The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-08-16
GUIDES AND OTHER GUIDES.
Referring to an Article Entitled,
Guiding Principles of Christian
Voters" Appearing in the Ocaia
Evening Star of August 1, 1913.
lAdEPrtiSementl

inhabiting their great souls-the
grand spirit of universal freedom
that fashioned and finished their
great careers?
Why attempt to use the wonder
full careers of those grand apostles
of Human Freedom-Washing tOn,
Jefferson and Lincoln to lead the
world to believe that those great i'm
mortals ever for one instant, con-
templated the support or desired
the triumph of that great ecclesi-
astical heresy- Prohibition?
Those immortals in a broad and
deep sense, stood for those sublime
and deathless principles of human
freedom for which the son of God
stood, viz: the freedom of the will
the soul, body and conscience.
They stood for true temperance, but
never, no never, for religious intern
.perance. To believe that those no.
Bile and patriotic characters whose
long, most eventful and stormy ca
reers, spent in the spiritual, mental
and physical liberation of mankind,
would have banded themselves to-
gether in these latter days in
mighty effort to control the govern
ment and courts of the country in
order to prosecute and prosecute
their fellOwmen, to suffocate spirit
ual light and liberty, to cruelty hui
man freedom, and to muzzle the
mouth of every temperate man in
this country, requires a stretch of
imagination reaching into the
realms of chronic haIlucination!
Listen to an extract taken from
Ia famous letter Of George Washing
ton and learn the sentiments of the
Father of His Country regarding
the liquor question::
Mount Vernon, End July, 1866.
To Capt. John Thompson,
Sir: With this letter comes a
negro (TOm), which l beg the favor
of you to sell in any of the islands
you may go, for whatever he may
fetch, and bring me in return for
him, One hOgshead of best mOIasses,
one ditto of best rum, one barrel of
lymes, if good and cheap, one pot of
tamarinds, containing about ten
lbs, two small ditto of small mixed
sweet meats, about five lbs. each,
and the residue, much or little, in
good old spirits.
| wish you IA pleasant and pros
speedy return. (Signed):
George Washington.
The Father of His Country was
evidently no ''grapejuice" statesman.
And now for the beloved Mckinley.
If he ever expressed the view at
tributed to him, away back in 1874,
he certainly oulived it; for his great
and gentle soul expanded long be-
fore his elevation to greatness and
power. No truly great man in sac
red or profane history ever stood for
Prohibition; for it is paradoxical to
true temperance as taught in the
Holy Scriptures.
They knew that the very thought
as we'll as the act, when compul-
the sacred light of conscience and
destroys independence of life and
character and personal accountable
iity to God. They know that FORCE
| that there cannot be peace, unity or
harmony between them; that God
stands for freedom and the devil
for force; that prohibition where
| the great moral laws of God and the
individual conscience of the citizen,
| ceases to be a virtue, but is relig-
| ious despOtism pure and simple
ance and spiritual ignorance far
more dangerous and destructive to
the state and nation than the in
temperate use of liquors could ever
be; they knew Prohibition to be a
wicked system of legaliZed lawless-
ness, religious anarchy and relig-
ious coercion that should not be
tolerated in any free country, and
that church and state engaged in
such an abominable doctrine or
heresy, was enveloped in dense sptr-
itual darkness and on its way to
eternal oblivion.
! And now for the Rev. Billy Sun
day: l would as soon follow a billy
goat as to follow Billy Sunday in try
ling to learn the difference between
TRUE temperance as taught in the
Holy Scriptures and religious in
temperance as bored into the bone
heads who follow him instead OF
God. The rivers of obscene, in
decent and sickening abuse, SANDER
bIasphemy and villiication flowing
from that anti-Christian pilot
against millions of temperate men