The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-05-04


wanted her daughter taught history
with all the painful parts left out"
and tell the truth that alcohol is Ii
quid excrement.
To proclaim that unquestionale fact
by posters in every market place and
by leaflets at every door would be to
write the doom of drink. Does anyone
suppose poet who knows that, can
rage in praise of ruby wine?' VIII
refined ladies who know that, ask gen
tlemen to take the amber beer from
their hands?
III. The Finger of Heredity.
And when it is generally known
that the touch of wine or beer on the
lips of husband and wife makes those
lips curse their unborn children, does
anyone suppose that husbands and
wives, though willing to risk their own
health. will still consent to blight their
children. Professor Demme. of Berne,
found in descendants Of Alcoholic
dren normal. while in temperate fam
lilies it was 88.5.
HI. The Finger of Commerce
The old argument for abstinence was
that one who drinks may become a
drunkard; the new argument is that
only by abstinence can one reach the
highest efficiency. AS John G. Wooley
says, the argument is no longer failure
but fitness. The United States Bureau
of Labor, sums up a report on 1.-The
Economic Aspects of the Liquor Cues
tion," based partly on answer to ques-
tions sent to a representative list Of
American employers, in these words:
I tI,ox. lxoI III; -l~~
porting require in certain occupations
and under certain circumstances, that
employees shall not use Intoxicating
| liquors" Business men and even labor
unions have been fooled into the be-
lief that prohibition hurts business -
when in fact to transfer the capital
that employed a hundred men in MAX
ing shoes to making liquors would put
eleven twelfths of the men out of a
job.
| OF each dollar spent in manufacture
of liquors, labors shares is only 2
cents, but labor's share of each dollar
spent in manufacture of the comforts
! of life, is 1872 cents.
In wet" territory the cost of liquors
average about $1.25 per family. ct
averages S1739 per person for wet"
and dry" and the country is almost
half dry But proof was given all
through the Maine campaign and un-
challenged (for it was based on the
figures of the Portland Argus, the
leading liquor organ) that liquors cost
Maine only $40 per family, $1.4s per
capita, with all the defects in law en-
forcement and the importation under
the federal shield of interstate COM
merce. About the same relative con-
| sumption of drink was shown for all
prohibition states, namely one and one
fourth gallon of intoxicating liquors
against a national average of 22.86
that. is six and one fourth gallons per
, family in wet" territory, for it would
be at least 25 gallons per capita as the
average of the nation, half dry" is
22.S6.
In this connection we quote as of
profound significance a statement of
the crown prince of Sweden a the open
ing of the Good Templar Summer Fes-
tival, Hessllholm, 1910: THE temper
ance movement is one of the greatest
of our time, a movement by which the
people will gain self-reliance and self
control The final aim is nothing less
than the most complete possible liberia
ton of our people from the destructive
are, of course. differences of opinion
as to the best ways of attaining this
end But that the end can and must
be reached is the principal point upon
which all are united. In our time the
struggle for existence goes on among
the people with increasing sharpness
because general development is pro-
crossing with remarkable and increas-
n -
andce to the state. as well as TO the
individual, TO use the utmost exertion
not to- be left helpless in the rear and
perhaps to be finally overcome by a
| more vigorous people or community.
believe that this sharp but the
same time stimulating struggle, pro-
noting, as it does, the physical, moral
| and mental powers, facilitates greater
productiveness in the muscle and nerve
taxing work of our modern times.
These powers render possible greater
| intensity and more enjoyment in work,
and by that means improve both the
quality and the quantity of labor. But
| what is Of yet greater significance,
| this physical and mental strength is
| transmitted in a notably increasing de-
gree from generation to generation.
All of this will so obviously strengthen
the competitive power of a people in
the worlds markets that l do not hest
tate to make this assertion: That ma
ton which is first to free itself from
| the injurious effects of alcohol will
thereby attain a marked advantag
over other nations in the amicable yet
| intensive struggle for existence.
| hope that our country will be the one
which will first understand and secure
this advantage"