The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-01-29

S45O,oS5 Was by legislative direction
applied TO the states bonded debt.
What if not one penny had been
applied TO the cancellation of the
states Indebtedness and the entire
amount had been appropriated ty the
legislature for the building of good
roads, the enlargement of the capitol
building, or the payment of pensions,
instead of levying taxes for these pur-
poses, would not this amount re-
ceived from the general government
have "lessened the burdens of all the
people aud lowered taxes" identicalIy
in the same proportion as if the entire
amount had been applied towards the
payment of the states bonded debt?
1t is reaching the same place-ac-
complishing ideutiesliy the same
results-hy different route. That is
all.
Can theIsecuring Of pension for an
Indian war veteran be made available
for lowering taxes and lessening the
burdens of all the peOple?"
Sure.
The soldiers in the Indian war were
likewise soldiers in the civil war, or
many of them were, and when one of
the names of these veterans is put
on the the federal list it is taken off
the state list and in this way the
burdens of the people are lessened
and the taxes lowered"
During his whole four years of SER
vice Governor Jennings charges that
Senator TaliaferrO has never intro
duced bill, resolution or amendment
on any subject emhOdying any princi-
pie of the democratic platform which
be was commanded to do.
What does Senator Taliaferro say
along this line? We quote his words:
II was among those in the United |
States senate who strenuOusly endeav-
ored to bring to a vote the resolution
20 amend the constitution and pro-
vide for the election of United States
by a direct vote of the peo-
pie"
Was that not doing something his
platform commanded him to do?
Senator Taliaferro did that because
he thought there were some republic
cans in favor of the measure and q
possibility of its passage.
With a republican president and
republican senate and republican
house of representatives let us calm.
Iy suppose that Senator TaliaferrO
had introduced bill, and persistent
y continued to do so, "fOr the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio OF Is to 1" would it not have
been regarded as "plsy Ito the gal.
sries"-the small by-plsy Of q poli-
.ician?
An eminent poet has said some
hing about "fiowers wasting their
fragrance on the desertIair?" aud One
greater than the poet has discouraged
he strenuOusness of "casting pearls
before swine"
We believe the intelligent voters of
Florida will entertain a higher Opin-
on Of Senator TaliaferrO for not
making a spectacle of himself by
Wasting his time in playing to the
II he had built up thst:kind of a
equation he would never.:have COM
handed the influence in that body.
is success in accomplishing results
hOws that he possesses, and would
OF have been so valuable a public
ervant.
Governor Jennings also charges that
enstOr TalisferrO has not procured
'om congress an appropriation of
ny nature for any place or poirt in ,
florida west of the st. Johns river" i
The interor was never recognized in !
ny manner, we may say, until Sena-
II Tsliaferro took his seat in the :
nate, but we now feel that we occu- Z
a place on the map. 4
Ocals has secured an appropriation q
r a site for q nuhlio br;IJ;ou ~