The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-10-12
Sam Jones In Union.

As per program Sam Jones arrived in
Union last Saturday, and delivered his
lecture In the Second Methodist church
at night on the Politician. Every no
served seat had been sold, and nearly all
the 80 cent seats were taken; the receipts
from the sale of tickets being in the
neighborhood of $175.
He gave the politician fits, and said if
he was running soap factory in hell, lie
would not consider them fit to use. He
said they were the curse of the country.
He scored the men, who usually move to
the factory, put all their children in the
factory to work and make living for
the Whole family, while he loafed around,
chewed tobacco and talked politics; said
they were fit subjects for white caps, and
should have their dirty hides tanned.
He said no man had an excuse for being
drunkard, that it was his family who
suffered for it. He said the contemplate
dirty rascals should be in the chaingang.
BE hit at the dudes and dudesses, said
the dude was the DEVILS goat, and the
dudess the DEVILS nanny goat. An idle
head Is the DEVILS own workshop; every
one should be made to work. He had
work ed in the mines and shouldered his
sack Of flour and chunk of meat and
carried them home to his family many a
time. He was not in favor of free schools;
said the State had no right to educate
your kids no more than it did to feed
them. He said that his wife and he had
agreed that when they got too poor to
send their kids to school, they would
go out Of the kid business. The people
may think he was talking mighty plain,
but hoped they didn't find any difficulty
in understanding him. Jones likes the
trusts, and is putting in some licks in
their favor. He compared things in the
trusts with those out of the trusts, and
thought those in them were much cheap
er and more commodious than those out
side. He said if he lived on certain
railroad that was not in the trusts, he
would sue the company for damages for
the trains shading his crops, they run SO
slow. He had never seen any woman
prettier than his wife. When a man
found a woman prettier than his wife,
he was fixing to break into the chain
gang, and when woman found man
prettier than her husband, that woman
Is fixing to 60 to the devil. The sweetest
place on Gods green earth is happy
home. A little home in Gainesville,
Ga, was the dearest place on earth to
him. He was down on divorce business.
Every divorced man or woman should
be put in the penitentiary for the bal,
ance Of life. When man had wife and
Ave or six children, God had done heap
for that man. His children was an evil
dence Of Gods pleasure, but when man
had got one of these little dudesses, with
a poodle dog, God had thrown off on that
fellow. He could not see how a woman
oould have such affection for a poodle
dog, unless it was her natural love fol-
her husbands kin folks. He did not
know which was worse, to live drunk.
ards life or be drunkard's wife. He
advised all married people to stick to-
gether for better or worse, though he
thought some Of them had hard job or
hand. He scored the mill owners fol
contributing only $500 per annum 70,
the support Of that church; said he would
give negro church more than that. He
said this mill should have the blue rib.
bon; cleared several thousand dollars in
one deal, and gave the church $25. 90.