The Ocala evening star., 1911-06-28
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Office in Law Library Building.
| high license is but a tax on the one |
who drinks. and for this reason / favor |
reducing the license tax on saloons to
the same any other merchant who |
engages in business.
| / therefore oppose the saloon busi- |
ness as it is, because it is al the bar
where the evil lies. 1t is in that social
| drinking where the poor man spends
| the money he needs at home; IL is at
| the bar where he NETS a dozen OF his
| friends for whom he must buy drink.
and after they have passed the drinks
around until all have treated, the usual
result follows, that is, that he has not
only drunk up the money his family
needs, but is also tipsy.
And / also oppose the prohibition
doctrine, because ii is not practical; it
never has and never will prohibit the
evil. because even If it is attempted to
enforce the law, it will encourage
drinking on the sly at the numerous
blind tigers that will spring up. 1 am
giving them the benefit of honest
effort to enforce the law. 1t has not
been enforced in many places where
prohibition prevails.
Therefore, we must find some doc
trine that will meet the demands of
the people, one not too drastic, and
one which can be shown to the public
to be of advantage to all
:. I have to submit a proposition of
| regulation, as against an attempt to
! exterminate the so-called evil.
/ propose that the high license be
taken off and put down to a reasonable
amount, thus decreasing the price of
the article to the consumer. 1 next
t propose that all stringent laws in re-
lation to opening and closing be taken
t away, and that they be allowed to open
l and close when they please. l pro-
pose that the bar, place for drink
e ing be taken away. and that no drinks
be served in the saloon, and that they
D be not allowed 10 sell in less than half
= pint quantities, making a penalty to
= drink in the saloon, not only against
o the keeper, but the one who drinks. !
:, propose that screens be taken down or
d left at the option of the keeper. In
e other words, put the liquor business on
d the basis OF all other business requir-
: ing capital to run it.
e I am sure in this the war that so
: long has waged between the forces
n will be ended. and that the main evil
+ which can in any way be overcome.
will be controlled or regulated, and the
e WnOle WOrlu Will De mdue Deller lHere-
= by.
It 1t is high time we were getting out
n of that old path of an eye for an eye
n and a tooth for a tooth, and it is time
: the business people were waking up to
= the folly of the crowd that is Great
i ing, and has already created, such
# strife, and then the good people who
5, do much wish to fight, can take the
e money they are now spending fighting
IS the liquor traffic, and educate those
o children coming on, that they will
y be better. and learn the evils of the
n drink habit, for as 1T is 1T is being
t wasted for no purpose that is useful
1t to this world or in the world to come
but on the contrary is creating strife
n and arousing that old feeling once SO
IS prevalent between the white and col
t. ored people, for it is we'll known that
is the colored people hold the balance OF
j. power in such cases
1t So let US turn from the fight that sc
IF long has been carried on between the
- elements of so-called good and bad
and learn that evil is but ignorance
of the laws of good. and teach the lit
tie children that so badly need it, the
- right way. and the whole world will
/ join the procession.
When the time comes to exterminate
an easy task, and will not require mon.
G. ey to do it. If it is evil. and this
, do not deny, l favor education to ov.
S' ercome it rather than legislation. fol
C. it is the hope of reward rather thar
the fear of punishment that leads mel
- to do right 1t is the lack of knowl
edge that leads us into erring ways
- and so long as man continues in th'
dark he will continue to do wrong: 50
long the statute books are filled will
D. laws the real intent and purpose o
which are unknown and not under
e. stood so long such laws will be vio
ry lated; the old idea of law that it il
rule of civil conduct prescribed b.
supreme power. commanding wha
is right and prohibiting what i
wrong" has long since become obso
u lete. and law today is nothing les
than a compromise of experience
/. where the gleanings of the Who'll
truth are prescribed as a measure I
mark the footprints of time. 70 thinl
otherwise would be to think that tn
~ world has not advanced one step i
H the past century. The world has ad
~ vanced, and is becoming better ever
day. but it has not been through tn
IS medium of stringent laws. nor the ar
bitrary power OF judges. but throug
the lone pathway OF education tha
leads 10 a knowledge Of what is right
III and here again l say that evil is bu
Ignorance of the laws of good.
So let US Judge between the two. an
do justice to both sides, and the
build up an institution OF learning 70
the unfortunate boys and girls VIII
have not had the opportunity of learn
ing what is right out of the money
that are being wasted, nay, sper
Fill r. -
the world to grow better and wise
and IL will be but a few brief year
d. when the laws you now seek to pas
by a vote of the populace will not b