The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-19
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worry about that. friend. You won't have
any more to do with your second birth
than you had with your first.
Now look at this handkerchief. It's
silk one. If I send this to my laundry wo-
man and it comes back linen-Who's that
striking that match and lighting cigars
out there?' The speaker suddenly inter-
rupted his discourse to inquire, looking at
the same time in the direction whence
had proceeded the loud screech of match
drawn across rough wood. There was no
answer
Now I don't mind you smoking, but
don't come so close to smoke, and don't
come SO close to strike your matches. You
worry me. Get away down about the
monument and light up and then theren
be fire at one end and a fool al the
other"
The man with the match having been
disposed Of, Mr.. Jones started in again
with the handkerchief. He said that If in
stead of the silk handkerchief he had sent
out, his washerWoman had brought back
a linen one and told him 1t was the same,
that the fabric had been changed in the
washing he would know she was liar
and a thief If the silk handkerchief
came back clean, he would know the ex-
pected service had been performed.
don't make another man Of you. You are
She same old man, but you are clean
ore The blood Of the LORD Jesus Christ
was shed to wash the last speck of dirt
out Of your heart and leave it as 1t was
before Salvation is a poor human being,
with the dirt washed out OF him. You
stand up a clean MIN. loving everything
that is clean and hating everything that
Is dirty.
But YOU are the same old man. God
hasn't made a new one. He hasn't made
something out of nothing since He Gre
ated Adam. God didn't create you out
of nothing, sister; woman is not a part
of creation. When He saw 1t was not
good that man should be alone, He
caused Adam to be overcome by deep
sleep and took a rib from his side and
from this He made woman. Some say He
tok it from Adams left side, nearest his
heart, but l don't know Some say He
took 1t from his right side, from under his
strong right arm, so that under that arm
woman might find protection through the
centuries; sometimes 1 doubt this, too.
Il admire the manhood that looks after
wife and children and I haven't got any
use for any other kind. You talk about
protecting woman and shielding her from
insult and harm, and yet every bar sign
that swings along your streets Is an IN
suit to every wife and mother in Savan-
nah. You license them and use the money
and then" said the speaker with infinite
eoorn, you run around prating about the
home of the free and the land of the
brave You lying hound, you"
.sPoor humanity is all out of harmony
with itself. That's what's the matter
Some Of the people talk about man com
ing from a monkey; say he started as an
animacule, then was changed into bug
and from bug to fish, and from fish
10 a squirrel and from a squirrel to a
monkey and from a monkey to man.
"Wen, don't believe we were built
that way. 1 don't believe we came from
monkeys, but when I look down at some
of you fellows, 1 think you are heading
that way.
"ycu ain't headed right my friends.
You haven't been put together according
to the book of instructions. You show
me a man who hasn't been, and I'll show
you the worst out of whack old sinner
that ever disgraced this town.
You amt headed right. When you
start down town and stop in a saloon and
spend the money that would buy your
wife and children some little comfort or
stop In a policy shop and gamble away
what you have scraped together, you
amt headed right.
why received a letter to-day from a
man who complained about my speaking
disrespectfully of the in1dels. He thought
I ought to treat them with more consid-
GRAFTON. He wanted me to call a damna-
BILE old buzzand a mocking bird
i've got no respect for an in fiddle
You're nothing but an old mouth going
around talking, and If somebody should
come along and smash your mouth, 1t
would smash the whole dog, from snout
to tail"
Don't talk to me, Bud, about your Sa-
vannah men. You make me tired There
isn't dirty saloon in this country that
the law and decent men oughtn't to close
up at O'clock in the evening and let the
men who hang around them go home.
why If / wanted to commit any devil
try on earth I'd come to Savannah to do
It. II wanted to run policy shop, or a
turf exchange, or a saloon, open three
hundred and sixty-five days In the year.
or a hoochee-coochee dance in the middle
of your principal park, why I'd come to
Savannah and apply for license to the
magnificent. Daniel Webster-like, wise
aldermen of the city of Savannah"
The crowd laughed with every evidence
of great enjoyment.
"But 1 tell you what I'd do" contin-
ued the speaker; 'Id close up when Sam
Jones came to Savannah" The crowd
uONleu again.
Isn't il a farce2 Isn't It a travesty
upon the administration of Justice and
the law, when the dirty, devilish crowd
here is more afraid of Sam Jones than
they are of judge. jury, Mayor and the
whole crowd of your immaculate alder
men?
And there amt a one of them that's
got a thing TO say about Sam Jones'
What / said about the alderman who
wouldn't have let me have this place in
the park, 1 stick to. II did run a soap
factory in hell, / wouldn't have his car
cass II 1t were brought to me. ! wouldn' /
have a deoderizer strong enough"
Listen There amt a dirty old scoun-
drel in this town who rents his property
TO a saloon. who is one whit better than
the damnable bull-necked scoundrel who
keeps the place" There was much laugh
ter and applause at this.
''Why. brothers," said Mr.. Jones' turn
ing around to the preachers who sat with
him on the platform, don't you say
amen TO that? Ia say It II they licked
me for II before got home.
II haven't got any respect for the man
who goes around saying: I don't make
any pretensions myself, but I've got the
best wife in the world. Well, what's
your wife got, you old devil you?
you young bucks sitting over there,
II you want to know how cussing sounds,