The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-12-24
ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE AT
COURT HoUSE-TELLS
FUNNY STORIES.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM
viii Remain in Cairo Till Friday
Night Delivering Addresses at
Various Churches-Pre-
pairing For April,

ject Of Prohibition, II was a tho
cughly representative audience an
much enthusiasm WIS shown In TIL
course of the address. Many OF tn
churches of the city were represente
! by the pastors and members. anon
the latter being probably a hundre,
ladies Rev, Bass of Calvary Baptis
church, who has been most prominen
In the fight for Prohibition as repre-
sentative of the State Anti.Salool
league, presided over the meeting an,
introduced the speaker. Other pastor
present We're Rev. Buchanan of thu
Presbyterian churcn, Rev. Ohrum o
Cairo Baptist church, Rev. Armstrong
of the Lutheran church. Rev. Morri,
Of the First Methodist church. Rev
Tracey of the Southern Methodist
church, and pastors of several OF the
negro churches.
The speaker began shortly after 5
ln'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
ridicule to that OF the opposition, and
in both instances served to entertain
II not to convince his hearers. The
applause was frequent and quite gem
eral, individual shouts of "Amen."
That's Sol" You're Right" We're
given al intervals from different parts
of the house. Mr. Small is a good
story teller; he is a good mimic. and
although he spoke rapidly aud fluent
ly 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 1t was made, A brief synopsis
and few excerpts will serve TO H.
lustrate the manner and character OF
the address which, as a whole, was
effort as Prohibition
stump speech to arouse the people
acter Of the movement, of the earnest.
aster of the movement, of theearnest-
ness of the people especially in the
'outh, and Of the purposes of the men
behind 1t to carry 1t forward until |
lot licensed saloon should be left |
n the land. Uncle Sam, he said, was /
he biggest distiller and seller In the /
world, collecting $1SO,000,000 annually
g bis share of the business. The I
'urpose of the Prohibition movement
vas to put the government out of the
'nsiness of making durnkards. No
ne had ever contended that the 4
Iquor traffic had right to live on
1oral grounds. 1t had no standing in
ne constitution OF the United States;
hat no man had a legal right to
lanufacture and sell intoxicating
quor had been decided by the SUI
rene court OF the United States
,rty years ago and If any one
lought he had that right he had
etter try II for he would soon
e made acquainted with the inside
penitentiary. Every community
ad Alright to stop the traffic.
The speaker ridiculed the personal
berty plea. saying with "hee hawp
iat 1t was a plea for the right 10
AXE a hog of oneself and to do
lrious other things that were
sainst the interests of the person.
Ie home and the community. He
ustrated this argument by the story
a Texan who was in Jail for steal.
g hogs and refused to promise not
steal any more hogs as condition
release from jail. because he would
It surrender his personal liberty"
You tell us that st. Paul advised
notify to take a little wine for his
sake. OF course he did
I you don't have to follow the adj.
90; your name isn't Timothy Be.
les you don't know what was the
litter with Timothy How do YOU
ow YOU have the same complaint?
man is fool to take a prescription
ide for man who has been dead
90 years. Furthermore. Timothy
Int have a sick stomach fifteen or
teen times a day"
The speaker contended that pro.
'ition does prohibit. Il had been
ed % years In Maine. and IL was
reasonable 10 believe that the
nkees of that state didn't know
at they were doing ANY man who
'ught Yankee was a fool had bet.
trade jack knives with him. He
uld find at the close of the trade
i he would have to borrow a knife
sharpen his pencil to figure out
Y he had come out in the deal. The
'ple Of Kansas had tried IL for q
Irs. and IL was effective IN every
I OF the state. As a result the
pile of Kansas had more churches
re schools. more newspapers. more
lcated people In proportion 10
'ulation than any other state IN the II
on. In Iowa they had recently 4
Il new penitentisry because the q
one was too small Since aSop,
Prohibition there had been such a
ing on in crime that the old one
large enough and the new one
offered for sale. Iowa was the
state that had ever had a peuI-
.iary for sale. They we're going IN
the building as a warehouse for
corn which vas being raised b. 3