The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-07
Ceopsr Ina nos very late Issue OF the
Runner Mr.. Copper sals:

when was attorney general, al the Request
sosae 81 the leading ofanee-zrowers q Ma
lon ard other counties undertook 10 have put
q effect lower frclght rates On oranges pre-
crihed 81 the STATE railroad co-nrn;ssicn.
ound a prompt and eficient way Of doing i /
rhen It had been supposed Il could not be done. 1
md 7 compelled the railroad companies 70 adj |
.efs to such lower rates % long SIS Twas attor- |
and saved 70 the orange growers |
n Florida several hundred thoasaDd doilars"
We cannot believe that Mr. Cooper, |
10 making this statement, was talking
through his hat--talking for mere
to manufacture a
sentiment upon which to ride inte
congress.
But we have another witness to
place upon the stand. a man hold
ing no Office wanting no office, and
perfectly content to pursue the even
tenor Of his way in The private walks
ofIlfe.
la a communication to this paper
not very recsuty--at least not very
many years ago-Hon. P. p. Bish -.
Of CSra, said:
THE oouimi sion has saved the orange grow
.rs OF Orange Lake more taaa hi,y per cent. o.
ne a5bi;rasie. sxei by the railroads
The arbitrary" fixed by the roa
rom Ciira 10 basing poiats was TIVE
3 five cents. aud Il the shippers W.
-ayed more than fifty per cent Of fh
,mouu, ihey must have saved ~ Be-
h r'een cents on every b..x # ortre
hlppsd FROM th o anE~ l. ~ re-
iuring th- Hl. 81 n cos.fni--i
Knowing ga. aggregate number
txessai Typed frtm thas secl.'o, ~
he numo. OF years ihe eofnmissjo
lsd al existence, the number g,
thousands # dollars saved to the pee
pie IS easily ssc, rtainable.
Before bis appointment to the Office
he now holds. and while mem her Of
he legislature that abolished the COM
mission. Judge Hooker is on record a.
having said that 'the com mission had
saved to the fruit aud vegetable ship
pers around Leeshurg alone more than
tro hundred thousand dollars He
backed up bis statement by an array
of figures that were not then nor never
have since been contradicted. He re-
ferred to the fact that there were on
file IN the archives of the commission
sworn afiidayiis from Capt. Maxwell
Major Consnt, and other railroad o.
fieials. which said that during the OPP
Grafton of the commission "ihe rail-
roads of the state had suffered a loss
Of several millions of dollars" If the
railroads lost these millions the peo-
pie must have gained them. This Is
self-evident proposition. In his eff
FORKS to prevent the abolition Of the
commission, Judge Hooker said he
was authorized to say from the grow
ers around CItra and Leesburg that
they wOult enter into written con-
tract with the state TO pay all the ex-
renses Of the commission.
The commission lessened the fare
for mileage one-third, so during the
life of the commission. for every dol
lar spent in travel the people saved
thirty-three and third per cent, and
had the commission not been abol-
ished there would have been q saving
OF seventy-five cents on every ton OF
phosphate shipped out of the state.
The commission had made this reduc-
zion, aud as the courts had ruled on
all points involved in the rating, it is
absolutely certain it would have been
held valid.
So the Banner can cOnservativeiy
and safely estimate that had the com
mission not been abolished the saving
to the people would have been not less
than five millions Of dollars But To
he within still safer and more conserv
alive lines, let Us put it ohy at a
million. This would be twenty mill
ions Of uiclies, and this multiplied ry
ten dollar bills, a the speaker Of the
house proposes To do, would give to
the people Of The state tsro hundred
nj lions 4 fofars.
In making ibis stupendoUs PROPOSE
ton, Mr.. Jennings, we do not believe
did it for Mr. Jennings any more than
David confronted G lish merely> for
the Qualification Of The personality Of
Ovid. David met him rs the agent
and representative of the armies OF
israel. lie took his chances against
the mighty giant that Israel might
live. - We take it that Mr.. Jennings
makes his proposition as the agent
and representative Of the railway cur-
porations of this state; and further
more we take il That they are willing
TO back up with the cold cash the
statement made 10y their selected rep-
resentative and agent.
The Banter has shown this amount
reduced TO nickles and multiplied bv
ten dollar bills to be not less than tteo
hundred millions Of Il Urrs, and is pre-
pared to back this showing with fig
ures and sflidavits furnished by the
railroad companies themselves.
But for itself it claims rome of this
amount. l. merely asks that it be
distributed among the freeze sufferers
Of this state in proportion to their
losses. aud that its name go down IN
history liuked with the names Of the
worlds benefsctors.
The Westtleld, Ind News prints
the following in regard to an old resi-
dent Of that place: Frank MeAvoy,
for many years in the employ Of the
L., y \. & c. Ry. here, says: 4 have
used Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarfhoea Remedy for ten years or
longer am never without it my fam
lily. consider it the best remedy of
the kind manufactured. | take pleas
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