The Ocala evening star., 1915-01-12
" C. 7. u. DEPARTMENT.
Mrs. E. Van Hood, Editor
Misery, Pauperism and Crime Trace
able to the Most Damnable Evil
In the World
(By C. B. Hickernell)

the sinful bar for drinks can't build
city. The red light houses of Je-
zebel can't build city. A man who
wants to establish red light dis
trict is not rock, but sand. A car
load or two of such men in a may
or's Office would be death to a city.
Licentiousness and drinking are blood.
Woe and distress are the reward for
that city that is built of blood. Five
million six hundred thousand over
the bar means about three times that
much spent for drinks in Jackson
vile, every cent of which should be
spent for bread and clothing and fuel
and houses, all necessities, and would
boom every business In Jacksonville,
except the drinking houses. Who
wants saloons? Preachers, Sunday
school superintendents, Baraccas, Ep-
worth Leaguers, Christian -Endeav-
orers, Sunday school teachers, Sun
day school scholars. professors of
public schools, Y. NJ. c.. A. secretar-
les? Does the hardware man, the
jeweler, the shoe man, the dress
goods man, the timer, the blacksmith
and the bread man, the meat man, the
milk man? Do the 4S6 grocerymen
want saloons; do the lumber men :?
All men make-no, getz1money, but
the drinker he pays all the bills, and
the children are defrauded that sports
may be gratifed, and few tough
hotels and liquor shylocks may be
satisfied. Muscle wisely directed for
general welfare" alone makes the
wealth. One man may grow rich and
another poor, but it is all dug out
of the earth. Less than two per
cent. of the corn is put into whiskey
and less than three per cent. of
other grains in beer, so that does
not help the United States farmer and
it would be better be put into chick
ems and cows. Prohibition always
prohibits everyone-except the crimi-
nal. When people get sense enough
and religion enough to send men to
Tallahassee to make it a penitentiary
penalty, instead of money penalty, to
sell against statute or ordinance pro-
hibition will prohibit 100 per cent. of
the liquor sellers. Breweries will
furnish all the money blind tiger folks
want, but Schlitz and Anheuser-
Busch would soon run out of men to
go to the penitentiary were the SEN
tence "pen" instead of CHECK
Flagler's railroad is perhaps the
greatest defense of the liquor bust
ness in Jacksonville.
Prohibition always prohibits-ex-
cept the criminals. Treat them as in
cendiaries and the job is complete
All business will boom and men will
be built Men and Women, not build
ings, make cities. However, if man
wants to get drunk, stay drunk and
die drunk let him make it in his back
yard and put it in his cellar and get
! to it. Even then he is not safe, fo1
the Supreme Court of the United
4 States handed down a decision, in
/ Mugler VS. Kansas: at is not neces.
sary, to justify state legislation, tc
array APPALLING statistics of misery
pauperism and crime which have
their origin in the use or abuse OF
ardent spirits. We cannot shut out
the fact, within the knowledge of all
that the public health, public morals
and public safety, may be endangered
/ by the general use of Intoxicating
drinks, nor the fact established by
statistics, accessible to everyone, that
the idleness, disorder, pauperism and
crime existing in the country are in
some degree at least traceable to this
evil.
/ Also United States Supreme Court
in Crowley VS. Christensen: "By the
general concurrence of opinion of
every civilized Christian community
there are few sources of crime and
misery to society equal to the dram
shops, where Intoxicating liquors, in
small quantities to be drunk at the
time, are sold indiscriminately to al
parties applying. The statistics of
every state show greater amount OF
crime and misery attributable to the
use of ardent spirits obtained at these
retail liquor saloons than to any 9th
er source"
These items are of sufficient digni.
ty to engage the caustic critism of
Dixie, the Metropolis or Times Union.