The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-09-20
one and a half times better and "of-

one and half times better and "of-
fered" the site and $25O,OO0!
How princely all that sounds! !
Now the facts are (and facts are
what we voters are after) that neither
city has offered o'sytti'ag at GHk
Neither city ca,s offer anything ex-
cept through its corporate authority;
neither city's corporate authority |
can offer anything without being
authorized by vote of the people to
issue bonds for the amount; neither
city can submit such question to the |
people, because the Constitution of
the State does not permit it; neither
city, in the absence of any constitu-
nalimpediment, would be IN til e re-
motest degree likely to induca the
people to saddle themselves with a
burden of a tenth of a million dollars
in the one case and a quarter of a
million in the other case, to build a
house for the State, which would be
the exclusive property of the State,
and which, if built at all, should be
and would be built by the State at
large, and not at the expense, in any
such dispropOrtionatei degree, of any
community; neither city, if all the OBJ
Stacles mentioned were removed and
the sanction of the people could be
obtained, would yet be able to make
any ''offer," for there is no one to
a0hOna the offer could be mGdev
there must, in such case, be a third
party to hold the stakes, and require
the securities, and there is no such
party, nor could one be created, for
there is no power in existence to Gre
ate such party, and the State could
d, not possibly represent itself in any
| such barter and sale of the privil
z ege!
Now just see what vast amount
of poppy-cock these alleged argu
J, ments in favor of Capital removal are
S shown by analysis to contain, anc
: what an explosion of gas has fol
e lowed the prickingi of this nov
blasted bubble!
: In view Of all the Subterfuge an(
d whoOp and hurrah, that has been un
:, masked, and in the light of plain
n simple, common sense, and with th'
IL selfish-not patriotic-designS tha
IS glare through the plans and purpose
} of the unworthy agitatOrS Of Capita
e removal SO revoltingly before Ou
n eyes, what is our duty to ourselve
e and to our children? -
r, 1t has been clearly shown by care
a. full and competent calculation Gan
l. has not been denied) that to accom-
le pliSh the removal as contemplated
lie would cost the State, first and las
l. not less than two millions of dollars
s. Our State is, in It's great souther
Is districts, at least, sadly impOVeriShe
te by the loss of its orange grove
y thousands have been reduced frol
= comfort to poverty; we are unable
III bear any more burdens and taxatio
O. than we are carrying; should W
l. therefore, vote to increase our load
or the extent of two millions of dollars fl
a, a measure that is not now necessit
IL that could not, and would not, he
se US to any degree in our distress, tn
te would be only a public luxury and e,
he travagance, and of no direct benet
re to any except to the city that wOu
en- be the successful candidate?
MT Is not the whole scheme as transpa
C ent as fish net, and does it not, i
Mt deed, stretch itself round about US
IL a great seine to gather US allin, like
ne lot of.stupid, helpless fish to be d
rt. voured for the fatness of its greeC
an manipulators? God forbid that '
We should be such dupes? Let us VIC
- MOI A. E. PHILIPS.
on Sanford, Fla, Sept. IA, 1900.