The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-09-17

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! benefits or money re- & Raa4nrea ~
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DR.. MILES MEDTCAkCO., Elehart Ind.
600 ! IL brought as no prosperity and
! GoN we'll have TO Quit htslling awhile
and sit down and do nothing hut eat
up that immense ovcrprnduction, for
really dor- he, know WE don't want
to make the country any less prosper
Gus by making 0orc 'ovcvproduo-
ton"
Not in the power Of any political
party TO give us prosperity" you
can't legislate people prosperous
This is the same Cd gag that the cor
poration attorneys sprung on Us last
year; but we always find their princi-
pals, the big corporationists, who hire
these little fellows tc blow cold for
them, hustling like everything to get
little prosperity legislated into their
big monopolies. Now, major, if we
can't legislate prosperity into a people,
you will at least admit the truth Of
| the converse, you can legislate pros
perity out of people. IF not will
| sou kindly inform Us why n people
who have been hustling like ours and
raising phenomenal crops are not pros
porous? a reason the reason-give
us the reason, for if we know the
cause Of our trouble mayhap we will
| know the remedy. Really, now, if
you can't iegislate prosperity into a
/ people Why do the infant industries
| always hustle for legislation in their
| favor and where does the profit come
to the sugar and other trusts who buy
congresses and legislatures, in order
to get prosperity legislated into their
Golfers; and why is il that during the
/ past thirtyiiye years three one-hund-
redth of one per cent of the people
| have garrered in twenty per-
cent Of the wealth OF the country
while eight per cent own seventy-one
per cent O: the wealth If all wealth
comes originally from the ground,
why is j.. that the toilers-the pro-
ducers Of wealth, have become impov-
/ crushed while the ou-producors, the
/ parasites, have grown Immensely
wealthy. Why are the farmers, the
mechanics and laborels generally
clothed in rags; while those who "toil
not neither do they spin" are clothed
in purple and fine linen and fare
sumptuous|y every day. and dwell in
palaces that would have made old
solomon green with envy if he could
but have seen them. Now, il you
can't legislate prosperity or the con-
verse, pray give us the whyness and
the whatness of these things. Tell Us,
We entreat, 10y what species of leeer-
| demain, all the vast production Of
wealth Of the last thirty years has
been turned from the pockets of those
who produce all wealth into the Golfers
/ OF these fellows who produce nothing.
But it is with great JOY and gladness
| that | come to one part of the good
majors article that ! can heartily en-
/ dorse. To the proposition that the
/ city move first, give unqualified as
sent. BY all means let the city own
/ its water works. because good, pure
water in sufficient quantity il essen
/ tial to the health, comfort and safety
of city, and this most important
/ matter should be under absolute mu-
nicipal control. Let them use Cor
liss engine of sufficient power and
] this can be geared up to get the speed
/ for running an electric light plant of
large capacity. The city can then fur
nish its own lights and tie lights for
+ private parties at greatly reduced cost
! and rent power-steam aud electric
/ for large number of small manufac-
turing industries. # will bee snrpris-
ing how many such will be started
when parties find they can rent the
most convenient power in the world
-electric-at reasonable figures. and
D
/ gines. engineers, iiremen and fuel.
/ These larger first items of cost are
usually SO great, that small capitalists
/ are ofttimes prevented from embark
! ing in enterprises, but when they can
rent power 20 readily applied as cleo
+ tricity and withal 80 economical they
viii not b state To invest the smaller
aiuOunt required in other less costly
machinery and operate same t. the
great benefit OF town and county. BY
all means let the city own its water
works system and its own electric
light plant and quit paying tribute
and compelling Its citizens to pay tan
Is to a foreign corporation. The profit
from its plants and from rental of
power, should not only pay all charges
for interest and sinking fund but give
such SUM over and above these
charges as would permit material
reduction of taxes.
Southern counties and towns are
cursed with tax rates in excess Of any
other country in the world, Turkey
alone perhaps excepted. How much
would it rebound To the benefit of
Ocala to lie able to publish to The
world that the tax rate was below that
of any other town in Florida. This
is possibility, for Ocala may he made
the Glasgow of America
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