The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-04
SAM SMALL SHOWS
STATES MAY AFTER
THE CONSTITUTION

Lexington. y. c. March 3-Rev.
Sam Small spoke for the national
prohibition amendment to large au-
dience here. His address was fun of
new points that his hearers eagerly
caught and applauded.
The national constitution he
said. 'is the creation OF the States and
they have the inslienable right TO al
ter amend or abolish II. in the man
ner provided in the document. Elev-
en- States established II and they are
now powerless to disestabiish IT, or
to prevent its alteration. Thirty
seven States. subsequently admitted
into the Union, came in under solemn
agreement that three -fourths OF all
equal vote in the proceeding -should
have the power TO bind all the States
by changes Of the constitution
II George Washington and his COL
leagues who framed the constitution
could have embodied national prohi-
bition IN the original draft of the
document and who will deny that
they could have done so7-why cam
not the States now put in ii, II three
fourths of them agree so to dor The
question answers itself in every sane
mind and answers it that they can.
And in doing SO they would infringe.
deny or nulllfy no right reserved by
the constitution to any State, original
oT admitted
Tire Democratic Opportunity.
You southern men are OF my own
breed and clan and l can speak 10
you m words with the-hark- en-4a-
my opinion the Demoa critic party il
now facing yonder IN Congress its
last opportunity to champion and
carry to victory this great cause nf
national prohibition. II II defeats
that cause ne ", then the cause will
defeat the party hereafter until the
cause 1t itself victorious. This cause
let me tell YOU. is ehe Little Butter
cup Of American politics and will
certainly mix up the political babies
until no main will be able to tell
day-old donkey from baby elephant
or a bull moose
If the Democrats aud the Repub-
lican like PLATE and Herod. strike
hands TO cruelty this cause, then
there will happen that realignment
of voters of this nation that the
Green hackers failed to make. that the
Populists could not permanently pro-
duce. and that even Roosevelt could
not muster into a majority
The Presid, who uses his office
and power TO prevent and defeat this
rauxe witt nevef-sit again IN the
White House Any man so purblind
to the signs of the times as to enrsge
the prohibition hosts of the republic
by committing his political life TO the
liquor traffic will he ground 10 pieces
al the polls and buried without bene-
fit of clergy
Our Last Appeal to Congress.
Let II be fully known that this is
our last appeal to Congress for fair
treatment and popular rights. Should
this Congress refuse to submit the
national prohibition resolution at the
present session, we will so to them
no more We have appealed already
from Phillip drunk to Phillip sober.
but turned away, We will appeal to
Caesar next-to the Caesar of the
constitutions--the States themselves.
We will go directly to the Legis-
latures and never stop until we have
secured from thirty-two of them their
undeniable demand for constitu-
tional convention that can do with
the document whatever il pleases. II
the Democratic liquor leaders, the
Republican booze boosters the Bull
Moose beer protectors, the great cor
poratiens. the banks, the Wall Street
promoters and brokers, want ma
tional constitutional reorganization of
the government superintendent by all
the discontinued elements of the re-
public, why. 1t is up to them to say so
by defeating the pending national pro-
hibition resolution. We know how to
give them what they wait, and right
swiftly will we do it.