The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-11-01
INApPEALTOYOTlRRS
! Question Of Location Of
State Capital
.GAINST HEAVY TAXATION
,o,,th and East Florida Not as Pros.
porous as Formerly.

Sanford, Fla, Oct. 26-Editor
raIlahasseeaD-The campaign is
|rswing to a close, and, as the
lerdsman say, sit is time to round
II and inspect our stock"
How do we stand?
Josh Billings says sit takes three
] binds of people to make a world:
krst, there's them that says "it'S so;
hen there's them that says it aim'tso;I
hen there's them that says they
kOa't qice q d0$as aoAicA aoay 1t is. /
Now we have all three of these
slasses represented in this Capital
.emoval issue. The first declare it
HAIL be removed, the second assert
\ shall not be; and the third ''dOn't
biice q darn" oohether 1t IS removed
" not. ..-:
It is to this last class that we, who
oppose the removal, wish TO make an
ppeal.
We appeal to you first as men
having as much interest at stake as
Inv body else; we appeal: to you to
brOuse your self-respect and assert
FOUR rights; we appeal to you to con-.
kder 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,
four sense of self-protection-we
ppeal to your common sense as
hen and citizens of the State of
Florida to join shoulder to shoulder
with us and help to Overwhelmingly
defeat this avaricious scheme to In
crease our taxes millions of dollars
for an unnecessary purpose.
Remember there are too PROPOSE
tons that must be defeated in the
ELECTION now so near at hand, that Of
Capital removal and that of Con
stitutional Convention, which is itself
but another feature in disguise Of
the Capital removal plan.
The first would cost millions anC
the other not less, perhaps, than
hundred thousand dollars more.
Neither object is at all necessary
the present Capitol building is suffi
Gent for our present needs and TIL
CONSTITUTION can be amended if nee
essary without expense. Both Oh
iects have organized with men wh'
have net the "greatest good to tn
greatest number" at heart, but VIII,
have been actuated by selfish ant
local interests, and ale utterl y re
gardIcss of the cost to the Taxpayer
They say all the prOsperit.
lies east Of the Suwannee, and TO
this reason the Capital too SHOULD
come east. But we of the east ar
not prosperous now. When on
millions in orange groves Of greer
and gold passed out into solid ic
and from that into rotten wood am
barren fields, our prosperity cease'
and we have not yet regalned on
1 feet.
These extravagant takers tell u
cit is a disgrace to have our Capita
in the dead district west OF the Su
wannec. while we are so alive on thl
side with so many railroads and othe
great public systems and conve
nlenccS."
But We ask, can all these grea
public works restore our lost prop
erty or prevent the billiards tia
may await us in the future? AM
since our chief industry has been de
StrOyed. and we can not now LOAF
one fruit car where we lOaded-hun
dreds Of long trains in days agone
are our great railroads doing a pay
ing business? And besides, is tn
west side really dead? Nay, durln:
all these years that we have suffered
SO from the deSolation following tn
arctic breaths that swept our sonrc
OF wealth from the face of the earth
the West has gone steadily forwar'
In It's old established way, ignorln!
the bowling ''northers," and reaplnl
Its great harvcsts Of corn and cotton
rye and oats, sugar and tobacco, zig
and peaches, and supplying its HON
markets with beef and pork, mutto1
ana poultry. Then after all, which
nt9nestly,is the more prosperous sid
OF the Suwannee?
We shall prosper again on GU
SIDE God helps those who bel
themselves" and we will recOve
from our disasters if they give U
'ilne enough. But brethren, fellow
queen taxpayers, let there be n
lnulllerenee on election day! Let U
noC permit them to check the pros
Perity OF the West, or to weigh I
Oh the East down into the dust b