The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-09-07
v. c. |. j. DEPARTMENT
fMrs. E. Van Hood. EditorD
4 Message TO the Teachers of Marion

VIII you tell your pupils for me
that the consumption OF Intoxicating
liquors is a vice the most easily form
ed and the most destructive of all the
vices into which the American youth
are tempted 10 fall. 1 send this mes
sage by you. for you are instructed by
the statutes TO tell them Of its harm
full effects upon bodily health, but
want you to tell them for me, that
mind and character and soul are af-
fected, that health is of the least i'm
portance, for, with mind crazed. char
acter blackened and soul destroyed. OF
what consequence is health? When
you have enlarged on this last state
ment Of mine and explained 10 them
and they understand that the use of
| liquor forever closes the door of hope
| 10 every one addicted TO IL, and they,
| in turn. PROFOUND TO you the query.
why, then. do our governors, legis-
| lators and good citizens. every one of
whom they believe TO be good and
great. allow its sale. allow anyone for
/ SO much cash paid. TO set a trap to
catch the unwary and innocent" you
explain it to them for me, for I can't
When they recount to you from his
tory that three million OF our national
ancestors, poorly fed. scantily clothed
and insignifcantiy equipped, and har-
raised IN the rear by a horde of saw
| ages, fought to a finish the greatest
nation on earth, because they were not
consulted about tax on tea, that no.
body drank-that our Southern fore
fathers fought until famine and death
| had destroyed their country and de-
pleted their ranks, rather than invol-
unfairly release some OF their prop
erty held in negro siavery-that the
combined power of state and nation
had been used to drive into the sea a
little Louisiana lottery that would have
gathered from its dupes a few paltry
| dollars that it had not honestly earn
ed. and polygamy has been prohibited
because a multitude Of wives would
have made unhappy a few homes in
the iand-when they call your atten-
ton to these glorious pages of our ma
tion's history and ask why we supine-
ly sit and through love of the money
we receive, or common, ordinary cow
ardice, allow the saloon not only to
take our property for their own lux
uriant consumption. but more and far
beyond and more wonderful-our chill
dren as well. bone Of our bone and flesh
of our flesh, and lead our daughters
astray to ceneubinage and sons to va
gFaney, you answer them will you-I
can't.
1.-THE prisest of the Egyptian god.
Scraps. set up the great wooden image
of their deity upon the banks OF the
Nile. 1t was constructed capacious of
mouth and nav and the superstitious
and ignorant and innocent natives
were taught to believe that IL the idol
was not kept filed with their gifts,
whether Of money or property or child
rem, according to the desire and an
nouncement Of the priests OF Scraps.
that the Nile river would refuse its
annual inundation and famine and
lpestilence would fill the land. AS the
worshippers poured in the gifts. the
last penny. the daughter or son and
any or all property, even down to their
Town restitution, the willy priests at a
secret opening in the back of the idol.
received and carried all away for their
own fattening and prof1igate con-
sumption. An invading Christian SOL
diery saw the idol and IT'S operation
ana contemplated the helpless and des-
titution of its worshippers, and the
raseaiiy luxury of the priests, impell-
ed by their Indignation, destroyed the
idol, upbraided the priests, and rescued
the ignorant natives from the fearful
results of their superstitious devotion.
go, we pass into the NAV of the Amer
lean saloon, our property. our daugh-
tiers and our sons, to the end that
lHinkey Dick and Boathouse John may
revel in all the wealth and power of a
lChicago alderman, and Adolphus Busch,
the great high priest OF the American
nj N
purple, and, mountaing a golden con-
structed throne, in his California
lpalace. with Mrs. Busch by his side.
wearing crown especially made for
the occasion at a cost of $1,000 re-
ceive his guests. come to congratulate
his beer bedecked majesty upon the
50th anniversary of his wedding day.
Do I ask too much, in asking you, and
through you, the children that will ma
circulate in your institutions, to join
THAT army, impotent now. but courage
Gus still, that seeks to destroy the
; American Scraps, the American saloon
; and save our property for the man who
earns 1t, and our sons and daughters
for their own happiness, and their
lcountry's future servicem
Statistics show the following horrors
in 1912 on account of liquor!
| 5000 murdered wives,
| 5000 suicides,
10000 murders.
10000 widowed wives.
10000 fallen girls.
| $4,000 orphaned children.
$4,000 insane.
| 100000 criminals.
. 100000 men died from effects of
drink.
100000 yong men who take their
places.
$4,000, 100000 spent for liquor.