Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-19
Fight Whisky Until Hell Freezes OOer
And Then Fight On the Ice
SAYS REV. SAM p. JONES.

with their Jugs and cases Of liquor.
These internal old saloon keepers OF
these wet towns visiting the dry towns
and taking orders for whisky is an out
rage on decency and right.
But some folks will have whisky, yet
in my Judgment It Is a mighty low
down kind of folks that want it II all
the whisky drinkers in Georgia could
be marched out into line and a fellow
could look at them as they marched,
and especially look at the tail end OF
the procession, IL he had a spark OF
manhood or decency, & looks like he
would forever quit the crowd that
brought up such a rear procession as
he IS marching in. 1 used to march
with the gang-I know them-but
thank God, thirty years ago l quit
that gang and have quit them for good.
am troubled in my mind about the
condition of things in Georgia on the
prohibition question. There is the
mutterlngs Of trouble ahead. There Is
going to be thunder and lightning and
storms and cyclones and tidal waves
in my judgment in the next Twelve
months along this line. AS the saying
is, there are thousands of US fellows
who have an old grudge against liquor
which is nightly easy to stir UP. and
when you do stir It up you stir some
mighty hot blood on both sides.
I don't know what brother Walker
Lewis is going to do now. I am afraid
the governors veto has put a quietus
on him. I was counting on brother
Lewis in the coming issues. The pro-
hibitionists Of Georgia that requested
Governor Gambler to veto that dispen-
gary bill. and now lie dormant and
quiet in coming issues, their request
and taeir views and opinions amount
to no more with me than a dog a
barking.
If there was a whisky man in Geor-
gia who fought that dispensary bill
have yet to hear from him, except
Seab Wright's reference to the main
pressure brought TO bear upon the
governor. There is one thing do not
like as quoted from Seaborn Wright,
and that is, that he expects to retire
to a quiet life on his farm. If he does.
then two of strongest and most Wig
orous men. who stand on the right side
OF adj questions, will have retired
Tom Watson and Seab Wright.
Now, gentlemen, you can all fold
your tents and take to the woods, but
am going TO fight them until perdi-
ton freezes over and then fight them
on the ice. just amt built that way,
boysl You can all take TO the woods
that want to, but am by whisky like
the Hon. Joe Hill Hall is by rail-
roads, am ''agin'' it on all occasions.
don't care how the legislature goes
nor how the governor goes nor how
the supreme court goes (and if a ma
Jority of the supreme court judges
noses were as red as a beet they
would not lean more unerringly to the
liquor side Of every question they have
up before them involving the over
throw Of liquor and the maintenance
of prohibition in our state), nor how
the world, the flesh and the devil goes,
/ propose to go with the women and
children Of this country and fight
everything that makes a wife miser-
able, a mother unhappy or wrecks a
home. This may be undemocratic, il
may he unpreachercratic. it may be
unmethodistic, it may be unbishop-
like, but them is my sentiments, gen.
tIemen, and by them 1 will stand
leave tonight for a tour of Aissis-
sippi Louisiana and Texas, D. ".
winding up my tour IN time to get
home Christmas eve.
A merry. happy. jugless, kegless.
bottleless Christmas to all the people
of America! Yours truly.
SAM P. JONES.