The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-17
SAM SMALL ST|RS
OLD ISLE OF WIGHT
s6rrHYTEI.D AUDIENCE THRILLED
BY ORAToRY OF FAMOUS TEM-
PERAyCE EVANGELIST.

smithfe1d, Sept. 1s.-At large meet
ing here today, Rev. Sam Small made
thrilling and convincing speech in
favor of Statewide prohibition. He
touched every feature OF the campaign
that has been discussed here, and his
replies to the contentious OF the liquor
ties were sharp and conclusive.
'syirgtnians." he said. you are this
week the object of interest and eager
expectation to millions of your fell
low citizens throughout America Your
sons and daughters. your scions OF all
degrees, who have gone out Into other
States to carry Virginia character.
education and constructive ability into
the broad avenues of the nation. are
anxfously watching to know whether
the noble old mother State Will de-
finitely align herself with the friends
or with the enemies of all righteous
ness and good government They are
praying that she will repudiate the
banefuI effort to link her name in
dissolubly with the vilest trade and
conspiracy Of evils that has ever
afflicted humanity and curAed civic
conditions anywhere.
.They are beseeching you strong
men of the common people to take
away the great seal Of the sovereign
State from the licensed harlot of the
saloon, who outrages every good thing
and against which never law OF God
or man runs with respect and ODE
dience from its allies.
go. good men of Virginia, to your
polls next Tuesday and set the motto
of your State as an epitaph upon the
new made grave Of the liquor traffic.
Sic Semper Tyrannis-thus be 1t
ever to the tyrant!
Stamp Out the Lie!
PUT the heel OF your manhood and
honesty upon the neck of that cop
perheaded lie that personal liberty
and local disagreement are to die
IL prohibition Is adopted. That spawn
of satan did not deceive the people
Of Georgia, nor delude the people of
Oklahoma, nor deter the people of
Mississippi, nor divert the people of
North Carolina. nor distract the people
Of Tennessee, nor demoralixe the peo-
pie Of West Virginia! The liauorites
tried 1t upon all of them consecutively
and consecutively the brave. loyal. free
loving men OF those States went
up to their ballot boxes and smashed
blood-shot eyes, and made 1t hunted
criminal upon their soil.
Personal liberty does not mean
liquor privilege. Liberty Is a COM
mon right. but liquor license is a
penal bond, ball and chain upon a
personal privilege to do within limits
things that without the license would
be public nuisance or common crimes,
We Statewiders are the enemies of
licensed liquor and the friends OF the
personal liberty of men. women and
children to walk the State free from
the traps, temptations. tolls and ira
gedies Of traffic that defes God
and challenges the power OF the State.
1t In To Laugh!
when we are told that we State
widers are imperilling the ancient and
accepted right OF local self-govern-
ment-it Is to laugh!
Local self-government. as every
lawyer knows. who Is competent to
bail an estrayed pup out of a public
pound. is the antithesis of federal, or
centralized nationalism. Virginia has
the right of local seif-government as
against other States. or the federal
government. in all her concerns that
she has not voluntarily delegated to
that federal government. 1t Is State
right--and State right only. The
contention that 1t Is municipal law
Is fraudulent claim set forth by
men who know they are perpetrating
a deception Of the popular mind.
'One would think that the law
yers OF virginia--the eminent lights
OF her law schools and her judiciary
would revolt to be engaged in such
despicAble delusion and promote the
publication Of DO palpable lie.
"But liquor will DUH tho intei1i-
gence. stupefy the conscience and twist
the tongues too often of even the elect
and elite Of the bar and tho bench. 1t
seems.
ISLANDERS Of Heroes.
And now. right here, wtsh to say
some things about this campaign OF
the liquor conspirators In Virginia,
for which you must hold me. and me
only, responsible.
IT hold In my hand q pamphlet Is
sued by the Liquor Self-Gugglement
association. intended to excite the
ex-Conxederate soldiers 70 enmity
against Statewide prohibition. On the
alleged utterAncss OF some mythical
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