The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-06-28
v. c. |. J.. DEPARTMENT
tMr-- e. Va. Hood. Editor,
ssTried I'm the Balance and Found
Wanting

/ waning
The saloon is the ally Of every sin
that walks, in darkness, of crime. of
gambling, of political trickery, of the
social evil. Speaking of the latter,
Mrs. ]. K. Barney:~world's W. c. t. U.
superintendent of penal. charitable
land reformatory work. writes: When
lever you touch this open sore of civ
ilization. you touch the liquir traffic. /
have spent midnight hours upon the
istreets of large cities searching for
Host girls and women, and never touch
| ed hands with one that 1 did not get
the odor of liquor. Ward politics are
conducted chiefly in saloons and the
saloon is the ally of every CRATER A
disguised saloonkeeper dropped the
business after many years experience
and wrote President Dickie liquor is
the promoter of nearly every evil No
man but a full-Hedged saloonkeeper
will ever know the inside of this ne
farious business Let in the light.
The law now quite common. forbidding
saloons to have screens in their doors.
So is the law closing the saloons
learly in the evening. So are the laws
inow found in nearly every state re-
Touring temperance instruction In pub
lie schools. Every citizen, every Chris
tan, every patriot should inform him
tself regarding this national peril. We
must study the temperance laws and
see that they are enforced, work stead
lily for stricter laws and see that we
i vote for none but temperance candi-
dates for public office.
'The recent program of medical
science has satisfied me that even the
moderate use of alcohol is hurtful. and
that the habitual use is lowering to
the vitality and to the intellectual and
nervous powers.'-Ex.-Preside Elliott
of Harvard, who formerly took the OPP
posite side.
Beer, wine and spirits furnish no
element capable of entering into the
composition of blood, muscular fiber or
anything is the seat of vital principle
} Baron Liebig, the great German chem-
list.
Robert Chambers in the last chapter
J of his recent novel, "The Danger
Mark" puts these words into the
; mouth Of a physician called upon to
prescribe for youth who had been
ruined by drink: "This prescription is
not going to cure you. Nothing that ]
can give you is going to perform such
a miracle unless you help yourself
You ask for plain words; Will tell
I you this, alcohol is poison and 1t has
n not and never had in any gxise what
ever, the slightest compromising value
for internal use. 1t Is not a food, 1t is
a poison. 1t isn't an aid to digestion
1t is poison. 1t isn't a life-saver, it's
life taker. It's parasite, forger,
thief, panderer, liar, brutalizer muir
derer. There isn't and there never has
been word to say for 1T or any ex-
E self-inculcated disposition for swal-
, lowing it. You can take your choice"
FL
: Oak, Fla. June IL. 1912.
Editor w. C. T. q. Department.:
t have been reading the w. c. T. u. de.
!: partment each week with interest, and
D am sending an article clipped from ar
: Indiana paper which would like
, much to see published, not only in the
/ Star, but in every paper in our land
This is a phase Of the race suicid,
question that has possibly never beer
given a thought How dare man ques.
tion woman's right to refuse to &c
down to the very gates of death Il
: bring that most precious of all creates
i, things, little innocent child, into Z
: world that man has not made at II
= receive it? Oh. big, strong man, VIII
not use the power which you boast, Il
some good? 1t is in your power to re
? move the evils from every corner, tn.
snares set TO trip innocent feet ID,
so. Make this world safe place 70
the children, and race suicide will be
: thing Of the past. An Oak Reader
e Race Suicide
Is OF late i have read various article
II in regard to race suicide. In thes
the woman is charged with havini
n lost the God given desire to become
= wife and mother. Various reasons ar
8 assigned for this, but / have not see
e. what / believe 10 be the creates
~ cause for this loss. Is it not becaus
y our nation has refused to protect tn
home that the American woman re
fuses TO become wife and mother
n She has wept. prayed and petitioned on
r state and national government to thro'
N around the homes OF this countr
"a some protection from the creates
curse the world has ever known. Blu
= instead OF granting her request 9TH
land of the free and the home OF tn
brave has gone into partnership wit
the home destroyer. so the only repl
weeping. petitioning woinanhood n
ceives is: Go make homes. be patien
bear children, and each year you wi
lay about 100000 OF them In drunkard
graves. and we can not tell how man
we viii place in almshouses. count
jails, penitentiaries and insane as,
lums.
1t Is not because woman loves
poodle dog better than a baby that 81
! chooses the dog. but n she pays ii
| tax and puts a collar on her dog 81
| is protected by the laws from the dS
4 slayer. But tell me, IL you can. no
\ mother can protect her boy 81
went down TO the gates OF death
give him birth. She counts this
naught for the joy that man chit
Is born. She watches over him. slice
ing and waking. warns him OF /
ne dangers of the intoxicating cup. b
he IL availeth not. Ere the blush
w. youth has left his cheek she sees n
offered a sacrifice on the altar OF ,
ne nations greed What wonder that v
man buys a ranch. goes into she
raising instead Of raising boys? w
. growers are protected, and IL
, wolves should abound our Cove