put up $4,000 to carry this contest,
for they look on it as great test question.
You meet that with pitiful, little, old
*2000 IL you don't crystalize better than
that you'll get left You'll never get there,
Eli You are like little steamboat at
Rome, with a great long whistle and little
bit of a boiler Every time she blows she
stops. ! would not cut down yonr whistle.
want 10 make your boiler bigger. There
are men in Atlanta who can afford to pay
eos I'LL
leave big legacy to the barkeepers when
they die They will give it to their boys,
but the barkeepers Will get it. They had
better give their boys s25,00o and sobriety
than to give then s50. 600 with bar-rooms
Talk about Atlanta stagnating. There
is no danger of that; but if there was, God
would harness up every chariot in heaven,
load them down with heavenly food. and
put the angels on half rations before he
would let Atlanta suffer for doing right.
If you whiskey men viii let us try Prohib-
ition for two years we will give you a
chance to vote on it at the end Of that
time, if we don't whoilop you, then you
can have whisky here forever. You have
had old Atlanta laying it on to her ever
since she was born. You greedy fellows.
won't you ever get enough? There is not
man in this town who can get up and
say that whiskey never harmed him or
some one that was dear to him.
They've got the doctors hold Of the
question. and the doctors have disagreed.
The fellow may get well now.
don't blame some of the doctors. If he
is young doctor, and favors whiskey. he
is laying the basis for large practice.
You have no such doctors in Atlanta, but
if there is a contemplate creature on this
earth it is one Of these little simlin-hesded
doctors. prancing around with flask of
whiskey in each overeoat pocket, treating
his patients-at a dollar drink. He
charges dollar for the prescription and
throws the liquor in. | dom believe there
ever was a disease in the world that liquor
was good for but what there was some
thing else better for it.
Prohibition is not going to hurt anything
that ought to prosper. dare them to put
their finger on place in this world where
rents have gone down or business suffered
because of Prohibition Sometimes they
say am too strong in some Of my express
sionS and too extreme in some OF my views.
They say am dragging the pulpit into the
mire of politics, but SO help me, God, |
shall never stop so long as | know that |
am fighting for broken-hearted women and
| down-trodden men and hungry children.
I trust God shall let me live long enough to
stand up and say in other states that in my
own loved state of Georgia not one drop Of
whisky can be legally sold.
! A few days ago two men were in Smiths
1 barber-shop. One had red hair and the
/ other was bald headed Red-head to bald
head-s'Y ON were not around when they
We're giving ont hair ?" Bald-head-"Y 6,
| was there: but they only had little red
+, hair. and ! wouldn't take that