Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-19
SAM JONES' SAYINGS.

SAM JONES' SAYINGS.
QUAINT SENTENCES FROM SERMONS
PREACHED NEAR BALTIMORE
BY THE EVANGELIST
FROM GEORGIA.
"Character and Character Build
ing" was the subject of the afternoon,
address, Money and Manhood"
that delivered at night. Both were
full of quaint, witty, shrewd, pithy
and slangy sayings which have so
built up the reputation of the Geor-
gia evangelist. At night he aroused
interest by attacking education at
public expense and by his denuncia-
tions of the greed for office. hold
ing. Both developments, he said,
had undermined the sturdy, inde-
pendent manhood which had made
this country's greatness, 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 audiences:
OF all the infinite rascals / have
ever seen the worst is the fellow who
will go the farthest for the dollar.
He'll is selfishness on fire, and it's
wonder to me that some old dea-
cons don't catch by natural combus-
ton.
This country will never develop a
grand man and still enjoy the things
it is running after now.
IF every politician in Maryland
were to go to the gates of hell in a
bunch and the devil " ere to peep
out At them through the keyhole he
would shut up shop right away
Because if he'd let them all come in
at once they'd call caucus, knock
him in the head and choose new
devil.
There's no room in the realm of
politics for manhood now. This
country's going down in the scram.
bic for office.
There are six hundred and forty
one millions of silver in this coun-
try, and six hundred and seventy
one millions of gold. 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.
If we were to dump all the gold
and silver in the Atlantic ocean and
pour the liquor in after it, we'd have
an era of prosperity such as this
country never before dreamed of.
The politicians Of this country
have turned us into a nation of
calves. Washington is public
cowpen and every office-holder is a
pap-sucker. The curse of the coun-
try is this laying down on the gov
ernment.
Free schools! It's no more the
business of the State to educate your
kid than it for the government to
spank him, undress him ard put
him to bed. Free education cuts
the grit from under family and
down they come.
l believe God Almighty projected
this world on the root hog or die,
principle. Got to have help p
That's what has bankrupted the
State and wrecked municipalities
Pap suckers, taxes multiplying
manhood going down-that's the
country to-day.
The government which robs Pete,
to give to Bill ruins Peter and make.
q failure of the other fellow.
4 college is to a boy what grind
stone is to an ax. 1t whets him
But the AK may be kept too long a
the stone.
If the poor boy hasn't headed tht
procession in this country for a cen
tury my names not Sam Jones. /
IL slander on America and libe
on Providence to say that the poo
man has no chance. He gets ther,
every pop.
I've never known a boy to 90 t,
the bad who honestly reverenced hi
mother.
Bloomers! Why, sure. It's
WOman's rights man. believe in
woman being anything she wants t
be except the father of a family O
children.
Two pillars uphold the womanhoo,
OF this modesty and pu
rity. With either pillar gone w0
man sinks. God, pity the America
woman who tells modesty to ste,
aside!
Modesty buttons girls dress clos
up around her neck. God save M
from the society woman who button
her collar around her waist.
DO you expect Mckinley to brin,
prosperity? Put all the cars on Tn
Pennsylvania Railroad in one train
tell all the boys to pile in, hitch on
mule to it all and say, Git up, Bill
Dye 'spose he kin pull it?
Reputation is what men saw q
me. Character Is what really an
Reputation is like glove, to b
on and off at will, but character
the hand itself. Once Scared Il
SCARED forever.
If had people in my congregs
tion such as some Of you preacher
/ have, I'd sell them like eggs i'm war;
weather, principally for the fac
they won't keep.
Liberty is the privilege of doin
. right. License means you can d
wrong for so much down.
Tell me what you are tbinkin
about to-day and / know what yo
will he lOinO IN. p,orrop, .,