The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-23
A THIEF DISGUISED.
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rage that these men should be restrained
of their liberty and who will unite with
me in demand that this outrage he
stopped, to rise" Practically all Of +ha
seven or eight thousand, who were not
already standing. arose to their feet.
Why" said the evangelist, they are
almost as unanimous in making this de-
rnand upon the chief OF police as thew
we're that your Mayor has a conscience.
In a cows horn," he added with an, an
preciatiye nod and wink
Then they are going around here and
saying these policemen must be kept at
the barracks to protect Sam Jones. It's a
lei don't want any protection. Let
me tell YOU Bud, Sam Jones is going to
tote his own skillet, Dutchman or no
Dutchman." There was much laughter
and applause at this sally, and as IL
Quoted down Mr.. Jones, as if struck by
an afterthought, said: 4
Maybe they are holding those men
there until the Mayor can decide whether
sam Jones is a menace to the morals of
the town, so that if he is, he can be sup
pressed. Suppressed! Suppress me! Why.
that crowd couldn't suppress me after I'm
dead and buried, let alone now, when I'm
alive and kicking.
And, BUD, don't you worry about this
out there think need protection, Just
step up this way and cut the buck a lit
tie.
THE devil IL at work among the lost
women. God save a city from the nollu-
ton of lost women and their degrading
lives: poor. fallen creatures. who are de-
bauehed themselves and who In turn de-
bauch everything with which they come
ir contact
And the devil is at work among your
business men. He has them overworking
and underpaying the clerks. on whose la
bors depends the success of their bust
ness. One section of this Tabernacle is
reserved for working women and take
off my hat to them, as 1 stand here to-
night 1 have more respect for YOU than
! have for all the high-hying dudines
that curse this country from one end of
IL to the other
From this point Mr. Jones turned to a
description OF the blessings that follow the
acceptance of Christ's mediation the fol-
lowing of his precepts and the adoption
of Christian mode of life. IF the devil
degrades and disgraces man every day."
he said, why God uplifts and helps him.
A sinner ought to be hard to find 1t
ought to be difficult to find one sinner.
instead of twenty thousand in Savannah
How do You account for it? What's the
matter? How is it that any man is fool
enough to be sinner and serve the
devil?
We'll, man who'll drink is a fool A
frst-class fool or a second class one. or
any class of fool, for a good dong ways
down the list, wouldn't touch a drop of
liquor He has to be about a tenth-rate
fool before he will put the vile stuff into
his mouth.
But the biggest fool on earth is the
woman who will mix a mans toddy and
make it sweet for him-who will act as
ssloonkeeper for a damnable old red
nosed husband. Now mind sis, 1 didn't
say you are mean; I just said you are
a fool Your trouble is above your eyes,
and if You ever get in deep water, don't
you be afraid your heads going to sink.
Just put UP your handkerchief for a sail,
and you'll get to port at last.''
A story that brought tears, to many
eyes, as it was told by the evangelist, but
which printed words cannot do justice,
was that of the drunken husband, who
tottered from a bow groggery across the
street to the miserable howell he called
home. His wife was in one room, his lit
tie child, in rags and dirt, was playing
about the floor of that which he entered.
The child shrank from it's father and the
drunken vagabond, with a curse upon his
lips and in his heart raised his foot and
kicked the little one in the head, Until
the blood and brains of his child oozed
out on the floor.
The husband staggered back across the
street to the GROCERY he had just quit
ted, calling again for whisky with which
10 drown his recollection of the scene he
had just witnessed, and as he left the
room in which the tragedy had occurred,
his wife entered it. She saw the lifeless
body of her child and raising 1t in
Ter arms, followed her husband
across the street.
LAS she entered the saloon with the
corpse in her arms, her husband raised
the glass to his lips. Then, as he caught
sight of her, the blood rushed to his heart
and his brain and then poured from his
lips and he fell to the floor. dead. The
woman pitched the body of the child on
the counter and then said to the saloon
keeper: You have murdered my husband
and my child; now take a dagger and
plunge it into my own bosom and COM
plete your cruel work
And you, you topper who call yourself
a gentleman, you can suffer drink to be
sold, while such things be. You, old, red
nosed scoundrel you. Are you setting
back there tonight Dutch2 If yeu are,
you'd better get up on your hind legs and
talk out.
I've got nothing to say against the
Dutchmen. On the contrary l brag ON
decent Dutchmen. It's the mean ones I'm
otter, just as I'm after mean Americans,
and mean men of every other nation, who
live in this country. I'm going to keep
1t up; I'm going to denounce everything
that violates law or connives at its viola
ton, If they shoot me so full of holes I'll
look like the top of a pepper box"
Gentlemen! Gentlemen said the evan
eelist, with scorn unspeakable "A gentle
man never entered a saloon In his life
ana never would enter one. Nobody but
dirty, lousy, red-nosed devil would think
Of it,"
Mr.. Jones told story of the Mayor of
some city in the central part of the state,
who had met him at the depot on his ar
rival and driven him over the town. He
mad noticed that there We're eighteen sa-
ICONS and that some of them bore the
sign For Gentlemen Only" When he
spoke that night he had commented on
tnese saloons and these signs and said
ne didn't understand how those that said
'hey were For Gentlemen Only made
living for their proprietors.
he told how the wife of the Mayor,
stated that her husband was in
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