Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-06-13
SAM JONES on OwENsBURG. Ky.
The Great Georgia Evangelist Makes the
Fur Fairly Fly.

Fur Fairly Fly.
This city is the Peoria of the South:
n city of distilleries, a whisky dominat-
ed city. SO said. Last night the taber-
naclc was full. preached on the text.
Zone sinner destroyeth much good"
The sparks would fly occasionally and
the fur flew constantly. | quote from
the Messengers report of the sermon:
An innocent man is on a level with
God and a sinner is ON level with the
devil. There is no hell that | could
wish n man SO bad as the terror of his
own guilty conscience. | would rather
be in the penitentiary, wearing stripes,
knowing was innocent of the crime
+ for which was convicted, than to be
some of the people | see walking the
! streets of Greensboro in your pride.
when you know you ought to be in the
/ pcnitentiary. and would be there if the
law was enforced against you would
not carry around the guilty conscience
4 of one of you for all of Kentucky. you
miserable, guilty dogs, you.
| have been talking an hour but |
am not through If any of you want
! to go. get out. Some of YOU are full
now and some of you we're full when
you came here. and don't wonder at
your being fun. | wonder more that
you were not all full all the time. with
all the whisky that you make here
/ Think of the trouble that one distiller
can cause when he Is an Old diStiller
If man could stand on top of his
distillery and see where his whisky
goes, and the suffering and misery and
degradation it causes. he would Jump
down from there and run like all the
devils in hell were after him. horns
hoofs and tails. You old distiller. you
may be the richest man in town and
live in the finest house. but your feet
won't be cold until your soul will be
writing in hell, with the added agony
of tn thousands of the damned whom
You have sent there.
How many saloons have you: Sixty.
, They pay 500 each per year TO the city
That makes $1,000 There are 1900
people i'll Greensboro. That is dollar
"A head. \ POO pound hog will bring
5l3, so it would take II of you to make
Il good hog. If you amt ashamed of
yourselves after this. if you don't feel
like hogs, you don't feel natural.
An old distiller can make five gallons
of whisky out of one buShel of corn
He sells it and ships it out of town on
its mission of deSOlation, carrying ruin
to thousands of hearts and homes. and
damning the souls of otherwise noble
men, There il money III the business
Or course there is. There is money in
robbing trains. RUDE Burrows would
go on a train and make everybody hold
up their hands and get their money
He didn't take their health. their hap
piness, their reputation and their i'm
mortal souls only their money. Now
which is the incest of the two? want
you preachers to say; speak out now
about a dozen ministers said train
rohbingy You old bloatcd distillers
do you hear that? You reporters put
that down just as | say it, | want them
to get it.
You bull-necked saloon keepers are
catspaws for the distillers. You are
dirty little henchmen for the big blOat-
ed distillers! But want you to know
that it is not you | am fighting, but
your business 1t is low down bust
ness. ] can prove it by those old
brothers who go in the places. Now,
brothers, when you go in to get a drink
uO4 yUl SJIlhC q low tDNH t't'Att.
am taking you for a sample now Amt
| right? And you say it is nobody's
business if you drink. You're a liar.
you dirty, red-nosed devil. if you say
it's nobody'S business to see that no.
body gets drunk. 1t is everybody's
business to see that nobody drinks.
and it will be proved to all right here
in this town before many days.
I. L
ky business iii this town ought to die
drunk, and if he has any sons, they
ought to die drunk. and if there is
ought to be paid off in drunken sons
in-law.
One sinner dcstroyeth much good.
a little wimebibbiuG preacher! He
won't be in hell five MINUTES before the
devil will have him saddled and brid-
led and Looping around he'll to show
him off. I'll tell you. We preachers
ought to be mighty careful how we
walk. for more reasons than enc.
vt the close of this terrific arraign-
ment OF the traffic for more than an
hour and . half. said, Il am conscious
of the fact that this city is said to be
/ dominated by whisky. built up by its
money and controlled by its influence;
but appeal to you as citizens, men
and women, all of you who will stand
up and say: Mr.. Jones, you have
preached the truth, we realize that it
is true. and we will stand at your back
and help you fight this battle through
stand up. Perhaps nine tenths at
! least of the audience were on their
/ feet in the twinkling OF an eye.
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