The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-26

- he l1eeps and not the angels in heav-
could keep such company as do some
ca ou out there and not be defiled. You
.. aiming around in saloons and you are
a-+e~ing and spending your money in
s,.erv low gambling den that lies between
.,,nr house and the place where you
,ork You are throwing away your mon
~ and blasting your lives by playing pol
icy
opolicv! You're not only a rascal, but
..o1 are a blank fool when you buy those
.,okets. How long you going to let these
strrv rascals rob you, you black devil, you.
- some of you women are doing the
came thing, spending the money that you
lake with your back bent over the wash
.,n for six days in the week. You let EN-
roo YOU from Christmas to Christmas.
HOW long you going to let these low
down scoundrels keep it up.
policy! Your grand jury has de-
,ounced it as the most complete system
NJ robbery that ever cursed and disgraced
+bis community. The police of this town
ever heard 1t was going on and they
nar't stop it; they can't stop anything
and they can't catch anyone for doing
ANYTHING unless it's poor white man,
without money or friends, or some poor
negro
sboo4lpg craps. You bend over the ground
ond call out Cmitating), Come seven,
come eleven; 1 want to get the ole lady
a new dress You'd better change it to
,ror,e seven. come eleven; here comes a
noIicemen and off go to the chain-gang.'
you know they'll get you. 1 wouldn't
reflect on the police force of this town,
and 1 say that you and the poor white
mon are about all they've got orders to
hing of
cont do anything without orders.
Poor fool! Poor fool! When you get
YOUR money, buy something with it that
will help your wife and family; go home
and give it to them; try and lead decent
life and be a decent man."
Let we show you a picture. One of
YOU men comes up from his home in the
morning and stops in a saloon to get
drink He tells the barkeeper he'll pay
him Saturday night. He comes back again
in the evening and gets another drink,
and every morning and every evening he
repeats this performance. That week it
rains two days and he only has $3.50 as
the result of his labor
Saturday night he tries to get past
the saloon without the proprietor seeing
him. but he is seen and the barkeeper
wells Hi Tom, come over here a min
comin'-the black rascal when he's just
going in the other direction"
Mr. Jones continued the picture. The
negro finds ne owes the barkeeper 81 80
and that it has eaten up the greater part
Of his weeks wages. He takes one drink
10 warm him up and another to keep
that company, and winds up by spending
the small remaining balance. Then he
goes home. He tells his wife he couldn't
t6of ha=-
collected his wages. He has forgotten
the meat and flour for his table, and the
shoes for his child. He swears at his
wife when she reminds him the preacher
is coming to dinner the next day and says,
Of the preacher, "Confound him, 1 don
wan hin erroun here, anyhow"
The only thing the man has to show
for his wages is a bottle of whisky. IF
the devil don't get you in the end" said
Mr. Jones' it'll be because he don't
want you. Some of you rascals will be
down in the saloons tonight, telling the
barkeeper what Sam Jones said"
Mr. Jones turned himself loose on the
propensity of the negro race to initiate
the worse traits of the white man and
leave his best traits alone. You don't
need any dancing, gambling or whisky
drinking. man can't drink whisky and
be a christian, and don't you forget 1t.
You stop it now If your girl says she's
going to dance anyhow take her to a
back room and pull out the trunk strap
and you'll be able to make her dance
right"
You like this sort of preaching?"
There was a loud yell of approval and
assent Well 1 don't care whether you
like it or not. When 1 go out for hides
they come"
The next segment of his sermon, Mr.
Jones addressed to the negro preachers.
Many a church, he said, had been ruined
by the ministry of a man not fitted for
the office he held. He said this, he said,
without rejecting or meaning any refec-
uon upon any colored preacher in Savan-
nan but it was a truth they all would
acknowledge.
When you see your preacher gallivant-
ing around with the sisters, you go up to
MIN and tell him he'd better quit. When
ne goes to church. let him go with his
own wife, and it," said Mr.. Jones, turn
ing to the colored ministers, you amt
married. you stop preaching till you get
a wife"
preacher ought to be a clean man
from the crown of his head to the sole
u MS loot and if he aint he'd better get
olI OF the ministry. A colored preacher
%hoh drink whisky amt fit to hang on
uie BACK door of hell, and one who'll sell
unset and his congregation to any
eIo"d Of dirty politicians is worse than
'!e "hisky-soaked preacher
Inc evangelist said that whisky drinking
Is at me bottom of half the failures among
go-ored people to pay their debts. Every
uTly, lying niger in this town who don't
nay nay ms debts has been drinking whisky.
mere are places in this town, stores,
""e'e You won't go, because you know
sou owe money and have been owing it
oi weeks. And yet you go around and
Wy, a colored man amt got no chance
iUq lying rascal, you.
go more on character than / do on
soo'. It's not a question of your hide,
T Du' one or character. That's what counts"
~ Illustrate and prove this assertion, Mr..
oo'es lold several stories of industrious
'eu men In various parts of the state
80 country, who by their own exertions
Lap accumulated competency, held their
rna alS erect walked uprightly and COM
H.aIueo' as they received, the respect of
Igi white neishbors as we'll as the peo-
PIE Of their own race. .D-'
"V evangelist turned loose on the fire.
,-.N'eIs OF Lincoln Park on Sunday af-
StuooHs' who he said went out there to
49, 50 ana drink whisky. You are letting
a. 'e'H muster you into his chain-gang
- you keep on the Lincoln Park
as III De turned into the chain-gans