The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-01-18

| one boy drunkard III this whole
town, or one who drinks whisky,
unless he does so in his home
! Point out more drunkards of any
class in Ocala than YOU can in
| Gainesville or any other dry town
| if YOU please. If you can't do it,
just back up and pull out.
Another reads, DO saloons make
boys good, or goodfor-nothing
boys The saloons are no Incu-
bators or training institutes for the
bows of Ocala, and make them nei-
Their good boys nor good-for-noth
ing ones.
Show me a good for nothing boy
in this city, and | will show you a
good-for-nothing father or mother
who have had the training of that
boy under their own supervision
from his infancy. Show me a good
! for nothing boy Of this city, and |
will show YOU boy who has been
allowed to dictate his own course
in life, and to run at large with no
restrictions from the sanctity of the
home. Show me a good for-noth-
ing boy of this city, and prove to
me that the saloons are responsible
for his position, and l will give you
my hand and heart, and join you in
the crusade to abolish every saloon
from the face of the earth. If you
can't do this, and make good your
assertions, you are lost, deceitful
sheep from the fold of morality.
Still another reads: Does the
saloon man want his boy to drink
the stuff he sells to your boy"
IS it possible that there is no
limit to the fanaticism of man? If
a saloon man doesn't want his boy
to drink, he will use every available
precautim in the training of that
boy in the sacred bosom of his
home. He will not go home and
kick the cat over Jobs coffin or
abuse his wife, but his life will be
a model before that boy and he
won't drink. Live right before
your boys.
| now come to the last one to
which | shall refer, and which con-
tains as its closing words, Shall
it be your boy or mine" | wish to
suggest that if you are living a
careless and immoral life in your
home and i'll the presence of your
!children, it will likely be your boy;
If you are spending two-thirds of
your time feasting your thoughts
upon the impurities Of todays So
ciety. and the remaining third
abusing the saloon keepers, it will
very likely be your boy; if you are
patronizing every dance and card
party to which YOU are invited, and
splitting snuff into your husbands |
face because he attends the club,
and causing him to kick over the
supper table and the like, it will
very likely be your boy.
On the other hand, if you en-
terrain as much anxiety for the
welfare of your boy, and show him
the same consideration that you do
the boys of other people, it will not
be your boy; teach him at home to
love and respect the presence and
counsel of his parents, and let him
learn there the first lesson of moral |
development, and it will not be
your boy; remain at home unless
duty necessitates your absence, and |
superintend your domestic affairs
speaking kindly and
showing your children every
thoughtful and lovable considera-
ton, and it will not be your boy
in the morning of his life when the
character is beginning to bud forth
as a delicate rose of a dewy dawn,
then let your daily life be an exam
pie worthy of your greatest efforts,
and which will ingraft into his
young and tender life those prin-
ciples which ennoble and elevate,
and it will not be your boy.
If your boy is properly taught
and instructed in the home, it will
not depart from him in after years,
and nv and nv aS he rec1ineS &C.