The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04
TEMPERANCE IN ocALA IN THE
oLDEN TIME

''The rapid spread or temperance in
this vicinity we suppose is without 9
parallel in the history of the state
A few months ago, Rev. Mr.. Swain Of
Jacksonville, by a strong and earnest
appeal to the nobler instincts of oul
citizens, succeeded in organizing a di
vision of Sons of Temperance, with
membership of nine persons, since
which time the division has steadily
increased and is still increasing. Al
it's last meeting it numbered mem
bership of siXty-five, and fifteen more
have applied for initiation.
"The cause of last weeks demon
stration was to witness the public in
stallation of it's officers and to listen
to an address by Mr.. H. w. Long.
''The procession moved from the di
vision hall about ten o'clock in the
forenoon and on entering the Metho-
dist church the following officers
elect were installed by Deputy Grand
Worthy Patriarch Daniel A. Miller:
worthy Patriarch-S. NJ. G. Gary.
Worthy Associates. st. George
Rogers.
"Chaplain-Geo c. Leavel
"Conductor-W. r. Crowson.
Assistant Conductor-Aurora M
Crutchfield.
Treasured. A. Miller.
Financial Scribe-C. A. Crowson.
Recording Scribe-Mattie c.
White.
Assistant Recording Scribe-F. E
Harris.
Inside Sentinel-D. S. Cappleman
"Outside Sentinel-John Helven
ston.
g"After the installation ceremonies
were over, Mr.. Long was introduced
by the worthy patriarch, and made
one of his most impressive address
es."
This paper then made the following
editorial review of his speech:
"The cost to the world of the liquor
traffic is absolutely appalling. The
amount of life annually destroyed, the
amount of industry sacrificed, the
amount of bread transformed into
poison, the shame, the wailing, cor
row tha nrino +ba ,1ovor+v +1,o ,oo,,
perism, the vast army of children
made orphans and mothers made wild
ows, the want and suffering, the bru-
tally, the shocking indencencies, in
humanities and murders caused by
drinking the deadly drug, and the wild
waste of vital and financial resources,
given by the speaker, sum up an ag-
gregate SO vast-so intellectually vast
the wonder is that the christian
people of all lands do not rise up
as one man and declare through their
Parliments, Congresses and Legisla-
lures, that this great curse shall no
longer exist.
SIN our own country, if we remem-
Der the figures of the speaker correct
ly, we have an army of sixty thousand
enrolled under the blackened banner
of intemperance. Sixty thousand di-
rect or indirect upholders of crime,
pollution and degradation. Before an
other year sixty full regiments, many
of whom were once the most promis-
ing ornaments of society, will have
completed their course and will be
borne from the gutter to fill a drunk
ards grave. Every year witnesses
the same sacrifice, and as this army
of sixty thousand is annually moved
down sixty thousand others stand
ready to fill up it's depleted ranks.
This army, as vast as it is, is swell
ing it's numbers with the accelerated
speed of stone thrown down noun
tain sleeps. It's ranks are to be recruit
ed from the children who now play
innocently on our streets and from
those of tenderer years who are Just
able to lisp their prayers at their
mothers knees.
This vast army goes marching ON.
The sounds come to us in the echoes
OF the footsteps of the army now ex.
plring, and the earth shakes with the
host now passing, and the same tramp
though fresher, gayer and more elast.
lc, comes to us from the camp of the
new beginners. A great tide of life
flows resistlessly to it's death. And
OF this great army of our kindred and
friends, what are the objects they
have in view? What the apex of their
ambition? A higher education, pur
er friendship, broader civilization, a
larger humanity, or nobler feelings
and nobber charities from man to
man2 No its mona of thoco Tbox,