The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-16

Blessed are the people when the
righteous rule. Kings, presidents and
governors are the servants of God, and
are religiously bound to strive for the
best interests of the people The state
Is sacred institution, like the church
and the family. A goddess governor,
who has no interest in religion or the
morals Of the people deserves to be
sent into political oblivion. In our
country the people make their own ru-
lers We should not vote for any cor
rupt man, no matter how eloquent and
able he may be. No idolator of the sa-
loon, no friend of the saloon, should
ever have a good citizens vote. Pro-
tect your home with your vote.
1t Is not good for kings to drink
wine.-Prov. XXI: 1-9. Lest they drink
and for get the law.
We do not know who King Lemuel
was. but we like him. because he re-
membered and recorded the earnest
warnings of his mother. She yearned
over her son and guarded him against
the dangers of young manhood Use
it as a remedy for the sick, she said,
but not as a luxury for yourself A
king must rule by law, and if he tar
ries at the wine he will forget the law
and may Cypress his people. The de-
mon Of drink has trodden on mothers
hearts, and does so still. If any class
ought to hate the barroom, this is the
one. The mothers life is wrapped up
In her sons The internal bar sets its
snare for her boys feet on every
street. Let us scourge it out Of the
world.
Whereas, the use of alcoholic liquors
as a beverage is productive Of pauper-
ism, degradation and crime, and be-
lieving ii our duty to discourage that
which produces more evil than good, we
therefore pledge ourselves to abstain
from the use of intoxicating liquors as
a beverage.-Abraham Lincoln.
Conclusive proof has been found that
this pledge was not only signed and
advocated by Mr.. Lincoln, but actually
composed by him.-Dr. Louis Banks in
Lincoln Legion"
Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, 1853:
THE most effectual remedy would be
the passage of a law altogether abo1-
ishing the liquor traffic. There must
be no more attempts to regulate the
cancer; it must be eradicated."
Lincoln to J. B. Merwin, April IA,
1855 (mOrning before the assassina-
tion): after reconstruction, the next
great question will be the overthrow
Of the liquor traffic"
President Taft, in an interview in
the Defender. in August, 1906, declared
himself an abstainer, and told young
men it was the best plan, and in 1908
he turned his glass down and said it
was going to stay down forever.
Education the Remedy
tant when individually, communally
and nationally we shall grapple with
the liquor problem as never before. I
have predicted that standing among
nations may ultimately be largely de-
termined by the adequacy of the rem
edies provided. But these remedies will
not. in my Judgment, be found in the
endeavor to force upon a very large
majority Of the people habits of absti-
hence that contradict their own inter-
probation of personal well-being and
happiness.
Real progress must come through
educating the masses of the people to
a recognition of the evils of alcohol
ism, training up future generation to
the understanding that alcohol in any
quantity, taken habitually, is delete
rious to mind and body and does not
make for individual we'll being and
happiness.
When we have produced a genera
tion thus educated to the simplest
physiological truths regarding alcohol,
we may pass prohibitory laws if we
wish but thew will not he needed a :