The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-11-26
WHOSE HOME rs TO KEEP THE
MONEY?

Iu oar local option campaigns there
o. a certain class OF people who man
I,.f ereat desire TO keep the mon
,. a. home" The question is, at
glu.. home. o. Will generally be
found Ilaf these anxious ones are per-
sous iu he liquor interest, who are
spreading the tale that if saloons are
toI.I our thousands of dollars will
.sa.t fhe town. being sent elsewhere
Cos liquor t0 bee shipped in. II is ar
sued thar We had better keep this
money at home. We repeat our ques-
fiou-at whose home?
There Us a very easy way to keep
money at the home where it is need
sl most. that is. the homes of the men
spending b. for rum and ruin, and that
Is f0 vote the saloons out. That will
considerably more effectively keep
tb. money az home. than TO turn it
into saloon keepers tills, for they will
send the great bulk of what comes 10
them away TO foreign distilleries
and breWeries for their stock of Ii
quors and TO the government to pay
ther lcense. The local community will
never ~; the benefit of it, but if the
ErogEeries are voted cut, every penny
of this money will remain for the time
being In the hands of their former pat
rons. who will expend it locally for the
necessaries of life, for groceries,
clothing. shoes. shelter, and all legiti-
mate. natural. healthy human wants
Governor Stubs on the Kansas Situa-
ton
The demands upon my time will not |
perm: me 20 discuss the value of the !
prohibitOry law at length, and, espe- |
cially. can I not enter into a literary |
campaign 10 counteract the false
statements regarding the value and |
operation of that law which have been
circulated in distant states. | believe
that these false statements misled
none except those who desire to be
deceived
The tact that Kansas is now. and /
Tor a number of years has been. the
mos prosperous state in all the Tn
bon thar her banks. barns and bins
arr fIli 20 overlooking: that in some !
90 hsr counties no criminal prosecu-
lions for any crime have been had for
more than ten years; that fifty per 1
cent. Of her jails are empty; that sew
enty hEe per cent. of her poor houses
are empty, and in many counties have
been sold and disposed of as no longer
needful. that almost One-third of the
entire population is enrolled in public
schools and private colleges; that
Kansas is a land of plenty and that
nowhere on the globe exists a more
sober. happy and prosperous people
al these. and a multitude of other
facts a. pregnant and patent as these,
compel students of government the
world over TO search deeply for the
cause OF our Astounding prosperity;
and most OF these students have cor
rectly OWNED that the prohibitory
Law. and. more particularly, its en-
torcement. has had much TO do with
the present felicitous conditions in the
sunaowsr state.
% Is rrite but true that money spent
Cor intoxicating liquors cannot be used
by tfa -penierS 10 buy farms, TO build
homes. 20 erect business houses.
churches aish schools and colleges.
nor 'o buy pianos. automobiles, horses
AMI carriages. YET these material evil
denCgs are now as common as the sun
shine ifself-W. r. Stubs. governor
Eel. kansas
Confesses His Mistake
The proprietor of the Terminal Ho-
f.l located 40 Birmingham. Alabama.