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$fifio, on whirl) he pays the stagg r
Ing total of $39.80 a year in taxes, or
about 10 Vz cents a day. Of this
amount $12.40' is lor roads and
bridges, which amounts to about 3
cents a day for roads. For this
amount he geti the oenent 01 about
12 milts of fairly pood road, a con
siderable portion of w hich is hardsur
' fared, if be wants to come to town.
i:i addition to the advantage of a
lnr?e drainage ditch, without which,
perhaps, his land would he worth
less. A little investigation almost In
variably shows thai the biggest howl
ers are the smallest payers.
While the meat packers are groan-
! ing their complaints of poor business
to the public, lamb chops are costing
the people SO cents a pound. Why
cannot the government make a real
investigation, stripped of all whole-
Bale economic and bewildering
theories, and let the people knowj
why the housewife is robbed and who
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I be shouted from the housetops, and
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It is men with the faith, the vision
and the courage possessed by Judge
Cooper who build rities, for every
city has been built by men of faith,
vision dnd courage.
Sure, we believe in tick eradica
tion, but we believe the ticks should
be eradicated by their owners at their
owner's expense, as is being done by
our largest cattle owner, instead of
taxing about 9S percent of the peo
ple, who derive no benefit therefrom,
for the benefit of two percent.
Last week, in commenting on the
number of miles of road that were
built with a $200,000 bond issue the
Herald stated that 173 miles were
opened, cleaved, graded, bridged and
drained, in addition to the hardsur
facing of some 40-odd miles. We
should have stated that 113 miles
were opened, cleared, bridged and
drained, the error occuring as a re
sult of hasty proof-reading.
the retailers ooiild not long remain
in business in the light of outrageous
gouging. II the packers are not get
tint: it then their skirts should be
cleared, because, frankly, the people
belie ve the meat trust and the meat
trust only is to blame. When the
row was simply carved into meat and
the rest thrown away, meat could be
had at reasonable prices, but as soon
as the by-products were developed,
as soon as more money was made out
of the horns and the hide and the
rest of the trimmings, the price of
meat, instead ol tailing, began to
rise and it has gone up ever since.
When the supply was excessive, busi
ness was poor, meat was a drug on
the market, and so "profitable prices
simply had to be charged." When a
supposed shortage struck the country,
then prices leaped by reuson of the
law of supply and demand. Surely
it is time all of this jugglery was
stopped and a lew plain understand
able facts were placed before the
people. The meat trust should be
fairly dealt by. At present it is re
garded as the most impudent of busi
ness malefactors, and it is only fail
that the truth should be smoked out.
Twice two are four Ihis year.
Next year twice two may be five
not likely, of course, but maybe.
Twice two will be five as soon as the
people say so. If everybody aurees
ihen that settles it. We put men to
death and praise ourselves for doing
it because everybody agrees. We
frame laws that spell the gathering
of great wealth away from the men
who have done what we said they
might do, and we tax the eternal
lights out of them, because every
body agrees. Come to think of it,
the people who go into the game of
inducing people to think their way
will have some accounts to settle
when the time comes if they are not
on the level. Maybe if each of us
was honest with himself everybody
would agree to do the thing that Is
rignl, and then we would have ju
tire.
Now and then men, passing a
prominent corner, point to a savings
bank or spajnking-new cigar store,
and say: "There used to be a swell
barroom here. Gosh! I can remem
ber when Old Crow was passed out
at 85 cents a quart and the barkeep
apologized for whiskey under seven
years old."
All that's left of those ancient
whiskey dens is the path in the side
walk, worn by the tramp of drunk
ards' feet as they made their rounds,
lapping up so much they were asham
ed to drink it all in one place.
I Prominent among the customers
'was the business man who ran in at
the stroke of every hour for a high
ball or small glass of water with a
large whiskey-straight for a chaser.
Ry 8 o'clock at night, the regulars
were well tanked and below the din
was the friend's apology: "Don't
mind him, he's a swell fellow when
he isn't drunk."
The owl cars carried them home
to mothers and wives who sonbed
the stillness of the nigj;
inert nns considerable privation
in i he average hard drinker's home,
short on funds because of the bar
room fill's greedy appetite.
A drunken man was disgusting to
the good citizen and home-builder.
A lather's greatest fear was that his
I son would "get the appetite."
There was another type of saloon
-- the lowdown type that hard drink
ers usually wound up in. It was a
den, the rendezvous of criminals,
where customers were thrown into
the alley after they had been stripped
of their last cent.
The amber fluid in the quart bottle
ruined brilliant men by the tens of
thousands, wrecked an infinite num
ber of homes and, lor those deeply
involved, destroyed nearly everything
for which life is worth living.
That ancient institution, the open
ly condurted saloon, is gone. Now
and then some one with more money
than brains gets hold of a quart for
$12 or more.
But fathers aren't worrying about
their sons developing a ehronic thirst.
Homes are happier, with less jang
ling. More money in the bank. A
woman can ride on an owl car with
out danger of being insulted.
There is a lot of talk, around the
country, about infringing on personal
liberty, much futile argument about
bringing back light wines and beers.
But, at heart, the country is dry.
The proof is that there's almost no
talk of bringing back the old-time
saloon. Miami Metropolis.
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First we heard thai the town's well
wouldn't produce more than a spoon
ful or so of water a minute; now thai
they've been tried and produce 45
gallons a minute, or more than the
town uses tinder ordinary circumstan
ces, we re likely to hear the water is
unfit to drink, or that the wells were
just playing a little joke and cannot
bo depended upon to produce a regu-1
Inr flow of water: in fact, we're like-1
Ij to hear almost anything about i
those wells, but the fact remains, snd I
is evident to everyone who can see, i
that the wells are producing, or will j
produce if pumped, enough water of
far better quality than we are at i
present getting, anil the only problem I
is to get the water into the mams, j
This, notwithstanding the mountains
that are made out of mole-hills, is
a very simple problem, and it is tin- '
thinkable that with a supply of good
water available, the people of the
town will be compelled to pay good
money for the kind of water than is i
being supplied, which can be used fori
but tine, purpose and is not well suit- 1
ed lor that.
MILLIONS AND ADVERTISING
Extraordinary precautions are tak
en by the police to guard John I).
Rockefeller, jr., even when he starts
out to attend his famous Bible class.
Indeed every now and then the detec
tives are compelled to invade the
church to protect the young man from
possible violence. To thousands of Apparently an Absurd Assertion
persons iho name Rockefeller is in- "Compulsory tick eradication may
flammatory, The constructive chari- rid Florida of the cow but not the
ties, ihe civic helpfulness of this j tick. Wo found him here, and most
family are lost to light in the greater ; likely he will be right here on the
vision of a money grabbing octopus! job when we leave."
that for years has been planted in the This expression was made in the
bark of Dooular imagination. Truly Bronson Times-Democrat, and, were
the millions of the oil king have it true, there would be every indica-
brought more terror than happiness, I lion that .i he state w as in a most de
all of which condition is largely due plorable condition. Thai it is pain
to the exclusiveness with which the fully incorrect may be proven by
elder Rockefeller lived for years. To I hundreds of slockmeii In hundreds
the public Rockefeller was not a per- of communities where the tick has
sonality. He was an institution. He been wiped out eradicated" if that
forbade contact with his fellow be- be the better term To believe that
assertion would mean to doubt that
any progress could be made in Flori-j
'da and there would immediately
follow an exodus which would bank-1
nipt the slate.
Such an expression is in the line
with "We found the Semtnoles here,
and there is no use in trying to allow
whites to here make their home." Or
"Why should we try to eliminate the
sand nail and the stumpy road and
the numerous fords by the introduc
tion of ihe hard surfaced roads and
GORDA.Fg:
'Fidelity toltbur Interests
H. It. Dreggors, Pres.
A. P. Hatch, V.-Pres.
s. C. McCullough, V.-Pres.
J. E. Skipper, Cashier
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Not long ago the Herald called at
tention to the apparent fact that the
people who pay the least in taxes are
usually the ones who do the most
howling about being taxed and cited !
the case of a man who does a great j
deal of howling whose total taxes for
state, county and city purposes is far l
less than enough to pay the expense
of educating his children; therefore
other taxpayers are helping to edn
cate his children and he is getting
the benefit of roads and all other
improvements without cost. We had
heard so me.ch howling by another
man recently that we decided he must
be paying at the very b ast $1,000 a
year for roads alone. In order to
satisfy ourselves, we went to the tax
books to see Just what this man is
paying. As near as we could deter
mine from the official records all of
his property in Charlotte county is
assessed at the tremendous suit' i.f
ings. His photograph was never
seen. He never spoke to the people
or lor the people through Jhe only
means of communication, the news
paper. He held aloof and became
hated and despised. It was not until
some thoughtful person impressed ,
the old man with the value of adver
tising that the bars were let down
and the people permitted to know;
something of the Rockefeller life and
activities, and then some of the peo-
jple began to understand. I'.ut even
so the old man started too late ever,
I to reap reward for whatever of con-1
jStrnctive work he may have done.
Indeed it is doubtful if his son will 1
see the days of honor that io some
extent at least may be his due.
Truly Ihe sins of the father are visit
ed on the children even to the third
and fourth generation. Never has
there been a mure striking lesson In
advertising than the gradual change
of the public mind toward the Rocke
fellers since they tore the mask of
secrecy rrom their lives, ine happi
ness, yes, even the life of the million
aire, today is dependent on the power
of advertising.
According to the statement made
by Clerk Robinson, showing the cost
Of operating the town under Ihe
councllmanlc and commission-manager
plans for corresponding six
months periods, the commission and
manager have saved over $1,000 dur
ing their first six months. This is
better than anyone expected and
deals a death blow to the hoys who
were going about telling how much
more it was costing to run the town.
They'll be around next week telling
Just how this happens to be Ihe case
and will deal largely In Ifs and ands
- just like the defeated candidate
tells how it all came about but
they'll have a hard time changing ihe
facts.
convenient bridges?"
should we attempt to r
the wonderfully rich
Nature had previously
water and sawgrass?"
are directly In lin
Of tile "Man from
Or "Why
claim some of
lands which
covered with
i?" Such remarks
with the assertion
Bronson."
J CLIPPED COMMENT j
At He. ii i i , i i.iMing i "Dry"
Oo you ever pause in the great
prohibition desert and conjure up a
picture of the saloons that flourished
in this country only a few years ago'.'
II Florida cannot be continually
improved In a hundred ways Just as
other states have been improved
there would be no use wasting a life
time amid obstacles. Progress" is
believed in by the vast majority. To
constantly improve conditions and
environments to continually gain
luxuries where but necessities have
been provided before to make life
the more worth living have been the
aims of the more intelligent since
the brain of man first commenced to
ru n.
in the canal zone ror countless
years I here was a plague of mosqui
toes and other disagreeable pests, by
reason ol which thousands of men
died. Within a very few months af
ter the government took hold of the
work everything Of the sort was elim
inated and residents dwell there in
happiness. Had the goverrfment held
the same opinion of the writer at
Bronson the canal would have never
been constructed and the plague
would have been still increasing. It
! such a clearing out of such horrors
I as were in that section can be done
I successfully it stands to reason thai
the cattle-lick can be wiped off the
map of Florida.
The stockmen, themselves, are fast
turning to the belief that some of the
proposed legislation in the last legis
lature was killed through gross er
ror; and before any 'great length of
time there will be the same unanim
ity for eradication that there has
been against it.
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