Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-27
SOME SHOULDER HITS
DELIVERED BY ONE THAT FEARS NOT
THE DEVIL.

Evangelist Sam Jones Gives His Opinion of
the Whisky Business and the Churches,
Parties and Men That Support the In
| fernal Traffic.
The difference between the two old par
ties seems to be about this: The Demo-
cratic party says, 1--WE are in favor of
whisky, and to show you we are what
we profess we drink all we can get of it."
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You ask fellow, What is your poll
tics? and he says: Democratic. Look
at my nose" You ask a Republican,
and he says: Republican. Look at my
heart" Laughter.l Drinks beer, you
know.
You jump up the Democratic party
and tree 'em, you will tree 'em up a
whisky barrel every time. If you run
down the Republican party and tree 'em,
you will find them in the top of tree,
with beer keg hanging to every limb.
Here is one man who makes whisky;
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 so that some of that crowd will
go to heaven and some to hell, you are
profounder philosopher than ever have
been.
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The cry Of the age is for liberal preach
ers-preachers who don't interfere with
either politics or religion-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 different towns. Don't break the Sab
bath, but you may bend it double"
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No mother or wife or little child in
this country can look to either one of the
old parties for their deliverance from
this traffic. It will never be. Our good
old Pennsylvania brethren told me in
private conversations: "We are going to
give our party one more chance. If they
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quit them. We will vote for Harrison
this time, and next time we will have a
vote on the amendment, and we will free
ourselves from this traffic" When that
vote came off, Pennsylvania, the strong
est Republican state in the Union, rolled
up 100000 majority for drunkenness,
damnation and death.
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You know you can't get at the prohi-
bition question outside of politics, for
outside of politics there is nothing to
fight. am like the fellow who was go
ing along with a pitchfork on his shoul-
ders, and vicious dog ran out at him
to bite him, and the man just took the
fork down and jabbed it through the
dog, and the owner of the dog said,
"What did you do that for" The fell
"But," said the owner of the dog, ''why
didn't you take the other end of the
forkT' "Well." said the fellow. "why
didn't he come at me with the other
end?' The liquor traffic is coming at us
with the death and destruction end, and
I am going at it with the pitchfork end
every time. If we license the saloon
keeper, he is as good as anybody.
Sitting down and talking with young
man, an officer in the Y. M. c. A., he
said, care there not more saloons and
gambling hells and shameless houses to-
day than ever beforeY' I said, "Yes."
He said, SIS this world going to the
bad?' I said. "It Il ols so." He said,
whats tie matter" I said: II know.
There never was a time when the DEVILS
crowd v-e so we'll organized as now.
You hit one saloon, and You hit every
saloon in America. You hit one gam
bling hell or one shameless house, and
you hit them all. They will all die to-
gether. You never hear of a saloon
keeper having row with another sa-
loon keeper, nor doing anything against
the business of another, or anything
Of that sort, but if you hit one
preacher the others all say, "Give it
to him; he had no bIsiness getting his
mouth in it anyhow" I believe Gods
forces are in the majority. But the devil
pushes his crowd in a solid phalanx,
sweeping this country from Maine to
California. God wants to move forward
his forces. There's an old Republican
says, II can't go with you now; want
to see my man elected; you will have to
excuse me this time" And the old Dem
ocrat says, "Y-y-y-you will have to ex-
cuse me, too; want to 60 with my par
ty this year; can't go with you, Lord,
this time; some other time, maybe"
And when God wants to rally his forces
most of the church is on the other side,
and he can't do it all.
The Voice Of the Churches.
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