The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-09-04

A, 1912
features of any designated enemy for
he slight stipend of SO and guarantee
permanent disability for s25 per capita
But, behold Herod out Heroded. H
These little rascals are amateurs. YER
table babes in villainy. DR.. Charles II
May, of New York City. is authority |
Tor the statement that thousands of /
men have been blinded by cheap whis- /
ky. diluted with wood alcohol
OF all the narrowing stories of greed |
this is beyond doubt the most appa1l- |
ing.
That wood alcohol, a deadly poison, |
is sold without discrimination to scoun-
irels who esteem the pltiful profit of a |
penny beyond a mans eyesight is a |
matter which demands immediate at
tention from the community at large, |
and not least from the liquor dealers |
|
The manufacturers of whisky and |
the more respectable element in the |
trade can't act too quickly in pro-
claiming their detestation of this |
horror.
The crimes laid at the door of the
saloon are already far too many, but
even the Borgian age offers no infamy
equal to blindness at five cents a
glass.
Woodrow Wilson and Tom Marshall
are both total abstainers. Might it not
be possible that the present high posi-
ton of the above named gentlemen is
due to the fact that they are total alb
stainers?''
THE Sunday lid is on tight in Pa
latka." All morality and right living
follow in the train of temperance.
Good News
Another county swings into the dry
column. Santa Rosa says mo saloons
for u.s.
A Confession
am the greatest criminal in history.
I have killed more men than have
fallen in all the wars of the world.
1 have turned more men into brutes.
/ have made millions of homes I'M
happy.
/ have transformed many ambitious
youths into hopeless parasites.
1 make smooth the downward path
for countless millions.
I destroy the weak and weaken the
strong.
I make the wise man a fool and
trample the fool into his folly.
/ ensnare the innocent.
The abandoned wife knows me: the
hungry children knows me; the par
ents, whose child has bowed their gray
heads in sorrow, know me.
have ruined millions and shall ruin
millions more.
1 am Alcohol-Living Water.
The great surgeon and physician of
Baltimore, DR.. Howard A. Kelly, char
acterizes alcohol as a dangerous drug
and corrupting agent.
Upon this subject, am speaking as
a physician, with thirty-two years ex-
perience, and as a citizen deeply in
terested in public affairs. AS a citi.
zen / further note that alcohol is one
of the most dreadful and insidious of
all corrupting agents known to men in
debauching legislatures and robbing
our citizens of the results of their la
bors rat the ballet box. making a gov
eminent of the people, by the people,
for the people farcical phrase, while
KING Alcohol sits enthroned in the
legislative hall. ..-., /,
GAS a citizen 1 note that it is alcohol
WHICH fills our prisons, whether. taken
in the form Of a stronger beverage, as
whisky, or beer asa representative OF
| thesmilder bevera ges--
1T is at the bottom. of most crime
domestic infelicity, poverty, seductions
tmurders; it is allied to all that is evil
and destructive OF the high aims of CIV
ilizatfon '-7G- 49,.
:" T hear the makers of alcohol, al
last reused by the prohibition wave
crying out that they stand for its mod
terate, not for it's immoderate, use. e.
"In reply to this answer that il
they make it and sell 1T. the use is
practically beyond their control and
that their plausible declarations are a!
light as the paper on which they are
i WritteHH and can in. no way affect It'll
fuse, whether moderate or immoderate
And further, + aver that judging b!
such scientific evidence as we nov
have, there is no such thing as a. mod
crate use Of alcohol" .~:o-4.