Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-08
SAM JONES ON TEMPERANCE.
Advice to the Prohibitionists-B
Things are Done in Georgia.

inInSS are DOnc III georgia.
BOSTON. July 6.-Sam Jones and Sam
Small addressed immense audiences to-
day at Lake Walden, in the town of Con-
cord, where the hermit Thoreau once
unused alone. The subject was temper
ance. sam Jones said in his speech, re-
ferring to the question Of prohibition and
politics:
Wei, now, brethren, III say this to you,
| We never would let politics mix up with
| the temperance cause and prohibition
movement in the South. We just mix
| prohibition with politics. Do you get the
| idea? Laughter. Here, instead of let
| ting Il candidate ride into power on us,
we harnessed up some reform Democrat
or Republican who had been converted
and joined the prohibition party, and We
rode HIM into power loud laughter and
riding beats walking; there's no doubt
about that. Laughter. You go down
in Georgia now, and a fellow announces
himself for the Legislature, or for Judge,
or anything. About the first line under
his name he says: 81 am square out on
the prohibition question :" 81 stand
square on that ISSUE" and tell you all
to-day that prohibition mixed with poll
tics VIII nelp politics, but God bless you,
don't you put any politics in your prohl-
! UlJlOus Ii you no YOU are AOht. l4ah IL
ter. You see put sugar in my coffee to
help my coffee, but If you put your coffee
in your sugar your sugar is ruined. Re
newed laughter
When you go to vote against whisky,
you just vote the plain issue, straight
| out, and then when we can poll enough
votes on that question to show the poll
ticians that We mean business, the next
thing you hear the politicians Will do
| Ih1tS a
But you go now and try to run in your
prohibition candidate. Why, every Dem
Ocrat in this country IS got his sleeves
rolled up ready for the fight, and the Re-
| publicans have got their sleeves rolled up
and they are ready for the fight. Phi tell
you just exactly how the two parties
stand to-day. The Democratic party is
a-straddle of barrel OF whisky and the
Republican party a-straddle OF beer key.
That's fact, and it's Just nip and tuck
now which Is going to get into the Pres
! idency every four years; whether the
beer keg Will get in or the whisky barrel.
You see, now, | would pray: "Great
God give New England grit;
give her courage to stand up
like men on this issue APP
plause. That little Malone, of Virginia,
he only weighs about ninety-hve pounds,
and some fellow asked rim what he
weighed. He said: 81 only weigh ninety
| five pounds, but ninety pounds Of that Is
solid backbone" Laughter. Well. now,
that is just what we need. about 80 per
cent. back bone, when we go into fight
like this. Brethren, if there is anything
| despise it is a coward. A man says, l
am going to take no sides. You little
| puppy, you. l would have called you a
| dog and nave done with it, but you amt
grown yet. Laughter Pm not going
to take any sides. Well, now, Pll say
! ths-this is an issue upon which every
man must make a decision, every true
man. If you have a little. light cotton
string In your back with rib or two knit
| to it, and call that your backbone, you
must. Great laughter
say another thing. In every conquest
of morals and good government and right
in the past, wherever God chose the
! leader OF that movement, God always
! chose man who was gamey from head to
| foot. God himself despises a coward.
| You recollect when Joshua met the enemy
and pressed on him and they fought hot
and heavy all day long, and finally when
Joshua saw the sun going down on him
and said: Lord God. il you will but put
the brakes on the old sun and stop her
there two or three hours I'll get victory
| here over thine enemies that shall last
forever" God told the Old sun to log
back on the dial plate, and Don't you
move an inch till Joshua gets this vic
tory" laughter, and Joshua went into
the battle and he pushed the battle until
he secured victory thai has made him
famous down through the generations to
the present hour. That cOnsecrated
! Christian woman that God gave me
| for wife knew what liquor would
do for the home. She knew how it had
debauched her husband and blighted her
life, and she said: Don't never hold up on
it," even if they put dynamite
under Our home. l would as soon go to
heaven by the dynamite route as any
other known TO me-" Applause. Well,
| say things that makes them mad. Now
In Chattanooga | said this. l would not
sag this in New England. though, but am
just quoting, you know, from the Chatta
nooga speech. ! said we have got it now
down to this point in Georgia, where no.
body but an Internal fool Will drink it.
That's getting 1t down pretty fine, ain'tit?
Now, if you can imagine anything else
worse than that, that amt cussing, just
putt down and sign my name to it.