The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-20
SAM Jones TO MEN.
Continued from Eighth rage.)

havin' hurt your feelin's. What do care
about your feelings? You git up and git
out of here, bud, If you think you amt
goin' to like what I've got to say
Everybody cusses here in this town of
yours. OLD men and young men rip out
their cuss words, and even the children
on their way to and from school have
their volleys of oaths. A little boy six
years old IS sent down town by his moth
er to buy a spool of thread, and he gets
5 the seed of foul language sown in his
heart when he passes a gang of YOU
(black-mouthed raScals. You cussin' ras-
Gals listen to me IA minute. There's money
in breaking the commandment Thou
shalt not steal, but there amt a cent in
Il for you when you cuss Then why
don't you break that comma ndment about
YOUR stealing? It's because you are scared
of the judge and the jury. You'll get on
the changing if you git to stealin', but
there ain't nothing against you when you
cuss. II you break one of those COM
mandments,- there is no reason why YOU
won't break them all. Pull the bride off
a cussin' man. and there's no telin' where
you'll find him by mornin'. When man
swears, there simply amt no tellin what
he'll do. l say this, and l want every
thinkin cussin' man to carry it home
with him. Any man who will break that
commandment is likely to break them
all"
Hes a cusser. Yes, sir; he'll cuss
anybody or anything. He'll cuss every
body. He's the out-cussinest man you
ever saw. No. he won't my friend.
There are people right here in this town
he won't cuss. If he does. he'll give
some dentist job thatll keep him at
work on every tooth in his head from
the front clean on back to the last one.
What makes you cuss, anyhow? Get
up on your hind feet out there Bud,
and tell US why you cuss, you old cuss,
you. If you want to hear how it sounds
to cuss. you go home and get your wife
to do some of it for you l used to
mighty cusser. Oh. he was one
of the worst you ever saw.
He was cusser from Cusser-
VILE. He married a mighty nice
sweet little woman, but that didn't stop
his cussin' She begged and plead with
him. but it didn't do any good. One day
he came home and he said: Wife, is the
damned dinner ready? And she said: 4
don't know, dear, I'll go and see. linen
she came back and said: No, the damn
ed dinner amt ready; the damned cook is
sick oh, wife, wife, what in the world
do you mean?' he asked her, and she told
him that she was going to try that means
TO stop him from swearing 1t did il, too
Ii was a bitter dose but it cured him.
You go home and get your wife to cuss
for you. 1t would make a dog vomit to
hear it, but it'll cure you.
Now don't you go away from here and
say that said the man who cusses will
steal / didn't say it. said he wouldn't,
but l told you why he wouldn't. He's
afraid of the judge and jury. Escape the
sin of profanity l would that every
swearing man here tonight would lit
up his voice and say that he has uttered
his last oath. A profane man is fit only
TO be butted to death by billy goat, and
! wouldn't like to be the old goat to have
the dirty job You'll see some dirty beast
rip out cuss word when lady is stand
ing near. Then he'll apologize to the
lady. He ought never to have had the
thing in him. Then it would never have
come out. I'd as soon have dead pole
cal in my belly, to jump out among la
dies, as to have an oath in me that was
forever popping out"
Now, I'm going to arraign you for your
violation of the law that demands that
you remember the Sabbath day 10 keep it
holy. l am talking to thousands of men
who haven't kept the Sabbath since they
were fifteen years old. Some of you say
that you can't afford to keep the Sabbath
in the good old way, because there is such
a Large foreign element in the country,
and they do not like it. This is an Ameri-
can country, and if any dirty. damnabie
foreigner doesn't like the way Americans
keep Sabbath, let the old devil go back
where he came from. Some pot-belied old
Dutchman will say: L don like dis Sab
bat day vat We find ofer in dis gontry and
if you stick a knife into his Old paunch
you will see a key of beer run out. This
Sabbath is as dear to the right sort of
our Americans as is the honor of our
wives and the peace of our homes.
And there's a lot of you Americans
here who are worse. You are so keen
after the almighty dollar that you can't
AFFORD to stop one day in the week and
observe Sunday. You decent Americans,
give your hands to thousands of law
abiding Germans and Irishmen and well
come them, but we don't want any of
these whitewashed Dutchmen and gall
vanized Irishmen. Why don't you say,
'Amen?' turning to the preachers on
the platform behind him, and the preach
ers promptly answered amen" There,
now. You see these preachers have said
Amen If you don't like it, you can
lick them.
Il was in one town where the Lutheran
minister came to me and said that he
couldn't do anything with his people; that
d loI OF MS Germans Kept their saloons
open on Sundays. He told me that /
couldn't say anything to them, because
they would dynamite me- they would
blow me up they would kill me sure. l
listened to the good old fellow. and then
turned loose on that crowd. In less than
ten days, 1l3 of them went before the
Judge, plead guilty to keeping their places
open Oh sundays, paid their fines of 500
and signed a legal pledge not to do it
again. When met the Lutheran preach
er again he said: Well veil You done it,
ana dey didn't do anything to you. did
oey? l would fought dey done you up.
out you done dem up, amt it?'"
am not fighting the foreigners. I am
only hghting anything and everything in
america that will prevent Americans
from observing the Sabbath. Why, they
tel me they are running these vaudeville
performances in Savannah on Sunday
nights is that SOP" turning to the preach
ers' lie could hear no affirmative reply,
llough. so he didn't press that point.
ANY mayor and alderman" he contin-
ued' who would allow town to be de-
oauched with these vaudeville perform
ances are not fit to run a dog kennel.
lHey went to the Mayor 40 see what he
HAa TO say about Sam Jones. What did
ne say? Why. something about suppress
ing sam Jones If ne tended to corrupt the
morals OF the town. Do YOU want a pic-
lure or the Mayor Sunnressinp Sam Jones3