The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-20
SAM SMALL'S LIVELY TALK.
HE SAYS UNIQUE THINGS TO A PRO
HIBITION PARK AUDIENCE


HIBITION PARK AUDIENCE
The Devil Wouldn't Let Falcon Keepers
Into Hell - Wants to Semi Southern
Drinkers Up North-Joseph Cook Talks.
Evangelist Sam Small OF Atlanta and the
Rev. Joseph Cook OF Boston drew big crowds to
Prohibition Park, Port Richmond $. l., yes
terday. In tho morning Email addressed n
thousand persons In the auditorium. and In
the afternoon 1000 men and women listened to
the two exhorters. Mr.. Small's morning ad-
dress was sermon on the text. When He.
the Spirit Of Truth. is como. He will guide you
unto all truth" 1t didn't excite as much In
terest as his efforts usually do. lie made UP
for its tameness In the afternoon. Tho morn
ing address went to show that only prohbi-
tionlsts were travelling toward truth.
At 4 o'clock. when Chairman Funk intro
duced Mr.. Cook. about half the seats In the
auditorium were occupied. Church Partner
ship In the Liquor Business" was his subject.
He said that II the 100000 church members
who are voters. 100000 OF whom are Catho-
lies. worked together. they could easily outlaw
the liquor traffic.
Il am sorry to say" he continued. that the
lash OF the party whip is too often cracked
over the heads Of churchmen in this country.
You often hear It said that we must keep poll
tics out OF religion but woe to US II We at
tempt to keop religion out OF politics. The
great cities rule tho States. the saloons rule
the cities, and the lowest OF the low rule the
saloons. Under such circumstances am not
justified In believing that one OF these days
there will be an uprising against this power
even more bloody than our civil WARP There
are about 100000 actual voters Two mil
are go disinterested In affairs that they vote as
they are told or as they are bought These are
the men the saloons control.
and Congregation alists exclude rumseIIers
from membership in their churches. and am
glad to see thar the .Episcopalians are quickly
the rum traffic. Both the great political par
saloon. Is 1t not strange, then, that the mem
bers Of Christian churches which DISCOUNTS
ha hs Hat sh
powerY"
Chairman Funk remarked that Sam. Small
ssnssd about the pi..ioe n and 's said things
bound IL the damned fG rum IL trais san The son q
sSa IS Rs My nS SS Hat
place n Georgia the elsotiop people would say:
any Of you say thats Now. you're great church
membeE and yet IN bet your next door neigh.
no, al question. You're nice specimen. indeed
Ten to one even your wife couldn't tell. III
SSs x wa os ss # thu The a
like W me i n M solid south
you folks up North here sold your slaves to, US
came philanthropic. and made us set them
free. l have found that one Of the best ways
S9 5a 81 ss s Ss srendsd n T6s
them. And now were going to march all the
I'd like to get the Isl, 900 licensed saloon
en- in on the devil: know bs treat them as
Ss Wdiss S ass na s s devil IS 5o
Old boy came back. he SAY sS 'oqHs v sa
he'll your own: You cant come II here.
against the rum tralilc; the devil and the wis
key d!stillers and the brewers unite to down
a ana he hHy tell ke nn h if o pos
10y: It'll make q Democrat drunk IS quick as
with the fiery liqud; II You talk IL politi :ian
mora, question and ought to be settle In
church by means OF nice little tracts and lot
OF DINER things that won harm MS party.
When not very long ago. the great SUI
preme Court Judges, dressed in their funerenl
roles got out into the b Ghway. held up their
hands in holy horror. and said men were tram
pling on States rights because we tried to stop
the handy legged devils OF original packages
bull necked barEeeper, bay-windowed brewer
thug, and ping ugly in the country howlel for
, JOY, feeling that prohibition was dead. They
went to WASHINGTON to attend the funeral, but
they found that We had got there before
them and that prohibition was very much
alive. Instead Of Its dying. their little original
package was smashed. Wen hurry It one Of these
effectively that 1t reminds me OF, country
feather bed. II you get on one end; the other
hobs up; If you sit on the middle both ends
shoot up. and II you put both ends down. tho
middle shoots up. Tho only way to GET n,t the
he have done that we'll bury 1t face downward.
Is q Georgia man buried his wife. His idea In
doing that was that when Gabriel blew the
scratch her way out. she'd be only going fur
Their into the ground"