The Ocala banner., March 13, 1891, Image 4

About The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?

Image provided by: University of Florida

                
alliance department,
M. H. LYTLE , A. P. BASKIN, M. L.
j PAYNE, Editing Committee.
THE BANNER AND THE ALLI
ANCE.
The Marion County Alliance and In
dustrial Union, at its late meeting at
Hickory Springs, as has already been
announced, adopted Tiie Banner as its
official organ. This “ endorsement ”
came almost as a surprise and is to be
accounted for solely on the merits of
The Banner as a newspaper. It is a
high compliment and one which we re
gard with due appreciation.
The Banner believesithat the unequal
distribution of wealth is the result of
some wrong somewhere in the pursu
ance of a false political economy and
the enactment of injurious laws and can
only be corrected by and through legis
lat:on. It believes that the Farmers’
Alliance organization is a movement
that will ultimately lead up to the correc
tion of these abuses, and for that reason
is with it.
Agriculture is the basis of all wealth.
All men must consume the products of
the farm, so when there comes an ap
palling shrinkage in farm values, and a
marked depression in agriculture in all
sections of the country, and this in the
presence of a constant increase of popu
lation and a vast accumutaion of the non
producing classes, what are we to at
tribute this universal distress in farming
to ? Is it because of shiftlessness; is be
cause of bad management; is it for the
want of skill and intelligence? It can
not be possible that we have a whole
nation of shiftless farmers; there can not
be universal bad management, and there
is certainly as much skill ad intelli
gence devoted to farm operations now as
at any time in our history ; nay, there is
a general concensus of opinion that
there are more. Then must not this dis
tress lie outside and beyond the domain
of the farm? It seems to us that it
does, and until the errors in laws and
economics producing these abuses are
discovered and corrected, and which, in
our opinion, can only be done in the do
main and through the instrumentalities
of politics, the more shift, the more in
telligence, the moreskil), the more abun
dant the harvest, must only add to the
distress of the farmer. Is this as it
should be? Should a man’s abundance
he his poverty ? Shpuld time and labor
saving inventions add to the distress and
toil of human labor? The opeiations of
laws must bear unevenly and unequally
o 1 the working and producing classes
t) bring about this condition of tilings
and until they are corrected this depres
sion of labor and agriculture must contin
ue? Why should there he a tax on tobac
co? Why should there he a tax on any
of the necessaries of life? Why shouid
ture the products of his farm into those
things that would pay him best ? Why
should he not be permuted to convert
his molasses into rum if it pays him
more; his corn into whiskey ; his
peaches into brandy; his oranges into
wine? Why should only the few bo
allowed these privileges? Why should
not all barriers be battered down and
the markets of the world opened to the
American farmer? Why should not
mineral and unoccupied lands, held for
the purposes of speculation, boar the
same, or even a greater weight of taxa
tion, than the improved lands of the
farmer ?
In these directions we believe lie the
cure for the distress of the farmer and
we believe the Farmers Alliance will
gradually move up to these lines and
one after another ellect those reforms,
and make the inequalities of opportuni
ties, now so apparent, and which pro
duce so unequal a distribution of wealth,
impossible.
Until an editor is appointed the “Alli
ance Department ” of the paper will he
edited by the committee, which consists
of Messrs. F. 11. Lytie, A. F. Baskin and
>l. L. Payne and who alone are responsi
ble for the conduct of the same.
F. E. Harris.
l.lving Issues.
Gold Alone.
Whoever has read the recent series of
: rtjeles by Mr. Edward Atkinson, in
iradstreet’sor other discussions in the
,-ress, as the Boston Herald, must he
mpressed by the manifest evidence that
.dready, as an accomplished fact, the
■ mly real standard of international ex
rhanges in gold, and that, whatever the
appearance may he, and however silver
may be used as a domestic standard, in
international exchanges it is silently
measured in gold, perhaps unconsciously
so.
This fact having been observed, a lit
tle reflection will show that it is alto
gether beyond the power of legislation
to change it, for it lias not come by legis
lation, nor is it it in any way dependent
upon it. A nation can determine its
domestic standard by law, hut not that
which is international. That comes by
the flow of forces beyond the scope of
legislation.
But the great nations can moderate
the stringency, of the tendency to use
gold only. The use of gold and silver
as money greatly enhances their price.
To diminish that use will diminish their
price. If, now, neither gold nor silver
was used at all in domestic exchanges,
the chief use of them us money would
be at an end, and the pressure for them
would not be so great as it is now.
That would diminish the coustant ten
dency of gold to rise in price relatively
to all other commodoties, as it has risen
thirty per cent, we are told, since the
dose of the rebellion, and to diminish
that rise is for the welfare of all the
pain people.
The legislation needed to bring the
domestic use of gold and silver to an
end is to entirely demonetize them,
that is to take from them their legal
tender ehatacter, and make the natioual
hill of exchange, the greenback, the
only legal tender under the flag.
Should this he done the greenback
womd be the only currency used bv the
people, and gold and silver not being
used at all except for international ex
changes, would come nearer to their
mere value rs a commodity. Some of
the steps of action involved in this to
make it safe we may mention hereafter.
The farmer in politics was at tirst re
garded as a sort of a joke by the leading
journals of the country, and even yet
flippant reference to “sockless states
men” are net infrequent, hut it is plain
that the would-be leaders and dictators
sue beginnsng to comprehend that the
horny-handed sons of toil are very
much interested, not only in the pres
ent bift all subsequent proceedings.—
Appeal-A mlanche.
Debt and Interest.
If there is one thing more than an
other that should be kept constantly be
fore Alliance men, it is the power of
interest, the rapidity with which it
grows and the importance of keeping out
of its clutches, which can only he done
by keeping out of debt. It is the high
rate of interest which, every few years,
causes a general break-up of business,
when property and products fall in
prices. This also it is which causes
wealth gradually hut steadily to concern
centrate into the hands of comparatively
a few persons in the community. Take
any series of ten, twenty or thirty years
or more, and the longer the series the
more positive and conclusive becomes
the fact, and it will be seen that the
most profitable business in all the world
is the lending of money. The high rate
of money, high rents, and high taxes,
must in the course of a few years tend
to such a concentration of wealth as
cannot fail to be injurious to society, and
will ultimately so straighten the debtor
classes as to necessitate to a very great
extent the process of wiping out old ac
counts and beginning anew. A few ex
amples will be sufficient to illustrate the
great power of interest.
A man buys a house, for which he
pays SIO,OOO. He leases it and charges
the tenant seven per cent, upon its cost,
clear of insurance, taxes and repairs.
The rent is payable quarterly. A rate
of interest of seven per seat, per an
num, paid quarterly, will accumulate a
sum equal to the principal loaned or in
vested in property in ten years, there
fore, his rents build him another as
costly a house as the first. In twenty
years his rents build him three such
houses; in thirty years, seven houses; in
forty years, fifteen houses; in fifty years,
thirty-one houses; in sixty years, sixty
three houses; and in seventy years, one
hundred and twenty-seven houses. In
seventy years all these are built from
• the accumulated rents of one house.
These houses are worth $1,270,000, which
6um has been paid for seventy years’
rent of one house worth SIO,OOO. If, in
stead of being invested in the house and
lot, the SIO,OOO were loaned on interest
at seven per cent, and the interest col
lected and relcaned quarterly, the money
would accumulate precisely the same
amount as the property.
Take another illustration of the power
of interest. Two mechanics, just come
ot age, are good workmen and desirous
of becoming rich. Each is desirous of
earning a dollar a Jay over and above
his expenses. Every six months they
invest the money thus earned, at seven
per cent, interest payable half-yearly.
These men earn and average a dol
lar a day beside their expenses, three
hundred days in a year, during forty
years and four months. Each earns by
labor S3OO per year for forty years, or for
the whole period $24,200. But the inter
est on their returns, loaned half-yearly,
fora period of fort\ years and four
months, doubling at seven per cent.,
paid and re invested half-yearly, in ten
years and four months amounts to $lO4,
550.70; which added to the amount of
$24,200 earned by their labor, makes the
aggregate $128,750.70. The interest on
the sum of $24,200 earned by their labor
is $104,550.70—m0re than four and a
quarter times greater than the amount
they had earned by their labor. Sup
pose the two men to live twenty years
and two months longer—that is to the
age of eiglity-one years and six months
—and continue to loan their money.
During this period it would double
twice, making the total accumulation in
sixty years and six montbg $515,002 80.
The two men do not labor during the
last twenty years and two months, and
expend of their income for living du
ring that period $15,003.80, leaving to
their heirs $500,000. In forty years and
four months they earned by their labor
$24,200, and live twenty years and two
months without labor. Subtract the
money earned by labor, $24,200, and re
member, accumulated by interest, is
$475,800. Now, not one dollar of this
$475,800 is earned by the labor of these
men. It is the legal interest upon $24,-
200. These men live laboriously, and
work for a very moderate compensation.
They take only the legal rate of inter
est. Neither do they enter into any
speculations.
The amount to which nations, mu
’fff.-fpalitres and corporations, as well as
individuals, arc indebted, is a subject of
general complaint. We see here the
cause. It is the accumulation of interest,
from which either no adequate equiva
lent is obtained, or else it is lost by un
wise management. There is due to the
estate of these men, from the small sav
ings of a dollar a day, a sum of $500,000.
It would take the labor of a single man
1,000 years to pay this principal, and it
would require, at one dollar per day, the
constant toil of more than one hundred
and sixteen men to pay the yearly in
terest, or $35,000. From generation to
generation, these men might continue to
pay the interest and still the burden be
uudiminished, and yet, in the short
space of sixty years and six months, two
men, from the small saving of a dollar a
day, aided by the power of interest, have
accumulated this amount.
The following is what the Ruarlist
(Huron S. Dak.) says :
Constantly wc hear it said that all this stir and
commotion among the farmers and laborers will
amount to nothing and the brains aud wealth of
the country will hold the mastery. Hut how did
i hey bring about the present state of attains? By
laws, how do they propose to continue the
mastery? By the process of law. Tate away the
bulwarks ot legal process, and how long would
the upper leu grind down the lower millions ?
The entire system of jurisprudence in this boast
ed land of civil liberty is one sided and discrimi
nating. Money, property, vested rights and
special prlvi leges are as securely guarded as under
the most despotic government. Life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are not of the first im
portance to our lawmakers. To such the pro
tection of the dollars is of greater importance
than the life of the poor. For every proposed
law that may be justly styled class legislation
advanced from our side, wc can point to ten laws
now <-n the statute books that were enacted
so!elj to foitify and protect money. If you do
this capital will withdraw from your state. If
you do that we will foreclose your mortgages and
evict you from your homes. Why aud how f Is
it not unequal and unjust laws that make this
possible? We have said time and again betterpar
that ail ioreigu capital withdraw than that ,we
all be slaves Every chattel mortgage sale is an
auction block, and every edcllon is a phase of
human slavery and wars have been fought over
lesser wrongs. We want the brains ana wealth
of this country to understand that we are not un
friendly to either If they are on a level before the
law with the bodies and souls of the men and
womeu of this land. We are lighting on money
because this government provides that the na
tional banks shall have a monbpoly practically
without interest, and denies the same to us. We
are fighting railroads because they discrimi
nate against the producer* and favor the middle
men a. and bribe the legislators. Let the men of
brains aud |xsessors of boodle take up the wage
of battle just as soon as they please. Moody has
goaded the "cattle” and they have trampled him
into the earth. He has jeered the ‘‘things" and
they have spurned him into oblivion. Pettigrew
has boasted nis omnipotence, and haa fallen like
Lucifer. The people are aroused. These are
they who possess all power, and they make and
unmake the instruments of their pleasure. These
are they who produce all wealth, aud they will
control its distribution.
Another Alliance Organ.
Air. W. I. Vason, who made so splen
did a record while editor of the Alliance
department of the Florida Dispatch,
Fanner and Fiuit Grower, lias begun
the publication of an Alliance newspa
per at Tallahassee, and has Christened
it “The Alliance.” Bro. Vason says
that it will fearlessly and honestly sus
tain ant) defend the platform of prin
ciples adopted at St. Louis and Ocala-
Mr. Vason understands the principles of
the order, is thoroughly in- sympathy
with them and will be able and fearless
in bis championship of them. His pa
rrel- should meet with a pronounced
jiatronage. We gladly place it on our
exchange list and promise to make lib
eral extracts from it.
Northern and Gonld.
National Alliance President, 1.. L.
Polk, has written, indorsing Gov. North
ern’s refusal to meet Jay Gould. The
letter is as follows:
Washington, Feb. 11, U9l.
To Oar. IP. J. Northern .
Dear Sir— Official dignity, when supported by
ihe dignity of true manhood, always commends
Itself to the approval of the American people.
Toadyism in official life, they condemn and de
spise. Please accept the cordial grasp of my
right hand after reading your letter on the Gould
reception, and accept my sincere wishes for the
success ol your hopes and prospects.
Yours very respectftilly and truly,
L. L. Polk.
Col. W. I. Vason, of Taliabasseee, and
editor of the Alliance department, of the
Dispatch, Farm aud Fruit Grower, for the
year 1891. has sent out the 2nd issue of his
paper, “The Alliance,” with the announce
ment that he will “hew to the line let the
chips fall where they may.” We koow the
Colonel to be a thorough Allianceman in
principal and a forcible wri.er, and trust
our jieople will subscribe liberally for his
paper, as he is a man of conviction and
has the courage to speak out on all mat
ters of interest to the Alliances. He stands
flat footed on the St. Louis resolutions, as
reaffirmed with the additional amend
ments at the Ocala convention. We wish
him success in his new enterprise.
MONTIGELIiO RESOLUTIONS.
Adopted by the State Alliance in
October 1800.
WitKREAS.The agricultural interesuof the en
tire country are in a sadly pressed condition and
the causes for such ate directly tractable to an
unwise and unjust system of discrimination in
national legislation, by which other interests
have been and are still fostered, and the great
farming interests of the country has been and is
now neglected; and for the purpoae of correcting
such unjust legislation and securing such meas
ures of relief as the great needs or the country
demand: be it
Knotted, That the State Farmers' Alliance now
assembled in convention, do reaffirm our allegi
ance to the platform of principles of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union adopted
at Bt. Louis in December, 1889, and do most earn
estly and unqualifiedly demand that all Alliance
men who may become members of the Florida
Legislature at the ensuing session, do not sup
port any person as a candidate for election to the
United States Senate unless such person endorses
and subscribes to the following enunciation of
principles, which shall be held as their special
instructions herein;
1. To a reduction of state and national taxa
tion, asserting that taxes should be levied for rev
enue only, and that to an economical and ju
dicious administration.
2. That in the revision of the protective tariff,
the burdens now resting on the agricultural and
laboring classes shall be lessened to the greatest
possible extent.
3. That our representatives in the national
legislature shall ad ocate the passage of such
laws as will prevent speculation and combines
that seek to luterfere with prices of prime neces
sities and productions.
4. To an abolition of the national banking sys
tem, and the substitution of legal treasury notes
in lieu of the national bank notes, and fn suffi
cient volume, in conjunction with gold and silver,
to do tbe business of the country on a cash
basts
That the sub-treasury bill ef the Natioual
Farmers’ Alliance and industrial Union now
pending in congress, of some better system for
the relief of the struggling masses be passed.
Unanimously adopted.
For the Faith That is Within Us.
How does the financial system of this
country accord with Hie voice of our
fathers? What were the views of the
pure and patriotic statesmen of the past
on finance? How did they regard the
national b inking system in their day?
The following resolution is found in
the Democratic platform continuously
from 1840 to I860:
“Kctolral. That Congrea has no power to
charter a United States bank; that we believe
such an institution is of deadly hostility to the
best Interests of tbe country, dangerous to re
publican institutions and tbe liberties of the
people, and calculated to place the business of
the country within the control of a concentrated
money power above the laws and will of tbe
people.”
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Mr.
Gallatiu said: “This national banking
institution is one of most deadly hos
tilities against tbe principles and form of
our constitution. I deem no govern
ment safe which is under the vassalage
of any self constituted authorities, or
any other authority than that of the na
tion or its regular functionairies. What
an obstruction could these banks be in
time of war! They might dictate to us
the peace we should accept, or with
draw their aid. Ought we to give fur
ther growth to an institution so power
ful, so hostile? That it is hostile we
know.”
Andrew Jackson in his farewell ad
dress, speaking of the United States
bank, said: *‘We aro not left to conjec
ture bow the moneyed power thus or
ganized and witli such a weapon in its
hands would be likely to use it. The
distress and alarm w hich pervaded and
agitated the whole country, when the
bank of the United States waged war
upon the people, in order to compel
them to submit to its demands, cannot
easily be forgotten. The mthiessand
unsparing temper with whicli whole
cities and communities were oppressed,
individuals impoverished and ruined,
and a scene of cheerful prosperity sud
denly changed into one of gloTm and
despondency, ougiit to be indelibly im
pressed on the memory of the people of
the United States.
And at another time Old Hickory said:
“The question is distinctly presented,
whether the people of the United States
are to govern, through representatives
chosen by their unbiased suffrages, or
whether the power and money of a
great corporation are to be secretly ex
erted to influence their judgment and
control their decisions. It must now be
determined whether the bank is to have
its candidates for all the offices in the
country, from the highest to the lowest,
or whether candidates on botli sides oi
political questions shall be brought for
ward as heretofore and supported by the
usual means.”
Thomas H. Benton, in the United
States senate, said: “The bank is in the
field enlisted for the war, a battering
ram—not to beat the walls of hostile
cities, but to beat down the citadel of
American liberty; to command the elec
tions and elect a bank president by dint
of bank power. The bank is in the field,
a combatant, and a fearful aud tre
mendous one. If it succeeds, there is
an end of American liberty and end of
the republic."
John C. Calhoun in the U. S. senate,
said: “Place the money power in the
hands of a combination of a few indi
viduals, and they, by expanding or con
tracting tbe currency may rise or sink
prices at pleasure, aud by purchasing
when at the greatest elevation, may
command the whole property and in
dustry of the community and control its
fiscal operations. Tbe banking system
concentrates and places this (rower in
the hands of those who control it.
Never was there an engine invented bet
ter calculated to place the destiny of
the many in the hands of the few, or
less favorable to that equality and inde
pendence, which lies at the bottom of
our free institutions.”
President Lincoln wrote in 1835 tiiat
“Asa result of the war, corporations
have been enthroned and an era of cor
ruption in .high places will follow, and
the money power of this country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working
upon the prejudices of the people until
ail wealth is aggregated in a few hands
and the republic is destroyed.
“I feel at this time more anxiety for
the safety of my country than ever be
fore. even in tiie midst of war. God
grant that my fear may prove ground
less.”
Salmon P. Chase, the father of the
system, said: “My agency in procuring
the passage of the national banking act
was the greatest financial mistake of my
life. It has built a monopoly that effects
every interest iu the country. It should
be repealed, but before this can be ac
complished the people will be arrayed
on one side aud the banks on the other,
in a contest sncli as we have never seen
in this country.” In the light of such
authority well may we pause—to ask
whether we are drifting?
Tbe warning given to the peopie by
these statesmen has not been heeded,
but almost literally verified in tiie situa
tion of to-day. Aggregated wealth and
monopolistic power under the fostering
care of the national government is
threatening our system of free institu
tions and making rapid encroachments
upon the sovereignty of the people.
To-day one-twentieth of one per cent,
of our population own three-fourths of
the entire wealth of the nation.
In 1860, there wsre only two million
aires in the United States, and to-day
there are thirty-one thousand.
Then no corporation controlled more
than three hundred miles of railroad,
and to-day the Richmond Terminal, un
der John H. Inman, owns and controls
nine thousand miles of railroads. Jay
Gould and the Baltimore and Ohio are
scooping up the balance.
All monopolies are against public pol
icy, as being inimical to the interests of
the people, and such immense consoli
dation of lines of transportation pre
vents that healthful competition so con
ducive to the interests of the people who
produce the nation’s wealth. The pol
icy ot the Alliance is to place proper
checks upon such a dangerous power in
which the public intrests are involved.
Tbe methods proposed are by legislative
regulation if possible. If not, then that
the government own and control the
roads, as now obtains in the mail sendee.
Alliance Resolutions.
At the regular session of the Marion
Countv Farmers' Alliance and Indus
trial Union, held at Hickory Springs,
February 17th and 18ib, the following
resolntions were passed:
We reaffirm our allegiance to Alliance nrinoi
chile* as embodied iu tbe Sl Lout* Resolutions
of demands, and relndorted at tbe Ocala con
vention, with additional Ocala resolutions, and
are in favoa of electing no man to tbe Senate of
tbe United States who wiU not befbre hand
pledge himself to work for and unqualifiedly
rapport the came and use his best efforts to have
the same enacted into law. We further believe
that the agricultural and laboring classes are
justly entitled to representation in the national
congress, and we hereby present to onr legisla
tors for their favorable consideration the name
of our esteemed fellow-citizen, H. W. Long, and
believe in bis election to tbe united States Sen
ate, tbe best interests of our common country
would be served.
We hereby instruct our secretary to forward a
copy of these resolutions to our legislators and
to all county alliance* that meet prior to April
Ist, 1891, and also to tbe Ocala Basher and
Farm and Fruit Grower
THE OCALA BANNER. FHfpAY, MARCH 13; 1891.
TiUDMPHANT JOURNALISM
GREAT REJOICING AND SOUND
ING OF TRUMPETS.
A Sweet Tempered Contempory
Lives a Whole Year—A Marvel
and a Revelation-News pa perdom
Stands Aghast.
Our lovely arul loving and sunny tem
pered neighbor has live! for tbe very
long period of twelve months and re
gards it as a matter for great rejoicing
and exultation.
From onr experience and the heights
we occupy, we may be permitted to ask,
“What is it all about?”
Why should the mere matter of living
one year, “with twenty one year’s ex
perience in journalism,” be an event for
the sounding of so many bugle blasts?
Is it because it tops all previous rec
ords —and did all former attempts,
“Die in the bornin ?”
We arc reluctantly led to think so from
what is said. We quote:
“Tbe New Capitol entered the field without
any hope of life.”
Was that really true and for what pur
pose then did it enter the field ?
A scratch of the head must nave con
vinced our sweet tempered neighbor
that that admission, if true, wouldn’t
fall with much force on t ie ears of busi
ness men, so it attempts to correct it
with the next breatli in the following
feeble way:
"Having material and machinery, unequalled
by anything in this part of the state, we relt a--
iured ef success."
“Without hope of life” it “felt sure of
success.” hades of Prentiss wiiat is it
we hear ? Are there then, indeed, such
tilings as “living without life” and “suc
ceeding without success ?”
Perhaps there are. Some newspapers,
like some men, are fearfully and won
derfully made.
"It has never solicited a subscriber.”
Subscriptions have simply poured in
pell mell, burly burly, and a whole
striug of clerks have been kept up late
at nights recording the names, and the
6tream of dollars have swollen both our
National banks to their present propor
tions.
We know r.i! about it aud have heard
the same story many times before.
Some have been pitiless enough to say
that the greatest effort is made at disso
lution and that the dying swan sings
sweetest.
"It has never solicited an advertisement since
its first issue.”
Advertisers run and pant to get in and
rush headlong over one another for the
privilege.
We understand all about it.
“It bas never asked any manta dictate Us
policy.”
That, of course, is intended to be un
derstood as something rare and excep
tional in newspaper annals.
"Don’t tread on me coat tail!”
“It ha* never asked any man if he was lathfied
with its policy. It has never asked any man
whether he was pleased or displeased.”
No, never ? Then what did that whole
column of slush and gush mean, less
than a month ago, about “The conrse of
the New Capitol endorsed ” —“ What
leading citizens say of it?” etc , etc. We
remember, for instance, our good friend
Bob Clark, saying that it was tiie “great
est newspaper on earth” and its editor
(lie“greatest newspaper genius,”or words
to that eflect. We quote from memory.
Wiiat was the meaning of all those ebu
litions of gusto and buncombe from so
many happy and dual-tuned affinities ?
We don’t object to it, because the taste
of men differ, and we are g!ad they do
differ, hut why tiie denial of its every
day doings?
"L has one rate foril* space.”
And yet did it not begin its “life," that
life which was “without hope” but “as
sured of success,” by underbidding its
“ugly rivals” and doing the city jrint
ing for less Ilian one quarter the rates
allowed by law?
Its a daisy and no mistake.
But when it shall iiave weathered tiie
storms of a quarter of a century and at
tended at che birtli and death and buri
al of as many “ugly rivals” as we have,
it will Lave cause for grainlation and ex
cuse enough for reviewing i'.s tiistory in
trumpet tones.
The Banner does not rest on gusli nor
Blush, nor sandy foundations, but is like
a iiouse budded on a rock, aud in its
day lias weathered real storms ; is not
frightened at mere whifls: is accustomed
to loud talk, and is not forgetful of the
fact that it has seen many newspapers
go to wreck and line the shore, and ex
pects to see as many more.
Hewing to a strict line of policy and
being directed by some degree of consis
tency and judgment, caring nothing for
the plaudits nor censure of the moment,
entirely oblivions to the brag and
bluster and pretensions of ottier journ
als, and appealing directly to the con
sciences of the people, Tbe Banner ex
pects to live on forever.
Summer streams rush furiously along
with great noise aud clatter, but their
careers are short lived and soon ended,
while the great depths move on noise
lessly, grandly majesticallv, forever.
The Banner is not unlike one of these
great depth that swallow up the little
rivulets.
That has been its history an.l will be
its history.
It is in better shape today, entwined
deeper in the affections of the people,
with strong!r financial underpinning,
than at any time since its birth, which
occurred on a bright, beautiful and au
spicious May day morning in the year
1866, now nearly twenty-live long years
ago.
If we were disposed to we have a
right to crow aud conld crow long and
loud aud lustilv asany other newspaper,
so here goes:
tjtL
The New Discovery.
You have heard your frieuds and neigh
bors talking about it. You mar yourself
be one of the many who know from per
sonal experience just how good a thing it
is. If you have ever tried it, you are one
of its staunch friends, because the wonder
ful thing about it is, that when once given
a triaJ, Dr. King’s New Discovery ever af
ter holds a place in the house. If you
have never used it and should be afflicted
with a cough, cold or any throat, lnng or
chest trouble, secure a bottle at once and
give it • fair trial. It is guaranteed every
time, or money refunded. Trial bottjes
free at Ed. Delouest’s drugstore. 6.
Got Lonesome and Game Back.
About a month ago Daniel Cliftou, a
while convict, made his escape from the
Bine Spriugs Phosphate camp-
He was chased with hounds, but with
out success. He escaped and returned
to his old home at Arcad'a, where he
sold hiff phosphate land for SB,OOO.
A few days ago he wrote Gapt. Powell,
saying he would return to camp if the
Captain would not be too hard on him,
and serve out hi§ sentence.
CORRESPONDENCE.
' Fiuitland Park.
Our Regular Correspondence,
Mr9. Wm. Mahon is iu very poor
health.
S. Wood shipped the last of his oianae
crop, the 7th hist.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Robinson have re
turned to their home near Myrtle Lake.
We welcome them back and hope they
may decide to make it a permanent resi
dence.
F. W. Morse and son Waiter, fjvm
Marietta, Ohio, visited the Park on rheir
way to Eustis where they intend to
make their future home.
About fifty were present at the pit n'c
which assembled on Crystal lake, Thurs
day, March sth, by invitation of Mr. end
Mrs. Howell. As the party fithd the
easy chairs on the verandas, and the
seats near the lake; promenaded tiie
beach and rowed on the water, one was
reminded by the beauty ot the scenery
of some of tiie popular romnscr rcfoiis
at the north.
A Paßrite
Sparks From ilia Park.
Oar Regular Correspondence.
We make the following condcasions
from the Park Weekly:
Town taxps are now due. Collector
W. H. Blue will receive your money.
B. F. Hopper is the assigns f Tam.
V. Georges drug stock. s
Rev. E. V. Blackman and family wt re
waited on by his Methodist parishoneis
and many substantial tokens of their
good will and love were left with the
pastor and his domestic flock.
Mr. Houseman, of New York, a:.d
Loo Despland,of Washington, D. U., are
new arrivals at the Park.
Dr. L B. R inland gave hi3 lecture on
the “Battle of Gettysburg” at LeR >y
last week to au appreciative audience.
Mrs. C. Oglesbee, of Johnson's Bluff,
on the Suwannee river, {W&ed through
town on her way . \> her orange
grove at Eureka. _ % ..
The departures are Mr. TibL-it's .u;d
sou for Summerville, Mass, L. F. l‘-< rati
and wife, for Brockton, Mas-., and E H.
Tomlinson, for Ansouia, Conn , all of
whom are happy property owers in the
Park.
Burglars entered the drug 6tore of
Tom S. George, but the theft was small.
S. F. Ilosmer, returned from his visit
to South Florida, but said the Park bad
greater attractions for him than any
place he had visited in Florida.
The election of town officers takc3
place Monday, April 7th.
Miss Jessie Bell is teaching the unex
pired school term, caused by Miss Josle
Proskey’s illness.
Mrs. L. B. Rowland was the recipiant
of a very pleasant birthday party last
week. Each caller making her a present
adorned with a bequet.
Married, March sth, at the residence
of the bride’s parents. Silver Springs
Park, Fla., Edward B. Stair, of Macon,
Ga„ to Adda J. Home, of Bridgeport,
Conn.
South Lake Weir Wavelets.
Onr Regular Correspondence.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Gellett were at
Tampa last week.
Mrs. L. H. Smith, of Scranton, Pa.,
and S. B. Segar audjwife, of Westerly,
R. 1., spent a few davs at the Lakeside
Hotel.
C. D. Coats has gone to Tarpon
Springs to oversee one of Myron Gil
lette’ large orange groves.
The Lake Weir company will irregute
their 160 acres] The water will be i;tr(>-
plied by the Ackson company.
Mr. Pulsifer, of Auburn, Me., is a
guest of W. W. Reed, the saw mill man.
Miss Mattie Coats, in company with
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Coats, from Rich
burg, N. Y., are on a visit to their
brother, C. D.
Miss lua Woodin. a handsome bru
nette of Ackron, Ohio, is one of the
charming young ladjes of the Lakeside.
Elward Foster, flic banker from
Lerov, Kans., b also a guest a the
Lakeside. ,
Dr. Faunce is puttqMg in an inhaling
plant. 1
At the Improveimtit Society’s sociable
last week Miss Wright won the prize, a
box of elegant eiatilnary, by enumerat
ing tiie most artic'elshe had seen in the
“Observation Booti,” enumerating in
writing 62. -*
Dr. Newhall and others had a very
successful hunt on tho Ocklawaha. Be
sides ail the birds and ducks they
killed two small and one largo cata
mount. _____
Leroy Improvements.
Our Rtgular Correspondence.
J. S. Mann and son, Walter, have
their new saw mill in complete work
ing order and it is proving a great con
venience.
J. L. Porter, Hie grocer and druggist,
will build a feed yard and si!o stable
and another house on Marion avenue,
the main street of I-eroy, which lie will
occupy with his goods.-
Messrs. W. J. Tolan-1 and Fuller aro
occupying their new store room in the
new hotel building and are doing a fine
trade.
Mr. Driggers, tiie new merchant, is
also doing a tine trade.
The building boom is upon ui aud
many new houses are in contemplation
Messrs. John B. and Arthur Gaiipeai ,
father and son, are putting substantial
fences around their block, upon which
good houses will be built a a soon as
lumber can be bad.
Young Galipean is employed in the
Ocala Novelty Works..
John B. Galipean and Frank O. Put
ter are working for the S. S. O. & G., in
the capacity of brakemen.
Mrs. Gavin, mother of Mrs. E. J.
Storms, lias purchased a full block ad
joining Mrs. Storm’s, and will improve
same with a handsome residence.
It. B. Snyder is now clearing land.
Biilv Heidt, of Heidtsviilc, h>s pur
chased some lots in Leroy, upon which
he will build a cozy cottage iu which to
ensconce his fair bride, whom ho're
cently brought from Georgia.
P. S. Your correspondent lias a
branch bank, or advisory board of the
Home Investment ’Building and Loan
Association of Jacksonville, Fla., and
has already loaned ftV tire Association
$15,000, and lias got a good many mem
bers here in Leroy and eight members
in Ocala. He has also the special
agency of the United States Mutual Ac
cident Association of New.York, Use
best accident association in the world,
and any person wishing to join eiiiier or
both of the above associations, can see
me or write to me, and I will explain
either of the workings plainly. Those
wishing to join either in Ocala, cau do
eo by seeing W. W. Tidd, Esq., who I
have left in charge of tiie business for
me iu Ocala. Success to both associa
tions, for they are the best in the world.
8. L. Potter, Special Ag’t.
f Leroy, Fia.
Beware of Ointments tor Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will sorely destroy tiie texse
ot smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous turface" Such articles should
never be used except cn prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the dam
age they will do is ten fold to the good,
you can possibly derive from them.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F
J. Cheney & Cos., ToledOj 0., canlaius no
mercury, and is taken internally, and
acts directly upon the blood and a mu
cous surface of the system. In buying
Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
•genuine. It is taken internally,- and
made iu Toledo, Ohio, by F. J, Chbiiey
& Cos.
KSuSold by Druggists price 75c per
bottle. __
a,-- Cukes.
ad A Cottier are shipping
se cukes to tbe Jackson vi le
ettine SL2S a dozen, which
o $lO a crate.
t Symptoms o Death.
g, dull headache, pains in
various parts of the body, sinking at the
pit ot the stomach, lossof "appetite, fever
shneas, pimples or sores, ore all positive
evidence of poisoned blood. No matter
how it Became noisoned it must be purified
to avoid deafe* Dr. Acker’s English Blood
Elixir has nevei failed to remove scrofulous
or syphilitic poisons. Sold under positive
guarantee. Bv'Wright and Frazer. 1.
“German
Syrup”
Here is something from Mr.Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick. Me. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost a
father and several brothers and sis
ters from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
Consumptionhis stomach. When
ever he has taken a
cold of this kind he uses Boschee’s
German Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion ? Listen ! “I
use nothing but Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
more than a hundred different per
sons to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
in the market. ’ ’ ®
. PERFECTED
A. E. BURNETT, -
Jeweler,
Ha? Exolusiv4! c alf| of these Celfbrated
'Glasses in Oealn, Florida.
FAULKNER, KELLAM & MCORE,
The only Manufacturing Opticians |in the
Fouth, Atlanta, Ga.
16fet)d?mw6ai
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
The First National Bank
OF OCALA,
111 t?ic State of Florida, at the Close of
15 sin ess,
FEBRUARY 2G, 1891.
RESOURCES.
Loans au-1 discounts 5300,556.85
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 7,085.48
IJ. 8. Bonds to secure circulation 12,500.80
Due from appro red reserve agents ...... 23,826.06
Due from other National Banks 30,456.16
Due from State Banks and Bankers 20,175.86
Bunkingihousc, furniture and fixtures.. 19,500.00
Current expenses and taxes paid 3,672.91
Premiums ou U S Iso:id 1.138.68
Cheeks and other cash items 17.278.70
Bills of other Banks 3,258.00
Fractional paper currency, nickels and
cents GO.ll
Specie , 7,462.50
Legal tender notes 12,000.00
Redemption fund with U. 8. Treasurer
(5 per cent, of circulation) - 5G2.E0
Duefrom U.S. treasurer, other than 5
per ceut redemption fund 5000 00
Total. i 8166,933.34
LIABILITIES.
Capital stoc k paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus fund 25,000.00
Undivided profits 9 392.75
National Bank notes outstanding 11,250.00
Individual deposits subject to cheek 329,306.28
Demand certificates or depoittt 31,215.50
Certified Checks 600.(0
Tue tf> state hanks and bankers 3,138.81
Notefand bills re-discounted 7,000.00
Total <. 9466.933.34
STATE OF FLORlDaLcovutv op Marion. ss.:
1, A', ! - M In r Yak, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly?,wear that the above
statesman is true to the best of my knowledge and
bclio'i. A. Mclntybf, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Ttliday
of March, 181*1.
W. W, CI.YATT, Jr., Notary Public
Correct—Attest:
K. W. Agnew, )
tv. H. Couch, -Directors.
KP. DEIjOUEST, •)
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Merchants’ National Bank
OF OC^LXj^,
In the State of Florida, at the Close
of Business, #
FEIiItUAKY 2(i, 1891
RESOURCES.
l.oaus and discounts 8239,9'2.90
Over-drifts, secured and unsecured 33 166 82
U, S bonds to secure circulation 25,000 00
Due hom approved reserve agents 11,902.13
Due from other National Banks 8,792.28
Due from Kinte banks and banker* 6,319 58
Banking-house, furniture aud fixtures... 21,521.93
tatrrent expen • r and taxes paid 892^0
Premiums on U 8 Bonds 2,800.00
llxchanjrbsfor Clearing-house _.... 874.53
Bills of,'.her banks 3,120.00
Fritel’l paper currency nickles and cents 19.36
Specie 3,115 00
le gal tender 11010“ 15 500.00
Redemption lund with U S Treasurer
(3 i>er cent, of circulation) 1,125 00
Total 8379,915.19
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in - 8100,000.00
Surplus fund 13,300.00
Undivided profits - 3,153.44
National bank notes out standing........ 22,500.00
individual deposits subject to check 216.543.35
Demand certificates of deposit 13,893.86
Certified checks 25.00
Notes and bills re-do counted 10.000.00
Total $379,915.19
SPATE OP FLORIDA- County or Mittiox, ss.:
I, It. B. McCONNKLL, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best ot my knowl
edge and belief.
RICHARD B. MuCONNELL, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this, 7th
day of March I*9l.
1. 11. LIVINGSTON,
]t„ s] Notary Public, State of Florida
Cos iutM*—Attest:
Jxo. F. Dunx )
e. Rheinaueh
J A. Rowell, I
Tax Assessor's Notice!
1 will be at the following named
places for the purpose of receiving re
turns of pi t -ns and property subject to
taxation in Marion county, for state and
comity taxes for the year 1891 and agri
cultural report for 1890:
Silver Springs Tuesday, March 3
Buck Pond school house Saturday •* 14 pm
BoHrdman... Monday •* 16
Mclntosh Tuesday “ 17
Martin - Wednesday “ 18
Shady move Thursday “ 19
FantviUc Friday • 20 am
Elmwood .Saturday “ 21 “
Benedict .Monday " 23 “
Santos Tuesday “ 24
Bellevkvv Wednesday " 25
redro Thursday “ 26
Summerfieid - “ “ 27
Montague - .Monday “ 30am
Candler Tuesday “ 31
N. Lake Wtrir,Benson's Wednesday, April 1
Oclawaba.. Thursday •* 2
Stanton - Friday “ 8
8. Lake Wei. Saturday “ lam
Linadaic Monday 6
CWpco ..Tuesday “ 7am
MossßUtrt Wednesday " 8
lirahamtville Thursday “ 9
Powell Town - ........Friday “ 10am
Michigan City Saturday " 11
Kerr City - Monday “ 13am
Harvard P u Tuesday “ 14 -
Orange Springs W ed nesday 15
Eureka „ *. Thursday “ 16
Fort McCoy Friday " 17 am
(j Kenwood ..Friday • I< p m
Ocala, Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 inclusive
Flemington Monday “ 27
- Joseph C. Mathews,
-Tax A-scs-or of Marion Cos., Fla.
Feb. Ifeth.lß9l.
Taxes \ Taxes I
T.tx< ip a ih' War. now due. The good
pctrjjb- f Varioi county can now ex
fit i- lie inalictiaWe right and privi
lc.- 1f l -ipiru to ttpjxirt the state and
c/s: v v rnmeut by meeting me at
the foil, wing ime? and places to pay
taxes*.
Anthony- —....Friday “ 13
Saturday 14
.1 c p i-t ..„.Monday ” 19
spare. - Tuesday “ 17
OcaV. fob. 21-23; March 7 and from March 18 to
A Th';T books will close April 30th.
When voti come {.’.ease remember a
jiscriptfen of the property is important
Bring* with' sou last year’s receipt or
voar deed or a tellable memory. Every
boily who wishes to be called Mister
pajd a poll lax.
11. J. NVabtmasx,
Tax Collector
THE BDFFUM LOAN AND TRUST CO.
SURPLUS, s2 lS.'oo! m “ CT F “
looey at low rate of interest on City Property
N o Delay Whatever. Cash Always on Hand.
No applicant ever failed to get the money oi
this Company when security and title were satis
factory. Come and see us if you need money, and
have good security.
OCALA, FLORIDA.
Beautiful s pring G oods
- Our Mr. L. Fox has been to New York
and Selected Our Spring Stock. Ladies
may be sure tbe Cream of tbe Eastern
Markets is now on Exhibition
Look out for our new goods.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. BENIAMIN & FOX OCALA, FLORIDA.
Some people may be opposed to tbe
use, and some to the abase of whiskey,
yet its use is often absolutely necessary,
especially for medical purposes. In sucti
peers, the pure, unadulterated etufl la
needed —not a doctored, drugged combi
nation—and when the I. W. HARPER
is used, you get the beet results, without
any bad effects. Its purity and high
standard will be maintained because this
firm has an enviable reputation which it
means to sustain.
It can be ha i of W. J. McGrath,Ocala.
Fla 20 feb 4m
It flisirMsisS
nHUWmijjg:
WAUuita,(M. office 104J4 Whitehall at,
J.I.M
<!gfS ’dCS* gS rt&
The largest and
Most Complete Stock
Ever brought to this
City just received at
J. A. Rowell’s
31oetty
—C. H. LORD & CO—
(Successor* to E. McCall & Son.)
| WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN---
FURNITURE 1 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
OFFICE FURNITURE. MATTING, ETC.
Also Coffins. Caskets. Metalic Cases and Under
takers* Goods. 20aug0O
OCALA NOVELT YWORKS
MALLET T & CO.,
(Suceoason to Yonge Bros. A C*.)
V MANUFACTURERS OF
StSH, POORS, ■OUUHM6S, NEWELS MID ER3CKETS.
CasAjpi, Flooring, Ceiling, Turning aud
SCROLL SAWING OF ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY.
Agent for Averill’s Paints and Fillers.
ftnail Sail and Row Boats built to Order. Estimates of all kinds of work furnished
14novly
W. W. CONDON.
—>—DEALER IN—■
TlTateiies and Oloelcs,
—*~AND A VERY PINE LINE OF——-
Foreign and Domestic Jewelry,
DIiIMDS, EMERALDS, OKIX, MOON STOKES, ETC.
Tbe only establishment in tbe county that makes
a specialty of manufacturing Jewelry, and
deals in Musical Instruments, Strings,
Electric Bells, Etc., Etc.
OCALA, FLORIDA.
mUrta
AN INVESTMENT
That Will Double in 12 Months.
Paying Dividends April and October.
. STOCK OF THE
Ga.-Ala. Investment & Development Cos.
Capitol Stock. $4,500,000. Shares $lO each, fall paid an
Subject to no AsseiMmeiito.
Gem. BENJ. F. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, President.
Hom, JAMES W. HYATT Late Treas. U. 9., Treasurer.
DIRECTORS.
Gen. Bcaj. F. Butler, of Mmuchtarlli. E. I. Garfield. Becretarv Thompson-Houston
Boa. lanti H. Room, of Arkansas Electric Cos., Bo*ton, Mas-
Hon. A. 17. Wyman, Ex-Treat. U 8.. of Keb. C. W. Perkins, Cashier Mast. Xat'i Hank, Botori,
Hon. Jos. W. Hyatt, “ " of Conn Hu.
Thoa. C. Smith, Pres. 17th Ward Bank. Brooklyn, Geo. C Schofield, President N. Y. Contract <'o.,
New York. New York.
A-nvTSOS-g BOARD.
Hon John B. Oordoo. Governor of Ga K. R. True, Cashier C. 8. Tress Washington.
Hon Kobe. L. Taylor, Governor of Tran. Henry Feuchtwanger. Member, N. V. Block Ex-
Ban. J . Foraker, Ex-Governor of Ohio. change. New York
Boa. Blob H. Bright. Ex-O. 8. Printer, of P. K. Root*. Cashier First National Bank, Little
Washing! tm Mock. Ark.
Bon. E F.lfaan, Bupt. Onoeord A Montreal F. Y. Robertson. President Kim Katlonal Bank,
Railroad, of New Hampshire. Kearney, Neb.
SUFFOLK TRUST CO., Transfer Agents
244 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.
TtJE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY CONSISTS OF
tiuT 8 000 City Lots, or 2,022 acres of land In tha city of Tallapmxa, Haralson county
Georeia remalnmg unfold of 2.500 acres, on the center of which tbe city was orginslly
bnilt PnMDt wsltia SI OH4 ?(L'|
BKCON D 2 158 acres of valuable mineral land, adjacent to tha city of Tallapoosa, all located
within a radius of rix miles from tbe center of the city. Present value' *322,90*.
THIRD The Issue of Capital Block of the Georgia Tennessee A lllinoD ilailirei 1 Com:>*ny,
chartered for the purpose Of building a railroad from Tallapoosa. Georgia, to Steveu*>n, A alaoi,
129 miles, that win not the company nearly 92.000,000 of tbe cspltol stock of railroad, paying 7 per
W **FOUBTII The Tallapoosa Furnace, on tbe line of the Georgia-Pacific Railroad, In the city of
Go.-the saldmraaoe being of 50 tons capacity, manufacturing the highest grade or cold
'“KwTSFvSnSEmti ai£wlSr&SS ’lncline of the Ma-FMciM Railroad, in
the city of Tallapoosa. Go., said plant being 11 pot furnace capacity, and maimUctoring film-glass
iQ the city of Ttilapoo*, Ga.. 2,8)0 io
habiu.rsui 2 of whom aft northern people, who have settled in TaliaprFjsa within the last three
TMn gto rjr.t.sew 15 manufacturine industries, and 40 business houses, schools, churches, water
ways electric iihts, 975.000 hotel, and new manufacturing industries buildings, etc.
50,000 SHARES TREASURY STOCK.
An now offered to the public, the proceeds to be devoted to locating new manufacturing establish
men tsoud developing the company's city property, at a
SPECIAL PRICE OF $3.33 1-3 PER SHARE,
Thla mock is fall Bald and subject to no amestments. It will pay dividends April end October,
the nrtfi* will be advanced to 85 per share, when the 50.01X1 share, are S'jld.
MdfilUtefllSlaa received. In any amount from one share upward, asi It Is
holders lnall wjrtlousot the country os possible who wHI by their
** By ‘ 810.00 will purchase 3 shares or *3O 00 par value of stock.
Ml . •• f IJI.W
So* - 15 “ 8150.00
gg-3 " 75 “ •; :
JS&S& - SS “ Ss2 •: * :
Addieas til orders for Mock, and make checks, drafts, or money and exprem orders payable
UIESV. HIATT, Treasurer, Ga.-Ala, liiestment and Development Company,
Globe Building. 244 Washington Si., Boston, Mass.
etna pony la every aounty.