The Weekly Tallahasseean. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 18??-1905, 1900-11-01
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D Question Of Location Of
State Capital
|GAINST HEAVY TAXATION
IoutEl and East Florida Not as Pros
porous as Formerly.

aIlahaSseean-The campaign is
tawing to close, and, as the
erdsman say, cit is time to round
% and inspect our stock" 80
How do we stand?
Josh Billings SAYS sit takes three
inds of people to make a world;
rst, there's them that says SITS so;
hen there's them that says it ain'tso;
hen there's them that says they
YOn't gre 6oam aohich aoGy 1t IS.
Now we have all three of these
lasses represented in this Capital
emoval issue. The first declare it
hall be removed, the second assert
t shall not be; and the third 'do,a't
Eice q darn" achether 1t Is removed
not.
1t is to this last class that we, who
,ppose the removal, wish TO make an
PPeal.
We appeal to you first as men
Iaving as much interest at stake as
ny body else; We appeal: to you to
rouse your self-respect and assert
four rights; we appeal to you to con-
ider well and realize the danger
hat threatens your property and
Our children with an incumbrance
or lifetime; we appeal to your
ense of honor, your sense of duty,
our sense of self-protection-we
ppeal to your common sense as
men and citizens of the State of
Florida to join shoulder to shoulder
s.~ith US and help to overwhelmingly
defeat this avariciOus scheme to in
crease our taxes millions of dollars
fOr an unnecessary purpose.
Remember there are taco PROPOSE
tons that must be defeated in the
election now SO near at hand, that of
Capital removal and that of Corr
shtutional Convention, which is itself
but another feature in disguise Of
the Capital removal plan.
The first would cost millions and
the other not less, perhaps, than a
hundred thousand dollars more.
Neither object is at all necessary
the present Capitol building is sufi-
Gent for our present needs and the
Constitution can be amended if nee
essary without expense. Both oH
jects have organized with men wHb
have not the greatest good to The
greatest number" at heart, but whb
have been actuated by selfish and
local interests, and ale utterly rel
gmdlcSs of the cost to the Taxpayer
They say all the prosperity
lies east Of the Suwannee, and fol
this reason the Capital too should
come east. But we of the east are
not prosperous now. When our
millions in orange groves of green
and gold passed out into solid ice
and from that into rotten wood andi
barren fields, our prosperity ceasedI
and We have not yet regained ourI
feet.
These eXtravagant takers tell u.s.
lit is disgrace to have our Capital;
in the dead district west of the Su-;
wannce. while we are so alive on this |
side with so many railroads and other
great public systems and cOnve- !
But We ask, can all these great !
public works restore our lost prop +
erty Or prevent the billiards. that i
may await us in the future? And /
SINCE our chief industry has been de- Is
'nOyed, and we can not now load /
one fruit car where we loaded-hun- Z
lreds Of long trains in days agone, /
Ire our great railroads doing pay c
ng business? And besides, is the 7
vest side really dead? Nay, during '
Ill these years that we have suffered G
% from the deSolation following the F..
tetc brcaths that swept our source
i wealth. from the face of the earth,
ne West has gone steadily forward
! Its old established way, ignoring ]
ne bowling "nOrthers," and reaping n
Is great haryests Of corn and cotton, b
ye and oats, sugar and tobacco, figs a
nj peaches, and supplying its home r.
markets 1 with beef and pork, mutton v
III poultry. Then after all, which, t;
fGI n is the more prosperous side S
the Suwannee? o
:, We shall prosper again on our t,
lue, ''God helps those who help r,
themselves" and we will recover b
;Uln our disasters if they give US r,
aHe enough. But brethren, fellow S,
nS;er taxpayers, let there be no e:
~ on election day! Let us Z
W permit them to check the pros Il
'f[ t5y Of Oft the West, or to weigh us n
u Tue East down into the dust by S