The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-13
A LEAFLET
ENTITLED SERIOUS
QUESTIONS FOR
VOTERS"

and for WHAT"
Answer: Yes, millions OF TEN
PERATE men want them or some
thing similar. for the simple reason
that there is a UNIVERSAL DE-
MAND (prohibitionists included) for
wines, liquors and beer, which must
be met somehow, or in some LEGAL
and LEGITIMATE way, and as the
saloon proves TO be the best agent for
this UNIVERSAL DE-
MAND we propose that it remain
until you provide something better.
This DEMAND is as old as the hills,
PERFECTLY LEGIT-|
and has been supplied by
God in all ages for the
temperate use and enjoyment of his
people-being used by the prophets,
priests and kings. Consult Deuter-
onomy 14:23-26, and hundreds of
passages, and give the world
a REST on prohibition!
Questions: is time spent in them
which could be better spent else
where? Is money spent in them
which would do more good other
wise?"
Answer: That's for the man 10 de-
cide-HIS BUSINESS and NONE OF
YOURS. When he needs a guardian
he may call on 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 spent in saloons. BE
JUST, pluck the mote out of your
eye FIRST, or shut up!
Questions: is 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
possess it, and all BUSINESS and
COMMERCE is the result of that
principle. To stamp it out would de-
stroy the REAL POWER behind the
Of ~
fore, every merchant, banker, rail-
road builder, corporation, lawyer
doctor, artisan, and farmer takes his
RISK for SUCCESS or FAILURE,
and is, therefore, a EPECULATOR
or GAMBLER IN HIS SPHERE.
Yes, paying ten or twenty million
dollars for a DUKE. monkey dinners.
dog suppers and fashionable recep-
tons for cats and other animals
higher up; also money wasted IN pro-
hibition fights, pouring money into
grafters, and prohibition orators and
literature.
It is with the fathers-boys do not
frequent saloons Christ did not set
bad example when he drank wine
openly and before the world. for
which the good people" slandered
him. Our boys get no habits from
| the saloon. They are not allowed
there. Their bad habits" are inner
! tied or absorbed from bad company
poor environments and a wretched
home life. REGULATE and CLEAN
OUT the home, make it the happiest
Fplace on earth and stop blaming the
saloons for your SINS.
There is something radically
wrong with the home when men pre-,
fer TO spend their time and money
elsewhere. Love, sympathy, kind
ness and congeniality has DEPART
ED. Win them back, and men will
follow
Question: us the saloon a good
place to educate the young men, who
are to be the husbands of our daugh
ters?"
Answer: Schools. colleges and uni
Iversities are for the education Of
young men. The saloon is a bushes:
concern, authorized by the govern
ment that receives large revenue:
therefrom, and is especially 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: IF no money were spen
in saloons, would there not be NOR,
good trade and less bad debts il
business?"
Answer: No, Of course not! Han!
the INCUBUS OF PROHIBITION
about the nee kof Ocala, and bust
ness will be FLATTER THAN !
FOUNDER! Customers will com