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

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white encircled with stars of silver
light, than the American soldiers.
When they charged up the field of
Gettysburg in the face of the iercest
fire that man ever met, whether it
be the men that held these heights
until the high tide of the ~Confederacy
was driven back, or those who swept
over the bloody meadows, they show
ed themselves to be men of steel.
I want to tell you, gentlemen, that
according to the theory advanced by
! the liquor interests, we have got to
have the rum traffic to run this gov
eminent, and we are making a mis-
take in caring for those who fought
to preserve their country. Why, ali
the old soldier did was to stand un
and get shot AT. If he got killed-and
it is wonderful that SO many did not
if he got killed he got an honored
grave; his family was pensioned to-
all time; his grave was covered wit
the flowers of love and the tears of
memory, ard he went down hailed as
a hero who had died in a worthy
cause for his country. If he lived he
got a pension and an honorable name.
What does the old soak get? He
gets his due. He does not take any
chances. 1t is certain death. Every
body knows it. Life insurance stats
tics prove it. No intelligent m
thinks that the drunkard has got the
chance to live that the abstainer has.
No man lives as long with the use 0
liquor as without.
We got prohibition in our county.
and we that stood up saved our boys.
but they said, "We will ship it in to
you'll" And they did. They did wha
tyrants have always done before. 1t
has just been the same old story all
the way up the line. Yon remember
how Spain once thought she owned
the world-how she put these words
at the Pillars of Hercules: me plus
Ialtraf"-beyond this nothing. YOU
remember how n brave navigator
sailed out beyond these pillars of Her.
cules into the great wide. beautiful
world and he came back with his mar
yelrnFB stories of the unknown lands |
across the seas. And Spain struck out
the word, me- and left the writing
| plus ultra"-more beyond
We shook our fists In uneir faces,
! and we said: There is more beyond;
we will have statewide prohibition"
And we wen and carried the state for
prohibition, and they said: What is
the use? We will ship it in on you
agam!" And they did. And we said:
There is more beyond!" And we
carried the fight over into Tennessee.
We helped to carry Tennessee dry;
helped to carry Alabama dry; helped
to carry North Carolina dry, and
Maine and Kansas are dry.
We helped to carry the states dry
until today ten states are under the
white flag of prohibitions; and they
have shipped it in on every side of us,
not as much as they did before, be-
cause the liquor gang know how to
cut their own threats; and, therefore,
they will not do it; and when they
meet and provide $50,0O0,O 900 in one
evening, that means that prohibition.
while it does not prohibit, slows them
up nightly.
But because there was no line they
would respect; there was no oath
they would hold, sacred; there was
not n single solitary promise they
would keep; there was no man they
would not degrade; there was no wo-
man they would not defile; there was
not a child from whose lips they
would not snatch the last crust of
bread, in order that they might put
more bloody dollars into their peck
cts. Because of that, the cry is today
from all over the land: 1--WE are go
ing to Washington for a prohibition
nation in 1920!"
God makes the wrath of men to
praise him. He marches down the
ages and marshals the very Dev1Fs
forces for him, and the sneaking and
contemplate ~lawlessness OF the IL
quor traffic defeats their own ends
and arouses the righteous manhood
of this nation until they are going TO
smash this thing in the United States
of America into everlasting smlther-
Gems. Then there is more beyond and
we propose not to lay down our arms
until from the soughing pines OF Ore
gon to the flashing sea OF Brazil
from the snow-capped peaks of Supe-
rior to the orange groves of Sicily,
throughout the civilized world, the
whole human race is marching under