The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-13
HERE FOR A FIGHT
EVANGI1LIsTs STUART AND JONES
IN SAVANNAH FOR THAT PUR-
POSE.
so SAID REV. Mr.. STUART.
TALhED OF TEMPERANCE BEFORE
CROWDED TABERNACLE.

TALkED OF TEMPERANCE btsh OhE
CROWDED TABERNACLE
Says That visit OF Himself and sam
Jones VIII Be an Epoch in SaNnn-
nah-Hope TO Make an Impression
That VIII Last Till Gabriel Blows
His Trumpct-Tells of the BLACK
Clouds That Threaten America and
Charges Them All to the Liquor
BuSincss-AmuseS the crowd by
Telling Jokes on Mckinley and on
the Divorce Laws of Chicago.
Rev. George r. Stuart delivered his
address on temperance at the Tabernacle
yesterday afternoon before 5000 people
IT was a strong plea for prohibition, and
filled with the characteristics illustrations
both of speech and gesture, that have
brought the evangelist so prominently to
the front and made him the co-worker OF
Rev. Sam Jones. That the address was
TO be a characteristic one could be known
almost from the opening remarks.
After a brief introduction the evangelist
told his audience that he was entering
keep quiet and hear him Hold your
mouth, or take il away" he said. The
people took him at his word and followed
the first part of his admonition. for ex-
cept when some remark drew forth
laugh or when some sentiment was cheer
ed he was heard throughout the hour
and a quarter or more in which he talk
ed with absolute attention
Tonight" said the speaker, begins a
series of meetings which are to be an
epoch in your city; meetings of which the
influence, l trust, will be here when Ga
briel shall blow his horn. for I am here
this afternoon to make a sentiment on
the greatest question that is now before
the American people"
The speaker read as his text Hab: II IL,
Woe to him that buildeth a town with
blood and estAblsheth a city of iniquity."
The pronoun him" stands for noun,
he said and we may as well supply it
with the noun in this case and say Woe
unto Savannah that buildeth a town With
blood and establisheth a city by iniquty"
These" he continued are the words
not of George Stuart, but of God. come
to you as an American citizen. and if
can but put one heart right on this issue
/ shall not have spent the afternoon in
vain.
spent Years With Jones.
Il have spent years travelling about the
country with my co-worker, Sam Jones'
who has stood for right and right only
all of the time. and the more see the
country the more l am convinced that it
is marching to the tune of this great
book. the Bible. But" he continued
there are many big black clouds that
overhang us and all can be traced to the
whisky barrel or the beer key
THE first cloud that | shall consider is
the cloud of anarchy. Many think 1t a lit
tie cloud showing here and there, but it
is growing broader and deeper and more
dangerous every year. In Chicago, after
the anarchist riot the judge who tried
the cases against them said that every
witness that deposed in the case had
come from in a saloon, back of saloon,
or over saloon. But I've no time more
TO spend on this subject and so ! will
tell you of another cloud that overhangs
you, the cloud of mobism, and l want TO
say now here's one Ameri-
can citizen everlastingly opposed to
mobism. Its all due to the saloon and
there is no excuse for it. In the first
place the mob always gets the man that
has no money and no political friends
and who would, in consequence, be pun
ished anyway.
The mob is the result of the saloons
and just as soon as you get near enough
to a mob to smell of it you smell whisky
In 1896 there were more men and women
killed by mob law than were executed
by order of all the courts in the land
put together To destroy the mob it is
necessary to destroy the saloon, for that
the one is the cause of the other can
be seen in all cases where there is a
DANGER 11ph
in Galveston. and recently in Jackson
vile, when this fact was so well recog-
nized that the first cry of those that
feared the mob was CLOSE the saloons"
Politics "a CIoud.
Politics" he said. lis another of clouds
that overhang. / am out of politics" he
said, because l don't want to mix any
politics with my religion, but / would like
to get little religion in politics. What
the country needs" he contn-
ued lis Christianity and decency
in politics, and it is my hope
some day to see an honest white
ballot in the hands of every honest
American" This wish was cheered by the
audience. Whisky" continued Mr.
Stuart, has got politics by the throat,
its got Savannah by the throat and
it's got all the other cities of the country
by the throat Do you know" he went
on, there there is a saloon in the Capt.
tol at Washington, and there is not
legislator in the country with enough
backbone to kick it out.
But, l tell YOU" he said, "the age of
crises is coming"
Infamous divorce laws, were character
lied by the speaker as the next cloud
that he wished to speak Of. DO you
know" he said, that il man has a
crazy wife he can get law through the
Legislature so that after five years he
ean marry again. Eighty per cent of
these infamous DEGREES are due to tho
saloon business. l am IN favor of getting
married and staying married until this
book Gspping the Bible. says that we
must part We are entirely too careless
about this matter; why ii is said that i'm
Chicago they are issuing marriage GER
tlhcates with divorce coupons. and thar
when a man wishes to leave his wife all
he has to do is to tear off a coupon. saw
Goodbye. SAL and skip out The laws
OF the land, influenced by the iniquitous
liquor traffic have made marriage almost
play
Speaking Of the Epworth League. Mr.
Stuart said, that its charity and helm de.
partment, the feeding and clothing OF
poor people had his highest commenda-
ton. MY idea of Christianity" ne said
lis to take the Bible in one hand a
pone OF bread In the other and a nair
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