Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-26

ing to you today. Sam Jones stands
for pure citizenship and home
above the dirt of society.
Look at that husband who has be-
gun to drink. L won't protract the
scene. 1t is a volume of ten thou
sand pages. One by one home bless
ings take wings and slip away. You
may run on your gold-buggery and
silver-diggery, but God Almighty's
got quarrel with any Christian ma
ton that will sell itself out to the
cursed rum traffic.
Some Of you here worked and
struggled to accomplish McKinley's
election so that the country would
get move on? Pm perfectly cam
did. There amt many people go up
and down this country more than
Sam Jones, and l haven't seen the
move. 1 done seen things myself.
| don't have to ak And tell you
that when God Almighty puts on the
brakes, there amt an engine can pull
tho train.
Ive got no respect for either Demo-
Gratis or Republicans. The Republi-
cans say they are not whiskey party.
That's only because for some cleo
tions they put in sort of plank to
hold down you brethern who haven't
the courage to come out for prohibi-
ton. The Republican party's record
on temperance is pusillanimous
from start to finish. Lots of you
fellows remind me of the chap who
had biscuit for the purpose of get
q fn frtn
dog got through the man put the
biscuit back in his pocket and said
it would do for the next time. That's
the way with you fellows. The
Republican party pulled the biscuit
out and you all just danced and per-
formed. Then the biscuit was put
back. But some Of the little dogs
are still a,jumping.
won't run with the gang. IdOn't
have to. Once and forever I've
settled the question. Here's one
American citizen. free, white and
forty-nine, who is going to look out
for the peace of his home, the happi-
ness of his wife, and the sobriety of
his boys.
They tell us the Republican party
is the party of great moral ideas.
But brother Daniel, the Republicans
were in power for twenty-four years
before Cleveland and his gang fred
'em out, and they went out, soaked
with whiskey. Old fellow, if you're
a Republican you had better tell your
wife to put your summer clothes in
your coffin. You old red.nosed
Democrats needn't laugh, either.
This Christian nation has got to
unload its conscience somewhere.
And that's no joke. 1t would unload
all right if the church people had less
jawbOne and more backbone. All of
you had better swap off jawbone and
spare ribs for backbone. Then YOU
would get away from the damnable,
dirty, lousy old political party.
They abuse me, of course, for
jumping on them, but, Lord bless
me, that don't hurt me. It's like
the skunk telling the 'possum that
his breath don't smell good. And if
you are afraid and won't gang with
me, and there's only one vote for
prohibition, you can just say to your
self, that old pig-headed Sam Jones
down in Georgia voted that ballot
And when l go up to heaven and say
l voted that way, they will say.
Walk in and be seated. This whole
things run that way And there
won't be Democrat nor Republi-
can there. Amt that good thing.
If l ask some of you fellows why
you stick to the old parties you will
say because one or the other of them
represent principles very dear to you.
Why, what's the matter with you,
bud? Why, what's the dearest
sentiment that ever touched mans
heart? Amt it the feeling of home?
And if you don't vote to cherish it
you'll be in hell fryin', first thing
you know. And you ought to be,
too.
When ! talked in a town not long
ago where there were twenty-five
saloons l stayed with the mayor.
After my meeting his wife told me
that had made her husband hang
his head with shame for having gone
into those saloons. That man looked
up at me and said that if other
preachers had talked as l did there
would have been train-loads of
men who would never have gone into
saloon.
Can any lady go into a saloon? If
lady can't can gentleman? If I
were to go into saloon tomorrow
to get drink it would be telegraphed
all over the country, but you fellows
can go in whenever you want and
nobody says anything about it.
Amt there sight of difference be-
tween gentleman and vagabond I?
/ thank God for the difference.
fl were asked to name in a single
sentence the one thing that in this
country is putting the brakes on
commerce, stopping the wheels of
trade, causing the shrinkage Of val.
ues, would gay that it is because
the pure, genuine, independent spirit
Of manhood is dying out among us.
used to stand on street corners
and talk big about what the world
owed me. That was when ! was
three sheets i'm the wind. But quit
that when l learned that God loved
me and was willing to help me, and
and ever since | have had foot on
the moon and my chin over star, )
gittin' along bully"
BRAIN WORK. - When we hear
that man has killed himself by ex-