The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-09-17
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TO the Editor Of the Bafner:
Touchstone yields only wooden
weapon, yet with the indulgence of
We good editor, he would dare cross
swords with Ocala's Campbell with
a hump
He will not take 1.-THE Campbell's'l
article seriatim, but will beg a little
additional space while he seeks to in
sert the point of his wooden sword in
that part of the majors anatomy
where his thinking apparatus is sup
posed to lie. What is the matter with
the country? Why, the gentleman
answers that question fully in his
fourth paragraph where he says
"Tbere is no money, there is no trade,
there is no credit and worst of all
there is no enterprise" The gallant
major correctly states the cause in the
first clause of this paragraph, "lhere
is no money! and as necessary con-
sequence the effect, no trade, no IN
terprise, no credit" follow the caus
"no money!
But in the next sentence the maiol
displays the usual gold-bug propeil-
sity for getting the cart before III,
horse, 10y mixing up cause and effect.
With money plenty there is always
abundant entt rprise; the --latest OF
men get IA hump" on them when
they get into Il rich gold digging sec
ton.
But who has heart ia wo,k wtere
there is no hop" of remuuerajiau, aud
how can entt rpr!se live in IA atuos-
phere that is devoid of its oxygen, its
life giving principle money. WHO
has suggested anything ." Why bl, IS
your heart, hasn't Touchstone been
suggesting and arguing for that first
requisite of trade, good roads to the
county site? You surely havn't
thought these county communications
worthy of notice and haven't read the
Banner, or you would have seen my
repeated call for such roads as would
permit rs 10 come to Ocaia to trade.
| had thought worried every one
with my persistent hammering at this
subject. but feel encouraged and will
catch fresh grip and come back
again with new zeal and fresh vigor
Confidence" -''eontldence, seems
to me | heard that word before-was
it in some preexistent state or was it
only in some hOrrid nightmare that
word was borne in on out oonsoiaus-
ness. Bless your sweet life we've got
abundance, just great gobe of il. The
trouble is the other fellows haven't
any Conference.-The ones with the
goods aud the money. Why, friend,
we have been living and making our
crops on the confidence our merchants
had in our ultimate ability TO pay
what we owed They still have con-
tidence in our ability to make nile
valley" crops, but they have lost con-
fidence in our markets and their con-
fidence in us don'tdo any good for il
don't get US any credit. Now, friend,
don't you see it's money that is ut the
bottom Of credit and confidence, for if
our merchants thought we had money
they'd fall over each other to show
their confidence and give Us credit
see9
sand Ia the eraw' Why we have
the very best quality of Florida grit
in our craws or we could not have
stood this thing 50 long, hut would
have kicked out the traces -kicked
our old party bosses opi and compelled
the railroads iy appropriate legisla-
ton or otherwise to give Us living
chance. Yes, we have grit in our
craws-thoec who were deficient in
grit have already committed suicide
or gone on the tramp.
Now, look here, major, if you con-
tinue to mix up things like you have
in this article. we will have to put
you down as a corporation henchman
as we'll as goId-bIg bowler. Here
you say BUSTERS always have money"
and next eve haven't the means, etc"
Now, these statements don't gibe. Is
it true that Marion county has no
hustler9? Where is Major Campbell,
where is the other Campbell where IS
Farmer" where are the hundreds Of
others who don't know anything else
but to hustle? Why, Mcintosh II
chock full of hustlers. Statistics show
the United States to be just literally
overrun with hustling farmers, for
they have hustled and BUSTED and
rustled until they have raised the big
gest crop of "overmoduction" the
world ever heard Of Why, we have
near about ruined ourselves and every
body else by doing SO much hustling
and raising such big crops.
never dreamed that we were such
hustlers down here in old Marion:
we've hustled after the bob-tailed
mule as he turned the stubborn glebe
we've rustled the merchant for cred
il 10 hire hands and buy crates and
we've eustled that's Esquimaux for
cussing little the railroads aud COM
mission merchants. but il All did no
- Everyone knows