The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-02-14
TEMPERANCE MEETINGS

Rev. c. l.. Collins, superintendent OF
the state Anti-Saloon League OcCu- !
pied a large share Of the attention OF
the public Sunday. In the morning he
preached at the Baptist church, in the
afternoon at the court house and at |
night at the Christian church. to full !
houses. He Is a Baptist preacher. |
| young good looking and eloquent. He /
is in Florida because Of the splendid !
work he has done in the temperance !
! cause in various Southern states and /
as a large promoter Of the work being !,
| done by the Anti-SaloOn League.
We heard him yesterday afternoon
! at the court house and 1t is not too !
much to say he made as eloquent and
| impressive a speech on the question in
| hand as was ever heard here. Or. w.
! II. Dodge presided over the meeting.
Rev. w. H Coleman invoked the
divine Tossing. while Rev. J. w. Big
ham had the honor Of introducing Mr..
Collins. because he and the speaker
were both Kentuckians. He did 1t in
a most acceptable manner. We can
only outline his magnificent address,
He introduced his subject by telling
how the good templars of fifty years
ago snatched the eloquent Tom Mar
shall of Kentucky as a brand from the
burning and the surprise of Colonel
George Balm. the noted Kentucky tenn
perance orator, at the fact that Tom
Marshall had signed temperance
pledge and kept it
He referred 10 the advance in tenn
perance sentiment and that the pur
pose Of the league was to give the
} people an opportunity to pass on this
: all important question OF state wide
! prohibition Ne said the liquor men
were on the run and to keep them at
, it until driven into tn" sea. He sald
: this is a movement that Will not stop
: until state wide prohibition prevailed
: all. over the land that the whisky in
/ tcrests said It was only spasmodic but
in this they failed to reckon with the
= spirit within.
: He told a number of very amusing
4 | stories, that brought forth much mer-
l riment and applause. They were very
v opportune. They adorned a moral.
THY accentuated nothing else
= could the logic Of his speech. One of
: the best was a Swede's definition of
e the expression 'goine some" He was
: homesteader in Iowa. y cyclone
y came along, it lifted his house and
a himself up bodily and deposited him
: in a neighbOrirg county When relief
g came to him and solictude was ex-
pressed for his physical welfare. he
IS had a hand in it, all the same he was
e transferred from one county to an
IT other and he sure was going some
: The other story was the comment
n of three darkies on the speed of ar
n auto. Here she comes, there she i:
~ and yOnder she goes; the mule wa:
lie going some when it broke loose from
the wagon. SO with the uprising o
20 the people and the velocity with which
n IT,
d and in illustration referred to the ad
: vance of temperance in Ohio in a few
lie years. Then three dry counties. nov
Of So; Indiana. five dry counties. nov
n rs: Michigan, three dry counties. nov
W 10; Illinois. five. now so. The local op
st tion sentiment is spreading in New
lie York and Pennsylvania.
y. He said the South boosted up it
OF prohibition sentiment but it was wax
rs ing up in the North and the way i
tn was coming around the prohibition
n. track, the South would have to Loo
la after it's laurels. To show how rapid
at ~ prohibition sentiment prevailed. h
e. said there was only one place betwee
v Louisville Ky. and New Orleans, o
as the l.. & ~ railroad a man could &c
he a drink. He said the liquor me
or we-a fighting this move and spendin
l. a whole lot of money.
re In what was done in this great rev
>r" olution for prohibition the Anti-Saloo
s. League of the land had not done it al
n True it vas Il years old, but the wor
so had been greatly strengthened by tn
or Good Templars, Sons of Temperate
OF and best OF all, the labors of the w.
tn T. L. had proved one Of the most pc
n tent forces of them all.
O. He said the campaign against rul
&C. was no longer emotional or sent
no | mental. These We're good but it ha
tly passed these stages and was now bas
Of | ed on realization and fact The lgl
ed was turned on. the causes presente
he ma De the business world stop az
nd take note how expensive a luxury VIZ
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