The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-09-12
ANSWERING A LEAfLET
ENTITLED SERIOUS
QUESTIONS FOR
VOTERS"
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AiAHMffs Atof AuiiitohS VI EMIL L<AN
ATE men want them or something
similar. for the simple reason that
there is UNIVERSAL DEMAND
lprohibltionlsts includedl for wines,
liquors and beer. which must be met
somehow. or I'm some LEGAL and
LEGrTIMAT way. and as the saloon
proves 10 be the best agent for sup
PLYING this UNIVERSAL DEMAND,
we propose that il remain until you
provide something better. This De
MAND s. as old as the hills, INNER
ENT. PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE,
and has been supplied by Almighty
God IN all ages for the temperate use
and enjoyment of his people-being
used by the prophets. priests and
kings. Consult Deuteronomy 1928,
26. and hundreds of similar passages
and give the world a REST on prohi-
bition!
Questions: "Is time spent in them
which could be better spent else
where? Is money spent in them which
would do. more good otherwise"
Answer: That's for the man to de-
cide-HIS BUSINESS and NONE OF
YOURS. When he needs a guardian
ne may call for you. BE PATIENT
and WAIT! His time is not yours,
neither is his money-both of which
you'd like to own. Time and money
spent as a "BUSYBODY AND MED
DLER" in the affairs of others is
worse than that spent in saloons. BE
JUST, "pluck the mote out of your
eye" FIRST, or shut up!
Questions: as there likely to be
gambling in saloons? is any money
worse than wasted in saloons? DO
fathers set bad examples for their
boys? Do your boys get good habits
there that will make them good men?
Answer: No, not necessarily so.
Life is a RISK, a gamble. from the
cradle to the grave. The desire TO-
GAIN. to INCREASE, to SUCCEED
quickly, is INHERENT. All men pos
sess it, and all BUSINESS and COM
MERGE is the result of that principle
To stamp it out would destroy the
REAL. POWER behind the progress OF
civilized nations; therefore, every
merchant, banker, railroad builder
CORPORATION, lawyer, doctor, artisan
and farmer takes his RISK for sue
CESS or FAILURE, and is, therefore,
a SPECTATOR or GAMBLER in his
sphere.
Yes. paying ten or twenty million
dollars for a DUKE, monkey dinners,
dog suppers and fashionable recep-
tions for cats and other animals high
or m. also money wasted in prohi-
bition fights. pouring money into the
rockets of anti-saloon league grafters'
and prohibition orators and literature
II is with the fathers-boys do not
FREQUENT saloons. Christ did not set
a had example when he drank VINE
openly and before the world, for wnlch
the good people" slandered him. our
bows get no habits" from the saloon.
They are not allowed there. Their
bad habits" are inherited or absorb
ed from bad company, poor environ
ments and a wretched home llfe'
REGULATE and CLEAN OUT the
home, make it the happiest place on
earth and stop blaming the saloon TOT
your SINS.
There is something radically wrong
with the home when men prefer TO
spend their time and money else
where. Love, sympathy, kindness and
congeniality has DEPARTED. Win
them back, and men will follow.
Question: as the saloon a good
Mace tn educate the young men, who
are to be the husbands of our daugh-
ters?"
Answer: Schools, colleges and uni
versities are for the education Oh
Young men. The saloon is business
concern, authorized by the govern
ment that receives large revenues
therefrom. and is specially adapted
and qualified to supply a PRODUCT
for which there is a UNIVERSAL
DEMAND. If the government failed
to grant this authority, the people
would.
Question: eff no money were spent
in saloons, would there not be more
good trade and less bad debts in bus
iness?"
Answer: No! OF course not! Hang
the INCUBUS of PROHIBITION
about the neck of Ocala, and business
will be FLATTER THAN A FLOUN-
DER! Customers will come no more
and a general exodus of citizens VIII
ensue. Even the honest man cannot
nav. of YOU PERSIST in DESTROY