The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-28


talk about Sam Jones and talk about a
fellow lying!
Listen to me! I'm going to make you
fellows in this audience who are decent
back a movement to stop this sort of
! thing or run into your pusillanimous
holes, and pull the hole in after you"
This statement was greeted with applause
and laughter.
Whenever anything is said or done
to try to help matters the dirty rascals
cry out spy system. And yet they con-
tinue to milk the cows, and give the milk
to the calves and the cream to old, old
bull.
How many of YOU asked Mr.. Jones,
believes that Sam Jones ought to be sep
ported?' The decision was unanimously
in the affirmative. Mr.. Jones smiled,
looked all over the tabernacle and then
| drawled: "Aint a dissenter the Mayor
| amt here" Slowly turning to the rear
of the platform where Mr.. S. B. Adams
| sat, Mr.. Jones as though catching sight
of him for the first time. remarked,
| why brother Sam Adams, you amt got
no more sense of humor than a dead man.
! Why didn't you just say, yes to the May
or and have me arrested. You don't
know what fun is"
After another brief but graphic
picture of the evils of drink,
the evangelist remarked, And
it's becoming fashionable to drink
wine. 1 tell you, sis, when you go and
| tank up on wine or beer, you amt able
| 10 take care of yourself, and the woman
that amt able to take care of herself is
| gone now"
"Sassiety! 1 have got no respect for
| it, To get in it there are three essentials
| you've got to drink wine or whisky,
dance and play cards, and there amt a
one of these three essentials, outside of
| the possible need of good clothes in which
| every niger can't beat the white folks
! Do you catch on to that? Now, what
do you say to that, you bucks and buck
esses, down there?
| II stand for sobriety in men and purity
| In women, and I'll say this, that l, Sam
| Jones, never was at a dance, sober, in
| my life, and never saw a really intelli-
gent person in a ballroom. Do you hear
that. you dancing cattle?
| IF 1 were fair average dancing young
buck at 80, and | think I was l tell you
from my experience that no pure sweet
young girl can afford to go into a ball
| room.
Some of you dancing bucks down there
say, What, you dare impinge on my
honor? You amt got no honor, you
devil. you.
How in the name of God you looked
| at the hoochee coochee l don't understand.
| There's no evidence that the Mayor tried
to suppress that is thereof?
| And you women, you'd better let punch
bowls alone, too. That Dewey punch,
for instance. 1 was warned about that
stuff before came"
Now, / want to say that I'm going to
| give you half an hour to think in, then
I'm going to make you get up and en-
dorse all that I've said or hug those
benches mighty close And you can't say
l didn't give you notice. 1 don't believe
| In giving a Methodist hurrah sermon
with no time to think, but rather Pres
| byterian elaboration Amt il So brother
| Anthony
The evangelist related a touching story
of a father who had killed his son while
in a drunken fit, land yet" he said,
you'll drink that stuff and call yourselves
gentlemen You whisky-soaked red-nosed
devils. you.
"And the poor woman she has to take
it. If a woman went on a three-days'
drunk and then went home to her hus-
band, he would apply for a divorce
and get it. and yet she's got
! to put up with your old
whisky-soaked carcass every day. You
old buzzards. you. Its the men I'm talk
| ing to, not you sister, don't get my meta
| phors miXad
Some folks are whispering 1t round I
| think Sam Jones does good to the lower
classes, but l don't want my children
to hear him But! where's they bin?
| II I havn't been as decent as the nature
OF the case would admit. I amt no horse
doctor at all. Wherever I've been, It
wasn't the pure sweet mother or the con-
sclentious wife that kicked at my style
In every city that I have been in have
! preached to the noblest women and the
best people. Those who have been OPP
posed to me have been the gamblers.
the debauchees, the drunkards and others
| of that Tx.
"Bascom." said the speaker, turning
| with a quizzical smile to Rev, Bascom
| Anthony. don't you think my style is as
nice as il could be and reach the case?
Now be honest" Mr.. Anthony's reply
was drowned in the roar of laughter that
followed the sally, but it must been salts
factory to the evangelist.
Cards was the next subject discussed.
Sow cards and reap gamblers" the evan
geust said. Listen TO me- Nlnety-hve
per cent OF gamblers are most elegant
gentlemen and grew up in the so-called
Christian homes. The mother that will
play cards before her children has done a
deed that she can't recall"
1t was at this part of the meeting that
Mr.. Jones appeared to be first struck with
! the idea of a womans meeting for he
announced after the premonitory, Listen
TO me-" that tomorrow he would hold
meeting for women, and that II would
be a regular old hen party. You are
| going to be astonished.' he remarked to
the audience You thought that darby
crowd big one, but wait till you see this
meeting. There'n be a bigger crowd and
| i'm include all classes. There'l be the
| lady with her silk and diamonds and
even old grandma with her chin and her
nose meeting. Don't forget. Wednesday
at o'clock I'm going to entertain the
sisterin. Some will come with all their
| children. and some, the Sassety."
| folks will come with none at all or just
/ two that's the limit-you understand
Then MIR. Jones got back to card-play-
/ Ing and drinking. God pity the man or
/ woman" he said. who can't run home
without wine ana cards. know this isn't
popular talk IN Savannah and that I'm