The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-06
HAS BULLED THE STOMACH MARKET.

The richest man on earth has long been at enmity
with the stomach which nature gave him. From
the reports that have become current it might be
supposed that Mr. Rockefeller has stomach for
market cornering, trust promoting, merging, price
humping stock jobbing, lamb fleeing, financial
squeezing, whipped cream, pate de foie gras,
truffles, terrapin and similar epcurean delights;
but he hasn't. His stomach demands skinned
milk stale bread, pre-degested flakes and spoon
food. 1t rejects all other things and stands some
what in the relation of ordinary mans
science to the millionaire.
There are doubtless thousands of men who would
be willing to give up their stomachs to the Stand
ard Oil magnate for the price promised. But if
they reflect moment they won't.
Their stomachs are the one thing in their posses
sion that he can't take without permission and whose
theft would do him no good. And it is better that
Mr.. Rockefeller keep warning with the one he
has, and supplying plots for comic opera with his
offers Of fabulous for its replacing. If he had
a real good, hard working stomach, that would re-
ceive with avidity and digest with dispatch every
thing that he would put in it, it is impossible to
predict results, but the first thing he would proba-
bly, do would be to push Mr.. Morgan off the earth
and upset all the commercial, industrial and inan-
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not be disastrous
However, it is not likely that Mr.. Rockefeller will
be separated from that million dollars. The net
suit of his offer is to increase the wealth of every
possessor of a sound stomach in the country He
has bulled the market, if he has done nothing else
and every man whose digestion is unimpaired is a
millionaire if he will only look at it in the right
way.
The efforts of certain papers to poke the niger in
to the democratic politics of the state, anent the
Gainesville educational convention, was ill-advsed
and in no wise warranted by the facts in the case
Superintendent Sheats is too good democratic, and
Withal, too level-headed politician to make any
such break as that with which he was credited The
incident simply furnished an opportunity for blusteI
on the part of those politicians who stride up and
down the state with chip their shoulders look
ing for trouble and seeking to make an issue which
they may ride into place. The niger can never be
an issue in the democratic party of Florida. His
political status was fixed at the last state convention
in jacksonville when the white primary election
platform was adopted. The Almighty drew the line
of his social status many years before the American
hot-headed politician called into being. Presi-
dent Roosevelt may attempt to annul the immutable
law of nature and natures god, but it can never
prove more serious than strenuous attempt at the
mpossibe of no more avail than would be Kan
sas court injunction directed against the whisting
of the wind through a farmers whskers.
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! The newspaper making fraternity of Florida is
justified in feeling pride in the recent acquisition
to it's ranks of DR.. H E. Stockbridge who assumes
the editorial management of the Florida Agriculture
alist at DeLand. Dr. Stockbridge, as head of the
agricultural department of the state college, and
promoter of the Farmers Institute, has injected
more of energy and modern method into the bust
ness of agriculture and horticulture in this state
than all others combined He is walking encyclo-
peda of horticulture we'll interpreter-general
of nature laws applied agriculture, and his po-
ston as editor of the Agrculturis should shove that
journal to the front and give its utterances the value
that must attach to one who speaks as with authority
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1t is Just possible that it may never have been
thought worth while to get Congressman Davis IS
consent before entering him in the 1904 senatorial
race
If the Honorable Jefferson B. Brown had only read
the Paatka Times Herald's approving remarks con-
corning the reputed invitation extended Booker
Washington to address the convention of county
superintendents in Gainesville, it is more than
likely he would have hestated before committing
himself.
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recent press dispatch from Dresden says that when
the crown princess scandal became public the Saxon
minister of the interior notified the papers that editors
publishing the princesss side of the case, invol
wing criticism of her husband would be sentenced to
five years imprisonment AS consequence, Frederick
August continues pose the injured party before his
people while the official press discharges mud batteries
against Louise Antonette Observing the attitude OF
the organs the rest of the papers followed
suit and there is not crime species of vice in the
calendar that has not been charged against the
princess who up to the day of her flight, the most
popular woman in all SaXOny.
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That sef-constituted organ of Congressman Davis's
that entered him in the 1904 senatorial race must feel
very much like counterfeit 80 cents, that Mr. Da
Wis has seen fit to jump the fence without much
saying with your permission"
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