The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-10-18

removal to his very door would offer
no recompense, for his piled up taxes.
Most of US know what giving mort
cages and paying interest mean, and,
by our vote for removal, we place a
burden upon our children and make
more secure the yoke of the politi-
clan, about our own necks.
3. Its removal is not demanded by
the people, who pay the taxes. The
question was forced to the front by
few INSCRIPTIONS politicians who
live by agitating the public mind.
They should be rebuked.
4. We have a splendid Capitol
building at Tallahassee, and it is paid
for. True, it is not very accessible"
to lobbyists and those who fill their
pockets by corrupting legislatures,
but it is a good place for our public
servants to go to make laws. The
statement that it will cost more to
repair the Capitol at Tallahassee,
thanto erect better building else
where, is a lie on its face. The
building in which the Legislature
meets every two years is of solid
stone and masonry, and we never
hear that it needs REPAIRS, until the
periodical Capital remover gets on
bis hind legs and begins to howl.
We have always advocated low
taxes, and we would be false to our
duty did we not warn the people,
who pay taxes, of the danger ahead.
Capital removal means increased
taxes, and we are satisfied that not
only in Levy county, but even in the
southermOst counties of the State
Tallahassee will have thousands Of
votes. We ask the people to con-
slider the gravity of the question, and
vote, not for some favorite city, but
for the States best good. Concern.
ing the cost of removal we shall
have more to say later.-The Levy
Times-DemOcrat.
Tom Sawyer on Capital Removal.
Dunedin, Oct. Attn, 1900.-EditOl
PreSs-The lawyers who are going
about over the State urging the re-
mOval Of the Capital from Tallahas
see are throwing away their time
unless indeed they are being paid fol
their services.
The Capital is not going to bC
moved. 1t will not surprise me, i
Tallahassee does not get more votes
than all the others combined. The
!. reasons urged for removal are no
such as will appeal to the majority o
our tax-payers--in fact the defeat O
the proposition is foregone eonclu
. sion. The present building is goOC
enough for the State, so long as ten
: of thousands of our people are com
, PEELED to live in shanties withOu
ceilings or paint; nor does it need an,
extensive repairs.
If the old building should b
burned, or otherwise destroyed, AM
the State had to be rebuild, then i
, would be reasonable to expect tn
people of the peninsula to vote TO
| DunnellOn or Trilby, or some Othe
great railroad center, but for tn
present Tallahassee will do.
If by any lack of interest, or an,
carelessness on the part of the voter
a majority should appear for remova
you will see such a stir in Florida a
} has not been witnessed since 1915
r Party lines will be ignored and tn
Democracy will have the bigges
row it ever experienced. We wi
have a Legislature hopelessly divide
and the contest will come again be
}. fore the people. The party viii
may crack, but men will laugh at i
Western and Central Florida will NO
f give up the Capital without a figh
{ SO bitter, that our children, thirt
: years from now, will refer to tn
''dark days of Capital removal" jus
= as we remember the days of recon
, struction. You touch a mans pocl
ct, or endanger what he deems a VI
tai interest and party fealty become
; a burden to be shaken off. The row
2 which promises to be SO big in thi
county two years from now, will b
but a sneeze in a cyclone compare
to the trouble all over the State
= Tom Sawyer in West Hillsboroug
n Press.