Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-09
SAM JONES WAKES
UP THE NORTH
CAROLINIANS
THE GEORGIA EVANGELIST IS
HOLDING A BIG MEETING AT
WILKEs5oRo, NORTH
CAROLINA.

CHARLOTTE, n. c., June 1-sam
ZONES and Evangelists Stuart and Hol-
comb are holding big meeting at Wilkes
boro. n. c., which is located in county
known as a rather stormy section When
n comes to noonshining and returns snow
that the Georgia evangelist is turning
himself loose in characteristic style
Speaking Of Jones a special from Wilkes
boro says:
He said that the worst enemy TO the
people OF Wilkes is themselves. on
are Just like your daddies. Your dadoies
were old whiskey-soaks and distillers ana
their kids are the same things. lou
needn't talk to me about your daddy.
care, nothing about him, because I've
seen his kid; and the more I see OF the
kids the less I think OF your dadoles.
Why, bless you, your old DADDY is IN
hell a frying and unless you quit this
whiskey business you'll go there. too.
He paid his respects to the preachers OF
the county and said that they were notn-
ing but little jackasses running about over
these hills.
He said that there were many people
who would get mad az what he said.
But" said he, Il don't care. I'm going
to shoot into the hole you're in, and you'll
come out a-humpin' and swearing you
weren5t IN there" The ''hardshells'' re-
ceIved a punch. He said that you hard
shells viii get mad; why, bless you, you
are so narrow between the eyes that
could lab both your eyes out with one
finger" t
HIS text was Proverbs. 1l:is: "As right
eousness tends to the light, so he that
pursueth evil pursueth i to his own
death" Upon the whole his sermon was
logical aud 10 the text. interspersed by
his wit and ridicule. The worst evil ne
found in Wilkes was the liquor business.
fg n
tank up on liquor. Then you are ready
for any crime; ready to murder your fell
bowman. your wife Or anybody else. Then
tell me what your daddy done. I've got
no use for you nor your daddy neither. A
man who makes whiskey has no con-
science. I had as soon hunt for con-
science in an alligator as to hunt for 1t In
a distiller."
Speaking OF those who would get Of
Tended at what he said, Jones remarked:
You can take me to a hole in that river
20 feet deep and tie a rock that will weigh
a hundred pounds to my neck and plunge
me IN and drown me. but every babbling
wave that passes over my dead body Will
say that you drowned an honest man who
had the courage TO stand up and speak
HIS convictions. I intend TO do II and you
can't help Il. you lousy devil. you. IL
what 1 say is the truth there has got to
be something done. II what I say Is
lie then you ought TO come up here and
knock me down and stamp me in this
sawdust. Some OF you little devils have
got a pistol in your pocket. you little cow
ards. you. Say. bud. let me tell you what
you do. You go home and Kill dog-I
mean commit suicide. Now. what are
you going TO do about f.? Do you known"
Sam Jones then bounced on the swear
ers and said that "a man who Will cuss
before his wife and children is not fit to
be the daddy of litter OF pups"
In closing his sermon he said: you'll
never make the state of Wilkes what
Il ought to be until you get the still
houses out. What you need is more
churches and fewer drinkers; more school
houses and fewer distilleries."