The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-29
ROAST FOR The 'CUE
BAsCOM ANTHONY DENOUNCES GAM
BLING AND LIQUOR SELLING.
"BUCKING AGAINST TRUST"
HIS EXPLANATION OF BUTCHERS
SALE OF THE PRIVILEGES.

| Discussing the Permanently of Law
and the Unvarying Regularity
with which Punishment Follows
TransgressiOn, MIR. Anthony Point
ed a Moral and Adorned n Tale
With the story of the Butchers
Barbecue The Butchers Well
| known Opposition to Trusts
Hnzarded by the Preacher as a
Possible Explanation of Their Sale
of the Gaming Privilege.
A heavy roast of the gambling and
| liquor selling that took place at the
| butchers barbecue was the feature of
Rev. Bascom Anthonys sermon at
Trinity Methodist Church last night.
Mr.. Anthony characterized it as an eff
fort on the part of the butchers ito
| buck against the trust
The text of the sermon was taken
from Matthew, xxv:29: For unto ev-
cry one that hath shall be given, and
he shall have abundance; but from
him that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath"
The text, said Mr. Anthony in the
llICSPllOll VI Ills GApICSSCS a
general law of the universe. Law is a
rule of action-not a physical entity,
but the expression of Gods method of
dealing with the things He has Gre
ated
In accordance with that law the IA
| proper use, gaining q greater potercy,
a greater strength, with their applica-
| ton along the lines of Gods intent.
| Used rightly and rignteously, they
bring blessing in their train; abused
| or used not at all, they bring curse.
blessings in Punishment.
The permanency of Gods laws. he
| said, is one of their blessings. They
! ire unchanging and Interchangeable; to
! their right observance is affixed an un-
| varying reward to their violation a
| swift and certain punishment. Laws are
blessing, said Mr.. Anthony. Even
| their punitive sanctions, terrible as is
the penalty they affix to evil doing, are
| blessings to mankind.
| A number of illustrations of the fix
| edness and permanency of law were
given by Mr.. Anthony, showing that
| throughout the visible universe, among
the inanimate objects of creation and
in the physical mental and moral
planes of human life, transgressions f
| law are invariably attended by pull
| ishment.
ut is vain for the sentimentalists to
cry There is no HE'LL" said Mr.. An
thony. I'm the very nature of things,
| to accord with all the laws We see in
operation about us every day it must
exist"
From the discussion of the divine
law, the speaker returned to those of
human invention. Like those that have
their direct creation in the mind of the
| Almighty, they have for their purpose
the betterment of the world. They are
designed to accomplish good, and for
this reason are entitled to obedience
and respect. Violated. they bring a
punishment; respected and observed, a
blessing to the community.
Surprised at the Butchers. -.
Speaking of the observance and nom
observance of human laws, Mr.. An
thony turned loose on the barbecue and
its attending incidents.
II must say l had expected better
things of the butchers. l had believed
that more consideration for law and
right would be shown by the fellows
who sell mutton and beef 1 thought
they would be able to resist the temp
one theory only.
For some time these fellows have
been declaring their opposition to the
trusts and announcing their purpose to
fight the beef trust to the last ditch.
Possibly they have become enthused
over the idea and observing that the
court officers and the fair directors
have hitherto enjoyed a monopoly of
the profits, determined to buck the
trust l can't understand their con-
duct in any other way"
For the liquor selling at the cue Mr..
Anthony had an equal share of con-
demnation, denouncing it as violative
of morals and law.
No Right to a License.
81 suppose" he said. that they
were not fools enough TO sell liquor
out there without a license, but If
they had one it was worth the paper
it was printed on and nothing else or
more. If the present Council doesn I
know it has no authority to license
liquor selling at the fair grounds, then
it's time that somebody took the mat
ter into court and showed Council the
error of it's way.
The law says that liquor shall moi
be sold, save in incorporated cities and
towns, within three miles of a schoo
or church, and the Fair grounds are
within three. miles of this church ir
which we are worshiping tonight II
, is no defense for Council to say thai
the Fair grounds are within the juris-
dictional limits of the city; they can
not thus evade the law. ,..
Under any conceivable state of facts
the law was violated when liquor was
sold at the Fair grounds. II there was
no license, then, of course, the sale
was illegal; if there was license from
Council, then the sellers have onl,
Councils shadowy protection against
| their violation of the laws of the land. >
l Mr.. Anthony did not explain If the
theory of the laws invariable punish.
r ment of its violations was to be made
to apply in this instance, but that ar
effort in this direction would be made
was the natural inference from the
manner in which his criticism wa.
: phrased. What he himself is going Il
: do about it, if anything at ALL he die
not say.
KrOuskon's Millinery Opening.
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