Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-10

Rev. Sam Jones is the name of a char
acter whose sermons are reported to have
made feature in some of the Southern
papers. The following is taken from q
report in the Atlanta Constitution:
81 believe liquor is good thing in its
place and its place is in hell. III was
in hell might drink il, but so help me
God never will on this earth drink IL
again. Some fellows say don't mix
politics and religion. When YOU hear
fellow talk that way you may know
he hasn't got any religion to mix.
would mix religion with politics, not pol
itics with religion. A little religion will
help politics. Ii will make IL clean and
decent. We want truth, justice, and
temperance mixed with politics in this
State. l spoke to the Legislature OF
Tennessee on the subject the other day.
They are talking about constitutional
amendment OH the liquor question mp
there. We want this question cleared
up beyond the reach OF these little cross
roads judges, who hop mp every now
and then and say something is uncon-
stilutional. We want TO do away with
such judges aud put decent men Of
brains and character in their places.
You can't reform a State until you send
good men to the Legislature. Some
men come 10 every Legislature that
meets in Georgia that ain't tit TO go
in a chain gang.
"If you refuse to help suppress the
infamous wrong that is being done by
whisky, you are rotten yourself. Some
OF you don't know me. speak plainly.
use words you can understand. Now
you can take the Latin word decaysd
and 1t WON'T faze a fellow. II you take
the good old Anglo-Saxon word rotten
you can cut his head OF. You see,
choose my words. OF course there are
always some little spelllng-book critics
sitting around. who will 40 back on
fellows grammar. | wouldn't mind
being swallowed by a whale, but l
would hate 20 be nibbled to death by
minnows. Whisky Is not good for one
thing In this world for which there IL
not something else that is better. IL the
time ever comes when they say TO me-:
You'll die If you don't drink whisky
will say, Get my shroud roady.' l
mean to die sober. II fellow gets 30
low that nothing but liquor will save
him, am ready to preach his funeral
sermon. II thore Is In this vast audi
ence one man or woman who never had
relative or loved one hurt or ruined
by whisky, | want him or her to stand
up right now. You have all had
brother, or u son, or father, or n SON.
in-law ruined by whisky. My good
ness, these sons-in-law! I'd rather have
a boa constructor around my neck than
TO have drunken son-in-law. Ths
devil can't do any worse than that.
Some OF you old hypoorites that are
dilly-dallying with the whisky question
are going to get caught just that way.
The devil is going to slip up on you
with q drunken son-in-law, and III bet
he will make you prohibitionist with
vengeance. God despises q coward.
had rather die at the mouth Of a cam
non doing my duty than TO run away
from II because | was afraid. God in-
trusts all the noble causes on this earth
to men who are game. | don't mean TO
talk here more than half an hour. IL
any Of you fellows get tired you know
the way home. We wouldn't have
missed you II you hsdn't come at ALL"