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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
REV. SAM JONES ON ELIGIBILITY
AND, INCIDENTALLY, PROHIBITION

night at 1880 is the saloon law for
Americas Atlanta has the same, and
Atlanta boasts of the best regulated
saloons in the United States, and IL
the world knew like God knows, the
debauchery. wreck and ruin Of the sa-
looms of Atlanta, and knew at the
same time that they are the best
regulated saloons in the world, then
il would not take humanity long to
vote every cursed saloon out Of the
world. We only know a little Of the
effects of the well-regulated saloons
Of Atlanta by the unfortunate gang
brought up before Judge Broyles, and
that's Just a drop in the bucket.
Triton. Ga. instead of voting saloons
back. has taken the wise step Of visit
ing the blind tigers in the town and
giving them three days to git-clear
the county. 1t is a debauched sentt-
ment that will vote saloons back into
a town; it is a pusilanimOus sentiment
that permits blind tigers to run an
hour. The difference between the sem
timent that licenses saloons and the
sentiment that permits blind tigers
one Is mean and the other is cowardly.
Ny private opinion. publicly. express
ed, is about that. I consider any horse
thief in the United States better
citizen in the community where he
lives than l do any man that will vote
for or favor a saloon. The best way
TO look at anything is TO bring it home
and look at it. Suppose I have got two
near neignbOrs. the one on my right 10
a horse thief, and the one on my left
is a man who votes for and fosters sa-
looms. If you ask me which regard
the best neighbor and citizen / will say
the horse thief every pop. You say
why? I reply. because if the horse thief
breaks down my barn door and steals
my horse tonight and runs away with
him. I can get another horse tOmor-
row for a hundred dollars; but if the
other neighbor votes the saloon upon
my town and debauches my boy and
breaks the heart Of my wife and
danns my poor boy in hell forever.
let's see you fix that up for a hum
dred dollars. I am a peculiar Ameri-
can citizen. I think moro Of my boy
than l do Of my horse, and that's
what makes me think more of horse
thief, as a citizen, than l do of any
man who votes for or would foster the
i Internal saloon. 1 am going to fight
them and say just what I gentleman
ly please on this SUI ject. First, / am
sure I am right, and secondly. ! am
going to say Il and take the conse-
quences. I'd rather go around with my
mouth in a pOultice all the time, and
pull the poultice down and shoot them
again, than TO go around with We'll
mouth Ike many a preacher in this
country is doing. afraid TO condemn
the wrong and speak his honest senti-
ments. Yours,
SAM P. JONES.
Gainesville. Aug. 27, 1892
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
roo MANY BACHELORS.

Those eminent gentlemen who have
been picturing by means of pen and
brush the summer resorts as sadly lack
ing in that very necessary commodity.
men, are responsible, perhaps, for one of
the greatest errors that ever misled our
intelligent populace. They have been maxi
ing us believe that man, in his all-pervad-
ing Importance, is so scarce in the spots
where seductive rest is supposed to Turk
that woman spending her time in cooking
up plans to nab the first trousered arrival
In order that she may bear him off tri-
umphantly to the side of the sad sea
waves or to the mountain top. as the
case may be. and there by main force tear
from his unwilling lips a proposal relat-
ing to matrimony.
1t may be these are not mere artistic
Illusions But be they true pictures of
life I'm restful places or be they fancies.
only fancies. they have created a general
impression that men are scarce. Men are
not scarce. Put the fond hope aside as a
snare and a delusion. The last census
shows that men, unmarried .men-bach-
elors. to be plain about it-are about the
heaviest drug on the American live stock
market.
The census shows that there are in this
country 6.726, 799 bachelors to 41O5, 40 spin
sters. In other words, If the bachelors
and spinsters should become reconciled
and mated, there would be left over out
i'm the cold world, as it were, 2.931, 1888
bachelors. The census shows it, and the
census figures are absolutely reliable.
In the language Of the day. it is now up
TO the worthy bachelors to get a move on
themselves; to wake up from dreams OF
being sought by fair maidens, and to
eliminate the possibility of becoming an
atom in the unsheltered two million and
more.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
TWINKLEs.

Yonkers Statesman
Keeping a boy continually at the grind
stone,'' remarked the Observer OF Events and
Things, rs no way 70 sharpen the boy"
Baltimore World
Actor-'I have a war well as a histri-
onic record l was nearly killed once by tie
bursting Of a she'll" Manager-"Who threw
the egg?'
Detroit Free Press.
WilieA'Says pop, give me a nickel for poor
lame man" His Papa-''WhO is hep" Willie
"He runs the lemonade stand on the corner
New York sun.
II would be willing TO work" said Tyre bout,
eff I could get the sort Of job want" We'll,
what would that job be p We'll, I wouldn't
mind calling out the stations on an Atlantic
liner
Boston Transcript.
Pryer-'SO you and your wife have separately
No third party involved? No? You don't mean
MY dear sir she insuppOrtable.
Boston Post
You promised you would marry me If
sutton. "and now you break the engagement.
Yes she replied listlessly. land its a great
wait OF my mind"
Catholic Times.
Miss Kulcher-''You can always tell woman
who has enjoyed the benefits of higher euuca-
ton" Mr.. Crabbe-'-NOt muchl You cant tell
her anything: she thinks she knows IL all.
Chicago News.
Female LAWYER How old are your Female
Witness-''TOu know as well as I do that am
lust a week younger than you are, but IL
necessary Female Lawyer (hastily)-"Nev-
er mind, 1t isn't necessary.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

this accused hole where an American
can buy q pair IL suspinders.' If he's
a wise ambassadure he does it. A man
that riprisinted this country abroad
soon larns how to match silks an
where TO buy rockin' chairs. If he
don't he's no good. An on tn Foorth
iv July he stands at home an grasps
nanny a wet an frindly hand.
All this l larned firm Dargan who
was over there las year he met IN
ambassadure the used to run FIR
Congress ivrY tine he had a mind to.
Dargan got his money eight times be-
fure tn good man larned that Dargan
didn't live II tn district. He says
that tn ambassadure toll him what
I'm tellin We an wept on his shoul-
der 'How long ARE We in for?' asks
Dargan. Three wears more saws tn
ambassadure. Three years more. he
says, an thin Il give tn first sic
rety a punch in tn nose an rayturn to
tn land iv tn free. he says. Have
We amy fine cut?' he says. At this
minyit a young man come around tn
corner an grabbed tn aEnbassadure be
tn collar Didn't I tell We niver to
come out iv tn park in thin pantsg
he says. Here comes Lord Gimlets.
he says. II was tn first sicrety. An
Dargan niver see tn am bassadure
again. He thinks they have him lock-
ed up in the coal cellars.
$50 / don't want to be any anbas-
sadure Hinnnisy. TIL cable Is quick
er, tn newspaper raypOrther is more
important an theyse more diplomatic
business done be jew men firm Wall
street thin be all tn diplomats firm
Constantinople TO Copenhagen. bedad.'
But supposin Ireland was free.
said Mr.. --ennessy.
All" said Mr.. DOoley, thin 'twud
be We I'd Ike TO see get tn job. I
cudaen't have too many iv me OF
frinds presintin' their cridintials to
me-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

A S A Georgian. like all other
~ Georgians I feel interested in
whatever interests the people
of the Capital City of our
state. Atlanta pitches the tune for
what little there Is of Georgia outside
of Atlanta. l have read with some IN
terest the pro and con arguments on
the eligibility of your respective candi-
dates for the mayOralty, the whole
question, of course, Ringing upon the
legality or eligibility of the candi-
dates. l believe the arguments thus far
is I'm favor and against the candidates.
/ am not a lawyer, and II Is none or
my business to discuss the legal phases
Of any question that is before the peo-
pie. but there are other questions
broader and deeper than any legal
question involved l come up to what
I say by asserting that the Methodist
church is not to blame when one Of its
members commits q crime, great or
small A Masonic lodge is not to be
held responsible If one of its members
violates the sacred oath of a Mason.
If one or a dozen people get drunk in
Atlanta today, Atlanta may not be re-
sponsible for that. but there is a point
where responsibility attaches and inev-
itably settles down. l repeat, the Meth
odist church is not responsible when
one of its members gets drunk or steals
something. but the Methodist church
is responsible to God and man for who
they put at the head of the church. A
Masonic lodge may not be responsible
for the bad conduct of one of it's MEM
bers. but that lodge is responsible,
world without end, for who they make
worshipful master of the lodge. Allan
ia may or may not be to blame for the
crowd that files into Judge Briles court
every morning, and from the court to
the stockade. but Atlanta is everlast-
ingly responsible to God and man for
who she puts as her supreme execu-
tive.
There ought to be three distinct
phases of eligibility of a candidate.
First, mental fitness; secondly, moral
fitness, and thirdly, legal fitness; and
they ought to come in that order-in-
telligence, uprightness first. and lastly,
qualified legal fitness. A man who will
get drunk is no more fit to be mayor
of a city like Atlanta than pig is fit
to preside al a feast of angels in hea-
ven. A dissolute character has no more
place at the executive head Of a great
city than he has in a pulpit preach
ing the gospel. A tree is known by it's
fruits. Senator Ben Hill once said: "A
man who is privately corrupt cannot
be politically pure, and a man who is
politically corrupt cannot be private
ly pure"
Atlanta will go to the devil fast
enough with her best CITIZENS in au-
thority, but God has said when the
wicked rule the people mourn" and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
Mere Oninion.

Chicago RecOrd-Herald-
The varnish Is soon worn from the railing IN
front OF the bar, but church pews seldom need
repairing.
It isn't always the man who lives longest who
lives most.
bad man gets vast credit for doing good
thing which nobody would have noticed If the
dOer had been decent
When a baby girl is born she at once begins
10 yell for clothes and she never gets over
the habit.
The sound Of the brewery wagon run i..iI:s
ears
When a man has difficulty in finding chance
TO propose he can make UP his mind that the
girl doesn't want him.
The business instinct frequently takes The
form of an easy conscience
The man who loudly yells: IT want you
to understand that I'm no fool would PROB
ably have hard work 70 prove it in court.
It is more profitable to bet on a fool who has
luck than to put your faith in a sage who cant
make connections.
Some men who mingIe freely in company
without worrying over their lack Of brains
would be terribly mortified il they were 70 us
cover that they had no cuffs on
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
Wise saws of the ancients are more or less
rusty.
It is the guilty man who is always afraid
OF his shadow"
1t is the polished villain who beats the boot
black out of his fee
Many a mans crookedness is due to his
attempt to make both ends meet.
Gossips are not to be blamed II one-half the
world doesn't know how the other half lives.
II matters but little if a prophet is without
honor in his own country provided he can
afford to 20 abroad.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
The Semi Weekly Journal
Battered AZ TIE Atlanta Postofhce as Man Mat
ter o. the seooud Class

me R~mf-weekly Journal Is ruhlish-
e on Mondays and Thursdays, ana
mailed IN time for all the twtce-a-
week star route nails. II contains me
news from all parts q the world
brought over q special leased wire into
ne Journal Office Il has stan o.
distinguished contributors. with strong
Agricultural Veterinary. luNeniie.
Home. Book ard other departments OF
epeciai value % the home and farm
Agents wanted In every community
~ the South
Remittances may be made BY post
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Southern papers say that the capitalists
who runathe cotton mills I'm the south long
hours with light wages and employ child
labor are from the north Yes. but the leg
islatures which refuse 10 prevent such
evils are southern and Democratic. sug-
Eests the IndianapOlis Journal
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Attorney General Knox. before sailing
for Europe. expressed the opinion that
congress viii take up the trust question
at its next session But the trusts won't
care 50 long as il is a Republican con-
grezs
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

A petition e being circulated In the
north asking President Roosevelt 10 call
congress In extra session for the purpose
OF ending the coal strike. The situation
would seem 70 be critical enough without
injecting congress into ID. II Is some
times wen 70 leave bad enough alone.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

London drinks less than half as much
water as New York and yet has a million
and q half more people The sufficient
explanation Is the quality OF London water
and the cheapness OF London beer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

After a brief rest Mr. Andrew Carnegie
has resumed his regular occupation OF
giving away money. lie has just bestOw-
Ell a $4,000 donation upon MarleybOne.
England. and several other British bor-
oughs are threatened
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

We are inclined 20 believe the story that
most desperate criminals are single men.
We know how harmless we have been
ever since.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Il remains to be seen whether Virginia,
under her new constitution, VIII be able
10 get any more definite results In her
coming election than Alabama and South
Carolina did
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

No doubt President Roosevelt would
have as readily given his consent for Gen.
eraI Miles, 20 go TO the place that the Rev.
Sam Jones says is only half mile from
Savannah
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

A German scientist has discovered that
seventy-five per cent OF the women who
wear wells impair their sight But that
a halps their looks
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

President Roosevelt body guard was
increased 70 twenty men while he was in
Boston Probably feared he might forget
himself and bite few anti-imperialists II
not closely watched.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Admiral Won Diedrichs has resigned
from the German navy. He viii go into
history as the man whom Admiral Dewey
called down IN Manila Bay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Saratoga has regained its long lost pop
ularity and is now the recognized gamb-
ling center Of the country. New Orleans
has taken q seat away back.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

II n dangerous 10 talk about preachers
a Tennessee. A reverend brother who
was charged with drunkenness and i'm
morality has shot and killed two OF his
acruEers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

We sincerely hope the Sultan Of Turkey
win settle up before the time comes
around for the paragraphers to apply that
Thanksgiving joke to the situation
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

n All the thirteen southern governors
pile az once on Pierpont Morgan and hts
wicked railroad merger they should be
able 70 hold him q while.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

The Chicago police may Justify their as
serti0n that there Is no gambling In that
burg by explaining that gambling implies
the idea OF chance
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Speaking OF heroes a western newspa-
per remarks that the man who returns
his property for taxation at fun value has
ths beat title TO that distinction
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

The presidential boom Of Mayor Harri-
con collapsed more suddenly and more
completely than such mutations usually
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

me automobile continues 20 make a new
death record almost every day.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

General Corbin was one OF the sights
that the king OF Italy saw when he en-
tered Berlin.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Were there mosquitoes IN the garden Of
Eden. asks an exchange. Well. we hope
not
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Il would be a low down trick for some
foreign nation to declare war on this
country while both Generals Miles and
Corbin are away.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

A midway show that can shock the Au-
Eusta city council ought TO be able to do
a land once business IN Savannah.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Governor Gambler ought 70 take a look
at Senator Mason as q horrible example
OF a man who Is staying In politics Just
for revenge
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

When Governor Gambler asserts that he
isn't out OF politics. IL merely goes 70
show that he isn't informed. that's all.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

The public executioner OF Paris is said
20 be an enthusiastic automObilist- II is
hard 20 break a man OF old habits. evil
IDENTIFY
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

II Is not improbable that the police will
have 20 interfere during the second round
81 thaf south Carolina SENATORIAL fight.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Ths people OF Triton are opening the
eyes OF the blind tigers down that way.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

II patience and perseverance get man
anything David b. Hill has the presi-
dental nomination nailed down
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

First Citizen Morgan still declines 10 tell
~ what be Is going to do about the coal
strike.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Begin 10 save your money. The circus
man viii need II.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

The presence OF 1900 troops does not
seem 70 have a soothing effect upon the
half-starvcd Pennsylvania coal miners.
They may bc confoFtcd. however. by the
assurance Of one of the bl0ated coal trust
magnates that God has commissioned him
and his gang 10 take care OF the poor In
their beat.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04
His View of II.

Chicago Post.
why are you having your house reosco-
rated this spring.? a.
well. the only reasO~ can assign for y
IS that my wife did ~'-s ! was spending
none. 49, ennuGh
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

Hugh Dewitt. a nonagenarian inmate Of
the Soldiers Home IN Lafayette Indiana.
has carved his own tombstone with a
unique epitaph and has constructed a
coffin 70 hold his remains Here IS one
man. at least. who has managed TO get
IN ahead OF the tombstone and coffin trust
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1904
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-04

A S A Georgian. like all other
~ Georgians I feel interested in
~ whatever interests the people
of the Capital City of our
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-11
The Coronation.

r IL Is TRUE tnaC modern
Cumean sybil propkesied that
IL King Edward would never be
crowned, her vaticination has,
happily, been falsifed by the event.
The king has been crowned. The cere-
mony was shorn of muchNof it's anti
quaran interest and immemorial page
antry owing to it's postponement. But
this is of little consequence in COM
parison to the realization that the ruler
of the British empire has survived a
disease and surgical operation for its
elimination which so nearly threatened
his life that those who came from afar
to witness his ceremonial accession to
the throne at Westminster Abbey We're
in fair way to stand by his bier in
the same venerable fame.
The ancient, elaborate and complicat-
ed constitution Of Great Britain on
which the experience and the genius
of ages have been employed is as inde-
pendent of the person or behest Of the
sovereign of that kingdom as that of
any modern republic is of its elective
head. This fact does not, however, de-
tract from the loyalty and veneration
which the English people bear to their
sovereigns. He is the embodiment of
their social and political organism. In
no other form than that of a constitu-
tional monarchy could the integration
of the British empire be preserved. In
no other way could the immeasurably
diversified races Of an empire of nearly
six hundred million people scattered
from pole to pole and around the cir
cumference of the globe be permeated
with spirit of imperialstic homogen-
ity and federal unity. Under no other
symbol of historical or conceivable
authority could the rulers and the ruled
be brought to recognize a common
empire in which are merged their poll
tcal existence. King Edward is much
less of sovereign than the centripetal
force which keeps the centrifugal ten
dencies of the entities Of his realm in
their orbit.
The British empire has been often
compared to that of Rome at It's best.
In extent and coheslveness it bears some
resemblance. But in every other es-
sential they differ. The great theoretl-
cal and practical end of all govern
ment is the happiness of the people.
That Great Britain has measurably at
tanned. There are parts of the empire
which are not at rest or in acquiesence
with its regal or parliamentary domin-
ion. But while Rome drowned In blood
the slightest impulse toward indepen-
dence or political dissatisfaction in hel
conquered territories, England main
tains her sovereignty by the largest
expression of moral, religious and in
tellectual freedom. This assertion may
be combatted, but 1t cannot be denied
with justice to a country in which the
first germs of political liberty, as they
are. understood and appreciated by
mankind today, were sprouted.
ISing Edward Is not great states
man or "a great monarch, happily fol
himself and his subjects. He has hat
however an unusually long apprentice
ship to the business of kingcraft and hi
knows his trade thoroughly.