The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-30
SAM SMALL MAKES
GREAT ADDRESS TO
LARGE GILES CROWD
NOTED LAWYER ORATOR HAS
FACTS AND WAS THERE
WITH ELOQUENCE.

Ripplemead. Va, Aug. 2s.--At large
picnic gathering of people here THIS
afternoon, Rev. Sam Small delivered an
eloquent appeal for the adoption OF
Statewide prohibition. HIS points IN
favor of the policy were scored with
skilful ability and the many sly ana
humorous digs he made at it's opponents
were received with hearty approval
A part OF his speech that was spe-
cially applauded was when he touched
upon his personal presence in TINS cam
pagn He said. in part:
1T was invited here by my friends
and your fellow citizens. and I can
hardly think that the Old Virginia
hospitality and ch@valry will cheer on
any of your neighbors who undertake
to chunk rocks at one of your kinsfolk
and guest If so 1 have mistaken the
Virginia spirit OF nobless oblige; but,
l do not think ! have.
Something over fifty years ago. /
remember, when NirEinia's soil was
trodden and largely occupied by an
invader. when Vireinfans whose valor
has filled the world with it's praises,
were struggling for the protection of
their beleaqured affairs and fresides,
when States rights flew its undaunted
standard along the fiery erests OF bat
tie, there were C;eorcians who came
hither and stood shoulder to shoulder
with you men OF the Old Dominion
and led by Bee, barlow, cobb, Toomb
and Gordon. yielded their lives and
gave their bodies as bloody sacrifices
for the salvation of this noble mother
State. GeorEians were welcome field
fellows then in Virginia They were
not jeered at as interlopers, bigots and
buttinslSys
another day came when the OPP
al Of E{r-
ginia were struggling to recover their
State sovereignty and right of local
! self government from the hands or
aliens. carpetbaggers and semi barha-
rians and then Stephen and Ben Hill
and Gordon were welcomed 20 counsel
with your leaders and stir up courage
( and confidence in the hearts of your
true people.
To-day you VirgInians are facing an
enemy more foreign and destructive
than those who overran You In the
sixties ard usurped your rights and
government in the reconstruction.
The organized. licensed law defy
ing and state partnershipped liquor
trafFlo is m3re cruel, rapacious and de-
structive Of affairs, homes and pros
perity than any other public enemy the
men of Virginia have ever faced. Never
n law or God or man gains its respect
re BE tx women @tAtt tNtN GIfNe
os childhood. the heiplcsSness OF weak
men and the follies of wicked men
are alike The common prey that weir
wolf 81 satan called whiskev.
''You have determined TO come 70
grirs with the monster and cry vac
vtctis TO II and all it@ motley allies
AS g Georgian whose lineage and love
III liberty. fraternity and honor dates
back to the earliest era OF the Old
answer a call 10 Stand with you In
the hattle As Luther cried when
he dsGea hierarchy he know to be
wrong. Here ! stand / cannot do
otherwise. God help me-"
In other phases Of the issue. Dr.
Small was lucid and instructive OF
REGULATING the liquor traffic, ne said;
They tell rs that the proper thing
To DO with this liquor devil Is 20 rega-
late him. That is the merriest Joke Of
the season when any man talks 10 m
, about regulating these saloons. ! am
/ reminded of Btly sunday, the base
ball evangelist. A few years ago he
was talking against tne saloons when
a big windowed friend OF the
traffic. half-seas himself, cried out
to him MIR. sunday, don't you think
the best thing thieY to do with the
saloons (hic9 is to Just regulate EN- p
10 which Billy replied; WHAT Reeu-
late the saloons9 why. rny friend,
would as soon try 20 regulate powder
MIN In hell as to try TO regulate a
saloon~
New, was that an extravaEant state
rpent for Billy Sunday 10 make? no
you know how long we have been try
ing to regulate the saloons In this
land7 a few years ago I had occasion
10 hant. down In the library OF con-
gress eli the laws ever passed by Amer
lean authority TO regulate the liquor
traffic. The first one was passed by
the colony Of Massachusetts, away back
in is4s. and almost every year from
then until now somebody, somewhere
with competent authority, has been
passing laws, ordinances and reeuia-
tlons TO take the devil out OF the sa-
icons and convert ii into sort of
sunday GO to meeting. Mary-had ALT
tle-lamb affair, that We could safely
lot the children play with all day long
and then take 10 bed with us at night.
And what Is the result9 Why, after the
application during these 273 years of
all the wit. skill statecraft and power
OF the American people to this problem.
we have the saloon regulated down to
what they are today In Richmond
Roanoke, New York, Chicago and San
Francisco--and aren't they dandies III
decency and good work.
"Afl the devilment drunkenness
crime. poverty and insanity, disorder
and indeeency that attend the liquor
traffic and put to shame our ciyiliza-
tion and Christianity. come out of the
so-called regulated saloons. All that
shameful record OF horrors is rolled up
by tho. regulated saloons, and not by
moonshiners. blockaders bootleggers
and blind tigers. And that is the
reason why every day that dawns
upon our country now sees larger
host of men and women who look
'upon the licensed and allegedly regu-
lated saloon and say to It: You good
for~nothfng, God -forsaken, measley
thing. If that is the best we can make
of YOU after 272 years of patient and
honest endeavor, now, by the grace of
God and the power of honest clean
ballots. we will not regulate you any
longer but strangulate you at the first
available opportunity,'
THAT Ia what Virginians are saying
today and already we know we have
enough votes in Virginia to skin the
saloon on the 22nd of September to an
everlasting -you-well. IL all OF us
go to the polls and do the skinning!"
Or. Small made Junk. OF the claims
Of high license as panacea for sa-
loon evils, riddled the claim that pro-
hIhition Will increase Taxation and