The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-10-13

BOTH UReE cONsTITUTIoNAL
AMENDMENT.
Evening Meeting So Well Attended
As to Neeessitats Overflow Meet-
Ing.

Two large crowds heard Sam Small,
the Georgia orator, discuss the liquor
traffic, and his comment on the state
question. The speaker is making
state campaign and is accompanied by
a representative OF the Anti-Saloon
League.
At the evening meeting held in the
Methodist church, the speaker was
greeted by an immense crowd and 1t
was necessary to hold an overflow
meeting in the Presbyterian church
which was first addressed by the sec
retary of the Anti-Saloon League. In
commencing Mr. Small defined him
self He said: I am not here to make
temperance address, nor am tenn
perance man myself I could as we'll
call myself yellow dog, for by him
you can tell which way he is going,
but you cannot tell which way tenn
perance man is going; he may be on
the main line of local option or he may
be backing on a "Y'' to protect the
brewer" Names, he said, often de-
generate, and cited the Greek term
demagogue in proof, showing how 1t
formerly signified the best and now, he
said, 'syou go to Boise and call one
of those red-nosed, flannel mouthed
politicians a demagogue and he will
hight The word dehlagogue now is
often confused with the word demijon.
DR.. Small said that he recently at
tended brewers convention, where
they announced themselves as the true
disciples of temperance and for this
reason temperance" was misnomer.
He is not, he said, a third party man
and is great curiosity for he Is a
Southern dry Democrat. In regard to
regulations of saloons, he said he was
| inclined to believe Billy Sunday, when
| he said that he had just as soon regu-
| late powder mill in He'll as saloon.
| Attempts have been made to regulate
| the traffic since 1912 when the Mary
| land colony enacted laws, and after
| 300 years we have the best regulated
| system in the world but at that 1T is
| such an evil that 1t must be eusted. 1t
| is not right to regulate the saloon, 1t is
| wise to "strangulate" it.
| In attacking the principle of high
/ license, it was said that it was mer-
cenary plea and was 1t defined as "a
high lie without any sense, an inven-
ton OF the devil patented by politi-
clans and run by community to make
dollars" The city Is responsible for
| this plan for without its consent the
saloon cannot be run.
In closing he stated that there was q
chance for Idaho to assert herself and
/ free its borders from saloons by vot-
+ ing for the constitutional amendment.
The address was listened to with much
/ interest as the speaker has unique
manner of stating his opinions. After
his address the meeting was addressed
by the secretary Of the League, who
proved to be pleasing speaker.
He stated that prohibition is an is
sue. When local option went into eff
| feet we had 600 saloons, now we have
! 145, one-half of which are in Shoshone
! county, 23 in Boise and the forty in the
! other wet counties. There are 23
4 counties in the state and 16 of these
are dry. In an estimated population Of
! $50, 900, 100000 are in dry territory.
i We have 13 cities of 5000 or more and
4 of these only one, the Capital city is
i wet. There is an attempt on the part
of the brewers to force another vote
on the county option law for they feel
that they are sure defeated and may
win back some dry territory. For this
reason the state wide prohibition Is
necessary. He urged all to work for
4 this end. In conclusion he asked for
4 financial support from those present
and stated that $5.000.00 was needed
/ for the work This week these two
speakers will be in this county and
will spend next Sunday in Pocatello.
j.