Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-10-20
WHERE SAN JONES STANDS.
In the Course of a Sermon
He Tells Some Pretty
Plain Truths.

Plain Truths.
The difference between the two
old parties seems to be about this:
The Democratic party says: eve
are i'll favor of whiskey and to
show you we are what we profess
we drink all we can get of it. !"
You ask a fellow, "What is your
politics?" and he says, Demo
cratic; look at my nose" You ask
Republican and he says, "Repub-
lican; look at my heart" Laugh
ter.) Drinks beer, you know.
You jump up the Democratic
party and tree 'em, you will tree
'em up whiskey barrel every
time. II you run down the Re
publican party and tree 'em, you
will find them in the top of tree
with a beer keg hanging to every
limb. Laughter and applause }
While you laugh l am telling the
truth; sticking to it just as
squarely as language can to what
is the truth. No mother or wife
or little child in this country can
look to either one of the old parties
for their dehverance from this
traffic. 1t will never be. Our
good old Pennsylvania brethren
told me in private conversation:
"We are going TO give our party
one more chance. Ii they don't
come out square we are going to
quit them. We will vote for
Harrison this time, and next time
we will have a vote on the amend
ment and we will free ourselves
from this traffic" When that
vote came off, Pennsylvania, the
strongest Republican State in the
Union rolled up 100000 majority
for drunkenness, damnation and
death.
wish we could get our preach
ers straight. If there is a being
on earth | have contempt for it is
these little high license preachers.
He won't be i'll hell five minutes
until the devil will saddle and
briddle him up and ride him all
around, showing him off as one of
his little high license preachers. l
have lost my respect for a preacher
who is more loyal to his political
party than he is to God Almighty.
The cry of the age is for liberal
preachers preachers who don't in
terfere with either politics or re-
ligion; preachers who read the
commandments something after
this wise: Thou shalt not
steal-if there is any chance
of being found out. Thou
shalt not commit adultery; but
you may have two. or three
wives if you have them in differ
ent towns. Don't break the Sab
bath, but you may bend it double. "
A preacher that don't interfere
with anybody's moral character or
political creed. Oh, my! how tired
l get when i see how the preachers
are running the thing. A little
Methodist preacher is preaching on
infant baptism, mistaking perspir-
alton for inspiration, and is just
moving heaven and earth, and all
the little babies in town fast asleep,
and all the grown up people going
to hell. And a little Presbyterian
preacher will get up and preach on
the final perseverance of the saints,
and there amt one in ten of his
crowd has anything to persevere
on. The Episcopalian preaching
about Apostolic succession and
telling his people where they came
from. Better be telling them where
they are going to. And the Bap-
tist preacher about water and more
than half the crowd going where
they can't get a drop. | say that
a preacher who can get up for four
weeks and not say anything for
Prohibition, the devil brags ON
such a preacher; and whenever
the devil brags on such a preacher
lit is time to take him out and re-
license him. And if you will ex-
cuse me, when | say that this is
pure, mean, dirty streak of cow
ardice that makes them keep quiet.
| don't know game preacher who
is turning his gun on this traffic.
You see one OF those little fellows
make break on this subject and
the next Wednesday evening two
old deacons take him aside and
say: Now, Brother, you hurt
feelin's last Sunday, and two of
our principlest members are talkin'
about leavin'." And they say you
mustn't do so again, and he says,
his knees shaking like aspen leaves,
Il won't" Oh, Lord what is
such a preacher worth to this
world! We want to get the min-
istry of the United States of
America straighto on that question.
Here is one man who makes
whiskey; another who sells it:
another who rents house for the
sale of It; another who votes with
party to license it; another who
dies drunk. Now If you can fix
that up 50 that $ me of that crowd
will 90 to heaven and some to