Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-11-11
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Rev. Sam SoneS
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Atlanta Journal: Considerably more
OF the war, Rev. Sam Jones Is pouring out
the vials Of his wrath and indignation up
on the question OF the justice allowed the
widows OF the brave Confederates who
fell. the few old One-armed and one-leg-
Red veterans who still live, and the COM
mon school fund. He seems to claim that
those allowances are the cause OF high
taxes and the condition Of the state treas
ury.
Hon. Dupont Query, candidate for gov
ernor, holds exactly to the contrary. In
his speech here a few days since, he
stated that II he is elected governor he
will sign no paper whose mission is TO
diminish the income Of the old sof0iers
and widows, or decrease the school fund.
Mr.. Query claims that the railroads, in
this state Cor the most OF them) are
paying taxes on only about one-third OF
their true value; that IL they were made
TO come up and pay tax in proportion as
merchants, farmers, mechanics and
banks pay, many more thousands of dol
lars would come into the treasury annu-
ally and hence taxes would be lower, the
treasury would not have to borrow money
and the school fund and pensions would be
paid with ease.
Now why is it and how is it that the
reverend gentleman does not jump on
with both feet and help Mr.. Query to
make the railroads come up and pay the
many thousands of dollars which Mr..
Query claims they ought to pay, over
and above what they do pay. But perhaps
Mr.. Jones has free passes on all or most
of the roads in Georgia, and If he has, is
it not reasonable to suppose that the value
Of those passes to him makes him mum
and blind along this all-important line?
VIII Mr.. Jones please tell us i'm his next
letter to The Journal how many rail-
roads thenn are I'm Georgia on which he
has free Passes? He has said that he
talks out I'm ''meetin';" now I hope he
will be consistent and tell US how many
free passes he has. and we will guess at
how much influence these passes have
over him. In the judgment of the very
best and most patriotic people of this
state and the south, Mr.. Jones is puking
on the two most sacred causes that the
state has to care for. II Mr.. Jones had
spent two or four years OF his life in
the war and had left limb on the soil Of
Virginia or some other battle ground,
there IS not a sensible man, woman or
child In the south who believes that he
would paw the ground, vOmit and talk
OF these sacred causes as he does. In his
last attack he warns the people that the
tax-gather is coming and he demands a
thousands of good people who claim that
Mr.. Jones is the most rigid tax-gatherer
that there Is In the state. They claim
that he is not satisfied with less than
from $3.50 to $500 for ten days or two
weeks preaching. and these sums are
gathered from single congregations. Mr..
Jones rises very, very high in his last let
ter TO The Journal and commands the leg
islature TO quit using pills and powders
and to take out their knives and whack
of not less than one-half the allowances
to the causes named, and reminds the
legislature that then 1.-The vail on the old
soldier bushes will begin"
Mark his language! wall from Dan to
Bersheeba on the old soldier business -
1 have heard IL said that the time will
come when an empty sleeve or pants leg
viii be a disgrace I'm the south to the
man who carries IL. do not believe that
such viii ever be the case, but should the
time ever come that any number Of south
erners so- act and believe, can / help
believing that such vomit as Sam Jones
pours on the unfortunate in the lost
cause, brought such about? Mr.. Jones says
that scarlet fever I'm his family recently
gave him rest from the taps of the beg
gars at his door. DO not those poor needy
people know that his thousands come
easy and think that some of 1t ought to 60
easy? When / thought that Sam Jones
preached only for souls and a reasonable
support there was no greater admirer OF
him than ]. The argument that he uses,
viz: that the fellow who cannot educate
his kids ought to go out Of the kid bus
mess is no argument at all. He very
we'll knows that there has always been
and always will be parents who cannot
give their children an education, and
many who will not try. Must those chill
dren grow up in ignorance ana vice? ]
understand Sam Jones to claim that they
ought Probably nine-tenths OF the old
crippled soldiers who are now living, after
spending two TO four years of their live,
in the war, came home penniless and
those OF them who are able to bury
themselves became so by working almost
two days in one and doing almost two
mems work, and denying themselves OF
any luxury. leisure or pleasure, while the
Rev. Sam Jones received probably $50 tC
800 and possibly more at times for one
{ hours sermon OF lecture and lived in lux
ury and laid his head on a downy pillow
at night
When Mr.. Jones jumps on the railroads
and helps Mr.. Guerry TO make them pay
taxes on the other two-thirds OF theii
value and when he goes 20 a few pool
communities and breaches for them with
out big pay. and when he stops his efforts