The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-01
HAS STOPPED POLICY
REV. BASCOM ANTHONY CREDITS
THIS TO THE LAW AND Or
DER LEAGUE.
ITS BENEFICIAL RESULTS.
GREATER, DESPITE CRITICISM,
THAN THOSE OF ANY CHARITY.


The Recent Work of the "LeaGue"
If Not Done by the Citizens Would
Not Have Been DOne-BOycOttinG
Works Both Ways and Has an
Easy Remedy-The "League's" Eff
forts to BE Confined to Gambling
and sunday Violations of the
Liquor Laws Because They Are the
City's Chief Evils.
Rev. Bascom Anthony preached a SER
mon in support of the Law and Order
League at Trinity Church last night, and
was heard by large congregation. His
text was from Hosea xiii: 3: 20 Israel
thou hast destroyed myself; but in me
is thine help
AT abe time that Hosea sought tossave
his people and delivered to them the mes
sage of which the text is part" said Mr..
Anthony, that people stood at the verge
of moral social and political wreck"
Rev. Mr.. Anthony sketched briefly the
fall of the Israelites from the power of
the days of David, the conqueror; the
magnihcence of the time of Solomon, and
che slow decay of both power and spIen-
dor, to the time of the prophet from
whom the text was taken. ut was in
the extremity of the nation that God in
his mercy sent to it the prophet.
Every man that has thought much of
the matter, that has meditated on life."
said Mr.. Anthony, has felt at some time
or other that life is a disappointment
that its purposes have not been matured,
that its aspirations have not been real
lied, that he has not succeeded in doing
and being what his aspirations had point
ed out. And, unless he is selfish, he must
have been impressed with the fact that
the heart of the world is sad; he must
somehow have felt and known that the
world is not what it ought to be, for man
is the heir of all the ages, and yet he
transforms himself into the servant of
the devil. No man can look around the
world and feel any great measure OF sat
isfaction in it. His heart must be moved
with compassion and pity for his fellow
men in their degradation and alienation
from God. And through thousands of
years that fact has been recognized and
to purify and lift up their fellow men has
been the scheme of the best men that
have lived
Now what is II that makes life mis-
erable?" asked the preacher, land why
Is 1t that men are not better, and the
world happier? This much l am sure
of it is neither the possession nor the
lack of things that makes happiness.
Thousands of men have lived their days
out with little possessions and yet they
were happy, while some men you might
make Croesuses and yet they would be
unhappy. What is this failure to be
happy to be attributed to? Call it any,
thing you will, the Bible says it's sin.
In a certain quarter this is not a fash
ionable word. Some people say there is
no such thing as sim Well, I'd like
to see you change a thing by changing
it's name; I'd like to see you get twenty
dimes out of dollar by calling the dimes
| nickels..
1.-The trouble with the world is sin, and
it's not only that. but often it's COM
promise with sin, for whenever you do
that it means trouble in the long run.
When Oglethorpe founded the colony of
Georgia, he said: Wen have no rum,
and Wen have no slaves But the time
came when Carolina had negroes. and so
Georgia must have some. too. So Geor-
gia went into the business and it worked
nicely for a time but finally the result
came-four years of the most cruel war
the world has even seen. You can't COM
promise with thing that's not right; be-
cause God won't compromise.
"All sorrow and suffering comes from
sin. I'm painfully impressed with this
fact every day of my life. and can see
that the way of the transgressor is
| hard l wish that you could walk with
| me the rounds of your city, and then
| you'd see that sin is the foundation of
all your trouble"
Mr.. Anthony related two stories of re-
| cent personal experiences. In one a wild
| ow, poverty-stTicken, the mother of two
| sons, her sole support, had lost one of
| her boys because through bad company.
He had frequented Sunday bars. had be-
come addicted to shooting craps, and
formed such other bad habits that he had
| lost his job. Then, wanting a dime to go
to a vaudeville show, he had been led to
! steal, was arrested. and is now in jail.
The other story was of the same ma
| ture, of young man being bed from the
paths of virtue through associations
formed at Sunday bars, until at last, to
| crafty the vicious tastes there formed, he
had become dishonest. II don't know
how such things effect you" said Mr..
Anthony, but they make my blood boil.
You who have buried your children think
you have your troubles, but they are far
preferable to the trouble of these poor
mothers.
I'm glad the League has confined its
| operations TO the evils of gambling and
the Sunday bars. The truth is l had a
| great deal to do with it's decision on
that point. l am aware that many are
obJecting to II, and that these men that
are most interested In it because they
are among those that will be affected
most by it are saying: Why should my
business be troubled any more than this
business and that business?' Don't you
know that the men in the League can't
scatter their forces. but must take the
worst things first, the things that are
at the head of all this deviltry.
when these, the chief evils are done
up, the other. and lesser evils. will drop
! Off of their own accord like caterpilllars
from cotton. It's big things we're after.
If these gentlemen interested want other
| things stopped let them do the stopping
| themselves. We're after big things and
we've done one of them. We've shut
up the policy business. on very nearly
So once In a while one of the con-
| Germs may open up for an hour or so.
but II doesn't stay open.
From what can gather there used to
| be about 200 of these concerns In Savan-
| nah, and l think it's a safe estimate to
say that they took i'm $500 a day; maybe
| II was less. may be IL was only $3.50 a
day. But do you know of any charity
| that ever hit Savannah that scattered $3.50
q day? Wei. you've got an organization
| that Is taking keeping nd holding from