The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-18

He Says scoundrels Make IL and Fools
Drink II.

lie says Scoundrels Make it anu ROOFS
Drink IL.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia evan,
gelist, began talking in his character
istic way, some Of his sentences being
as follows:
THE pull to the parks, beer gar
dens, saloons and deviltry is immense
today, and 1 wonder IL didn't get some
Of you In Baltimore it is the habit
OF the decent people to dress up and
go to church Sunday morning, then go
home, undress aud take off religion
until the next Sunday. These meet
ings are going to break the mon otony,
and that's no joke. No, sir
THE committee of laymen is run
ming Music hall for these meetings,
but, under God, I'll run my mouth !
I'm bossing that The preachers sit
ting here wouldn't say what do, and
If didn't say any more than they dc
wouldn't be of any more account than
they are" Then he turned to the
preachers with pleasant grin, while
the audience laughed
81 believe in three distinct powers, {"
he said. I'VE have to do with in the
mortal world-divine, satanic aud hu-
man. l believe in devil, bad devil,
a personal, powerful devil, as much as
l believe in God. He is in Baltimore,
and the man who doubts it must be
deaf and dumb and blind and brain
less. When divine power is coupled
onto human power we ase omnipotent.
When satanic power works together
with human power we are almost an
omnipotent force for evil. There are
100 men in Baltimore allied with the
devil who. If they should cut loose and
ally with God and right, could show
you a city revolutionized in three
weeks
Some people have resolved them
selves into nothing. You are mighty
nigh landed in that knot, Some want
to be broken and empty pitchers'-not
only broken, but burst.
MANY on the DEVILS side don't
count for much. Iost of you are bar
nacles on the ship of Zion. l don't
know how you got on or why you
don't come off.
The devil can run his machine
without men. He can't distill whis-
key or sell it; and l am sure he never
drank it. He gets some scouDdrel to
make whiskey, an Internal rascal to
make it and an Internal fool to drink
it; then his work 60 on.
81 have as much respect for the
white aproned scoundrel that sells
whiskey as for the Presbyterian or
Methodist woman who dishes out dam
nation from cut glass punch bowl.
Il have more sympathy for the gam
Ter who is arrested while trying TO
make money for his family, than for
the woman who CANDLES for a cut
glass vase at a euchre party.
ITO be able to enter Baltimore So
ciety means simply to have the ac~
complishments every niger in town
has got-to be able to drink whiskey
and champagne, to play cards and to
dance. If l belonged to this gang
where niggers measured up t. me I'd
quit it or black my face
"If the great Methodist church
should abolish it's rules against world
illness, as is proposed in the general
it would die in the next
decade so there would not be enough
left to bury. 1t ought 10 enforce it's
ru' es though, or else abolish them.
Hear me!
"a mans wife has as much right to
go into a saloen or to swear as he has.
If you want to know what cussin'
sounds like 60 home and get your
wife to whack off few words.
The essence of true manhood is to
stand by every woman as il she were
his mother, wife or daughter. If there
is hell darker and deeper than any
other it is for the man who debauches
his clerk, typewriter or any girl in his
charge.
"Some people think beer is tenn
perance drink. The brewers start
fellow, and the distillers pickle, drench
and damn him,
"a fellow has got to get drunk oc
casionally in Baltimore to be a gen
tleman, but if have got to be drunk
to be a gentleman I'd rather be a
plain, bob tailed yellow dog.
The 1850 saloons in Baltimore tell
the tale. A lot of you poor devils
must be hittin' it, and pretty often
at that
81 don't believe a 6rst-class fool
will drink whisky: you have TO get
down among the tenth grade fools TO
find fellow who will monkey with it
at all. You have got your number
now.
TOO many mamby-pamby Chris
tiaHs are arguing-ths doctors that it
will hurt their practice, the grocers
that it will spoil trade, the bankers
that it will effect their deposits if they
say anything against liquor drinking.
You little devils, can put a thousand
of you in nv vest pocket.
TITS bad enough to be mean, but
when a man wants to fight for it, if
was running a soap factory in hell
and they came along with you I'd say