The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-10
THE THREE EVILS.
CONTINUED from Eighth rage.)

but one of these four propositions GER
tainly is. 1t is not for me to indicate
! the trouble; it is enough to say there is
| something radically wrong and that some
thing should be done. If we have not
adequate laws, let them be passed; If
we have not officers to enforce the laws,
| let US employ them; if our officers are
grossly ignorant let US open their eyes;
| if they are periured. they should be look
ed after ana made TO change their course.
l believe every honest man will uphold
this position. / stand by it, whether he
will or not"
DR.. Jordan said he and the other min
listers stood for the enforcement of all
laws but because they wished their pur-
pose to be clearly understood ana did not
wish to scatter their efforts, they had con
fined their announcement to opposition
to three Well-rccognized evils.
And first of all. we are in favor of
closing the saloons on Sunday. Where
is the honorable and upright citizen who
will not stand with us on that PROPOSE
ton? / have no fight to make against
the man who pays his license and sells
his rum on six days in the week-nor
with the club that does the same thing
As long as he complies with the law,
we shall not quarrel, no matter how
much l may disagree with his principles
or dislike his business. But no saloon
man or club has a right TO sell strong
drink on Sunday. Whoever does it is
not a law abiding citizen. In a certain
sense he is making himself a thief, for
he is using privilege the law doesn't
give him, and that he cannot buy. He
is stealing the good name of his state
and city.
1T ought to be stopped The man who
persists in violating this law should be
sent TO the penitentiary or the rock-pile
and his license revoked. ! know no sa-
loon man in Savannah who runs his sa-
loon on Sunday, but | want to say that
every one who does, does it against my
protest and incurs my denunciation.
I'VE stand in favor of pure ballot.
Where is the patriotic citizen who will
not stand with US in support of this prop
ostion? 1t is common report and rumor
that in Savannah the ballot is very cor
rupt and | would rather live under
monarchy, than under a republic whose
offices are bought by money or obtained
by fraud. The man who will sell his
vote and the man who buys it have alike
descended from the high plane of good
citizenship.
often since l have lived in Savannah
it has been publicly stated that from $40
900 to 1000 had been spent on a single
election. Everybody heard the charge,
but no one said a word about charity.
I'VE are in favor of suppressing gam
bling. Where is the honest man who will
not stand with us on this proposition? 1t
is said there are d thousand professional
negro gamblers in Savannah and freely
charged that there are hundreds of
white men who are hand ia glove with
them and follow the same evil courses.
Negro children are sent to buy policy
tickets for their parents before they are
sent to the public schools; white men rob
their families of happiness and comfort
and spend their hard-earned money over
the gaming table, making of themselves
drunkards, forgers and thieves What
honora BILE man is there in savannah who
is not opposed to the continuance of gam
bling either by license or by stealth?
when the ministers held those meet
ings in the Park Extension, it was their
purpose to get at the root of the poverty
and the misery of the city The best way
to help the poor and distressed of the city
is to stop Sunday liquor selling, vote buy
ing and gambling
DR.. Jordan brought his sermon to a
close with an Invocation to his congre~
cation to enlist for the fight for the sup
preston of the evils he condemned The
musical services last night were of excep-
tional merit, INCLUDING solos by Mrs. Geor-
gia Howard Dove and Mr.. c. d. McCar-
del