The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-30

ANNlSAIlllS AGAIN " TIE llQuOL buSlhCSS
| the evangelist said, There's money in it
catch on now And there is, but I'd
steal every bite I got to eat and every
thread of clothes / wear before I'd sell
my neghbor the liquid damnation. Do
you know" he said, in a confidential
tone, I've as much respect for chain
| gang niger as 1 have for distillers, and
wholesale liquor dealers" The crowd
! again laughed and applauded, which drew
| from Mr.. Jones, better be careful, 1
may make you indorse what I've said
"A man said to me the other day,
Jones, you can get crowd to indorse
| anything Well, try 1t yourself if you
, want to- / said. They'll indorse anything
| say cause they'll indorse the TRUTH and
, L don't say anything but the truth.
Listen again! a niger goes to the
| chain-gang because he stole something
or he'd got in fight and bruised the face
of another niger, but the wholesale
liquor dealer every day does more dam
age by the stuff that he sends broadcast
i'll the land, causing men to Shoot their
wives and ill-treat their children and a
hundred other things. Which is the nicer
| job?-Talk out!
"Bascom," said the evangelist and a
smile broadened on his face, hadn't you
rather whip niger and get on the
gang than to do all these other things?
- 7AfONAd Sheiild dI my WluuOW III the
motel and shoot out in the street every
day and kill a man and a woman and
children, they'd done hang me. 1 might
say, too. l didn't mean it, but Little
Billee' would have me in his wagon go
ing a mile a minute. Weigh a man by
what he's done. 1 say from the depth of
my soul that in the measure of harm to
society the lowest niger on the chain
gang is better citizen and doing the
ntrxr lace hoy 81, IL,
| in the world"
AS soon as the cheers that followed this
remark had subsidized so that the speaker
| could make himself heard he turned to
| the platform with Savannah never had
| this sort of preaching before did she,
| Bascom?" Then he turned to the congre-
cation, And it's doing the work. too"
| The evangelist compared himself to the
| mule with the cannon on it's back, You
! can't tell which way the mules going to
! turn or what'n be hit" he said but
| there's going to be a dead dog around
| somewhere.
Have l abused anything good?' he
| asked, have | abused Sam Adams?
| only said that he didn't have no sense of
! humor, and Lord, that's no sin. No. sir.
| God bless Sam Adams, there amt money
| enough to buy him nor bullets enough to
scare him. The only trouble is, he's most
| ~ al a Qci ny AIiIlSell.
| The evangelist referred to the probable
| amount that Little Billee' got out of
| the gamblers. and said, But if nothing
| else happens in this town 1 hope Judge
| Falligant will quit playing gap boy for
| Little Billee' He's a good man. Judge
| Falligant is, big hearted and generous
man, and 1 don't impugn a single motive
| in his life, but want him to quit playing
| Ier-f - IL,
| driving the COWS into the pen and as soon
as Little Bilee' milks them, turning them
| out again.
Il wish you people in Savannah would
| put God Almighty to the test There's
| where you break down; you stand up to-
night and you clap your hands at what
l say, but if you amt registered before
next election you need killing. And in
the next election if any bull-necked ras-
cal tries to buy your vote give him one
| in the jaw that will give the dentist a
| job from the front of his mouth to the
| back. The blacklist and lowest niger
| in Savannah is a gentleman, a scholar and
| Christian compared 10 the white man
thatll sell his vote.
IF ia a come here and run a plain
| religious meeting, 1 could have had 5000
| conversions, but what's the use of bring
| ing souls to the kingdom of God and then
| live in?
Run this town for twelve months as II
ought to be run, and then I'll come back
| and we'll have a religious meeting every
night, and maybe we can get Little Bill
lee in his wagon and bring him up"
There are some fellows that cuss Sam
Jones' but usually it's the ones that don't
come to hear him. They're the fellows
I 10. ba af,,t
fellows, and the sis that wears the decol-
| lete. But let me tell you, sis, If you
heard the remarks that the gang at the
| froiic makes about you the next time
! you went you'd wear the dress a little
higher up.
you've heard the story of the country
boy that went TO a dance, where they
wore the modern decollete. When he
| came out of the hall he said to his
| friend We'll! I amt seed such sight
| since | was weaned. " There were cheers
| and laughter at this. Get insulted IL
YOU want to-" said the evangelist,
but what is worse. for me
| TO tell you about 1t or for you TO be i'm
modest.
"Brother Reporter" he said, addressing
| the representative of the Morning News,
now don't you say anybody blushed,
cause I've looked ell over this crwod and
I the OIly AHiHB 4 5Sp hiiSOAAihOh ia SoiOi
is in that corner and he waved his
| hands toward the negroes, which caused
another burst of merriment.
Again referring TO the text, he impress
ed upon his hearers the promise, II will
render double unto thee" and then said,
81 like for my converts to be prosperous.
Why. / expect to come back to Savannah
some day and find some OF you poor devils
living on Bull street
"I've preached long enough now, but
I'm going TO get through II II takes till
midnight. so II any OF you want to go, l
won't say word ! know some people
thought before 1 got here that anybody
that started out of one Of my meetings
would hear Sam Jones say something
bout going to start for holland who
started that fool lie on me anyway? I'm
always glad TO see man 20 out OF my
! meetings when he's got all he can tote"
Again taking up his text, the speaker
| said that there are three classes OF pris-
ouers with hope, and the classes OF pris-
oners without hope. each OF which he dis
cussed at length. After impresslng the
| necessity OF doing what you should do,
now. be- said. "t've preached In all kinds
Of places. In streets, churches, taberna-
! Giles and other places, but there's one