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FLORIDA WHISKEY FIGHTERS ARE UP IN ARMS
The Headquarters Committee of the Florida Anti-Saloon League Sends Out Ringing Indorsement of Charles Wesley Crooke, the
New State Superintendent—And Crooke Clears the Deck for Action.
E like the way they have gone at
it down in Florida. To be sure,
Chas. Wesley Crooke, the new su
perintendent of the Florida Anti-
Saloon League, is amply able to
take care of himself anywhere; but
the wise Headquarters Committee
in that state have determined that
their new leader shall not wade
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out into the deep water alone. They have pre
pared a ringing introduction and indorsement
of the new superintendent, together with en
thusiastic testimonials from his “comrades in
arms” in other battles. For the sake of our
large circle of readers in Florida and also for
the interest of “everybody everywhere” who
is deeply interested in the coming Florida fight,
The Golden Age reproduces in full the letter
of the committee and Superintendent Crooke’s
stirring address to the people:
New State Superintendent of Florida League.
In introducing Rev. C. W. Crooke, our new
state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
selected after several months of deliberation
and inquiry, we believe, from the best infor
mation available, and from testimonials from
those who are in position to know, that we
have the man who will be able to lead us to ul
timate victory over the liquor forces in this
state. Here are some reports concerning Mr.
Crooke’s work:
Rev. J. Solomon, pastor M. E. Church, Hunts
ville, Texas, says: “Your temperance lecture
is without question the best I have ever heard
in thirty years’ experience. There is no extra
neous matter, but it deals fairly in indisputable
facts, and convinces.”
Rev. J. C. Mimms, pastor M. E. Church,
South, Mexia, says: “I shall never forget those
prohibition lectures. They contributed a vast
deal to our local option victory.”
The great evangelist, George R. Stuart, says:
“In all my twenty-four years of experience, I
Rave not found any manager of my temper
ance lectures who has met with such universal
success. Mr. Crooke takes care of the small
est, as well as the largest, detail in a given
plan.
Dr. J. W. Moore, president of the State Board
of Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League of Tex
as, 1910, says: “I wish to give expression of
the appreciation of the League for your serv
ices. By your unremitting toil and wise plans
you have placed the League on a strong foot
ing. Both Superintendent Strong and other
members of the Board speak highly of the
efficiency of your service. Your continued sue-
Tread softly, stranger, nor lightly wake
The echoes of these mouldering walls,
The spirits of a distant part
Still haunt these silent halls.
The names of those who gathered once,
Around its hearth-stone warm,
Still lend unto the ancient pile
A melancholy charm.
■Within its shelter here reposed,
So the ancient legend runs,
England’s brightest chivalry
And America’s glorious sons.
Here the Lord Cornwallis slept,
While binding Freedom’s arm,
And here the patriots vigils kept
To give the first alarm,
Poem Copied from the Walls of the
Old “Grove House”
cess is the heartfelt wish of the Board of Trus
tees, and the President of the Anti-Saloon
League of Texas.”
Wm. D. Upshaw, Editor of The Golden Age,
Atlanta, Ga., says:
“Mr. Crooke managed the whirlwind cam
paigns of the dauntless George Stuart in Texas
in such splendid fashion that the people know
from Texarkana to El Paso, and from Orange
to Dalhart, that there was ‘something doing.’
A gifted speaker himself, and a well-poised,
clear-headed organizer and leader, Mr. Crooke
is just the type of man to follow the splendid
work of former Superintendent Charles L.
Collins, in the Florida campaign.”
Hon. Sterling P. Strong, Superintendent of
the Anti-Saloon League of Texas, says: “While
I was superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League
of Texas, Rev. C. W. Crooke was Assistant
State Superintendent, and I can truthfully say
that his work as an organizer and in carrying
out the details of the Anti-Saloon League plans,
to my mind, can not be excelled.
Rev. Arthur W. Jones, State Evangelist
Christian Church in Texas, says: “I was as
sociated with Rev. C. W. Crooke for two years
in the Anti-Saloon League work of Texas.
During the period of his services as Assistant
State Superintendent, we did the greatest work
ever done in the state for the cause of tem
perance. He is an elegant, courteous, Chris
tian gentleman, a splendid speaker, and the
best office and field organizer we have ever
had in the work of Texas. With his guidance,
victory should soon come for prohibition in
Florida.”
Dr. P. A. Baker, General Superintendent
Anti-Saloon League of America says: ‘ !We con
gratulate the people of Florida on securing the
services of Rev. C. W. Crooke, D. D., as su
perintendent of the Anti-Saloon League in that
state. Doctor Crooke has had considerable ex
perience in League work, and has proved him
self an excellent workman. He is an educated,
cultured gentleman, who will carry a whole
some influence wherever he goes. We bespeak
for him a successful administration of League
affairs in Florida.”
Mr. Crooke, for three years Assistant State
Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of
Texas, helped to manage two great battles in
that state, and under the direction of the Na
tional Superintendent, Dr. P. A. Baker, has
now worked for nearly a year with the Na
tional Anti-Saloon League, from which position,
well-equipped for the battle, he comes to enter
’Twas here that naughty Tarleton,
Amid the blood and slaughter,
Withered beneath the flashing wit
Os Carolina’s daring daughter.
Within that ruined mossy mound
Which but for cruel death had dawned
A fair and winsome maid.
And out there ’neath those spreading oaks,
Where bushy brambles creep,
Her honored sire, with folded arms,
Now sleeps his last long sleep.
So, stranger, pause in silence here,
Thy future thou cans’t read,
For thine will be a memory dear,
Like that,thou now dost read.
(Signed) A PASSER-BY,
The Golden Age for December 5, 1912.
the war of extermination of the “pest” in
Florida.
Our good old temperance ship has again put
on her war paint. Mr. Crooke has already
cleared the deck for action. The immediate
battle is for five more dry counties, and for
state-wide enforcement of law, preparatory to
another big battle for state-wide prohibition—
to begin as soon as the State Board of Trustees
and advisors shall speak the word.
Let’s all step into line —all over the great
state of Florida—and furnish munitions of war
in adequate quantity for the needs of the work,
and make the next great battle against
“liquor” the decisive engagement that shall
not cripple the traffic only, but tear down its
strongholds and utterly destroy this “enemy
of all good.”
A. D. STEVENS,
E. 0. PAINTER,
F. E. JENNINGS,
C. W. KINNE,
L. R. LYNN,
C. M. GRIFFING.
Headquarters Committee.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 12, 1912.
Address to the People.
Having fought for three years in the hottest
of the battle for prohibition in Texas, and
then for a year with the National Anti-Saloon
League, I now enlist for the war of extermina
tion of the liquor traffic in Florida.
Now is the crisis in the battle for prohibition
in this state. Two things must be done. First,
we must strenuously enforce our temperance
laws in dry counties. Second, we must dry
out some more wet territory.
These two things will be done. The battle is
on. We begin at once to organize the state for
the most thorough campaign of enforcement
of temperance laws the League has ever at
tempted, and we enter at once five counties for
conquest of territory. Os the eleven wet coun
ties in the state, we expect to win at least five
within a few weeks.
I recognize the responsibilities of the situa
tion and the great need of wisdom and strength
for the necessities of the hour, and now, as al
ways, and in this battle, as in all things, I
know that it is God who gives wisdom for lead
ership, and strength and endurance for the bat
tle.
Let every soldier of the cross enlist at once
to fight to the end of the war, for file downfall
of King Alcohol in Florida.
C. W. CROOKE,
State Superintendent.
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