The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-17
THE SUMNER OF 1889.


progress, prosperity and energy display
ed by her people in every section OF the
State.
How different it has been in the North
and West. There the expressions OF
trusts and monopolies have caused de-
preston in trade. Mills have been clos
ed down, strikes have been common and
the prices of labor have been ground
down to starvation rates.
Here in Florida home capital has been
aroused to action. New industries OF
various kinds have sprung into existence.
The fruit and vegetable crops were i'm
mense and prices good. The hay and
grain crops have been enormous, and
crops now growing promise great re-
suits.
TITS wonderful how Florida has pro-
crossed during the summer. From every
city, town, village and hamlet come re-
ports of unusual activity in the real
estate market. Carpenters, brickmasons,
mechanics and artisans have been busy
everywhere in the State. New hotels,
new brick business blocks, new palatial
residences and new cottages have been
erected in great number.
Look back few years. 1t use to be
the case that with the first summer month
there came general stagnation of bust
ness and activity. Our moneyed men
would crawl into their shells and pull the
shell in after them. Merchants would re-
duce the number of their statesmen, and
often upon entering store you would
find proprietor and employee amusing
themselves by playing checkers or chess.
How different it has been during the
summer just closed. Business in all
branches has been good. Here in Talla-
hassee we have not heard single mer-
chant complain of dull trade" as they
always did in days of yore.
The summer of 1888 was hard one on
Florida. The epidemic of yellow fever
in portions of the State affected all traffic.
But Florida business men were not to be
kept down. Their indomitable energy,
and in many cases dire necessity, aroused
them-and the result has been the most
busy and prosperous year and the most
remarkably busy summer that Florida
ever experienced.
The summer of 1889 opened a new era
in Florida. No more are we to be the
sleepy, slow-moving, easily satisfied, Lap
py-go-lucky creature that we were wont
to be in years gone by. We have dis
covered that we can bring about wonder
full results by the simple use of our native
energy and comparatively small home
capital. Wen never be content now un-
til we have developed and perfected every
possible resource of the State.
There is something wonderfully facina-
ting in this awakening to the fact that
we really possess energy. 1t makes one
feel like the gambler who holds the win
ming hand and has run Of luck.
We are in the swim now and we want
to play high and make clean sweep.
The summer of 1889 has seen many
Building and Loan Associations organized
in Florida and to these great town
boomer organizations we are due many
yes the greatest number-of the new
buildings erected. Nothing benefits and
builds up a town as does Building and
Loan Association organized and operated
by home business men. They encourage
the savings Of small amounts and give
homes to hundreds that otherwise would
never own one. Let every town in the
State organize at least one.
During the summer of 1880 the Flori-
| da Farmers Alliance has been specially
active. They have increased rapidly in
numbers, and they have largely aided in
the wonderful improvements and indus
trial development in town and country.
And the Farmers Alliance has but only
begun in the good work they purpose
doing.
Soon through their influence and en-
ergy the smoke Of factories will be hang
ing over every city in Florida. They
seek not to secure monopoly. They are
opposed to all trusts, and this starting of
l,;nJ, ~ facforioo 10 hut dam IN