The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-03-24
TEMPERANCE TOPICS
Dry Territory Best. Says Travelin.
Man

a commercial salesman. of many
years experience, told the Journal edi-
tor a few days ago that prohibition
very largely helps business and de-
clares that he speaks from experience
that it IS not matter OF theory
with him.
He represents one of the largest
fertilizer companies in the South and
travels sections of Georgia. Alabama.
the Carolinas and Florida He finds.
by actual experience, that he can sell
twenty-five per cent more goods in the
dry territory than he can in the wet
and that. on top of that. collections
are at least twenty-five per cent bet
ter
He Is not a fanatic, but just a plain
business malone who has made good
by hard work.
He says that. in a wet section. the
planter comes TO town with his bale of
cotton and many times spends so much
for booze that he has 10 clip off part
Of his fertilizer bill. In dry section.
he buys what goods his family needs
and goes home to attend TO business.
What affects the fertilizer man.
surely affects every other line in bust
ness.
It Is a plain putting of facts that
ought to convince the man who has
real gray matter where his brain ought
TO be-
Secular Paper Hits Hard a. a Fanatic
1t is a favorite dodge of many people
who lack argument TO answer the
charges made against the liquor traf-
fc by temperance speakers character
,f
temperance fanatics" Such people
(and some newspapers we might men
tion) seem to think that all the an
swer necessary.
But here comes the great New York
Tribune, just one of the great army of
newspapers of the world, and says:
The liquor traffic depends upon de-
based manhood, wronged womanhood,
and defrauded childhood. 1t holds a
mortgage over every cradle. a deed
written in the hearts blood of every
human life"
There is not false note in the ut
terance. not a false word
The sturdy press of American
those cases where the papers are not
! liQuor-Owned or reSt-owned-are
rapidly coming to look a the liquor
traffic in this very way.
The saloon is the headquarters for
the loathsome traffic in girls. which
entices the pure to immoral lives.
Hon. F.. w. HOch, Ex-Governor Of
| Kansas
| There are four stands which the
government can take against the liq-
uor traffic; no license, low license
| high license and prohibition. Kansas
chose the last.
If there is anything good in the
liquor traffic, it should be as free as
| the grocery or any other business The
government has always recognized il
as evil and has restricted it with
! the license. What is the present atti-
/ tude of the business world today? The
greatest of all temperance societies to-
/ day is the business world. 1t is a
matter of business in these strenuous
/ days. The wise business man wants a
clerk With the steadiest brain and
! nerve. No banker wants a drinking
cashier. No merchant wants a drink
ing clerk y railroad company would
not endanger the lives of many people
| by putting their lives in the hands of n
drinking engineer
kansas adopted state wide prohibit
ton and in my judgment there is not
! an equal number of people anywhere
| in the world who are as prosperous as
| the people of Kansas. We have $3.50
| per capita in our bands and in more
| than one-third of the counties there
! isn't prisoner in jail nor a pauper in
the poor house. More than half the
/ prisoners who are in the jails and pris-
ons never lived long enough in Kansas
| to gain residence here. We are
simply entertaining strangers from
other states. We have a half million
! of young persons who never saw sa-
i loon. If we have done nothing else
! but take down the signs, we have done
something for civilization. When we
cut off the saloon in Kansas City we
cut of $4,000 annual revenue. but
Kansas City is now paying current eX-
penSes and has paid off $4,000 of
! bonded Indebtedness besides
Bank deposits have almost doubled
since the saloons were closed in Kan
sas City. II has been almost impossi-
| BILE to find a vacant store room. There
has been less crime. 1t has resulted in
| the building of school houses. Large
additions have beeen built to factor
! les. We have purer city government
than the city ever before enjoyed The
criminal docket is running at an ex-
! pense of $4,000 less per annum and
the same amount is saved in the police
! are needed. We save more in the
courts than we ever received from the
saloons. We have put 500 boys and
girls back in school who formerly had
to help support their parents"