The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-20

| you can't enforce, then you are on the
verge of anarchy If you've got a law
| you can, but don't enforce, then you've
got communism started. Make me Judge
| of this Superior Court of yours and I'll
clean up your dirty places and launder
your clothes. But you'll have to bring
| EN- to me on some other wagon than
| Little Biny's. And you want to git after
this state of affairs. tell you, when you
git hold of a judges tail and give it a
twist or two he'll go up the
road a-hikin.' This court institu-
| ton of yours is just like
| grist mill on a creek They Just take so
much toll and turn EN- loose. They just
| pull up these gamblers and run EN- into
| the court house and milk 'em just like an
| old woman does a COW. And you know
| another thing-that the county gets the
| skinned milk and Little Billy gets the
| cream
But there amt no official goin' to be
| better than the people who elected him.
He amt no worse, either, than the people
who elected him. The papers came out
! and said, the day after the last election,
| that there were thousands of dollars spent
! on it. And your backboneless gang sits
around and allows such a thing as that
| Who believes that if Sam Adams were
Mayor OF Savannah he'd sit and grin. and
| grin, and grin? Did you ever see a little
|
sucking eggs? The Mayor grins that way.
| And the old aldermen. There are some
| good ones in that crowd, but they are in
mighty bad company. If l wanted to kill
some of you aldermen, I wouldn't git
! gun or a stick. I'd just catch you on my
thumb nall like this, and come down on
you. That's the way we used to kill em
when / was a boy.
you men should stop this method of
administering the affairs of your city. You
| should hold u mass meeting in this Taber
nacle and get up resolutions, demanding
| the resignation of officials who have not
| done their duty and been faithful to their
ora tbs of office. If you back a little poll
| tician up against a stump and cut his tail
| off and turn him loose in the woods in fly
time he'll starve to death. You've got
good citizens in this town. but they
| haven't got any backbone. Where the
| backbone ought to be, there isn't any
| thing but a piece of string with two or
| three ribs knitted to it. II what I'm say
! ing is true, you ought to reform the town.
| If it's false. then you ought TO kick me
| off this platform. It's easier, though to
| reform the town. I've travelled a heap,
and I've preached in tough places, but
never have I met the resistance that l
| have in Savannah The devil has sure
| got a hold in Savannah. He's sick now,
| though, gone to bed with his troubles.
You keep the Sabbath, you old billy goat,
you, and / mean no offense to the goat
| when say il"
| And let me warn you against the sin
| of adultery. Women, wine and cards are
| the three great evils that are cutting the
| grit from under this country Mr.. Jones
| tod of man who had found his sister
| in house of i'll repute and had shot her
dead. In that very town, he said. the
| night of the occurrence, he had told 10000
| people that the woman had as much right
in the house as her brother. He paid his
| compliments to doctors, too who give
| young men certain advice, referring to
| them as you little bu.let-headed devils"
and saying that, If they gave such advice
| to a mans daughters they would find
blazing shot gun confronting them"
| Gambling: she's goin' red-hot in Savan-
| nah" continued Mr.. Jones. Let those
| policy wheels alone, you niggers. You la
boring men quit your gambling. You are
| fools to gamble, anyway. You get your
| checks at the end of a month of hard
| work, and when you stop by one of these
| professional gambling dens In Savannah
and lose it all, keeping your wives and
| children from having the food and clothes
| that it is your duty to give them. You
amt got as much sense as an old COW.
| They turn her out, and she eats grass
| all day. Then she comes up to be MIXED.
| You work hard all the month and get
your money for it. Then you go up to
| the gambling hels to be MIXED. And
! you don't even get any grass, you old fool,
| you.
"If I were a merchant or a business
| man in this city, I wouldn't employ
| clerk who gambled. If you buck the tiger
| hoy and lose, you've got to get money
| from somewhere. l don't say that you II
steal; | say that you'll most do 1t. You
| men have got to look to the courts to
stop this and you have got to look to
| different officials. This crowd won't do
| II. and you knew they wouldn't when you
elected them. All they'll do Is to try to
stop Sam jones mouth.
you know they come 10 me sometimes
| and say: Look here; what 10 sou SOY,
such things for? Amt you affHid t1py'll
| kill YOU? Kill me2 What forRy No they
wouldn't kill me. But what II they Wou.d2
WHY. that would only be a shorter cut
to Heaven. But they amt goin' to 60 1t.
\ If should go up a back alley. some one
Of them might take chance. but amt
| eoin' The Bible tells me not to throw
temptation In your way.
II admire the manhood Of the young
man who appeared before the grand jury
| recently 10 give evidence against the
| gamblers | don't care whether he went
his name. but they tell me that he has
given his notes that may take him from
seven to fifteen years to take up. He will
meet the obligations that he incurred in
gambling IN this way And you'd better
quit an you boys. or they'll have your
head in crack"
"Tnere's no difference between the rich
man speculating in his stocks In wall
street and you black devil with your
Come seven Turn YOU both wrong side
out ana you'll look just alike Earn your
money. don't try to win It. would
rather my boy would plough hard all day
long. stub his toes and come back with
one dollar IN his pocket than 10 have him
eamb.e and win $4,000 that would only
damn and ruin him. while the dollar that
he earned would have the eagle on II
changed 10 a nightingale 70 sing him TO
sleep when his tired head sank upon the
pillow for his nights repose. Don't gam
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