The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-09-30
STETS0N QUARTfTTE
OPENS DRY CAMPAIGN

The formal opening of the prohibit
ion campaign in st. Lucie county, by
the Anti-Saloon League of Florida,
took place last Sunday evening in the
Improvement Club hall, when the Stet-
son Campaign Quartette presented the
issues of the campaign, and entertain
ed the audience with series OF songs.
More than six hundred were in the
the audience, many coming from every
point as far north as Sebastian; only a
few coming from towns south, as 1t
more convenient for them to hear the
ouartette at Stuart. All were thorough
" pleased with addresses and songs.
Fred Fee, secretary of the County
Central Committee, called the meeting
to order and introduced the young men,
after the audience had been lead IN
prayer by Rev. j. S. Chapman.
The program opened with a number
of songs by the quartette, each Deing
we'll rendered, to the great delight and
endowment of the audience.
Frank Wideman, of DeLand. was the
first sneaker. and handled the liquor
problem from the legal standpoint, IN a
clear and convincing manner, quotlhg
various decisions Of supreme courts,
both State and National, showing tnat
the saloon is an outlaw, even though
allowed by the vote OF the people, one
Iecision taking the advance stand that
the yeople have not the right 70 grant
IN anyone the privilege to degrade or
corrupt the morals Of the ciClzehs, anu
that the saloon is the greater cCrrupter
nf Inc morals of tne nation that the
world has ever seen. HIS actress was
logical and vas replete with the lega'
phase Of the question. H..
P'i Harry Ga2wood, Of Green Cove
Springs. was the second SpeaKefr ana
t 1p,," nm TIE subject prohibition Don, t
tprnbibit" HehaudIed the subject IN
= noasterf,,I manner. showing by stat
sites from various cities ana couh',es,
hat Prohibition Does Prohlolt 10 the
same degree as the laws pronloll'ns
mnyder. arson, theft, ETC., prevents
these crimes. tie clearly branded as
faIse the argument of the wniskey
,"'" now calling themselves local
ontionists." and argued that II thelr
attentions were correct we sh0ulo re-
neal ali laws and go back to oarparlslh.
Doyle Carlton, Of Wauchuia, was ,a:'. .ne
third and last speaker, arthur Mi'a.n'
of Jacksonville, did not speak, on ac-
CONT of the length of the program.
NJ Mr. Carlton is an orator of no mean
nh;i;t~ having won honors in various
au,y contests, and presented the
question of prohibition in an aole az. ahd
q unia,;nc;ng manner, declaring that 10
col ontion' in the present campaign IS
e .:Iiouor option" and that Democracy sarSss
:. '1 axnlained by the whiskeey forces
as e"P sainonocracy. He called atten-
t tara to the fact that the same liquor
rreenresentatives of today are the , ones
rep ,bo have always opposed local option,
S G,Iu It with all their might lG ;r
m ,snu Years, and that now when II Is
m "ronosed to further curb the power o VI
p pro saloon. they have become Local
oo me ''and are fighting prohloltlohn
o sI;th ali their might and money. ,t a
vote Sots for prohibition means . VOC
s ~ and vote for local option means 81 a
e en- az for perpetuation of the monster sI
w. vT.e Carlton urged the people OF 81, ~;
Mr.. f.. O sonntv to Stand up for the right
an.I vote for the amendment