The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-22
SAM SMALL PLEADS
 FOR PROHIBITION
Noted Georgia Lecturer Delivers Stir ring Appeal to a Large Audience
 of Paragouldians.
(From Tuesdays Daily Press)


 gouldians who filled the First Baptist church last night and split their sides with laughter for an hour and three quarters at the high class Skinning the liquor interests received from the inimitable Sam Small are unanimous in their verdict that the name has nothing to do with the man. Sam Small is that in name only. Other wise he is a large man physically, mentally and morally and he used ev- cry ounce of his triple avoirdupois to deal a death blow to the demon rum. To use his own expression "he put on his rawhide boots and stamp ed the liver out of the liquor inter- ests." Then he "took the hide, nailed it on the wall to dry and made a drumhead out of it.
 The address was one continuous series of dramatic, startling and comic assaults upon the liquor traf fife. When he told about the passage of the Webb-Kenyon bill, removing the protection of the interstate con- merce commission from whisky ship ments into dry territory, how by the display of a large wet and dry map the members of the senate and house suddenly saw the light" and how heretofore "wet'' solons decided 1t was time to make a pretense to "dryness, how Taft vetoed the bill and both branch of congress passed it over his veto, the speaker indulged in a piece of humor that met with a atorm of applause. "The politicians will act when they know how the people are going" declared Dr. Small. You let the masses start in cer- tain direction, and the average poli- tician will cut across the lot and be there sitting down flaming himself, waiting for the people to arrive. When we showed the members of congress that a majority of the ter ritory of the United States was dry. that numerically the prohibitionists were stronger than the whiskeyites, those old self-satisfied solons rub bed the cobwebs out of their eyes and woke up to the fact that they had been asleep at the switch"
 Dr. Small said fifty-five per cent of the saloons that exist under the American flag are confined to six states in the east, and more than eighty per cent of the licensed sa- looms are confined to ten states. You can get on a train at Norfolk. Va, and ride across the continent to within forty miles of Los Angeles, Cal, and never get out of dry terri tory" declared the speaker.
 T used to think we would not have nationwide prohibition until my grandchildren were hoary-headed like myself, but now I have decided 1t is coming within the next five years, and I'm going to stick around here and see 1t when 1t comes."
 "If you want to get rid of a great national curse you must sectionalize it. The north could never have sue ceeded in abolishing slavery had not the Mason and Dixon line been es- tablished and slavery confined to the south We have sectionalized the licensed saloon. It is making it's last stand in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. In these states the large foreign population has enabled the liquor interests to entrench themselves and they are making the final fight of their ex- istence. The south, the west and northwest are going to the rescue of the people of whisky-cursed north and we're going to put on our raw hide boots and stamp the liver out of John Barleycorn.
 This personal liberty plea makes me tired,," said the speaker. "The man who operates a saloon does noy { own it. The saloons are owned by the people. They are stockholders ill the business and they vote their one share of stock every time they go to the ballot box and express them selves on the liquor question. The people, through their constituted au- thorities, say who shall operate sa- looms, the kind of building the sa- loon man shall occupy, whether there shall be basement or second story, whether he shall have tables cards or music; we tell him when he must open and when he must close; we dictate to whom he may and may not sell: and wa tall him If he doas