The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-04
ALL TRICKS TAKEN
BY PROHIBITION
SIDE, Says SMALL
FAMILIAR. SUSPICIOUS PHRASE
OLOGY In LITERATURE OF
SELF-GUZZLEMEN ASSOCIA-
TION- ATTRACTS HIS ATTEN-
TION.

Especial to The Richmond Tirginian.)
Burkeville. Va. Septa.-Yesterday
at the High School auditorium
Rev. Sam Small delivered an unusual
ly iuspiritfng address on Statewide
prohibition. The expectations aroused
by his coming were more than met
by the mastery manner In which he
handled his subject.
This whole issue in Virginia" he
said has now reduced Itself to two
plain propositions--the last jack and
Joker left In the hands of the liquor
ties All their other cards have been
played and scooped by our side.
Those two remaing and ricketty
wheels of the booze wagon are that
prohibition won't prohibit and pro-
hibtion will increase taxes. But we
are rapidly an> successfully knocking
the spokes out of those wheels ana
the plain. sober people of Virginia are
now getting fatigued and indignant
over the continued attempt OF the
whislseyites to make them swallow
those tainted canards.
Old Hash Re-Hashed.
You must not forget. fellow
citizens, that all this dopey stuff about
the failures of prohibition hither ana
wonder has been used again and again
In the past IN all the States where
Stase wide prohibition has been made
an issue Tons and tons OF that
hashed-up literature and those pre-
dtgested speeches were un1oaded upon
tie peop'e of Oklahoma. and Georgia,
and Mississippi. and North carolina
and Tennessee. and West Virginia.
But what came of it all? Why. tho
at, r.f n
States trarnp.ed the mendacious trash
under their feet as they marched TO-
their polls in Gods open daylight
and set the brand of infamy and out
lawry upon this ungodly and inde-
feasible traffic.
There is a familiar and suspicious
phra Use ology about this literature or
the Liquor lf-Guzzlement associa :
ton 1t reads in almost Identical
words with the letters sent ont ten,
twenty and thirty years ago from ma
ticasi Iiouor headquarters. but comes
to MS now signed with the names or
N!rFinIan authors. But the argu-
ments are almost veroalitim literatim
and punctuation the same that we
have had Uttered under our noses In
every State where the liquor libertines
have been brought TO popular 1udg-
ment.
The only surprise we are treated
to is to see this canned hash from the
lIouor literary factories signed with
such names as Christian, Tucker.
Anderson and the like-names that
heretofore we have all Of us regarded
as guarantees of chivalry. public
spirit and true patriotism. Honestly.
we had never expected to find them
overwriting and endorsing the most
desptca BILE trade known to society ana
government in civilized nations.
Authorities Are Antagonistic.
Now these gentlemen are sure
that prohibition does not prohibit
anywhere. any time for anybody. A
few months ago, however. in joint
debate in Ohio with leading liquor
orator. / forced him to tell the crowd
v,hy he opposed prohibition that
would not prohibit? And he amazed
me and the crowd by replying almost
exactly IN these words: Gentlemen, !
will be honest with on and tell you
truthfully that we are not opposlns
prohibition because 1t does not pro-
hihit. but because it does prohibit"
That. also, Is the statement freely
made by many of the liquor dealers
who have the courage to tell the
truth And that Is thu reason why
the liauorites of Virginia oppose this
Statewide law They are more afraid
tina. II VIII prohibit than that 1t Will
not To th',k otherwise of them Is