The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-09-30
v. c. 7. j. WORK
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VIII prohibition prohibit? Relatively,
yes Absolutely. no. Prohibition new
er does absolutely prohibit any form
of crime-that of murder, theft, ar
son, forgery or perjury. The courts
and jails all attest the truth of this.
The contention of liquor dealers that
more rum is sold in a state under
prohibition than under license Is
hardly to be taken seriously, for il it
were true they would be working for
prohibition instead of shivering with
fear and filling the papers and con-
ventions with alarm at the tidal wave
Of prohibition and loudly calling for
organized help to resist and prevent
its destroying them.
You cannot make men good by law
so many people and papers are say
ing now. Yes. you cam" No peo-
pie on earth can be good without law
and order: so good a type of a race
as the Anglo Saxon has to bind him
self about with most stringent law to
keep from becoming a very bad cti-
zen. Fully one-ha1f OF all that is
good or great in man has had to be
beaten into him by authority. Glad
stone said that the primary object of
law is to make it easier for men to
do right and harder for them to do
wrong.
Moral and political progress is al
ways along the stages of advances
and retreats. How long will this
temperance movement continue with
out reaction? No one can tell. Very
likely until every state in the Union
shall have tried the experiment Of
prohibition by local option or state
action. While there are $4,000 more
saloons than churches. while the IL
IuOr traffic continues to take into its
treasury enough money each year to
run every department of the federal
government. executive. legislative.
judicial. army. postoffice. treasury.
and every other interest. the whisky
men will not surrender without
fierce and long struggle. But the
present revolution will result in
greatly reduced Individual consump-
| tion of rum. in the manifest diminu-
tion of the sale of liquor. and in the
destruction of the American saloon In
its present form.-Ferdinand Ingle-
heart in Review Of Reviews.
There are reasons why the South
should take the lead in this prohibi
ton movement 1t was necessary to
save Southern industry and civiliza-
ton. Booker T Washington the 9TH
er day said: "The abolition of the
barroom is a blessing to the negro
second only to the abolition of slav
cry. TwO-thirds of the mObs. lynch
in"s, and burnings at the stake are
the results of bad whisky drunk by
bad black men and bad white men,"
Effect Of Prohibition in Georgia
/ have been requested by a good
lady of your town to give some facts
in regard to the effect of prohibition
in Georgia since the law ment into
effect.
I will say in the first place that it's
| effects are so varied and numerous
| that it is impossible to mention them
! all in brief article. Prohibition in
| its present status in this state is not
the achievement of a day year.
| 1t is a work that was begun before
was born and ] am now over fifty
years of age and have been in the
ministry for over thirty years. 1
verify believe that the movement had
| its origin in the prayers Of the moth
erS and other good wOmen-tOgether
| with the cooperation of the ministers
Of the gospel and the good people
generally. To these belong the credit
| of creating a sentiment that has cul-
minated in state-w wide prohibition. 1t
was a work of long standing and per-
! sistent effort. And every movement
! was contested. United prayer was
! first offered in certain communities
for prohibition. Then temperance So
cieties We're organized. which were
! fn0 h1- nnti
more than three-fourths Of the coun-
ties in the state We're carried for pro-
| hibitiOn. But it was hard fought
battle. All the while the enemies Of
the cause We're hard at work in op-
posing and thwarting if possible ev
cry effort that made. Every can