The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-30
REV. SAM SMALL
! ON The SALOONS
SAYS PROHIBITION WILL CARRY
IN CAIRO AT ELECTION IN
APRIL.
COUNCIL VIOLATED LAW
Year-SaIoon Men Advised Not
TO PAY Full Year--No
Rebate.

Rev. Sam Small had another grea
and strenuous day yesterday. He d,
iivered three stirring addresses, on
at Cairo Baptist church, one at tn
court house and one at the oper
house. He had a large audience a
each place. The court house meeting
was for men only and he spoke es
lrecially to members OF secret orders
1.-THE court room was well filled an
the speaker had the closest attention
He said that no man who belonge,
Ito any of the leading secret organi
cations could conscientiously vote Il
Iretain the saloons. He spoke II
terms Of bitter denunciaticn of tn,
Fraternal Order of Eagles. He sait
1.-THE order was properly named: th'
Icagle was the foulest bird known II
natural history, and the most de
Istnctive and the meanest in many
ways. IF. 0. e. fFraternal Order o.
Eaglesl spelled foe and the ordel
was a foe to everything held dear Ii
lie. to everything worthy of respect
and worth striving for. The Order Of
Eagles he said was composed almost
wholly Of saloon men.
The opera house at night was
| srowded with people from parquette
10 gallery. and many stood up on all
1.-THE floors II was as large an audi
ence as was ever gathered there, and
os representative of Cairo's best citi.
zenship. 1t was a union meeting Of
churches, and there were representa-
tives from nearly all the congrega-
ions in the city On the stage with
Rev Small were Rev Or. Bass Of
calvary. Baptist church. Rev Morris
~ the First Methodist church, Rev.
0hrum of Cairo Baptist church, Rev.
Tracey of Southern Methodist church.
Rev. Buchanan of the Presbyterian
,hurch. The quartette of Cairo Bap.
list church were also there and Mrs.
Hope Way Orr the organist OF that
church, presided at the piano. Rev.
Ohrum opened the meeting with
prayer and Rev. Morris introduced
".
Rev. Small showed no signs Of
fatigue from his days work. but
spoke in strong voice and with his
customary effectiveness. He began
with the story of his own rescue from
brink. likening 1t to the release of a
captive bird In which he drew an i'm
uressire word picture; he told how
the government had first become in
yolved with the liquor traffic, before
the war, when It needed revenue; re-
hearsed the presidential campaigns
since the war and claimed that the
organized liquor traffic had dictated
the platforms and carried the cleo
tions in nearly every case until 1896
when the money power overshadowed
Ii. He reviewed the progress of the
Prohibition movement in the south
claiming that it's effect had been uni
forInly beneficial in every way.
Speaking more especially of the
movement in Cairo he predicted that
IL would be successful on the 21st
day OF next April and that after the
21st day Of May following there would
be no saloons in Cairo. High license
was not the remedy for the dive evil.
The high class saloons such as that
at The Halliday, where much money
was invested in fancy fixtures and
furnishings and where the finest
liquors were sold could much less af-
ford to pay $500 or $1,000 In license
than the low dive where the furnish
ings cost $50 and rot-gut whiskey was
sold. He told Of man In Pittsburg
who had come to police headquarters
wearing only his drawers. uDdershirt
and socks. He had been robbed in
one of the dives of the place. places
that strip a fellow like this one was
stripped" said Mr. Small. "can AFFORD
to pay any kind of an old license"
But the speaker grew specially In
teresting when he referred to the city
councils recent action In railroad
ing" through an application for the
Gardner saloon at Twenty-second aud
Sycamore streets. He recited the
ftldHIltI VI idrcthe hDOh tht aBti'"-
ton las told in these columns at the
time.) how an adjournment was taken
for five minutes to enable the com.
mlttee to report upon the application
and how Il was passed. the applicant
being granted a right to a saloon in
order to get the benefit of the holiday
business a period of twenty days for
S29.2o till the close of the present
fiscal year. Mr.. Small said the city
council had no right to grant any
saloon license in Cairo for any period.
even for single day. for less than
$500 He read the ordinances which
prove this. and said he was prepared
tn go into any court and substantiate
bis contention. Moreover he said II
was not fair to the saloon men who
had paid the full amount called for
by law: and the people OF Cairo had
been cheated out of s47osO in the
transaction. to which they were right
fully entitled under the law.
The speaker advised saloon men
who contemplated taking out liceBs,
for next year to 20 before the council
and offer a license fee for FIVE months.
or until MAY p He sail: You can
tell them that IN view Of the Prohibit
ton movement you do not care to
take any chances on the whole year