The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-07-11
Rev. Sam Jones on Whisky.

hef. Dam jones Is the name OF a
character whose sermons as reported
have made a feature in some of the
Southern papers. The following is
taken from a report in the atlanta
Constitution:
81 believe liquor is good thing in
its place, and l believe its place is in
he'll. If | was in hell | might drink
1t, but so held me God | never will
on this earth drink it again. Some
fellows say don't mix politics and re-
lIglOn. When you hear a fellow talk
that way you may know he hasn't
got any religion to mix. | would
mix .igion with politics, but not
politics with religion. A little re-
Iigion will help politics. 1t will make
it clean and decent. We want truth,
justice and Temperance mixed with
politics in this State. l spoke to the
Legislature of Tennessee on this sub
jpct the other day. They are talking
about IA constitutional amendment on
the liquor question up there. We
want this question cleared up beyond
the reach of these little cross roads
Judges, who hop up every now and
then and Say something is uncOnsti-
tutiOnal. We want to do away with
such judges and put decent men of
brains and character in their places.
You can't reform State until you
send good men to the Legislature.
Some men come to every Legislature
that meets in Georgia that amt fit to
go to the chain gang.
"lf you refuse to help suppress the
Infamous wrongs that is being done
by whisky, you are rotten yourself.
Some of you don't know me. | speak
plainly. | use words you can't un-
derstand. Now you can take the
Latin word decayed and it won't faze
a fellow. If you take the good Old
Anglo Saxon word rotten you can cut
his head off. You see, | choose my
words. OF course there are always
some little spelling book critics sit
ting around, who will 90 back on a
fellows grammar. | wouldn't mind
being swallowed by whale, but |
would hate to be nibbled to death by
minn0WS. Whisky is not good for
one thing in this world for which
there is not something else that is
better. If the time ever comes when
they say to me: you'll die if you
don't drink whisky,"I will say, Get
my shroud ready" | mean to die
sober. If a fellow gets so low that
nothing but liquor will save him, |
am ready to preach his funeral ser
mon. If there is in this vast audience
one man or woman who never had a
relative or loved one hurt or ruined
by whisky, want him to here stand
up right now. You have all had a
brother, or father, or sOn-in.laW
ruined by whisky. My goodness,
these sOns-inlaW! I'd rather have a
boa constructor around my neck than
to have a drunken sOu-ln-law. The
| devil can't do any worse than that
Some of you old hypoCrites that are
dilly-dallying with the whisky ques.
tion are going to get caught just that
way. The devil is going to slip VI
on you with a drunken sOn-in law
and Ill bet he will make you pro-
, hibitiOnist with vengence. God de.
spises a coward.
| llou IuGHCl llc at lIIe IIOulll u
a cannon doing my duty than to run
away from it because | was afraid
| God intrusts all the noble causes or
this earth to men who are game.
don't mean to talk here more than
half an hour. fany of you fellows
get tired you know the way home
We wouldn't have missed you if yoU
hadn't come at ALL"