The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-08
v c. I. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. E. Van Hood, Editor

Material to use on Temperance
Sunday, October 18th, in all Sunday
schools:
A saloonIess nation; Why not ?
How? (Hab. 2:1-14). Temperance
meeting.
Bible readings.
Sinners that fear Elsa. 1922
A vision of the end lisa. 2S:1-18).
righteousness exalts prov. ILL
III.
God against the saloon (Psa. 10:
4-1S).
The Ideal city tRev. 21:1-17).
Ny duty Il Cor. 1913.
What temperance progress has
been made this year?
How may our school help temper
ance?
Why should our school work for
Temperance?
We have a right to abolish the sa-
loon. 1t has no warrant to claim
immunity.
AS the supreme court of Indiana,
citing decisions of other courts, says:
mo one possesses an inalienable or
constitutional right to keep a saloon
for the sale of intoxicating liquor; to
keep a saloon for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquor is not a natural right
to pursue an ordinary calling; there
is no inherent right in a citizen to
there sell Intoxicating liquor by re-
tail; it is not privilege of a citizen
of the state or of the United States. :"
When we attack the saloon as an
evil thing we are not assailing a le-
Ultimate nuisance nor invading the
saloonkeeper' inherent right.
We have duty to abolish the sa-
Loom A greeting which the citizens
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, addressed
recently to the Iowa Liquor Deal
ers' Association" which had been
welcomed to the city by the mayor,
sets forth some of the reasons for
detesting theesaloon:
Shall we greet you as those who
wreck homes, debauch manhood,
prostitute womanhood, disgrace and
impoverish childhood? Shall we
greet you as those who place upon
the taxpayer the heaviest burden in
caring for the results of your traffic?
Your position in a community is
quite peculiar We fail to find a city
that enumerates among its advantage
es its saloons.
''It is said by some that you help
town. Do you make better fathers,
husbands, sons, and raise the stand
ard of citizenship? DO you bring
comfort and happiness to mothers,
wives and children? Do you add to
the efficiency of 1aborer or business
men and so add to the material pros
perity Of the place?
'fDo the saloons use their windows
to exhibit their finished product
No, you find these in the penitentiary
where eighty-fve per cent. of the in
mates are Your graduates. Sevent,
per cent. of the insane are others
Ninety per cent. of pauperism is an
other class. The great burden O
] private charity is due to the saloon
The taxpayer must pay the enormou
cost of pour colossal failure to car,
for your product. But only tn,
Father of US all knows the blight o
manhood, the shame of womanhood
the wreck of home. the heartbreal
of the innocent. Ahi no, gentlemen
you are not welcome to Cedar Rapid
by its homes and social interests. .
In addition to the conclusive NOR
al arguments against the saloon an
all that it represents, men are seem
| with increasing clearness the eco
nomic argument. The New Yor
Times for February 5, 1914, publish
ed the following dispatch:
Chester, Pa, Feb. with tn
statement that the efficiency of
workman is greatly accelerated b
a total abstinence from intoxicatin
liquor a quartz company of thi
city has offered its three hundre
employees a ten per cent. increase i
wages if they will agree ito abstai
from all forms of intoxicants. wi
liam III. Stanton, general manager q
the company and originator of tn
plan, says he is greatly pleased wit
the response to the offer, and declal
es that nearly all the men employee
| at the plant have signed the agree
ment.
/ 1--WE do not intend to draw an
distinction between the man VIII
/ does not sign tlle agreement and III