Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-06-02
JAMESBURG EVIL
PLACE PLACE, HE HE CLAIMS
Rev. "Tom" Jones Makes
"BiIIy" Sunday Look Like a
Piker in Methodist Church.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

odmS5buTs, Ju0e NEVER mas
Jamesburg received such lashing as
that administered last night by
the Rev. Tom" Jones, the evange-
list, who Is holding a series of meet
ings In the Methodist church. He
spared none; the rich and the poor
alike were held to seorn and he warm
ed them of the danger of eternal de-
struction- Card parties, dances,
drinking saloons, poker and crap
playing were also handled without
gloves, and at the root of every evil
the parents of the offenders were di-
rectly charged with being responsible
for the alleged conditions as they ex-
ist in Jamesburg at the present time.
In part, Rev. Jones' sermon, "The
EVILS of Jamesburg," was as follows:
"Jamesburg! Mo- There is moth
ing like that going on in Jamesburg. )"
Thus some of you half awake Chris
tians exclaim, when | tell you of
the damnable evils prevalent in your
midst. Let me emphasize these
things here tonight. In the first
place, you have got two drinking
saloons. Why does the county have
to provide penitentiaries? 1t is be-
cause such folks as you don't wake
up and demand that there be laws In
your state which shall abolish such
places.
Seventy per cent of inmates of
prisons, insane asylums and aim
houses are here because you James
burg people did not raise your fin
ger against the saloon. I am a dead
ly foe to the liquor traffic. | know
of it's vital evils by experience.
Il understand you have people in
Jamesburg who dilute alcohol with
water and sell it privately for whis-
key. You folks should never talk
of the evils of New York and other
large cities. Those who live in glass
houses should never cast a stone. I
have noticed many poolrooms here as
walked about the streets before T
was here two hours. Another dis
grace to Jamesburg. Idle young fell
lows wasting their time and gambling
away other peoples money at such
hell-born places. If you wanted a.
man to care for your valuables would
you go to the poolroom to find such.
Ii not then why do you tolerate such
places in your midst. Can any of
the young men who hang around
such places develop into estimable
young men with good character or
American citizens, who would be held
up as models to the community?
| say is 1t possible? If not. then
why don't you young men who be-
long to the gang quit going there be-
fore you take the next step to hell?
| know in some places they sell
liquor secretly, but ii this is the case
here know not.
Dancing is another of Jamesburg's 8
great evils and common everywhere,
SO that you are keeping up with the
times. To the greatest extent / lay
this crime up to the parents of the
young people for allowing their ten
der children to frequent the public
dance hail. We hear the same old
story. "Oh, there's no harm In
dancing Let me ask you one ques-
ton: Is the Tango Grizzly
Bear" and Turkey Trot" from God
or the devil? II you answer that
question honestly you won't have to
trouble anyone again by asking, "Is
it right to dancer" New York's
chief of police says that three
fourths of the fallen W omen that are
living immoral lives owe their down
fall to the dance. Therefore it must
be degrading and its high time for
your Jamesburg decent people to
stop indulging in this deyilish
pleasure.
Now for your crap shooters. poker
and Ave hundred parties. Most of
your respectable people would never
handle a card at a social five hum
dred' If 1t was not for greedy, sell
fish, covetous heart you have got.
Boys shooting crap ON the streets in
public, men playing poker and neg
iecting their families, and the lead
ing women of Jamesburg craving for
the prizes in the five hundred par
ties about teh town that we look up
on as a necessity In local society.
1t gathers in all classes and makes
them ten thousand times worse than
they were before they knew of such
things. Remember, you mothers and
fathers here tonight, your boys are
either growing up to love or curse
you. l warn you If you allow your
children to play cards they will some
day curse you until you are black In
the face for being responsible for
their downfall after the habit has
gotten q hold on them from which
they cannot break away.
The onlyl difference between the
pink tea where society plays five hun
dred and the boys who shoot crap
and play poker for money earned so
hard, is but one degree in society. 1t
matters not whether the prize is
silver thimble or a silver dollar. The
card parties are made alluring with
prizes, refreshments and the know]-
edge that the local papers will print
the names of guests and winners. All