Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-02-25
SAM JONES.
He Writes a Chatty Letter to
the Atlanta Journal.
His Estimate of Harrison, CIcye-
land and Some Other Things.

His Estimate of Harrison, Clcve-
land and Some Other Things.
The following letter from Rev. sam
Jones to the Atlanta journal will lie
found of interest:
To the Editor of the Atlanta journal:
If by weekly contribution to your
columns | can help entertain your
large list of readers, shall be pleased
that | consented to write a weekly let
ter in my TcregrinatiOns and | prom
Use at the outset that shall be at least
as kind as the good old preacher who
said to his congregation, "Brethren,
if can't interest you will not detain
YOU"
returned a few days ago from
lecture tour through Missouri, Kansas
and Iowa. was blizzard struck in
Kansas. \ genuine blizzard is a thing
of lite-2S degrees below zero.
felt allithe time that if | could sit
down on Il stove and take another one
in my lap | could at least manage to
survive, though it looked as if the
odds were against me. lectured at
Springfield and Rich Hill, Missouri;
Fort Scott, Wichita, Emporia, EldOra
do, Arkansas City and Baxter Springs,
Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa. In
spite of wind and weather the crowds
in many places were large. | found
in the West the same cry of dizziness
and depression in business and fl
nances, though the large wheat crop of
the West has given much more money
to her people than our present cotton
a much larger net profit. The tinan-
cial stringency and the spiritual
dearth spreading over the country is
appalling. The greed of the few and
the extravaganza of the many are the
real cause of the financial depression,
and the avarice and worldliGess of the
church is the cause of the spiritual
dearth.
| know of no business interest that
is tlourishing to-day, and | know of
no church on a spiritual boom, if |
may use such an expression. The po-
| litical heavens also seem to be over
cast, and folks don't know whether it
will snow, or rain or sleet. Blaine is
the high cockalorum of the Republi-
can party, and by all odds the most
popular man in the G. o. p. Harrison
has made good little President, and
would make another of the same sort
if nominated and elected again. am
afraid his untimely message on the
Chill middle has not added to his di-
mensions, but.he still wears the same
hat. He followed into the White
House the biggest man and the best
President this country has had since
| was born, unless 1T be honest Old
Abe, and | suspect that Harrison will
be followed by the sharpest, brightest
and most daring politician of the cell
fury. Grover Cleveland is the most
universally popular man on this con
tinent. have never mentioned his
name in the great crowds to whom
have spoken in any State in the Union
that the mention of his name did not
call forth prolonged applause.
The Alliance don't seem to be get
ting there. and the PrOhibitionists,
zone of which | am whom" seem to
be sitting down waiting for something
to turn up, but it keeps turning down.
Thus it is, morally, financially, politi-
cally, we seem to be "hunting our
uncles"; but while matters run as
they do | shall take hold, and if can't
stop the bad | shall do at least what
the boy said he would do when he had
the bull yearling by the tail and the
calf was running down the road mile
Il minute, more OF less. Some one
asked the boy what he was trying to
do. He said, II am going to stop
him." You can't stop him that way"
they said. 81 know that" said the
boy, "but will slow him up some "
SAM p. JONES.