The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-29
v. c. |. j. DEPARTMENT
sar.. E. W.. Hood. E1,s.r,


fMrs. e. Van Heed, Eaitsr)
PROHIBITION HELPS BUsINEss.
"Paf On one side the license
money, then pat On the ether saAe
the cost Of crime, the eoat - pov-
erty and s5ckness. and the aebat
side ID ten times greater than the
credit side In any lfcense state In
the UniOn.-
: \ Glimpse Into Kansas Ledger
Figures may be undressing. but
when they are studied carefully they
are more convincing than general
statements of facts c. w Trickett
special assistant attorney general of
Kansas. said recently in his address
on Our Greatest Enemy" as reported
in the Atehison Church Visitor: "A
saloon is either a good thing or a bad
thing. If it is a good thing the rec
ords of the state will show it There
are 100000 persons in Missouri and
l,6s0,o0o in Kansas. IL the saloon has
made more money for Missouri. your
cities shoruld show it in improvements
There are a number of cities in Mis-
souri, of more than 5000 Inhabitants
without paved streets. / defy anyone
to find city of 1.5e0 population In
Kansas which does not have paved
streets and an electric light plant.
"A short time ago / got the records
of jefferson City and found that the
tax rolls showed the total assessed
property in Missouri is $3.50. 00e. 000
In Kansas, where we have had prohi-
bition for thirty years, the amount is
50, 75o, 100000. In thirty years, from
the poorest state in the country. IL
has come TO be the richest A few
years ago. during the panic Kansas
banks sent s50.000.000 to the East, but
Missouri did not send a dollar Kan
sas has organized more banks in the
last five years than any other state.
In Missouri there is one motor car for
every 100 farmers. one of every thirty
five in Iowa, and one for every five In
Kansas.
+ Kansas has paid proportionately
twice as much for education as has
Missouri.
lone dollar and forty-eight cents
was the amount per capita spent by
Kansas for liquor in the last ten years.
while the figures in Missouri reached
s24
years it has spent $1,000, 00o, 900 for IL
quor-an amount equal to its taxable
property. In that time Kansas has
spent but $4,000. OO0.''
On March %. little eight-year- old
Clyde Massey, of Tampa. was instantly
killed by an automobile driven by one
A. r. Cole, who it is said. was under
| he nf I'm Of int loot en- in,x OF
the time of the accident and was driv-
| ing his machine aat great speed. The
little fellow was standing against
telegraph pole where he had evidently
gone for safety when Cole lost control
of the machine and it dashed into the
pole. We sometimes hear it said that
| if you will let intoxicating liquor
alone, ii will let you alone. 1t did not
let this innocent little boy alone. 1t
did not let his mother whose heart is
| broken by her loss, alone. Ask the
father Of this little boy IL he thinks
alcohol has let his alone. 1t is a fact
that it lets no one alone Every per-
son. in every community where 1t Is
sold as a beverage. sooner or later
must feel its sting
The Curse of Drink In the United
states
Each minute, day and night, there
is spent for drink over $4,000. 60
minutes "a hours 365 days $4,000
equal s1.576, 500. 000-the estimate of
THE American Grocer" the recognized
authority. for 1910 is s1,599,000. 090.)
| Each six minutes. day and night,
! there is born in the United States a
sweet and innocent boy or girl who
is destined to fill a drunkard's grave.
| 90 minutes divided by equal 10 "a
hours 365 days equal $780, num-
Der less than the best estimates OF
deaths directly due to drink.)-Massa-
tchusetts No-License League.
There is nothing OF so little value in
the eyes of our lawmakers our chill
dren. They have enacted laws for the
protection of all manner Of four footed
beats and the fowls of the air, but the
little boy and girl must take care of
themselves or go down into the mael-
strom of the liquor traffic.
| We are coming more and more to
understand that environment is
greater factor in life: that IL has more
TO do with shaping the lives of men
than does heredity. The environment
created by the liquor traffic does more
! to lower the moral standards of life
in the people than any other one cause.
For this reason alone. it Is a public
nifty.