Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-08-28
Sam Small's Big Distortions of Truth.

Sam Smalrs Big Distortions of Truth.
Samuel Small can fool the people in diff
ferent parts of the country regarding his
position on the subject of license VS.. pro-
hibition, for quotations from his speeches
appearing in the press have shown that his
views on that question arc arranged on a
sliding scale to fit different communities.
When the more or less Rev. Sam under
takes to juggle with facts and figures,
however, he plunges into sea of trou-
BILE.
When Small tries to make it appear that
laboring men are fools because they listen
to the arraignment of laboring men from
other States who have been oppressed by
Percival w. Clement for example. he
would have his audiences overlook the
fact that he is a paid agitator who has
been imported from the distant State OF
Georgia apparently because it was SO far
away that it was supposed he could tell
out fear of being caught in the act OF
lying. Unfortunately for this acrobat on
the liquor question who has been brought
all the way from the South to belittle our
glorious commonwealth and malign our
people by showing how besottcd they arc
and how corrupt they are, there are Of
fetal facts with which to meet his dis
tortions of the truth.
If Samuel Small were to be called an ex-
reverend he would probably take it as an
affront, and yet he has had the brazer
assurance to endeavor to gain standing
with some Of his auditors in Vermont by
claiming to be the editor of the Atlanta
Constitution which is one of the most able
and influential papers in Georgia, or fol-
that matter in the entire South If any in.
torested reader cares to see for himself
the monumental assurance of this mar
Small. one can do so by turning to the
American Newspaper Annual, printed by
n. w. Aver & Son of Philadelphia, where
will be found the announcement that tn,
Atlanta Constitution Is printed by the
Constitution Publishing company, CLARK
Howell, editor" Small may hold a subor
dnate position on that great paper, bu
judging from his ribald and vote dispensing
utterances in Vermont he is neither tn,
Sunday school writer nor the 'politica
editor of that able journal
Sam Small has also stated to some o,
his auditors in Vermont that Gen. John G
Mccullough is president of the Erie rail
| road. Being president of a railroad ha.
not been considered a crime in Vernon
or elsewhere. although Mr. Clement in {
position Of that character succeeded il
making life burden to almost a crimina
degree for not few Of his employees aut
some of the shippers who were at hi
mercy. II the editorial Rev or the ex-Rev
editor will turn to the official statemen
of the Erie railroad, he will find inscribed
| therein this list of officers: President, +
d. Underworld LIST vice-president, Georg
NJ. NJ Cummings; md vice president an,
secretary, j. A. Middleton. Gen McCul
Tough has an interest in different rail
roads. but il the threats made by Perciva
w. Clement regarding the removal of tn
shops by President W. Seward Webb l.
| Burlington are to be accepted. Clemen
himself is still railroad stakeholder
i 1t is when the vituperative Samuel. VIII
conveniently calls himself a local OPTIC
prohibtionist, tries to show that the PEG
pie of Vermont are a besotted people a
compared with the great and glorious Stat
Of Georgia, that the fictionist runs shor
on facts and figures. Now people have
right to their own opinion on the subjec
!, of license and temperance, and there ar
legitimate arguments to which neither sid
can reasonably object; but when an i'm
ported agitator unblushingiy traduces tn
, people of a whole State and tries to prov
his charges by figures, II Ia time to sho'
that he is an arithmetical juggler and
J temperance contortionist
The report of the commissioner OF ir
! ternal revenue for the year ended June 9
1901, contains some figures which Samu
Small has found it convenient to overlook
! This report which most people will be II
t clined TO accept as fully reliable authorit
D as our Georgia political tourist states thu
the number Of retail liquor dealers OF a
. kinds in Georgia who took out license
e was 1874, as compared with Cos in Vernon
e which would show an average Of abo,
= two and one-eighth for each town in We
0 mont. including town agencies.
t Judging from the Rev. Smalrs statemsi
= OF the case even this showing would NJ
= he greatly to the credit of Vermont
g compared with the situation in the 'lay
z abiding" community from which he hail
G Unfortunately for this traducer Of We
= mont, however the commissioners repo
contains other figures which truthful San