Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

| Israelites coming out of Egyptian
| bondage. He told his audience of the
great advantage they had in being in
this country, surrounded by the religion
of Jesus Christ. He urged them to ac-
cept the religion of Jesus, and building
upon the rock Christ Jesus, they could
go on and make of themselves a grand
| and glorious people. He insisted that it
| was manhood and womanhood that was
needed among them.
Brother EXCEL sang solo, tx eep in
De Middle of de Roa -
Mr.. Jones then stepped forward and
preached strange mixture of fun and
solid gospel which kept his congregation
in state of hiliarity seldom seen in a con-
gregation of people. He said: 81 am
a sort of blunt preacher. can talk
fifteen minutes and make you shout, or
will talk fifteen minutes and give you
something that will do you good. Which
shall it be?''
One in the audience shouted solid
| truth.
CT have found out that heaven is the
| other side of shouting. 1 loge to hear
folks shout when they have got some
thing to shout about. If you get hurt
you can run and howl. It is the hit dog
that bowls. was slave holder. am
! q HILL. dm uO
pist from Philadelphia. Brother Excel
thinks he loves you better than do.
He is from the North. 1 am
Southern man YOU know. and
] have done more for you
than any of them have done. I know
you. If you have honesty, purity re-
ligion, industry you will get there. A
colored man can be as honest man as
God ever made. A dishonest white man
is bad enough, but dishonest cOlored
man-why if he steals no matter; but
| you steal and they put you in
jail. White folks say you will
steal. White folks stole more from
you than you ever did from them.
If you had white folks in slavery they
would steal more than you ever did.
They would steal rything you we got.
They d do it. That's fact. Show me
an honest colored man and l will show
you a man that's got something. Nine
tenths OF the niggers are getting into the
| chain-gang from idleness. An idle brain
is the DEVILS workshop. An Industrious
woman never gets into trouble. That
good old honest man. Don't you
strike him when this fellows around.
| I am always on the side OF
the bottom dog. Show me lazy mig
ger, and III show you a fellow that's
| going to the chain gang. Whenever
colored fellow gets stuck up and won't
| work the next thing is he is in the chain,
gang. When a colored man gets a little
education he does one of three things
he goes to preaching, teaching, or to the
| chain gang. There is many an honest
| colored man who would die before he
would steal anything. There is a
man in my state, who works
| 80
| honest as any man. If a man says he
cannot be colored man and be honest,
he's lie. So with q colored woman.
You are never going to be honest till you
stop getting drunk.
s'Old niger buys whisky, then goes
and buys groceries, and says, 'I'lI pay
you Saturday night. Saturday comes;
the saloon keeper says, 'Here, Tom.
'''Yes, sir, was JUS comm.
"He pays the saloon keeper, and goes
home. His poor old wife says: 'Whar's
| dat ham and sugar and flour you said you
was gwine to bring homer
'''Golly, forgot dat. But you got
more whisky
"'Whar's dat money for de preach
er?'
&c Il don It want him to come nohow.'
| ''If he treats his wife that way. he
| you see colored man who won t buy his
| little ones pair of shoes, he is a dog,
ain It he?''
Answer in the audience, eyes, sir. -
''There is many a dog in town. Now.
| listen: The colored men have bought
enough whisky to buy good homes for
every niger in this city. You see the
saloon men . fine houses. When did you
get them, you say. From you, you old
fool you. You ought to be taken out
| and get your old head cut off. You
| mean old black devil you. Did you ever
have a preacher talk to you that way be-
fore?''
From the audience, ''No sir. -
"You never got your dues then, did
you? Every man who don't love liquor,
stand up.''
A few stood up amid great laughter.
h"You oolored people have no money.
You old rascals, you will be
down in that saloon telling the
saloon keeper what 1 said. There are
stores down here that you have not
passed in months, and you say, Boss 1
am so busy You won't pass because
you owe him and won t pay him.
Some one said, ssThat s so. -
Mr.. Jones: ''The fellow that said
that, stand up.
A laugh, but no standing up.
ct tell you colored folks, I have
known you a long time. You go to that
white woman and say, Il will
buy a dress from you and
you say 4 will pay you
next week; and you get little money
and you say: Il need dis money more
dan dat white woman and I won't pay
her, and you owe her for that very
dress you got on. You think you look
like colored angel. Did you ever see a
colored angel? God wants you to be
honest. When you buy thing pay for
it; and if you amt, go and
tell him SO. IF you amt
paid that white woman for that
dress go by there and pay her or tell her
you can t do it.
elf you want to rise you have got to
keep out of all bad company. You col
ored women will never rise and be what
God wants you TO be as long as you sell
your daughters virtue for few yards of
calico. In Georgia they wanted TO put
man in jail for teaching white and COL
ored children in the same school.
said: IF You will hunt up the
father and mother of every mu-