The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-04-18

IN his constructive legislation, thar
other spotIess Christian statesman. the
great American Gladstone. William
j. Bryan. who recently declared: III
you are looking for vice. the saloon is
the first place you will go, and if you
are looking for virtue the saloon will
be the last"
No more "Boozecracy' for the fear
less Commoner! He and Woodrow
Wilson both agree with Henry Grady
who declared of the liquor traffic: III
is flexible to cajole, but merciless in
victory. Today it strikes the crust
from the lips of starving child. and
tomorrow challenges this government
in the halls of Congress!" Knowing its
insidious, hideous horrors, the presi-
dent. the vice-president and secretary
of state have driven the demijohn and
the decanter from the White House
and all their social functions! The
kingdom is surely coming.
Time was when the leaders of both
great parties were cowards-nothing
less-before the threat and the chaI-
lenge of the liquor barons of America
but thank God, the daydawn of that
time has come when the timorous souls
are relegated to the rear; men with
regnant conscience and uncringing
character are actually at the front
fashioning our ideals and forming our
lines of battle, and these leaders coun-
seled and sustained by the rank and
file of all patriots in all parties every
where, are going to see to il that our
nation does not itself crush or weaken
or damage it's constituent parts" by
allowing the insidious intreagues and
the merciless march of that insolent
power which defes all law, laughs al
all patriotism, corrupts all policies,
shelters all vice, companies with all
crime-and registers. alas! the full
measure of its prosperity by the down
fall of that, citizenship without whose
homes and health and happiness our
nation cannot endure!-wm. d. Up
shaw in The Golden Age
Florida Dry.
We think Florida will be dry state
thoroughly dry-within less than
three years, perhaps considerably less
We see great cause for encouragement
in the present situation for Florida
prohibitionists.
First. The Webb bill will cripple
perhaps fatally. the liquor traffic in
thls state as IL viii hkely put out OF
business forty or nifty mail order
houses, besides several wholesale nous
es' "hlch VIII eliminate from our next
state VIDE hght about S30O,OoO OF
brewery money-slush money
Second. The anti-shipping bill which
the FLORIDA legislature VII be request
ed to give us in April will prohibit inn
medlateIy shipments within the state
from wet TO dry counties.
Third. When Florida votes dry, the
webb law VIII prevent outside ship
ment INTO the state
we pelleVe TINS SITUATION ought 10
inject new backbone and vital energy
INTO our movement Tor a white map OF
Plorlda
Signs of the Times I'm Jacksonville.
Most of our readers through the
state need not be told that Jackson
vile has already about 40 retail sa-
looms, and that it is the largest whole
sale and mail order liquor shipping
city in the United States They al
ready know this. but we again take
this opportunity TO call their attention
that the results of our municipal cleo
ton on the 18th inst indicated not
only that we were not all owned, body
and soul. by this interest in Jackson
vile, but on the other hand. indicated
very clearly that the time may soon
come when the decent, Iaw-abiding
people of this city will take the re ms
of government into their own hands
completely.
In the race for mayor. Judge Swear
ingen. who is not only a true friend of
temperance but a teetotaler. and nro-