The age-herald., 1899-09-27
SAM JONES SCORES
 THE CITY COUNCIL Sixteen Bad Aldermen and Three
 Good Ones. HIT THE GAMBLING DENS Trains His Gun and Fires Fusillade at Preachers, and Ends With
 Beautiful Tribute to
 Mothers Love
HIT THE GAMBLING DENIS

Sam Jones, the great evangelist, spoke to a large audience at the Auditorium last night on "The Battle of Life, and How to Win It." Birmingham matters were dis cussed at length and the board of alder men was attacked.
 MT. Jones said that sixteen of the board advocated evil things while only three stood up for what was right. He suggested that if Bryan came to Birmingham he would have to change his ratio and make it 16 to 8.
 Do you know" said MT. Jones, "that the devil would like to have that gang? If they were all put in glass case and set out on the streets and the devil were to come along he would say: Well, I'll just take that along. It's way ahead of any, thing I've got"
 The speaker then went into detail and told of the numerous gambling dens and other places of vice now running wide open in the city. He said that the preach CTS were partly to blame, as the job was too big for them to tackle
 But then there are a few good ones," he continued, as he turned to pr. Kelly, "but I feel like saying to these little fel- lows who try to be nice and use moral 'suasion,' either shoot, Luke, or give up your gum" He said that the preachers paid too much attention to preaching against girls wearing rings and dancing occasionally.
 What have you done when you stop that foolshness?' he said vehemently. What yod want to do is to get right down to work and go after these gambling dehs and shameful houses which are gradually lead ing the young men of Birmingham to de- structon.
 Get Dog to Catch 'Em
 Now let me tell you something" contin- ued Mir Jones. Did you ever try to toll a hog out of a corn field. Well, you might try it thousand years and he would be there right now eating corn. What you ought to do is to get a good dog behind the hog and hel'll fetch him. The trouble is you preachers want to set on the fence and look on while l act the dog. To catch those fellows you must find the hole where they stay and shoot right into it, and I'm here to tell you they'll come out a-bilin.
 Mr. Jones then went into politics. The democrats received a hard roast ana the republicans a harder one. He said he had been a democrat and learned how to chew up ballots, etc. But, thank the Lord, he had never been a republican.
 ''Fellows I'll tell you, 1 am free from both gangs. 1lae negro in politics is getting to be a big factor, 1 notice. Say l was up north some time ago, and a man asked me did the negroes have. any instincts like the White people. I told him that the negro in fine south was mostly outstink.' (LauSh- teD.
 MT. Jones here devoted a few minutes to describing the ordinary newspaper editor.
 q can just see some little, narrow brained editor now" continued the speaker, 'as he makes his way into his little sanc- torium, and. after adjusting his glasses, proceeds to write an editorial on sam Jones. One of them actually told me one day that the newspapers made Sam Jones. In reply asked him if they could make another one, and he said they were out Of that kind of material. Did you ever see one of these little editors who expresses the public opinion politically for $5, and if the candidate hasn't but $1, says, well Iii just take thatg Gentlemen. if I was rum ming a soap factory in hell, and his car
 
 it couldn't be deodorized."
 Talks About the Children
 MT. Jones said that what this country needs is good fathers and mothers. He said that when fathers and mothers learned how to raise their children, We would have a grand nation
 "There's many a child who grows to be twenty-one and never has had a father or mother" said Mir Jones. "When daddie5 and mammes can't boss their kids, then tie kid has no mammy or daddy"
 The speaker said that he once stopped Il great discussion in the Georgia papers in regard to corporal punishment. "The way I stopped it." he explained twas by T little card in the Atlanta Journal. l told them that there were four channels through which you could appeal to boy. First, his honor; second, his conscience; third, his pride and, fourth, his hide. And it's fact When boy has nothing but hide,