The gold leaf., 1897-08-26
SAM JONES' SAYINGS.
QUAINT SENTENCES FROM SERMONS OF
THE NOTED EVANGELIST.
opposed to Free Education-Says 1t
"Cuts the Grit From Under a Fam
hy''-PoOr Have Headed the Process.
sion in America For a Century.
(B altimOre SUM-

hc last place want 10 get into IS
cemetery"
81 hope you understand me-" he
said to those who heard him at night.
81 try to get my fodder down low
enough for all kinds of animals to
feed, from the giraffe to the billygoat.
If there be any among you that do not
understand me, l won't worry about
you, for the Lord has made special
provision for idiots and children, and
you'll make the landing in good
shape"
"Character and Character Build
ing" was the subject of the afternoon
address, "Money and manhood" that
delivered at night. Both were full of
the quaint, witty, shrewd, pithy,
and slangy sayings which have so built
up the reputation of the Georgia
evangelist. At night he aroused in
terest by attacking education at pub
lie expense and his denunciations OF
the greed for office holding. Both de-
velopments, he said, had undermined
the sturdy, independent manhood
which had made this country's great
ness, and until the nations manhood
was once more asserted there would be
no "era of prosperity
Here are some of the phrases and
sentences which caught the fancy OF
his audience:
"Of all the infinite rascals ! have
ever seen the worst is the fellow who
will 60 the farthest for the dollar
"Hell is selfsnness on fire, and it's
wonder to me that some of these old
deacons don't catch by natural con-
bustion"
"This country will never develop a
grand man and still enjoy itself with
the things it is running after just
now"
off every politician in Maryland
were to 60 to the gates of hell in a
bunch and the devil were to peep out
at them through the keyhole he'd shut
up shop right away. Because if he'd
let them all come in at once they'd
call a caucus, knock him in the head
| and choose new devil"
"There's no room in the realm OF
politics for manhood now. This coun-
try's going down in the scramble for
Office"
"There are six hundred and forty
one millions of silver in this country
and six hundred and seventy one mill
lions of gold in this country. That's
what all the talk was about last year.
But all the gold and silver that there is
in this country is spent every twelve
months for beer and whiskey."
off we were to dump all our gold
and silver in the Atlantic ocean and
pour the liquor in after it, we'd have
an era of prosperity such as this coun-
try has never before dreamed Of"
"The politicians of this country
have turned US into a nation of calves.
Washington is public cow-pen and
every Office holder is pap-sucker. The
curse of the country is this laying down
on the government"
"Free schools! It's no more the
business of the State to educate your
kid than it is for the government to
spank him, undress him and put him
to bed. Free education cuts the gri,
from under family and down they
| come"
81 believe God almighty projected
this world on the root, hog or die
principle. Got to have help" That's
what has bankrupted the Stale and
wrecked municipalities. Pap-suckers,
taxes multiplying, manhood going
down-that's the country to-day"
"The government which robs Peter
to give to Bill ruins Peter and make:
a failure of the other fellow"
ga college is to boy what a grind
stone is to an axe. 1t whets him
But the axe may be kept too long al
the stone.'
elf the poor boy hasn't headed the
procession in this country for a cen
tury my names not Sam Jones. It.:
a SANDER on America and a libel or
Providence to say that the pool
man has no chance. He gets there
every pop"
"I've never known a boy to 60 tt
the bad who honestly reverenced hi
mother"
"Bloomers! Why, sure. It's wo
mans rights man. l believe in ;
woman being anything she wants tt
be except the father of family OF chill
dren."
"Two pillars uphold the woman
hood of this country-modesty ant
purity. God, pity the American
woman who tells modesty to ste]
aside!"
"Modesty buttons girls dress clos
up around her neck. God save nj
me from the society woman who but
tons her collar around her waist"
"Do you expect Mckinley to brini
prosperity? Put all the cars on tn
Pennsylvania Railroad in one train
tell the boys to pile in, hitch one null
to it all and say, Git up, Bill D'y'
'spose he kin pull it?"
"Reputation is what men say of me
Character is what l really am. Repu
,ation is like glove, to be pulle'
on and off at will, but character is tn
hand itself. Once scared it is scarre'