Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-02
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REV. SAM JONES ON WHISKY.
Thoughts and Maxims from One Of
His Extraordinary DiscOurses.


His Extraordinary DiscOurses.
From a Report in the Atlanta Constitution.
I believe liquor is a good thing in Its
place, and I believe its place is in hell. II
I was in hell 1 might drink it, but 30 help
me God I never will on this earth drink il
again.
Some fellows say don't mix politics and
religion. When you hear q fellow talk that
way you may know he hasn't got any relig-
ion to mix. I would mix religion witt
politics, but not politics with religion. A
little religion will help politics. 1t will
make it clean and decent. We want truth,
justice and temperance mixed with politics
in this State. I spoke to the Legislature OF
Tennessee on this subject the other day
They are talkin g about a constitutional
amendment on the liquor question up
there. We want this question cleared up
beyond the reach of these little crossroads
Judges, who hop up every now q then
and say something ia unconstitutional.
We want to do away with such Judges and
put decent men of brains and character in
their places. You can't reform a State un-
til 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.
If you refuse to help suppress the in
famous wrong that is being done by
whisky, you are rotten yourself. Some OF
you here don't know me. I speak plainly.
I use words you can understand. Now
you can take the Latin word decayed and
it won't faze q fellow. If you take the
good old Anglo-Saxon word rotten you can
cut his head off. You see. l choose my
words. OF course there are always some
little spelling-book critics sitting around,
who will go back on q fellows grammar.
l wouldn't mind being swallowed by a
whale, but I would hate to be nibbled to
death by minnow s.
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 will say, "Get my
shroud ready" / mean to die sober. If
a fellow gets 80 low that nothing but
liquor will save him, I am ready to preach
his funeral sermon.
If there is in this vast audience one man
or woman who never had a relative or
loved one hurt or ruined by whisky, l
want him or her to stand up right now.
You have all had q brother, or a SON, or a
father, or a son-in-law ruined by whisky.
My goodness, these son-in-laws I'd
rather have q boa constructor around my
neck than to have a drunken son-in.law.
The devil can't do any worse than that.
Some of you old hypocrites 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 a
drunken s~on-in-law, and I'll bet he will
make you a p%rohibitionist with a VEN
geance.
God despises q coward. l had rather
die at the mouth Of a ann doing my
duty than to run away from 1t because /
was afraid. God intrusts all the noble
causes on this earth to men who are game.
don't mean to talk here.more than half
an hour. If any Of you fellows get tired
Won know the way home. We wouldn't
have missed you if you hadn't come at all.