The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-10
WHITE RHBeoNERs ARE BUSY

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contest branch of the w. C. n. U.
work and the matron contestants for
the sitter medal were invited to an
annual picnic at Stanton ON DULY 4th,
where a second contest was held and
a second medal awarded, Mrs. G. V.
Roberts being winner at the picnic
grounds.
Before leaving Ocala the weather
threatened bodily harm to all who
should attempt an automobile ride OF
nearly thirty miles, but as each ma
trUn is a staunch advocate that this
country cannot stay wet long, they
came to a decision that if they were
not capable of combating with a rain
storm, they need not expect to win
IN their battle against stronger Ii
qiuds, so they started out with coats
and umbrellas, which they did not
need to use. The roads were muddy,
but they enjoyed the whole trip very
much.
Such an abundance of splendid eat
ables has seldom been spread, and
each did justice to that picnic dinner.
While the judges were making out
their report, Mrs. ID. A. Smith and
little Turney Colbert gave the reel
tations that have won medals in
Ocala.
With Mrs. Smiths permission we
publish the winner of the matron's
silver medal.
A Winning Crusade
Today the mignrmst moral combat
of the ages IS raging around the lie.
galized liquor traffic. l believe that
all this enthusiasm is going to crys-
talize into action. I believe that I'M
der all this / cam see, too, a purpose,
ribbed and edged with steel to strike
the blow, and l believe that this land
win be a saioonless nation in 1920.
/ will tell you now the reason we
have not wiped the liquor traffic off
the face of the earnth is not because
there is not enough sentiment. There
is enough sentiment lying around
loose here in the United States to
carry forty United States dry. But
it is because we could never get to-
gether about anything.
We are going to win because-you
think I'm going to say because God is
on our side. l have got too much re-
spect for my Heavenly Father than
10 make any such statement, because
| would seem to imply by that that he
had not been on our side all the time.
/ want to tell you that God has been
working for it, and if it had not been
for some of the cowardly, timid
church members in this country, the
traffic could have been wiped from
the face of the earth long ago.
am going to tell You that God has
been on that side all the time. The
reason we are going to win is be-
cause We are getting over on Gods
side.
Georgia went dry, and it startled
the world. Who next? North Caro-
ma went dry; Tennessee went dry;
oklahoma went dry; Alabama went
dry M West Virginia went dry by
an hundred thousand, and Arkansas
went dry.
King Alcohol, in his chariot, with
MS royal horses has ridden over the
quivering heart-strings of women and
children; he has swept down his ter
rloie path for thousands of years, con-
quering and showing NJ mercy; drag
sihg at his chariot wheels the man
gled forms and bleeding hearts of
uespoiled men, women and children,
until the centuries drip with blood
ana sob with ceaseless sorrow.
But today science has burst the
p~lood-rusted chains that bound her,
mas forged her letters into swords,
ana Is fighting her way to better
lnings, and she bids this monster,
hng Alcohol, to stand aside.
IL Is an insult to any mans intel
nsence to talk to him about not get
ung along without the revenue.
fray, hear me: If we cannot get
along without the rum revenue, then
we nave been pensioning the wrong
crowd. The old soldier is not the man
70 pension. The old soak is the man
VINO ought to be pensioned. l have
seen the old soldiers march under
tneir banners. God bless the old sol
uier, whether he was born in the