The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-18
GAVE ELKS A DIG.
Continued from Tenth Page.

-re best that was ever made. He was a
ter from Rattersville. He'd not only
I'm rats. but he'd kill cats. You see
ne wanted the cats to know that he wac
mi 70 take care of every rat on the place
5 that he didn't, want any assistance
H. was about the best black-and-tan that
YER went into a barn. My boys used to
brag nightly on him, Then I got a
z,ater spaniel and turned him loose In the
ard with the terrier. 1 tell you, il
TT,ssn't three months before association
v.Irb that rat dog had taught the spaniel
lore about the game than the ratter
lev himself. My boys came to me and
aid that the spaniel could beat the black
ard-tan all to pieces. There was
mat terrier, with the rat-catch-
inc instinct bred in the bone, and there
uss that spaniel, with never a thought
of rat until he got to associating with
mat rat dog. Don't you see it? 1t was
association. The terrier is dead now, but
d. spaniel is still at it-stiH catching
rats at a greater rate than any dog 1
aver knew. It's just like some of you
moor fellows who have got your vices.
You are living along under them, while
the fellows from whom you got them
through association are dead and
damned.
The Elks are a drinking crowd, and
that is the only reason in the world that
ever Illuminated single denunciation
against them. They have an evil in
f1ueuce upon your boys. l don't want to
see boys taken in by the Elks and ruined.
suppose you Savannah preachers have
never said one word against the Elks. 1
guess you are as ignorant about them
and their ways as any ten-days old Mig
ger baby in town. l tell you, I've trav-
eled a heap in my time, but it took me a
long while to catch on to the Elks.
didn't get on to them until two years
ago, but I'm on to them now. like their
charity and benevolence; that's all right.
I like any big-hearted fellow, but don't
like them to start to setting up a prac-
tice of drinking and getting young men
in with them. don't want my boy with
EN-, and if he goes in, him and his daddy
will have head-on collision when he gifts
cut.
You amt got a pious Elk in this
whole town. Show me one and III eat
him raw without salt. don't want to see
any recruits in that gang. Let them that
are already in go ahead and drink all the
liquor they want, drink themselves to
DEATH if they insist on it, but don't let
them be pulling others in. Its a lot easier
to stand up on the bank and keep 'em
from pulling others in than it is to get
a pole and line and fish 'em up out of
the bottom of the river after they've done
"A
don't drink is like a fool in the Baptist
church who don't believe in immersion.
He's got no place there, has he, Brother
Jordan?" turning to the pastor of the
First Baptist Church and getting a mo"
for his answer.
I'm here in a city," continued Mr..
Jones, where it is almost as respectable
to sell and drink whisky as it is to sell
rraJe Nd IQxrS
way, I see in the Afternoon paper that
some little fellow has been talking about
me over a nom de plume. Do you know
what a nom de plume is? It's a buzzard
with all his feathers stamped off. 1T is
the refuge of a pusillanimous coward
who writes against minister of the
gospel. Put your name in, Bud, and I'll
hunt up your pedigree. Do you know why
he uses a nom de plume? l do It's be-
cause a nom de plume is better than his
own name. Let all who want to attack
me- from the aldermen down, or the al
dermen up, put down their names, for
I'm a great pedigree hunter. You
see, I've got the advantage on my side,
because everything that could be said
about me has been said. I've said it all
myself. l haven't kept back a single
word Of all the low, mean things used
to do I guess it would be different with
the other fellow, though, and my hunt |
ing up his pedigree might discover some |
thing that he wouldn't want known"
Il don't say hard things about saloon |
keepers because they make money. Why, |
they ought TO make money. A man en- |
Gagged in a business like that ought to
get paid for it. He sells the meanest !
stuff on the top side of the earth to the |
lowest characters that live, and then,
when it is all over, he and the men he
sells it to must all go to hell together. |
Tell me business like that oughtn't to
pay? 1 don't fight Saloon keepers. I
fight institutions. No, 1 don't fight the |
man, but / fight the town that will sell
him a license to do business, thus dividing |
the proceeds of his hellish business with |
him. My objection to the saloon keeper |
is the same that l have to the louse-he |
makes his living off the head of the fam
lily.
We wouldn't have to make a fight |
against the gamblers and the saloons If !
their evil work were over. If the gam |
bier never taught another boy to gam
bic, If the saloon never wrecked another |
home or If the dread infernalism of Sa- |
Nannah were to break no more mothers |
hearts and send no more souls to the |
deepest depths of hell, then we would not
have to fight them. We would stop just |
where we are, and their race would be |
ruRw
They say to me: Mr.. Jones, oughtn't |
good people associate with bad ones so Is |
TO save them?' Humph. When you ind a
rotten potato what are you going to do
with it? Put good ones all around it so
as TO save 1t? Jesus Christ went to the |
hog pen and fed them, but he didn't get
over with them. Run with drinking men
ana you'll get to drinking, run with gam
QIers and you'll get to gambling, run with
NE low, dirty policy writers turning to
'ddfess the colored contingent in the con-
ereeation) and you'll get to playing the
wheel
suckers, suckers! God pity you
saia-nanded laboring men. Those
aeVis of policy people are TAX
mg away from your wives and
.out families the money you earn,
tahhs from them the bread and meat that
is YOUR duty as husbands and fathers
w provide. Oh, you niggers Come seven,
'olne eleven" 1t was quite evident to see
.lat tne preacher didn't make any par
.iIular nit among those of the colored
teIsuaslon who heard him when he called
luem niggers." Some OF them laughed
WIN the good nature that is always theirs,
~ mere and there could be seen others
WHO appeared MORALLY affronted
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