The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-10-29
Into $1,000 and use the $1,000 profit IN

into $4,000 and use the $1,000 profit In
putting up broom factory and make
home market for your own and your
neighbors' broom corn, and we will
all rise up and call you blessed. But
If one of your ability etc.-one who
knows so much about these things
is afraid to risk his money-"a hustler
always has it'-in these enterprises,
how ean you expect one of Touch.
stones youth and inexperience, to be
willing to venture where able business
men like Major Campbell are afraid
tolead the way. l know THAT fools
rush IN where angels fear to tread -
But TOuchstone amt that kind of a
fool. He finds money far too scarce
and hard to get, to be willing to chunk
any away on wild cat enterprises. But
if the major twill show his faith by
his works." and will put that $1,000
profit in any enterprise at Ocala
TouchstOne will contribute all the
wood on twenty-acre piece of ham,
mock and the major can have it cut
and worked up.
AS to Mcintosh, she has not yet
reached that stage in growth, that
would warrant water works and cleo
trio lights: 1t is really smaller than
we had thought or you are much
larger than we had dreamed, since
your payments to corporations are
| more than the sum of all the paw
ments of all our citizens, since McIn-
tosh has been in existence. Rest as
sured when we 10 reach those goodly
proportions of which we dream McIn-
tOsh will be enterprising enough to
own and operate its own plants, and
offer power to its citizens at such rates
as will tempt them to emhark in many
and varied enterprises. In the mean
time Mcintosh is doing what she set
out to do. She is raising the stuff and
if we could only find those good mar
kets you write about or if the "fair
and liberal corporations" would only
haul our stuff at living prices-such
rates as they charge on other lines of
goods or even the same articles shipped
from northern points to our state-we
would have the money to join in build
ing factories, both in our own town
and in the county site. We are not
jealous of Ocala, but want to make it
the best town in the state and are will
ling to do what we can in that direct
ion.
l want to say in this connection that
1t is not what we ship in that makes
us poor, as asserted in your former
article, for we ship more than 16 car
loads of stuff away to that we ship
in. This then is surely not the cause
of our want of money and we again
beg that you give "a reason-the rea-
son."
In conclusion let me say that l only
sought to answer your arguments,
without any reference to your person.
atty. Your are as much unknown to
me, while writing over your own sig
nature, as I am to you while using a
nom de plume. 1t is not names that
count but arguments. Neither was /
writing for political notoriety" nor
yet for the pleasure of seeing my name
in print. I have time enough, after
finishing my education, to seek polit-
ical notoriety. l sought only to ex-
pose the fallacy of your position, for
the public good and not for my gain
and am sorry you did not stick to your
text and try to make good your posi-
ton and am especially sorry you did
not give the reason why men Of your
ability, energy, enterprise and exper-
fence, are without money to embark
in needed enterprises. Touchstone's
connection with the Banner closes
with this issue-he is now at school
and his studies occupy his whole time
but I doubt not if the major wi