St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-27
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS.
Sam Small Tells the Prohibition Oonven-
ton How They Tackle the Traffic
in Dixie.
Employees of the Various Railway Offices
Spend a Pleasant Day at Lake
Minnetonka.
The Augustana Synod Concludes to
ADOPT Revised Translation
of the Scriptures.
Several Divorces Granted--A K. of l..
Hall to be Built--The West
Hotel BARRIERS.
HEAVY TEMPERANCE GUNS
Fired by Sam Small Before the
County Conventions.

Fired by Sam Small Before the
County Convention.
Sam Small, the evangelist, was in Mime
apolis, yesterday afternoon, and was called
into the county prohibition convention to
make an impromptu temperance speech.
Harrison hall echoed for an hour with his
eloquence. He expressed his congratula-
tons upon such a large assemblage, and
proceeded to tell the delegates how the
work of redeeming Georgia had progressed.
After describing the work, he said:
When we began the great work there were
those who declared we were d few cranks who
had imported prohibition from New England,
for the benefit OF the long-haired men and
shOrt-haired women. But we taught them to
know prohibition was not imported at all,
but was engrafted between the lids of their
Bibles and born OF Almighty God. Then pro-
hbition reached out and thousands rushed
into its loving embrace, needless of the cries
OF the liquor men and regardless OF the
money which poured in from every
LIQUOR center in the land. Oh, the
wall that went up against prohibition.
They said it would paralyZe business; and so
it did. 1t paralyZed the liquor business and
drove the traffiiclkers into other lines. If you
hear through any of the newspapers that
other business has been harmed, put it down
as a lie Matched in some liquor saloon. Prop
erty in Atlanta is being sold by the front
foot for more than it was before this measure
passed. Don't believe any lies We are rum
ming these liquor fellows all out and they are
headed in this direction, for they know that
there will be no salvation for them within
four years south OF the Ohio river. Grand
old Virginia is wheeling into line and North
Carolina is nearly there now. Give US four
years and local option will have redeemed the
VirginiaS and Carolinas and the whole tier of
gulf states. Florida has wheeled into line
at11 lc1a will ,nfh n hnh mi
Louisiana, and even Texas, are not to be out
done. Within five years we expect to present
to you a new solid South-a South solid for
temperance, for morality and for good gov
eminent. In my soul believe God has ap-
pointed Us the conservative element upon
which the North and the West are to rely for
the great majority necessary in this great
conflict for God and morality, and to
rescue the Christian Sabbath from
the curse of contnentalism. Go in,
my friends, and win. You have God
nnd the women and children with you and
you cannot fail. Be not dismayed. You
may suffer defeat, for never was cause
without ,raitors, but with the fear of Cd in
your heart and the salvation of man before
your eyes, you cannot fail. Do not depend
on these big, thick-necked politicians you see
wandering in the backs of saloons, saving
their country by talking about sumptuary
laws. Why they wouldn't know Sumptu-
ary law if they saw it coming down the road
with q big red flag on it. Poor foolSl Con-
sumptuary law is more like it, when it comes
to the liquor business. They talk of personal
liberty. Why the liberty of this country is
limited for The benefit of the many. Ma
jority rules and the voice OF the majority is
the voice OF God. When a man comes into
Georgia and talks of that kind of liberty, we
tell him his liberty is only license and if he
don't like it, the countrys large and free and
he can go elsewhere. There's no state in the
Union wants emigration more than we Co.
but we are kind Of select about it, when it
comes to prohibition. Cheer up, my friends.
Keep in the way and make these fellows
crowd you out or run over you, for you are
in the coming majority. When, twenty-five
years ago, those misguided men fired upon the
flag at Sumter, bringing out the grandeSt
armies the world ever saw. deluging a land
with tie blood of brothers, crowding the slopes
with graves from Boston to the Gulf and call
ing out the best and highest chivalry of a
glorious land, it was the omnipotent finger of
an Almighty God, pointing the way to strike
from the limbs Of six million human creatures
the ShackleS of slavery. And coming from
those fields of cotton, as southern man,
would to God every man in the world could
hear me say-I am glad of that war for that
one sublime result. But hear me, friends.
Down in the Southland we have fired a
second gun that, as the first one, will re-
vertebrate through the land. But it was
fired in pure love and aimed at the Sum-
tiers of the hellish rum traffic. Already their
ramparts are trembling and their flag is torn
from the standard. Victory is almost won.
Time is all we ask and soon will lead q
new army, blessed by God and supported by
the prayers of men, to save this blessed
land Of ours from that evil, black as night,
that has threatened to OVerWhelm Us