The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-26
MORE TWADDLE"

Now comes the editor OF the Ocala
Star and. forgetting the horrors Of {
old Rome and the Goths and Nandals, {
tries to tell Us that men are becom-
ing more bloodthirsty than they were
before the birth Of Christ. The Star
tries to make it appear, because a
few men are fools, that all the world
is getting away from the teachings
Of Christ. He says:
From the time that Cain killed his
brother Abel until the assault made
ION Leo NJ. Frank, human beings seem
to have a craving for blood.
We are no less bloodthirsty today
! than we were in the medieval ages:
/ One man wired from MIlledgeTlue
! as follows:
you are authorized to enter my 1
name as bondsman on Franks assail- /
liant. Can be qualified for $4,000"
! From a small town near Columbus !
Governor Harris received petition, |
signed by a dozen men, asking that
Green be pardOned.
No messages were received IN con-
Idernnation Of the crime.
| There seems to be an unsuitable
thirst for blood.
We seem as far removed from the
teachings Of the MAN OF Gallilee" to-
) day as we were before he made his
, appearance on the earth.
3 In actual fact the world is grow
2 ling better and men are more moral,
2 less given to lust and passion and
1 crimes of violence than ever before.
e It is just silly twaddle to talk about
e the good old days.
q The editor of the Star fOrgets that
= only a few years ago duels were
e fought all over the South on the
e slightest provocation and murder com
d mitted before breakfast by men who
e held themselves as leaders and who
It were not even arrested for Staying
:; human beings.-St. Petersburg indie
It pendent.
e If we had written the article that
= has so reused the Independents ire,
% we think we would reply by telling
lie the editor of that journal that,
1T while he runs an excellent paper, and
t generally writes sensibly and interest
to ingly, that he perpetrates about as
al much twaddle to the column as any
IN other man on the Florida press.
w The article in question, however, die
IN not appear in the Star, but in the
ne Banner, and while we do not agree
ne with it, there is entirely too much
st truth in it to call it twaddle-not t.
" speak of its being an uncalled TO
We discourtesy on the part of the indie
pendent.
If the editor of the Independent
he read the Star carefully, he would fin
ng that it has always maintained that tn
is world is growing better, and that
wo has cited the very enormities of an
M cient days that he quotes as proc
ey that it is improving.
1t must also be obvious to the OF
hg server that the world has in the las
no year met with not only check but
Oh backset in its march toward the PEI
lection of kindness and the commc
good. The horrors we are passln
by thru have saddened and discourage
our the venerable editor of the Bann'
hey who has hoped as earnestly as ar
ght man for the coming of the day
Tell universal peace and good will, whi'
&C now seems set back decades if n
10 centuries.
has We have a bunch that the editor
SIS the Independent would not have cor
ave down on the offending article like
ala duck on a Junebug if he hadn't ma
IKE a mistake in the paper. So, while
line would advise him to wipe off
cuts spacs before reading his exchang,
to no naadn,t anolopize to the Star u
aCe' less he wants to.