The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-24
REV. SAM SMALL
ON PROHIBITION
ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE AT
COURT HoUSE-TElls
FUNNY STORIES.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
Will Remain in Cairo TIL Friday
Night Delivering Addresses at
Various churches-Pre-
pairing For April.

gathered at the court house last nisl
: Il hear Rev. Sam Small on the sui
: sect OF Prohibition II was tho
cnghIy representative audience an
! much enthusiasm was shown IN m
course Or the address Many Of th
churches Of the city We're representa-
By the pastors and members, anon
the latter being probably a hundre
ladies. Rev. Bass of Calvary Baptis
church. who has been most nfominen
lin the fight for Prohibition as repre-
sentative of the State Anti Salool
league. presided over the meeting an
! introduced the speaker Other pastor
lpresent We're Rev. Buchanan OF th
Presbyterian churcn. Rev Ohrum o
lCairo Baptist church, Rev ArmstronI
I0f the Lutheran church. Rev Morri
4 OF the First Methodist church. Rev
Tracey Of the Southern Methods
church, and pastors OF several Of thu
NEGRO churches.
/ The speaker began shortly after
O'clock and spoke nearly two hours
HE had his audience interested from
the start and the interest never
tagged, for he avoided long dry re
citals of facts and figures or broke
! into them with stories which gave
/ force to- his own argument or brought
lridicule to that of the opposition, and
tin both instances served to entertain
lif not to convince his hearers. The
Applause was frequent and quite gen
eral. individual shouts of "Amen'"
l"Thats Sol You're Right" We're
given at intervals from different parts
OF the horse, Mr. Small is good
story teller; he is a good mimic and
although he spoke rapidly aud fluent
Fly he knows the value OF a pause. His
speech verbatim would make interest
ing reading. even by those who do not
approve the cause In the interest Of
which il was made. A brief synopsis
and a few excerpts viii serve to III
lustrate the manner and character Of
tho address which. as whole. was a
mastery effort as Prohibition
stump speech TO arouse the people
aeter OF the movement, of the earnest
aster of the movement. of theearnest
ness OF the people especially in the
south, and OF the purposes of the men
behind it to carry It forward until
not a licensed saloon should be left
in the land. Uncle Sam. he said. was
the biggest distilIer and seller In the
world. collecting siS0.000000 annually
ar his share OF the business. This
purpose OF the Prohibition movemFn
was to put the government out of tho
business OF making durnkards Nc
one had ever contended that the
liquor traffic had right to live on
moral grounds. II had no standing 10
the constitution of the United States:
that no man had a legal right to
manufacture and sell Intoxicating
liquor had been decided By the SD
preme court OF the United States
forty years ago and ii any one
thought he had that right he had
better try ii for he would soon
be made acquainted with the inside
OF penitentiary. Every community
had right to stop the traffic
The speaker rldieuIed the persona
liberty plea. saying with 'hee haw7
that it was a plea for the right To
make hog Of oneself aud TO do
various other things that were
against the interests Of the person
the home and the community He
Illustrated this argument by the story
o. Texan who was In Jail for steal I
ing hogs and refused to promise not I
&c steal any more hogs as a condition (
Of release from Jail. because he would I
not surrender his personal liberty.
You tell Us that ST. Paul advised
Timothy TO take a little wine for his
sake. OF course he did 4
ut you don't have to follow the adj
rice: your name isn't Timothy Be. I.
sides you don't know what was the
natter with Timothy How do YOU
inow you have the same complaint?
man So fool TO take a prescription
made for a man who has been dead
goo years Furthermore. Timothy
idn't have sick stomach fifteen or
ixteen times a day"
The speaker contended that pro.
libition does prohibit. II had been
RED So years In Maine. and II was
iot reasonable 10 believe that the
Yankees Of that state didn't know
ehat they were doing. ANY man who
bought a Yankee was fool had bet
er trade jack knives with him. He
ronld find az the close of the trade
hat he would have 10 borrow a knife
n sharpen his pencil TO figure out
ow be had come ort in the deal. The
eopie Of Kansas had tried II for %
ears. and IL was effective in every
art Of the state. As a result the /
eople Of Kansas had more churches.
lore schools. more newspapers. more
aucated people in proportion 70
opulatiOn than any other state in the
Mon. In Iowa they had recently
uiit a new Denitentiary because the 4
" one was too small Since adopt [
~ Prohibition there had been such a
slling Of in crime that the old one
as large enough and the new one
as offered for sale. Iowa was the s
bly, state that had ever had a penf
'ntiary for sale. They were going to
se the building as a warehouse for