The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-20

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that win beneat the pubic u any way. The
lands purchased are now offered Tor sale. but nOs
81 such prices Or On such leFms a. offer any
special Inducements 70 any person."
Our readers win rsuembef that this is the
ground The Ksye As Gstf took few weeks ago
On this purchase. Il Il big . boom. - OF course.
on paper. but 1t viii not, ~ reported, increase
the taxable resources OF the State Il Is simply
giant move Of land sharks Ia make mpney out
Of uniniormed Immigrants. We commend the
above exlFAct to Brother Dyke.-Ksy Of Ne Guy.
Thankt. OF course it is g land spec
ulation " and . big one too. Does the
Key imagine that Disston bought the
land for fun Every man in or out Of
the State who buys 9 considerable
body Of land buys it on speculation, and
is according TO our contemporary, land
shark" We do not suppose that motives
of philanthropy enter into any spec
ulation, unless the philanthropy happens
to be of the sort which begins and ends
in the breeches pocket. Still, the Disston
purchase is good thing for the State not
outstanding. 1t has advertised the com
monwealth as it was never advertised be-
fore, be himself having already spent over
$4,000 in descriptive pamphlets, &C.,
and of CO urse in advertising his purchase
he advertise the State. Next, his pur-
chase will release millions of acres which
will be available for railroad building,
which but for his money would not be SO
available, unless the railroad companies
had contributed the million of dollars
necessary to relieve them of debt, which
we believe they would have been
slow to do. Third, the-~ale to him EN-
braces va t bodies of land which the State
never would have sold except to some
speculator, whether Disston or anybody
else, who had to take the bad with the
good, and in which, we suspect, there
would have been great deal more of
the first than of the last. Finally, the
sale, if completed, will add at least mil
lion of dollars to the taxable resources of
the State at once and great deal more
when the intentions of the purchaser, as
to colonies in process of formation, are
fulfilled. M
We commend these points to Brother
Crane, as well as the following from the
Florida Dispatch, except so much thereof
as may be considered indecorous and per-
sonal: MI
We have as yet had nothing 10 say about this
transaction. We have noticed the remarks pro
and con of our Florida exchanges. Some we
consider wise, others unwse Our private opin-
ion, publicly expressed, Is that il is u good thing
for the State of Florida. Mr. Dission will have
to do what the State has failed to do. or he will
be bankrupt by taxation. As we understand il,
as soon titles are made TO Mr.. DissIon the
property will be assessed and taxes collected in
the different counties In which his purchase may
be located. From this will accrue a revenue 10
the State, and unless Mr.. Disston disposes Of the
property to actual settlers or parties that can
utilize it, he will soon aggregate an expenditure
from which he cannot realize any profit or rev.
enue. 10 other words, eat his head off as the
State was doing, but now has happily shifted
the halter. lII
There are a few old fogies and chronic grum
blers in the State who, at the least sign of enter.
prise, development or success on the part OF any
which effort is necessarily at variance with their
ideas of how it should be, try to pull them back
and down into their ruia -|I
Old frauds, you fought your battle on the street
corners and in the shade; we are now out in the
sunlight Of experience aud will fight Florida's
battle for supremacy with the young, vigorous
and strong, and with such weapons as enterprise
and energy on broad and liberal ground II not
careful you will be lost in the dust of lethargy
get in your chmney-c corner smoke your pipe OF
peace and receive that respect that youth grants
TO old age, otherwise your fate is illustrated in
the old bulls of herd of buffalo