The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-30
OCALA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 80, 1912

preparation in many ways. This will
be dwelt upon far and near today in
| Christian Citizenship speeches. over
and over again it will be rehearsed
| that We are not free in all ways on
| this independence Day
The external conditions of a happy
citizenship will be discussed from
platform and press.
Let US consider few outward
things that gall our flesh
Strong drink. These is a monster
within our land that has his millions
of slaves. He murders outright his
thousands each year. He ruins bodies
| minds, souls, families, property, repu-
| tation, character, posterity, hope, joy
and love, and gives in return a deeper
| and yet deeper thirst for the madden
/ ing drink that does this DESTROYING
work. This monsters name is alcohol
| He is the greatest foe TO happiness
Dethrone and Danish him and we have
| taken away the worst barrier the Am
erican people have. Furthermore the
people want him banished according
to the American rule of majorities. But
some way through the Vaccinations
| of a minority he still sits upon his
throne crushing out human lives. But
| ms pO"CA - " line many
phase Of barbarism, will soon be rele-
| gated to the cloudy past
| War must be banished or the con-
slant preparation for war that taxes
us to the utmost Seventy-two cents
of all the taxes imposed by the govern
ment upon the citizens must go to keep
up a state of armed peace. This is
| paid in indirect ways but nevertheless
| is really paid. \ few years ago an
| eccentric miner in Seattle who had ac-
| Icumulated much gold took it to an
upper story window overlooking
| crowded street and began scattering
| ii among the crowds of people below
1t is needless to say there was a wild
rush for it much as chickens would
rush for yellow corn, but with far less
| likelihood of satisfaction. BUT our
government as we'll and any govern
ment of the world could soon scatter
out many billions of money among
the needy population if the war money
could be used in this way. God speed
the day when we will have emerged
out of such shadows of darkness.
The time is coming when we will be
free in this respect.
| Injustices regarding the necessities
of life are a great hindrance to hap
pineSs. The weaker animals of the
focks and herds are mercilessly
crowded back or trampled to death. 1t
lis practically the same with people
unless the rights of the weaker are
carefully guarded by law.
| Great companies have banded them
selves together and gotten such a
monopoly on the common necessities
of life that a great mass of consumers
q n n nSt tar yiy1cr
dition.
Laws giving justice in these import
ant matters are being enacted more
and more and some 4th of July we
have reason to hope we can say our
country is free in this way.
| Fashion is another tyrant that
must be dethroned if happiness is
ours. She is the great Jezebel of mod
ern life. She is as heartless as Ahab's
wife ever could have been. She makes
the poor to be imtators of the rich,
and thereby lose the little they have.
She sets face so constantly in ad-
vance Of her almost universal follow
ing that reaching it has long ago be-
come a hopeless wish. The poor man
must have his rich home, his auto
mobile, though it puts a mortgage on
his home to be foreclosed, whitens his
Ihair with financial worry, blasts his
Ihome, and scatters his family. But
this is not the worst. Unnumbered
thousands of boys and girls are grow
ling up without education because of
this tyrant. Nature calls for but cost
from the boy or girl that is being edu-
Gated. The simplest food, simplest at
itire, simplest mode of living generally
lis most conducive to high training of
mind and soul. With a school based
upon natures demands the amount
necessary to complete a full college
lcaurse would be surprisingly small and
within the reach Of the masses. But
lalas! What different ways fashion has
led US! Costly hats, coats, dress-suits
shoes, to say nothing of gaudy orna-
ments, call for very much more; and
with these, high living and constant
attendance upon and union with clubs
orders, and societies, with boating e
picnics, excursions, and constant ex.
ira and unexpected expenses, etc, are
things followed so faithfully by the
votaries' of fashion that they keep the
schools away from the common boy ol
girl as by an impossible gulf. Some.
time we feel it will be different. \:
plainly and as triumphantly as Diog'
ones in his simple tub, a properly borr
Ipeople shall be properly developed anC
made happy by following the calls o.
common reason. Then the mass of oul
lpeople will be great, and independence
Day will last all the year.