The Ocala evening star., 1915-01-21
VI C. 7. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. E. Van Hood, Editor
Extracts from the National w. G. T.
u. Proceedings Held at Atlanta
November 18th to 18th, 1914


The Florida delegation of so women
had a special car from Jacksonville
to Atlanta and Gov Slaton's special
car was attached to the train at Ma
con and the governor came into our
car and gave US cordial welcome to
his state. As we neared Atlanta the
Georgia Southern served all the del
egates with the most delicious coffee
and sandwiches, free, which was
greatly appreciated by the hungry
crowd as we had no opportunity to
get anything to eat as we did not
reach Atlanta until o'clock and were
to the Baptist Tabernacle where the
convention was held. In the address
of welcome, Atlanta's mayor said that
we met on common ground, that there
was no sectional feeling altho the del
egates were gathered 722 strong, from
every state In the nation. All that
you need to do to prove this is to
go down the street two or three blocks
and you can easily tell by the way the
roads run that we of Atlanta know
no north or south. Everyone in the
city will be benefited by your COM
ing (all except the barbers.) The sa-
loonkeepers will not be in perdition a
week. before they will wish they had
stood on the right side of this liquor
question. They will say that if the
churches and women would only let
them alone that they could run the
country alone like they have been do
ing.
One man in Ohio told W. c. T. u.
worker that they, the men, had run
these United States for the past
eighteen hundred years with the wo-
mems help and that they intend to
keep on running it their own way
and yet the cultured and refined wo-
men are not allowed the right of fran
chise.
Mary Harris Armour introduced by
Will D. Upshaw as the out talkin'est
white woman he ever saw said she low
ed every bone in dear old Georgia
and someone said they did not know
that Georgia had any bones, and Mrs.
Armour quickly answered, ooh, yes.
Backbone" Then an Ohio woman said
that they have bones in Ohio, too,
wishbones-wish for prohibition and
equal suffrage.
Mr.. Polling" America needs every
nan at his best and every woman at
her best. The liquor interest is con-
trolling the higher courts of liberty.
I Uncle Sam is represented as tall
lanky person dressed in the stars and
! stripes, representing liberty but he
should be pictured as a big round body
with the white apron of saloon keep
er on, as Uncle Sam is in partnership
/ with the liquor business. Talk about
the effect of wine and beer on the
birthrate in this and other countries.
Prohibition and patriotism synono-
nous. More school graduates in Kan
! sas than in any other state or in the
world, because Kansas has been a
dry state for so long. White slavery
could not exist without the liquor traf-
fic. A drink of whiskey never sug-
gests anything but another drink OF
whiskey. You never heard of man
going down town and spending every
cent of his weeks wages for bread OF
meat. Who ever heard of man go
ing into a store and buying a neck
tie and then, before going home, buy
ing another, and another until his
money was all gone, or saying "Come
on fellows and have another necktie,
then smack his lips and turn back anC
buy another necktie. But he would
be better to have 10 doz. necktie:
around his neck than to have 10 drink!
in his stomach.
"Ohio has 88 counties and only l.
of them are wet. The state woulc
have gone dry in the recent election
if it had not been for sin-sin-naugth!
(Cincinnati.) The whiskey business
is an industrial parasite. The whis
key people say that business will g
j wherever there are saloons. You ma.
= as well say that pickpockets make ;
circus because they are found togeth
er. The pickpocket takes the none,
and perhaps the lives of his victims
while the saloons take these and ais
the souls of their victims Bushes
does not follow saloons but saloon
follow business. Gods Legislation