The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-04-19

btdl LOu- II YOU fIdu IINcu III IhS
days of Mother Goose. she surely
would have had you in her immortal
book, for that good old gal had her
eye out for freaks. She would have
written about you somewhat thusly:
There was an old lawyer by the name
of Lou Green
With bats in his belfry and cracks in
his bean,
He was the darndest old crank that
ever was seen.
| am glad you have begun writing
for the paper, Lou; the linotype ope-
rator says that while there is no sense
in what you write you turn out beau
tiful copy, and setting up what You
say is almost as restful as putting in
a slide to make rules or dashes and
letting the machine run itself while
he takes a smoke. You sure do write
beautiful copy, Lou. | imagine Pres
ident Wilson turns out about the
same, SO far as the typewriting is
concerned. | am also glad to have
something from your pen-type
writer, | mean; because when people
finish reading your stuff it doesn't
make them feel so bad to read mine.
The remarks you make about the
prohibition campaign, Lou. are elo-
quent, but like the works of the
watch, they have nothing to do with
the case. You will cause the ungod1y
to scott. "What?" they will say, "has
this high muckymuck in the M. E.
church bribed that disreputable news
paper? What's the use of our trying
to be good when the Lord can see
such things and not rain down fire
and birthstone" And then will ensue
carnival of wickedness that will
make Gomorrah look like New Eng
land village of 1880 A. D.
l am never surprised at anything
you do. Lou, so your intimation that
| desire more consideration for a ne
gro than for white man does not
phaze me. | have never spoken up
strongly against anything l believed
to be wrong without having some per-
son impute to me a wrong motive. l
am used to it; l instinctively know
when to expect it.; l know that when
ever I depart from the broad and
pleasant policy of assuming that
'Whatever is, is right" I will bring
flock of chasers after my goat; but
the old goat is with me and right
frisky yet.
| | have never advertised that / was
modest, Lou; neither have / claimed
any other virtue. / admit that you
have been a faithful prohibitionist
and regular with your checks, which
have done more for the cause than
anything else that you have inscribed
Speaking of prohibition, Lou, re-
minds me that | am thirsty and must
go to Charlie Hunters and imbibe one
of those robust cups of coffee that
keep even a feeble brain working two
more hours on top of twelve. l am 3
little bit sad, Lou; I can't help think
ing that if you were here with me al
this witching hour of midnight. anC
you had a bottle of Peruna and / g
flask of Maryland Club, we could dis
cuss genially on old times, each sip
ping meanwhile his favorite brew
They tell me Peruna isn't what il
used to be, Lou; but I always pre-
ferred my redeye straight anyhow.
suppose we would have such a gooC
time that this article would not b.
written, but that would be no loss t.
literature.
Those remarks, however, to the eff
feet that your checks and others gave
point to the Stars successful attach
on booze show that you have no
abolished from yourself the melan
choly habit of measuring other PEG
pies corn in your half bushel. VIII!
didn't that bright idea occur to yol
some four and third years ago whel
the Star was handing shortarm jolt
to the Demon Rum. The fact is, dea
,, Lou, you and your brother prohibs
also the gentlemen on the othe
side wasted your good kale. Yo!
would get clippings from the Uniol
Signal and the Sunday School Times
and quotations from Frances Willar
and John B. Cough and bring them t
the Star and Banner and have then
printed. They pleased the alread
; good but they fell as harmless a
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> spair. They changed no votes, an
) the liquor crowd had the most vote:
. And the liquor crowd pursued tn
; same tactics. They had printed
> lot of CUFF that gratifed their pre-
. JUDGES, but altered no ones opinion
, They printed more than the drys. be
: cause they had lot more money. Bu
. they never got even a fngerhold o
o the Stars editorial page-whenever
: referred to the subject, it favored pre-
> hibition. The Star didn't favor tn