The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-07-30
Sam Jones on Whisky.

h'Ianla Oau Jones', Tue bOteu &c
a yivslist, delivered al address IN
which nc touched up the whisky
, question in his own stirring aud
Original style. lie said
s II believe liquor is good thing
in It's place, and believe its place
, is in bell. Applause. IL were
in bell ] might drink ii. but so help
me God never will ou this car1h
drink it again" Speaking of the
good that could he accomplished by
! prohibition and the difficulties that
stood in the WAY of obtaining it, he
said The main trouble is with
little politicians. They say it won't
do to brin- this question into poll
tics. They say it will hurt the par.
: ". If your party has got to ride into
. power on a whisky barrel, then l
say it ought to I've hurt. l am a
democrat. / was horn n democrat,
but II YOU make democracy mean
opposition to sumptuary laws and
friendship to liquor, then | am any.
! thing but a democrat. After all,
this thing of politics is just ques
ton of he Inns" and The outs. II
the radicals get in four years from
now they will adopt the good old
democratic crv, Turn the rascal>
out" Laughter I would mix
religion with polilI,s, but not poll
ties with religion A little religion
will help politics Il will make it
clean and decent. We want truth q,
justice and temperance mixed up
with politics in this state. Ap
p!ruse spoke to the legislature Of
Tennessee on this subject the other
day. They are talking about Il con
stitutional amendment on the IL
qnor question mp there. We want
this question up beyond the reach
OF these little cross road judges who
hop up now and then AMI say some
hing is unconstitutional. Laugh
ter We want t. do away with
such judges and put decent men of
brains and character in their places
You cant reform state with n
~will tub sitting on the bench.
Applause aud laughter. You
cant reform state until you send
good men to the legislature. Some
men come to every legislature that
meets in Georgia that aren't tit to 90
TO the Changing. An old skunk oil
Il thing staggering around on both
sides of the street Mt once is beau
titul representative. Laughter
: There is not a purer, nobler man in
Georgia thaA yonr governor. There
are no nObcr, better men in Georges
tnan your supreme court judges
Applause. toll them in Ten
q nessce, the other day. that you haC
: for u chief Justice in Georgia. ma,
= who would sit up all night talking
to penitent at the altar. Georgi;
is all right at the top and at TIN
bottom. We want to get her al
" right in the middle, Applause
u and i. you refuse To help suppress
= the infamous wrong that is btin:
, done hv whisky, You are rnt,el
yourself. Some OF YOU here don
n know ME. speak plainly. us
Il words YOU can understand. No,
!, Won can lake the Latin word decay
: eel and it won't phase n fellow
You take the good old Anglo SaxoJ
word "r"lten" Won can cut his hra'
D. IF Laughter. You sec, I choos
. my words. Of course, there are al
= ways some little spelling booI
critics sitting around, who will z
I hack on fellows grammar.
wouldn't mind being swallowed h,
: whale, but | would haze to be nib
II bled to death nv Ininnow~.
! You have a hundred counties i
ii Ge"r4ia where the liquor traffic i
y crippled In eighty counties Their
' is prohibition. say look out TO
your drug stores. Laughter
- Look ont for your little similn head
ed doctors Some of them fill thri
~. Sad'llr-hagS with liquor and hecom
/, travelling barroomS. Laughter.
~ God pity a doctor that will pre-
~ scribe Iiqnor to man might pre-
scribe liquor for dying woman, hu
| wouldn't, give it To a man unlil h
IS was dead. WHISKY is not good 10
: one thing in this world for whicI
Il here is not something else better
r Ii the time ever comes when the
= say To me you'll die if YOU dom
a drink whisky" | will say, Get m
: shr"ui ready" mean Ia die sober
, II fellow gets so low that nnthln,
- but liquor will save him. | am read
- to preach his funeral. Applause
" And | have text that I'll max
him hop on. didn't mean to tall
: here move than half an hour: if an
- of you fellows get tired YOU know
u the way home. We wouldn't hay,
missed you if you hadn't come at all
y Laughter
d / rejoice Tonight that in NOR
& than two thirds of the counties q
@ this state whisky cant be sold a
#! all | am glad the legislature is 90
v ing to give general local option
!, law. Ii we don't turn whisky on
g Of every county in this state at tn
T. first election we will try it again.
had great trial not long ago.
have been a poor man all my life
: and when friends in Nashville offer
$ ed me house and offered to stan,
n by me and back me up, it, was