The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-07-06
PUSH is NEEDED
STOP cRoAKiNo AND ADOPT MEAS
UREs TO PUSH FLORIDA TO
TIE FRONT.
Major Campbell writes Ringing Letter
that Should Meet Hearty Response
Florida'a Great Resources


When your .'deviI'' gets among your
types lac sometimes make one say ex-
aetIy the reverse of what was written
and intended.
Ny manuscript did not read ] did
not care to importune the people to
exert themselves and get up an ex-
hibit for the Atlanta Exposition.
Read 'easep for care and then you
will have II right; read cotton and eat
tie sunt0ldn for sunloaded.p
Now do care to importune them,
and will not cease to do 50 until the
roeult win be that Florida will EN-
brace this favorable opportunity to
make creditabie exhibition of her
products and vast resources at what /
predict will be one of the grandest ex-
hibitions ever held in the country-for
10 will be of the resources of the south.
care so much for this matter that
/ will not only cease TO importune
them but Twill not cease to importune
the press Of the state-which is
power only second to the people-to
quit slashing at each other and burn
the midnight oil in an endeavor to get
the people to do this grand and bene-
fetal thing. Give silver and the tariff
q rest, use your printers ink upon ar
ticles that viii set the ball in motion
and keep II rolling. The country is
safe--even If the worst should come.
don't doubt If a respectable petition
was presented to Mr. Carlisele but
. what he would cheerfully resign the
case of the treasury into the hands of
the editor who would have the writ
ten endorsement of our delegation in
Congress as fit person to manage its
affairs.
don't intend to cease to importune
the railroad companies, steamship
lines, express companies, land compa-
mics, hotels, real estate men, and Indi-
vlduals who have surplus lands to sell,
both residents and non-residents, also
phosphate and fertilizer companies,
This Is a matter we ali can unite on,
for IL Is for our mutual benefit, both
financially and socially.
1t was unfortunate Florida was not
represented at Chicago, where grand
opportunity was offered for us to show
that we had something of vast more
importance to call peoples attention
to than "Old Fort Marion and
''Silver Springs 1t would be still
more unfortunate if we failed to en-
brace this opportunity.
The proporiionate amount contri-
buted by each of the above named in
terests would not be burdensome, but
would aggregate sum sufficient, not
only to make grand exhibition at
Atlanta, but would get it up in dupli-
cate, that one set would be made to do
service at other places-at the great
fairs Of the northwest, for instance
whilst the other could be collected and
made permanent exhibit at some
suitable place in the state.
There Is SO much in the state that
can be manipulated into shape that
would not only be of great utility, but
q novelty as well as thing of beauty.
No county have ever seen possesses
so much material to make an interest
ing and instructive exhibit as does our
own fair Florida.
IL would be news even to some of
our own people to know that we had
enough persimon trees to make lasts
for all New England shoemakers; that
In this supposed land of sand and pine
trees we have enough hickory, oak aud
ash to run forty wagon and carriage
F., factories like Studebaker's; that in our
live oaks there is enough to make
shuttles and pulleys for the world for
al time, and the fine grains of our
aah, wild cherry, red bay, magnolia,
china berry, gum and oaks of all kinds
just simply make palace car builder
and Office decorators eyes glisten, and
Il Is singular fact with all this great
wealth of beautiful grained woods
lying right here at our doors and much
Of 1t burned up every year, when nice
Office or bank furniture or saloon
counters are wanted they are ordered
from Chicago or Cincinnati; in our
elms, gums and oaks there is enough
to make barrel slaves for all purposes.
have never seen wood so hard, so
tough 30 fine grained, both curled and
straight, and finished so elegantly as
the hard woods of Florida. In this
day of wood finishing and hard wood
floors this ought all to be utilized, but
then we have no artisans to work it,
one of the objects of this exhibit is to
make showing of these things. The
same thing may be said of our our
soils. No country has such variety
and 30 little understood.
We want men of means and ability
10 handle 1t, to come among us; we
want more Flaglers, more Plants, more
Cuttings; we want men of ability to
handle and direct large numbers of
men In useful enterprises and can
command the money to pay them; we
want men Of small means and men of
no means other than muscle, pluck
and intelligence, to build up our waste
places; we want to demonstrate by
showing of our raw material that this
isa poor mans country as well as
rich mans.
I shall not cease to importune our
city, county and state authorities to
find out II there is not some fund, or
that some can be created by which a
little money can be provided to rea-
sonable extent for the peoples good. I
am not one Of those who believe that
we are bound SO tightly by constitu-
tioDal or chartered Ia we III fb;e 90 =, -