The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-21
Synopsis of Sam Smalfs Address at
Smith Park, Last Saturday Night.

perform a duty, and that duty is seriou
one. The issue is plain and we'll defined
one. There cannot be more argument ad
duced than has always been presented L
you. The question is plain; il is clear
and now If there is man who has right
to talk upon this question, it is |. | hav.
for seventeen years been given admission
10 all of their secrets. They were faithful
preceptors aud | willing pupil. They
shouldn't object, after all the information
they have given me, for my telling you
about it. | mast tell you OF the sorrow
and desolatio of the woe ana misery, !
the tears and heartaches / carried 10 Low
ing wife and to my helpless children. |
will fight them for what they have done to
me until die or they are gone.
Here the speaker produced a circular
calling for rally meeting to night of tn
ti-Prohibitionists 10 this cali he said
they accused me of being fanatical and
bigoted aud all Of this sort of stuff and non
sense. want to tell you that the traffi
of liquor has no inherent right only by a
specis Al right to sell it. The common Law
Of America is supreme in this country, ex
cept where it is invaded by legislation
You hireiings and llttle lawyers and shy
sters who go around crying it as unconsti
tutional, look in 9TH Howard, page 81
and see what Chief Justice fancy said, and
call him a crank, will you2 There Is moth
ing in the constitution which prohibits a
State from regulating her police protection.
No man can say that prohibiting the sale OF
this damnable stuff is unconstitutional, an,
when man tells you 50 he Is deceIving
you, and lying to you just as hard as he
can. Laws are made by the minority, and
you must submit, and when you do so there
is no invasion of your rights; and when yof.
see foreigners talking this way put them
down as reckless traitors to the United
States, or else they don't know what Amer
lean liberties are.
What do you do with smallpox and
powder? Dent you prescribe their con
inement? And haven't we the same RICH
10 conhne an enemy as deadly? Whei
you talk about the liberty you want you
talk absurd and idiotic. You have got l.
do what the majority says, and as majpr
ity makes the law it subserves the creates
number, and we will subserve the Creates
number of desires when we drive this dam
nable and horrible traffic of liquor selling
out of our midst. A man talking about
the liberties that prisoner and the agen
of the devil has got, you can put him dow
as the paid henchman and the servile tool
of the traffc. Any law that permits th'
damnable stuff to consume our brains an
muscles and our hearts, say should bt
put down.
| used to run with the gang and | was
lighting fellow with them, and now | want
you to understand that am fighting on the
nome side and on Gods side, and il they
don't like that they can lump it, Whisk
either 10 axes man a fool or r iscal-
most generally the compound of otl. 10
your tents, O Israel" is the h, a lirg o.
their call in this circular. This reads TX
a proclamation commanding Israel 10 e
in for fight Ii Israel has got any respec
ior Moses or his law, they can't travel
with whisky gang. Imagine Moses tell
ing his people to fight for whisky, and all
the evils that cluster around 1t. As W.
Americans have opened avenues OF com
merce and of industry to the lsraelites, VT
want them to stand up to American llber
ties, and by the flag that they came under
for protection that they could find nowhere
else.
You say we are intolerant. Where did
you get your ideas OF our intolerance ex
cept the Intolerance of the damnable stuff
which debauches and despoils our man
hood, and places us as criminals in the
oversight OF our loved ones? IL is the in
produces strife aud sends these near ami
dear to us into hell and doing all that the
/ ,llen spirit of the internal regions which
comes among us can do.
Ii is with us TO say shall this spirit be
1ispelled 1t is you who are intolerant
You cannot tolerate the joys and peace
aud love which commends men to God
Now which intolerance will you accept
You h ave got to accept one or the other.
or wear the brand of moral coward.
Shall we, citizens OF jackson, tolerate
that which will and has brought ruin t.,
many a beautiful and prosperous home
Shall we let these demons be free to pre-
scribe the rules and laws of our society?
They call us fanatics. Well, the rue
definition of fanatic is man who knows
his duty and dares to do it.
Whisky, oh ! the damnable stuf'-it
| brought me almost into the sulphurous ano
lurid flames of hell. But G I'd lifted me
up and gave me the assurance that L was a
man before the angels and himself, and
will live and die one. | am fanatic
against beer and whisky, for they are from
NELL and | am opposed to anything from
that region.
Stand back, they say, and permit US 70
go on and SOW seeds of debauchery, crime,
! murder and all manner of evils. Let Us
make your brains mad, and spread woe
and desolation and famine into your
hearts. Let US debar and deprive your
good people of Jackson, they are going Il
do it as long as you permit saloons among
you.
They say again in this circular tina
they want to educate the poor. What sor
of an education? You know it Is to edu
cate them to drink and fight, and gamble
ravish and steal and murder.
That is the history of their schools dowl
to the present day. They claim they pa.
the taxes which educate your childrei
we'll. | want to tell you it amounts t.
twenty six cents per head, and you ar
paying twenty-six dollars to get that TWEEN
ty-six cents. Cut off your liquor and yol
will be able to educate them fifteen years
| God help any people who educate thel
children from the proceeds OF whisky
Say you want that sort of an educatio
and write il across the dome of your Capi
tol, and then let the millions of immigrant
/ read it and they won't come here, and Go
and his angels, for they don't admit OF an
such anomaly in law.
| would rather have the money Juds
Iscariot received for betrayipg Christ i
my pocket than have it in my house
When he had sold his Lord for bloc
money he went off and did the only sensibl
(, thing he could do-hung himself. Thin
of il, fathers let your sons tell il this way
my father gave me no education ii
bar-room did it" You might as we'll te
!. the truth about it. / want you to unde
stand, and know it, that seven-tenths
| your criminals can trace their crime bae
to whisky. / have got the proofs. Ii yo
want to relieve yourselves of crime / ca
offer you no way to do it except to reno,
the producing cause, and that is the whisl
, traffic.
We must remove il, aud we will remo'
! it God has said il, and the good peop
/ have said il and when these two combii
it has got 10 90. II Is a question whi'
i will settle the peace OF this heroic city
jackson, OF your grand old commonwealth
: and this grand and good country of our
. and as husband, q brother, father Al
: son, and as the Son of God, He will no
!, you accountable in the day Of judgme
: for your decision. Let your warfare
: uncomfortable until you have driven Il
traffic out forever from your midst I'll
enemy brings shame in one shape In
every household.
srl Then rise up, people, and with your
e roism and bravery put il out, and then
T. can stand up aud sing "Halieluiah,
/ done,n and God and his angels will SIN
" tupon IA and the nations will applaud