Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-25
re Rev. sam Jones.

The Rev. sam J0nes.
The old adage runs that when gentle
men meet compliments pass. The
HERALD is charitable enough to recall
this old saw in connection with a passage
between one of its editors and the Rev.
erend Sam Jones. We may disclaim
egotism in saying that the HERALD's
manners and ethics will both prove of a
finer order than Mr.. Jones's, but we only
do this after the Reverend Sam had an
nounced with great efusiveness that he
could knock out anybody, whether he
belonged to the editorial or any other
fraternity. The Reverend Samuel is evil
IDENTIFY q gentleman endowed with the
bighead. There was once British
monarch who thought he had whipped
and lashe6 and knocked out the old
ocean, but still the same old tides surge
around the British Coast in spite OF
Knute.
Whenever the Rev. Sam has occasion
to bounce newspaper man he ruffies
his feathers and goes through all the
antics of bantam rooster. The HERALD
started off in its good natured criticism
of the Rev. Jones by admitting that he
was plucky little fellow. In fact nature
in that fine equilibrium Of her forces
generally makes little man anxious tc
fight and big man anxious to be al
peace. Whenever little man weighs sc
little as the Reverend Sam Jones, ever
the sacerdotal calling and election can
not prevent him from bullying every
body.
Naturally Mr.. Jones, being retrenchec
of physique, is warlike. Most people would
call him clipper and presumptuous. He
began his ministrations in Los Angeles by
insulting every respectable clergyman ir
this section. Plenty of these ministerial
gentlemen we're on the stage when thi.
Georgia gentleman wiped the floor with
them, metsphorically speaking. They
seemed to revel in sentences which helc
them up as imbeciles or worse. If they
liked it we do not know that the HERAtI
has any right to complain.
However, there were features as to
which this journal had right to COM
plain. Pursuant to his usual trashy
sensational methods, the Reverend Sam
held up Los Angeles as the moderr
Sodom and Gomorrah. That he should
do this is only to be explained by the
fact that he is very provincial indi
vidual. His rustic lines of life have
probably left him ignorant Of the rea
ways of this wicked world. If this
be true, it is all the better for the
Reverend Sam. Rusticity can be en-
dured at the inestimable premium of in
nocence.
In addition to Safeguarding his au
diences, the Reverend Sam Jones hal
the bad taste to foul his own nest. HI
starts in on his own evangelizing pro
cesses by holding himself up as a re
claimed drunkard.
There is something very vulgar abou
all this, and it is go vulgar that it canno
be redeemed by the superlative vulgarity
which MIR. Jones indtroduces into his dis
courses. We do not think that we arr
hard when we say that the Reveren,
gentleman hawks the gospel about for hi
personal profit. At the same time W,
desire to be polite to him and therefor
venture the expression of th,
hope that his vulgar suctioneer
ing ways are underlaid by a rea
and fervid impulse of piety. and tina
his surface rankness has underneath it
record of ever flowing Gospel unction
This is our hope, an article which is sale
to spring eternal in the human breast
We do not say that it is our belief. W.
have not yet arrived at the stage o
primeval trust. The rumor goes that tn,
returns from the Gospel grist have no
proved 30 remunerative as the Reverend
Sam looked for. Perhaps this may il
some measure explain his ill-humor
The report goes that nickels of low
denomination, too often alternated BY
absolute abstention on the part of tn,
contributors, are making the Reverend
Sans sanctimonious seances much les
profitable than he expected in the city o
the Angels. Even with sensationa
preachers these things sometimes have
an effect on the mundane temper.