The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-11-06
v. c. I. j. Department
Program for Temperance Sunday, Nov.
10th, Continued
(To be read by the most infiuentia
man in the community

10th, Continued
CTo be read by the most influential
man in the community
When the New York Liquor Dealers
Convention assembled in Rochester
last year, Mr.. Clinton n. Howard de-
livered an address before an audience
of 1000 people, arraigning the traffic
in scathing terms on eight different
counts:
1. The liquor traffic is a coward. 1t
barricades itself behind screened win
dows. 1t hires a sentinel to watch the
approach of officers who seek only
the proper enforcement of law. 1t is
| likewise a sneak 1t marks it's wares
under false bills of lading, and by
green goods circulars sent through the
| mails offers its customers distilled de-
ceit in disguised packages.
| 2. 1t is thief. 1t robs it's custom
ers of his friends, his character, his
reputation, his money, his family. 1t
| has stolen the coffin from dead child.
1t will steal virtue from the heart of a
daughter, and will take from a widow
| her only son.
| 3. 1t is an infideL 1t has no faith in
IGod. 1t would close the church and
Ihang its sign from the abandoned al
| tars. It's music is the song of the siren.
Its sermons are a collection of lewd
stories. 1t wraps mantle of crepe
around every human hope for this
world and the world to come.
| 4. 1t is abominable. Its tables are
burdened with vile literature. It's
conversation puts a premium on OBJ
scenity. 1t ministers only to the bas-
est passions. 1t is the clearing house
of the moral sewage of the nation.
| ). 1t is a sorcerer. 1t puts one bad
lspirit into collusion with another. 1t
lis the rendezvous of the disreputable.
1t is the black art in politics. 1t is the
lcorrupter of legislatures. 1t organizes
the gray wolves in our city councils.
1t combines the dishonest voters of cur
lefty, state and union.
6. 1t is a liar. 1t b-eaks every law,
but never pleads guilty. 1t sells to
minors and drunkards on Sunday and
in illegal hours, and comes into court
with false testimony and lying wit
lnesses, and by perjury cheats the law
of its penalty and the Jail Of the most
dangerous criminal to society 1t
blinds the eyes of justice, and par
alyzes the hand that holds the scale
of equity.
| z. 1t is ans adulterer.. 1t sows the
lleprosy of impurity in the heart. and
lproduces worse than leprosy in the
blood and in the home. Seventy per
Icent of all the social impurity that
lcurses our American life is born in the
wine room. 1t has a side door and
private room and a poisonous bottle
for the evil minded, and asks no ques-
ltions of the destroyer. There is scarce
lily a saloon that does not have a
brothel for a bride.
= sc &c ell h1a
for 10000 murders every year, and as
many more suicides. 1t spares neither
youth, age nor infancy. 1t whets the
assassin's knife, cocks the highway
mans pistol, and puts the rope into the
hands of the mob.
| 9. The curse of God is on this busi-
ness Courts and legislatures are
marking it for determination. All de-
cent society is barring it out. All fra
ternal brotherhoods are boiling their
doors against it. Commercial institu-
tions are drawing the line of employ
ment against its patrons. There is not
a protestant church that will know
ingly admit one of them to it's COM
munion.
When Christians Vote rhey Pray
| (Song. Tune of Sweet Bye and Bye)
, There's a time that is coming at last,
Oh hasten the long looked for day,
When the rum-fiend no shackles can
cast,
For all Christians will vote as they
pray.
CHORUS
In the sweet bye-and-bye
We shall welcome that beautiful day.
lin the sweet bye-and-bye
When all Christians will vote as they
pray
CHORUS
And the prisons shall close every door,
And the poor-houses tenantless stand
When the dram shops shall darken no
more
The dear homes of our beautiful
land.
when the church and the state shall
| arise,
. In the strength of their virtue and
. might,
And improve every moment that flies,
BY daring to vote for the right
CHORUS
Closing prayer for the boys of oul