The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-25
FAKES ABOUND
IN MODERN LIFE
GAMBLER LOVER OF MY SOUL
A FAVoRITE REFRAIN OF SOME
LAWYERS, SAYS REV. WILLIAMS.

ferred to Magistrates as Unjust
ices of the Peace"-MOral Leper
Handled UnsparingIy Sermon
Roasted Money Lenders and Pawn
shops.
Gamblers, lawyers that defend them,
the judges that sentence them, the di-
vorce court lawyer, the saloon-man,
the immoral man, one and all, were
handled without gloves last night by
Rev. A. M. Williams in a sermon at
Trinity Methodist Church from the
subject Bread Badly Bought"
Methods of earning a living were
discussed and those which the speaker
deemed wrong were numerically
scored. After describing the scene on
the mount when Satan asked Christ
to turn the stones to bread, Mr.. Will
liams said the reason Christ did not
do so was because the time was not
right, nor the occasion one on which
to show His power. Had He done so
the bread would have been badly
bought. He then discussed the
ways in which bread is badly bought
in modern life.
Dishonesty buys bread badly" said
DIR. Williams: Bread, gotten without
rendering service of some kind to So
ciety has the stamp of divine disap-
prevail. In it's lowest form this is seen
in the petty thief. He generally gets
caught and the court is always ready
to put the heaviest penalty on him.
He is not on the inside and so can
not secure the license to ply his trade,
like the policy lottery thief who is
causing more harm to the solid in
terests of a community.
Being of limited resources he is not
available for campaign club purposes
like the gently handled big gambler
thief. All, however, belong to the
same class in the eyes of the AL
mighty.
The Dead Beat Glass.
"The next class is the dead beat class
1 am so often their victim that must
speak tenderly lest l be charged with
resentment Scarcely a week passes
that 1 do not hear his mournful story
and witness his crocodile tears.
"Then there is the credit dead beat
Every merchant on Broughton street
can tell you about him. This time
must say her as well as him..
THE woman who forces mer-
the income of her husband be-
longs to this class. Would not
Bull street take on a peculiar hue If at
some unknown corner every costume
dead beat from the merchants could be
metamorphosed into statement of in
debtedness?
Unpaid Bills of Women.
You women who owe for your attire
don't know what the merchants tell
about you. The other day a merchant
showed ME a design: Brother McCon-
nells picture on one side; on the other
side the unpaid bills of a woman. I'm
derneath he had written: Gum it, He
never suspected that l knew the wom-
an. She was buying her bread badly.
Under another head are the fake de-
velopments of the day. Man earns
bread dishonesty when he becomes a
the world history might properly call
| fakedom. Everywhere are fake goods,
fake food, fake medicine, fake financial
schemes--fake methods of getting mon
ey is to buy your bread badly.
The Shyster Professional Man.
Bread is badly bought when it is Sc
cured at the cost of the best interests
of others. Parasites that prey on the
vices, weaknesses, ignorance of their
| fellow men are numerous. They often
have brains, but misuse the powers
with which they are endowed to curse
humanity.
There is. first, the shyster in pro-
| fessional life. One of the curses of our
| day is the lawyer bleeding the
public veal material and moral, by his
! despicable wiles. The one with the
nose that hunts out the doubtful claim
for damages.
There is the divorce shyster who
seeks to foment domestic infelicity in
stead of frowning on the dissolution of
the holy bonds of matrimony. Then
| there is the lawyer so near the gam
blers' den that he may be said to be
singing all the while:
Gambler, lover of my soul,
Let me at thy pocket fly
sInjustices" of the Peace.
Near akin to this class are the IN
| Justices of the peace. They get bread
| by taking advantage of the poor, ig
norant, passionate negroes, and absorb
| a good part of their months hard
earnings by issuing peace warrants on
almost imaginary foundations. This
| is a species of air castles that pays.
| Such men get plenty of bread, but
| their starvation would be worth more
to society.
Next comes the shyster in trade,
! the extortioner in loaning money, hold
| ing pawns or selling goods. Let us
| discriminate, for there are legitimate
ways of loaning money. But these
| kinds do not justify confiscation, ex-
! tortion and oppression. When that is
| a mans business he is one of the
| DEVILS favorites."
The Moral Lepers.
After scoring the saloon men round
| ~, both retail and wholesale, the
! speaker took up those morally lost. In
! treating of them he said:
! The saddest illustration of bread
! badly bought is the woman of i'll re-
| pute. Sanger, in his history of Them
| declares that one-fourth of the cases
he had before him were lead to that
| life by restitution. Moreover, the
! largest number from any one cause
was this class.
This bread, gotten in shame, in Bit
| terness, in tears, is badly bought, in
deed. Better the sharp, short death
| OF starvation, for this life means early
death. death of pain of body, anguish
of mind, wrechtedness of soul.
THE stories of the beginnings of
such a sale are often pathetic. l heard