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By James Mackenzie
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of the most outspoken preaoh-
to grace the American pul
pit was the renowned Methodist evan
gelist, Sam Jones. Speaking in Sig
ourney, lowa, years ago, he roasted
those "who sign saloon petitions. Here
ig a report of his lecture taken from
a Sigourney paper:
“This nice little lowa town, with a
farming region around it makes it one
of the garden spots of the world; hut
with all your blessing you can’t get
along without three saloons to de
bauch your village and ruin your hoys,
because you ‘need the money’.”
Here Mr. Jones inquired of the sur
prised audience, “How much is the 11-
eense fee here?” Someone answered,
S3OO each.” “Nine-hundred dollars al
together,” said Mr. Jones. “What is
your population?” Answer, “2,000.”
The speaker then made a little light
ning calculation, and resumed, “The
liquor dealers walked up to you and
said, ‘if you will let us damn the peo
ple of this town we will give you forty
cents apiece.’ Say, what would a 200-
pound hog bring?” Answer, “$12.”
“So,” replied Mr. Jones, “hogs sl2
apiece and people forty cents a head.
Say, brother, don’t you wish you were
a hog? You and your family wouldn't
bring enough in this town to buy a
suckling pig! This is a little lower
down than I have ever found them.
For the pitiful sum of forty cents
apiece you turn over your boys to be
debauched, the hearts of your mothers
to be crushed and the town ruined—
all for forty cents. This is cheap;
but I suppose it is all you are worth,
eh?
“I want to say that there is not a
man of you who signed that petition
to bring saloons to your town, but de
serves that every body you have in
your home shall fill a drunkard’s
grave, and your daughters live in the
embrace of drunken husbands. What
did you sign it for? If you did not
want your boys to drink, or your
daughters to marry a drunkard, what
did you do it for? Stand up and
talk back. You surely did not sign
hoping your boy would not drink, but
that your neighbor’s would!
* T hy don’t you say, ‘To tell you the
h„*st truth I did it for the forty
cents.’ If the devil doesn’t get you for
that, it is just because he doesn’t want
you, and every man that signed that ’
liquor petition, the devil will get the'
last man of you—but thank God, he j
won’t get much. If you fellows don’t!
feel like hogs, vou don’t feel natural. I
That’s all.”
So much for Sam Jones, and Sig-
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says to Chowan County. Why do you 1
men vote for liquor? Do you do it
with the hope that your boy will not
drink, but that your neighbor’s boy
will ? May God have mercy upon you
if you have sunk that low. Do you
do it so our county will receive in
creased revenue from the liquor tax?
I wish you could see, as I do every
day, the poverty, sorrow, and broken
homes in our county that can be traced
directly to liquor and the satanic hold
.it gets upon men. Sit through the
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i you will see that practically every,
crime committed in Chowan County
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no such thing as liquor, the money
that is spent for it would be spent
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support the liquor traffic in Chowan
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