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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1911.
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FOREIGN ADVERTISING.
Foreljm A dvertlslnjr Robert MaQuold.
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1811.
r Searching For
; The Bribe Offerer.
The legislature of Florida Is after the
ne who attempted to bribe one of Its
members. The Investigation may, or
may not prove anything, yet it will
have an Influence for good that will
be felt for some time to come. .
The case did not point to one fa
miliar with the bribing business and
; It looks decidedly amateurish, but that
does not matter, for the money was
sent and It was not sent for the reason
: that some unknown parties wanted to
; contribute that much to a member of
the legislature. Whoever sent the
money expected something in return.
Now the committee Is searching for
'The man who sent the bribe and it Is
earnestly hoped that he guilty one can
be found. The search should not cease
until every available clue is followed
to the end.
. Floridians have much to be thankful
for that the bribe, was not effective.
"We are glad that the first attempt to
bribe a member was exposed.
man naturally wants his wife to have
all of the pleasures of life, but he
should remember that they cannot last
if they live tip to their means weekly.
By ail means encourage the young
people to marry," but Impress upon
them the seriousness of the proposi
tion, and the necessity of beginning
life in the right way.
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Alaska is to have a spring sold
clean-up. In Florida we have our gold
clean-up In the fall when the sweet
potato crop is ready to be gathered.
The wool trust should have been
probed in the winter. It's too hot for
such work in the summer. Besides the
watermelon patches are too Inviting to
permit of such work in the summer
time.
No, the city primary Is not called off,
it's Just a quiet, dignified, race, that's
all.
In Georgia the liquor law has been
taken before the supreme court judges.
Evidently it is thought the supreme
court judges know more about liquor
than anyone else in that state. -,
Someone has said that it is the
"JacksonvUJe spirit" that- has made
Jacksonville. Maybe so, but we are of
the opinio r. that the spirit should be
closely followed by an "a."
Beautiful days like yesterday make a
fellow forget that the one before was
not sunshiny and cheerful.
Yesterday was "Bird Day" in Mobile
and was observed by the many schools
there. We suppose that they will try
to tell the school children that Mo
bile's a bird.
ine journal want aqs. are in a
broad sense the market place of the
people where the buyer and seller,
the employe and the employer get in
communication with each other.
A hot contest is promised for
job of adjutant-general next year.
the
It is said that the Atlantic coast is
gradually but surely sinking. We al
ways did have an idea that those peo
ple over there were getting "low
down."
President Taft wants it strictly un
derstood that we do not want any more
territory. What he has now keeps him
in hot water all the time.
Renovating Oyster Beds.
The largest known shell heap, con
taining millions of shells, is the prop
erty of a New Haven company.
Such shells are far from being Use
less. According to the Strand they are
one of the most important adjuncts
of the oyster Industry. Unless the
spawn of the oyster have some clean,
smooth surface upon which to attach
themselves they die. for they are very
delicate in the first few days of their
existence and require beds as clean
and sweet as do the most delicate hu
man babies.
It is while the shells are piled up
in these great mountains that they are
cleaned and freed from everything In
the way of dirt and bits of adhering
oyster eyes, by the air, rain and sun
shine. When the cleaning process is
finished they are loaded upon steam
dredges and scows and then are towed
out to the beds and carefully spread
over tho bottom ready for the set, as
the fixing of the span to their surfaces
is called.
After they have served their purpose
for one season's crop they are taken
up and brought back, to be again piled
and cleaned. Ex'' -n;;e.
After the Fees.
The Pensacola . ivnal is publishing
actual figures aV ' the fee system.
In a recent examr- it showed that a
case of vagrancy cost the taxpayers
$28.92. The justice of the peace got
$2.50, the constable $14.30. the sheriff
$4.55, the clerk $2.57. and the solicitor
$5.00. The Journal comments: The
sheriff's office, in every county in the
state is today run for revenue Just
like a dry goods, grocery or barroom
business. The more business, the more
revenue. The more revenue, tne nigner
the people's taxes. , kittle cases of
crap-shooting, train-riding, vagrancy,
are made to pay in proportion to num
ber, distance traveled, length of time
spent in Jail, and other, incidentals
necessary to secure conviction or pile
up costs. In nearly every instance the
officers of the law are themselves the
witnesses. No one else cares anything
about them." Tampa Tribune.
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What It Costs
To Support a Family.
At this season of the year when so
1 many marriages are taking place no
doubt some of the young would-be
""grooms are hanging back thinking that
- they cannot afford to be married. . To
- t these, Marcus Alexander, former chalr
"i ? man-'of -the ''state pension c&mmission
' "of New York, sends a 'cheering mes
sage and tells them not to lose heart.
In a statement before the Twentieth
Century Club in New York recently; he j
" said that an adult male can decently
and properly support a family on six
hundred dollars a year. He says If he -
cannot do this he is Ignorant or waste
ful. . .
Here are the claims made by the
commissioner: "
..:: A normal family of five can be sup-
- ported decently on $600 yearly. ,
If a man cannot support his family
n this amount he Is Ignorant or
wasteful.
7" . A normal family consists of father,
mother 'and three children under 14
years. ,
Rent to cost $3 to $5 weekly; light
and heat, 65 cents weekly.
w ;. Food to cost $4.25 to $5 weekly.
Ignorance and wastefulness cause of
poverty, and not low wages.
t . It will be seen that he does not allow
: Very much for clothing, nor anything
ifor the inevitable "rainy day", but it
I .Tmust be admitted that the young peo-
pie of today attempt , to begin their
i married life upon a too extravagant
"scale. The flfteen-dollar-a-week clerk
wants to go the same stride that the
- r bank president goes and he does not
seem to realize that the bank president
did not get his fortune by extravagant
living.
This is the mistake of young people,
and it is a natural one, for the young
Colonel Roosevelt says he wants to
die in battle. If he would refresh his
memory he will remember that he did
die in the last New York battle be
tween the Republican and the Demo
crats.
The shoe trust is one that does not
bother Florida. "We just keep on going
barefooted and laugh at the trust of
ficials.
Editor Jordan still contends that wo
men would be charming and he would
love them just the same if they wear
only smiles.
The fifth number of the Messenger,
edited by. the Rev. . John Brown, B. D.
of the Episcopal church of Pensacola,
is on our exchange table. The Mes
senger is issued monthly and is a well
gotten up periodical and full of good
articles and letters in regard to the
work for which it Is published. The
illustrations "are good and the adver
tising patronage is liberal. The Jour
nal wishes the Messenger a long and
useful life.
The fellow sending the two hundred
dollars to Mr. Wall must have thought
he came from the five and ten cent
store.
We have not heard what he thinks.
but Governor Gilchrist evidently does
not share the opinion of Secretary
Powell that "every baby's a boost."
The mocking-birds of West Florida
sing so sweetly that no one, not even
the bad boys, want to kill them.
The Tampa Tribune would regulate
the drinking habit, but after reading
its long editorial on the subject we
reach the conclusion that the editor
had not been regulating his drinking
habit before he began to write on the
subject.
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This contains no opiates whatever
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lasting benefits.
An Unnecessary Evil.
Editor Albert Wiliamson, of the
Jacksonville Floridlan, strikes right at
the root of the matter In the following
forcible remarks in regard to express
company evils:
"We have never yet been able to see
the necessity for express companies.
The railroads do the hauling and there
are public drays enough to deliver the
freight in every town and railroad sta
tion in the country. But then, there
has to be a corruption fund and the
express companies are the largest contributors.
"It is safe to assert, that these ex
press companies have more represen
tatives in the two houses of congress
than any known agency1 the Standard
OH Company not excepted.
How can we ever hope for legisla
tion to ameliorate the condition of the
producing element of this country?
'The parcels post would practically
drive them out of business In the car
rying of small packages, but unless the
people of the country can be aroused
to defeat the representatives of these
companies in congress, there is no
hope for the parcels post..
"We have heard a great deal about
'necessary evils,' but while we know
these companies to be 'evils and com
mon nuisances, they are wholly 'un
necessary' and ought to be driven out
of the business.
"Parcels post would prove a great
benefactor to he farmer, but the four
great express companies are barriers
to the needs of the rural 1st. These
companies own each other's stock, and
the railroads own stock in all of them,
and carry express matter far cheaper
than they carry the mails, , and make
such enormous profits that they dis
tribute millions of dollars in bonds to
the stockholders to prevent the divi
dends looking too large." Gainesville
Sun.
The legislature has done one
deed by killing the racing game.
good I
The Sanford Herald and the Gaines
ville Sun are ranting about chicken
thieves in their sections. When a fel
low's appetite calls for chicken he must
have it why, tight now if we knew
where one was we would be right there
trying to help it move its lodging
place. The desire to get a chicken Is
a form of Insanity and not a crime.
The Montgomery Advertiser thinks
that if Booker should get the Texas
railroad he would provide a Jim crow
trailer for the whites to ride in.
A Mississippi negro that is to be
hanged in June has made a request
that he have all the bananas he can
eat until the Jqb Is pulled off. When
ever a negro prefers bananas to pea
nuts or watermelons It Is a sure sljrn
that he should be preserved as a freak
of the negro race.
nearst nas Dougnt a London paper
and we are wondering what the sleepy
Englishmen will think when they see
the usual scare-heads that appear in
the Hearst Journals.
Birmingham people are carried away
with the new commission form of gov
ernment, though Montgomery does not
seem so well satisfied. The trouble in
the latter city seems to be with the
commissioners and if they do not
change their way the recall may be
put into effect and by so doing get the
kind of commissioners the people want.
Ignoring the Governor.
The most flagrant instance, among
many, wherein the present legislature
has attempted to ignore the state
executive and his lawful messages, was
on Friday of last week, when Governor
Gilchrist sent a message to the legisla
ture making certain recommendations.
Page 6 of Friday's "Journal of the
House of Representatives" shows how
it was disposed of. It says:
"Mr. Matthews moved that the read
ing of the communication received
from the governor be dispensed wtlh,
and that the same be spread on the
Journal.
"Mr. Bullock moved to lay the mo
tlon of Mr. Matthews on the table.
Whlch motion was not agreed to.
"The question recurred upon the
original motion.
"Which was agreed to.
If those legislators who are misrep
resenting the people at Tallahassee do
not wish to act in accordance with the
rules of well regulated legislative as
semblles, and as gentlemen, let them
resign and go home.' The respectable
citizenship of the state have no use
for such misnamed representatives.
And further, they would like to know
Just who voted yea, and who voted
nay on this question. It will be noted
that the outfit was too cowardly to
publish In their Journal the names of
those voting to carry out this ignoring
COMMON AT THIS SEASON.
(With apalogles to Robbie Burns.)
My heart's on the diamond.
My heart is not here;
My heart's on the diamond,
A-chasing the sphere.
A-chasing the round ball and batting
also;
My heart's on the diamond wherever I
go. Success Magazine.
"Looking at that knob? That's my
bump of caution." "Born with it, were
you?" "Oh, no. Kicked by a mule."
Kansas City Journal.
Epileptic Fits
There Is nothing more frightful In a
happy home than to have one of Its
members instantly seized with a dread
ful attack of Epilepsy or Fits. The
many grateful letters from such homes.
after the use of Kosine, the remark
able remedy for this dread ailment.
testify to the real merit of the prepa
ration.
It Is a meritorious article and Is
sold on a guarantee plan that deserves
your confidence. The price, $1.60, will
be refunded by The Crystal Pharmacy
if not fully satisfied after using a bot
tie. Mall orders filled by the Kosine
Co, Washington, D. C, or The Crystal
Pharmacy.
reenhut to the Voters.
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The anonymous political poster, hand bill, circular, and newspaper advertisement, have all come to be
universally regarded as the'last dose to be administered, when heroic treatment becomes necessary to re
store life and vigor to political fortunes that are on the wane.
They are sometimes effective, but rarely. In this day of enlightenment and love of fair play.
For ten days previous to last Tuesday, I was absent from Pensacola, in attendance as a delegate rep
resenting the entire state of Florida, upon a convention at Hot Springs, Arkansas, which adopted plans
for financing and constructing a superb free hospital at Hot Springs, that will be maintained by my co
religionists, but at the same time, absolutely non-sectarian In its charities.
During my absence, ominous signs must have appeared on the political horizon of Mayor Reilly. In
deed, desperate symptoms demanding heroic treatment of his political fortunes, must have manifested
themselves. Otherwise, I am sure that the Mayor, or, perhaps, his friends acting for him, would not have
resorted to the always desperate expedient of employing an anonymous campaign document, such as the
following advertisement is, which appeared in The Evening News, one afternoon last week:
TO THE VOTERS.
Facts and figures do not warrant Mr. Greenhut's "irresistible" conclusions In his circular; the injustice
done the Administration, more , especially the City Council, Board of Public Works and Public Safety, and
Bond Trustees; gentlemen who have given their time and services without compensation for the upbuild
ing of our City and who have accomplished such fine results In the progress and municipal improvements
within the past two years, and who have made all the arrangements and sold the bonds at a good price
for the contemplated improvements amounting to nearly $600,000.00.
If two-thirds of the voters of the City were opposed to the present administration, as Mr. Greenhut
claims, their protest was not directed solely against the present head of this administration, as three
fourths of the votes were directed against Mr. Greenhut, as President of the City Council, who appointed
all the Committees, and who Is supposed to exercise influence over that body for the good of the City and
also Mr. Concannon, a prominent member of the Council. The very flattering vote these gentlemen re
ceived as well as the large vote received by the present Mayor, shows concluslvly that the people were
satisfied with the past conduct of the City affairs, and it was only a question of individual choice which
one of the present City Officials should carry on the policies of the past two years. This endorsement
of the Administration is emphasized by the vote cast; for the present Mayor, 36 per cent; Mr. Greenhut,
26 per cent; Mr. Concannon, 25 per cent; Mr. Goodman, 13 per cent. Of the whole vote cast, 87 per cent
being divided between Administration candidates, which shows very plainly that of the three candidates
voted for, Mr. Reilly was the choice. s
JUSTICE.
It Is manifest that the intent of the above labored production of Juttiee, Is to counteract the effect of
the statistical facts, and Irresistible conclusions drawn therefrom, contained in an address which I issued
to the voters of Pensacola, over my own name, a few days succeeding the first primary.
It has been the habit of my entire life to deal, not only with the public, but with individuals, openly
and above board. Never, as a private citizen, have I In any public utterance concealed my identity under a
nom de plume; never have I done so as a public officials; and, as a candidate for the exalted office of
Mayor of Pensacola, every advertisement, every line of campaign literature Issued by me, or In my behalf,
has appeared over my own name.
Ordinarily, I know, the candidate who refrains from the use of noms de plume, and anonymously is
sued campaign literature, rarely dignifies such literature with his notice. But, I am taking cognizance of
Justice's address "To The Voters", In order that the voters of Pensacola may Judge for themselves its
puerile weakness in controversion of my address to the voters, which it purports to answer.
Indeed, I am reproducing It in full, that the voters may re-read Mayor Reilly's percentage figures of
the vote received by the several candidates for Mayor in the first primary, and compare them with the
following corrected percentages, viz:
In the first primary there were 2080 votes polled for the four candidates for Mayor.
J. E. Concannon received. 520 votes, or 25 per cent of the total vote cast.
C. C. Goodman received ...... 282 votes, or 13.55 per cent of the total vote.
A. Greenhut received. 554 votes, or 26.55 per cent of the total vote.
A total for the three of 1356 votes, or 65.20 per cent of the total vote.
Mayor Reilly received 724 votes, or 34.80 per cent of the total vote.
A grand total of.
.....2080 votes, or 100 per cent.
Against whom was every campaign utterance, every line of campaign literature, issued by Mr, Con
cannon, directed?
Was it not Mayor Reiltyt
Against the administrative policies of whom, did Mr. Goodman direct his every campaign utterance,
his every line of campaign literature?
Was it not against the policies of administration then, and now, being pursued by Mr. Reilly?
Does it not follow then, that the votes polled for both Messrs. Concannon and Goodman, were cast as
a protest against the administration of the Mayor's office by Mr. Reilly?
Is it not obvious, therefore, that I am reproducing Justice's address "To The Voters" that the voters
may analyze it, and thereby convince themselves of its far-fetched premises and threadbare texture, even
in the most essential detail that it contains?
To the arbitrament of the fair-minded, unprejudiced voters of Pensacola, I am willing, and do leave
the question of the fairness of Mayor Reilly, or his friends acting for him, in promulgating an anonymous
campaign document during my absence, almost a thousands miles from home.
A. GREENHUT.
A Touch
Smartness
is added to woman's appearance
by neat, and natty footwear. All
sorts of shoes are offered you
this season, but they vary as
much in fit as they do in style.
The safe way is to wear Bos
ton Shoe Store shoes, and be al
ways comfortable and stylish.
This season's models are made
with unusual careful attention,
and of every leather and fabric
that feminine heart could desire.
Two fifty to four.
Boston
Shoe Store
Comfort Foot Fitters
h.
VERY IMPORTANT
indeed is your choice of Lumber when
you are building. Much depends on
the kind and condition of the wood
you use.
THE LUMBER
we sell is Just as we represent It and
thoroughly dependable.
DeSilva & Ferriss Co.
Phones 11 and 882.
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of the governor. Undoubtedly they
feared to go before their constituents
tagged as HI mannered yokels. Let's
have the names. Panama City Pilot.
How Is This?
The census bureau has fixed Milton's
clock. According to the statistics of
population for Florida, recently sent
out by the bureau, MUton had. in 1890,
a population of 1455;. in. 1900, she had
1204, and In 1910. she had 831. At this
rate it will require only twenty years
more for MUton to be wiped completely
off the map, although she is growing
every day and has at present more
than double as many people as she
ever had at one time before.
All this comes as a result of the de
partment appointing wholly Incompe
tent enumerators. It can easily be
shown that not one-half of the popula
tion of Santa Rosa county was enu
merated last year. In the first place,
the enumerators were Incompetent, and
secondly, they had Just half time in
which to do the work. There is no use
spending the people's money In at
tempting to enumerate the people If It
cannot be done more effectually than
it was in 1910. Santa Rosa Star.
VOX POPULI.
ANOTHER COMES TO THE
DEFENSE OF PASTOR RUSSELL
Westville. Fla May 4. 1911.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
Sometimes the evidence of that per
nicious literary disease, cacoethes
scribendi, is so painfully apparent
in the literary effusions of certaia
writers, Inspiring sometimes pity and
again disgust and contempt. Such
were the Impressions made on my
mind Just now, when I had read the
remarkable contribution to your Vox
Popull department In Sunday's Jour
nal, signed C. W. Humphreys, Milton,
Fla. Truly, Mr. Humphreys makes
some of the most inconsistent and ab
surd charges to come from a man of
such broad and liberal principles as he
professes to hold, that I ever knew, or
heard before now.
"Pastor Russell" needs no defense
from my weak pen, nor indeed from
any human arm, however powerful it
might be, for Pastor Russell is the
servant of the most high God. a due
time prophet of the Lord, and as such
and in strict harmony with Satan's
persecutions throughout all ages, he
must needs meet with persecution,
contumely and reproach, for Christ's
sake, and "the body of Christ," the
church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of The Truth.
But, woe unto the blind and ignor
ant persecutor! Like the ancient
scribes and Pharisees, filled with sec
tarian pride and pomposity, blind fol
lowers of ancient credal thoughts and
forms, their minds filled with the dread
phantasmagoria of "historical the
ology." "It must needs be that of
fenses come," said Jesus, "but woe
unto that man by whom the offense
cometh. It were better for him that a
mill-stone was tied about his reck and
he cast into the midst of the sea."
The publicity afforded through the
columns of such an influential and
popular medium as our favorite Dally
Journal, carries with it an influence
which, in such cases as this, might
prove detrimental not to Brother Rus
sell, for he is too well and widely
man as he Is, a meek, mild, yet holy
man of God. Therefore, such absurd
and inconsistent assertions cannot
harm him. But that part of the pub
lic who do not know him might be in
fluenced by such charges to their own
loss and spiritual detriment. Ignorant
prejudice is a most baleful error, often
leading to the doing of gross wrong, as
in this case, and yet, without excuse,
for If through ignorance such baseless
charges are made, what must we think
of this writer's honesty of purpose.
And on the other hand, If he knew
what Brother Russell had taught, had
read his sermons and theologic works,
and then make such deliberate false
assertions, what then must we think
of such a writer?
W. D. WILLIAMS.
P. S. Since writing the above and
before mailing, I have received my to
day's Journal and I note with Interest
and satisfaction the several criticisms
of the progress of Divine Truth, of
due time enlightenment, as promul
gated by the teachings of Brother Rus
sell, showing that in this busy money
mad period. In the byways and high
ways, there are those who dare to do
their own thinking and who are neither
afraid nor ashamed to be found out as
one of those who "have been with
Jesus." W. D. W.
Constipation brings many ailments
in its train and is the primary cause
of much sickness. Keep your bowels
regular madam, and you will escape
many of the ailments to which women
are subject. Constipation is a very
simple thing, but like many simple
things, it may lead to serious conse
quences. Nature often needs a little
assistance an J when Chamberlain's
Tablets are given at the first indica
tion, much distress and suffering may
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Pensacola, Florida.