The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-11-06
BANNER is BILIOUS

BANNER is BILIOUS
There are some things that should
be held too sacred to play with or at
least should be respected enough to
keep them clear of the degrading po-
sition of narrow mindedness and big
otry. Bpt then, what more could you
expect from church that opened
wide its arms to that vile-mouthed
biatherskite, Billy Parker. when he
preached the gospel of 'Ehate" and in
cidentally elected a man governor of
Florida who was not better-if all we
hear of his public utterances are true.
Ii those self-same people who went
several blocks out of their way to
eulogize the evening paper because it
refused an ad.-and the handsome
figure offered for its publication
simply because that paper was vio-
lently and irrevocably prohibition -
had but passed resolutions condemn
ing the Banner for accepting the ad.
and the "vile" profits thereof we
would have had a sort O. sneaking re-
spect for them and the opinion back
of their wordsworth probably have
donned our best sheepskins and bowed
before the might of the church's opin-
ion for our horrible sin of endeavoring
to get living out of printing news
paper to please OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
everybody supports us Or merely bor-
rows our paper from the neighbors;
but no, the purpose of patting the
back of the sanity evening paper
could not have been conveniently done
that way and the direct attack on the
Banner would have been following too
close in the pathway of Christ who
cleaned house" with a scourge.
1t is SO very, very easy to sit in
judgment of your fellow man. We can
recount his errors and hatch up a
thousand reasons why his acts should
be punished and his remissness ram
med back down his throat; believe us,
it takes brains to devise the two
edged sword-a la the resolutions
of the Baptist and Presbyterian
churches.
Knowing the good brethren of the
Star as we do; knowing that they are
kind, affable and polite to the poor;
that they shed praise like a duck
sheds water and are as pure morally
and mentally-as any other set of
business men in Ocala, we recognized
Immediately the deep blush of Mon
days edition and knew the honors had
been at least heaped upon the deserv-
ing heads of its entire personnel. And
we envied 'em.
Some day we are going to renounce
the devil and his unholy tool-money
and live on our dod- gasted "purty'
and kind Christian spirit.-Banner.
Judging by the foregoing article,
our esteemed contemporary should
have it's liver taken out and gently
massaged before being replaced.
1t was called forth by resolutions by
the Baptist and Presbyterian churches
and the w. C. T. u, commencing the
Star for not printing whisky adver-
tisement, which resolutions were
printed in Mondays Star.
These resolutions did not name the
Banner, and nobody would have known
lit was spurred if it hadn't kicked In
fact, if they had named the Banner
we should have marked the reference
out. We have no desire to nag or stab
or undermine our contemporary, the
proprietor of which has been our
steadfast friend for over twenty
years, and who mighty well knows
that nobody. on the Star has ever
claimed to be saint.
In the following sentence. the Ban
ner does the churches of Ocala a great
| injustice:
"But then, what more could you ex-
| pect from church that opened wide
| its arms to that vile-mouthed blather-
skite, Billy Parker, when he preached
the gospel of hate and incidentally
elected man governor of Florida
who was not better-if all we hear OF
| his public utterances are true"
| If the editor of the Banner had been
here three years ago ago. he would
have known that the Protestant pas
tors of Ocala refused to open their
churches to Billy Parker; also, if he
was as well acquainted with the
church members as the Star is, he
would know that very small proper
| ton of them voted for Cats.