The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-10-27

Mrs. Curtis spoke for an hour and
half from the band stand yesterday at
ternoon and il anything it surpassed
her efforts Of the night before at the
Temple Theater. Her audience was
large. They stood and sat and took in
every word. 1t was not only interest
ing. instructive and convincing, but
she piled mountain on mountain to
show the saloon was a menace to So
ciety. sure death trap to people and
as business scarcely an apology.
Rev. w. H. Coleman prayed and
number Of children sang, under the
leadership of Mrs. Mckenzie. Florida
Is Going Dry"
Mrs. Curtis said in substance tenn
perance is circling the globe. She act
ed as prosecuting attorney. the people
the jury and God the Judge in the
case Of the saloon.
She divided her discourse into four
heads: The saloon a perverter OF pol
tiles. enemy to business, against the
conscience. against the home. She told
how the saloon defied the government
and civil power in Illinois. Told Of the
willesey bill in the Texas legislature:
how it passed the senate and did not
pass the house. The bill. II passed.
ton being held on the liquor question.
| And only for one woman was it de-
feated. The liquor men spent $4,000
! in trying to pass 1t. Showed by the Z.
s. constitution. the words Of Thomas
Jefferson and the opinion Of the SUI
preme court of the nation that the sa-
loon was not democratic. II you don't
believe it. read the opinion OF all
| three. Captain ]. A. Tucker included
| in this request.
She showed in a business way that
the saloon didn't pay state or nation
Maine with so years of prohibition has
1.-THE largest money circulation pei
capita Of any state in the Union. Com
pared Kansas, dry. with Illinois. wet
Compared Ocala to Gainesville: Ocala
wet. Gainesville dry. Cases in city
| court from Jan 25 to Oct. Is, 721
Gainesville only 232. Told how Maine
and Kansas led in best school houses
best school system and best paid
school teachers Of any state in the
Union.
Oh, how she did take off the local
optionists howl about importing paid
speakers to rupture local option. Why
said she, don't you know imported
goods come in the most expensive
packages. I'm proud I'm imported
feel my value. Where do the liquor
men get all their whisky? Import it
II Florida drank only the whisky they
made in the state they sure would be
phenomenal drinkers. She told rich
story about the phenomenal.
Ask Kansas City, Kans.. If a dry
town pays. They will tell you yes a
hundred times. and it has over 100000
people. too.
Her story of Bill and the railroad
his son had reclused Dad said never
could come, but it did and so is prohi-
bition all over the world, because the
women are behind it and because
whisky and the saloon is against pub
lie safety. public morals and it is not
a square deal and does not give equal
opportunities and privileges to all
Her picture of how the saloon enjoys
special privileges was told in the story
of the girl the saloonkeeper debauch-
ed. sold her body and damned her SOU
and the black rapist who paid the pen
atty of the law and was burned at the
stake. Tell me not in mournful num-
bers the law does not discriminate
in favor of the saloon, for whisky
damned the girl and whisky inflamed
the brute that assaulted the white
woman
Oh, it was an appeal. pathetic. soul
stirring that made the cement side.
walk groan.
/ If Captain Tucker heard Mrs. Cur.
tbs we know he felt sorry he ever
wrote about local option, personal lib
erty and statewide being undemo-
cratic. He doesn't know the letters OF
the alphabet about our U. s. constitu-
J, ton. the wisdom. words and appeals
of Jefferson. about whose democracy
he prates and the unwavering decis-
ion of the u. s. supreme court. They
are all agin him.