The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-03-04
THE eoVERHoR's SECOND LETTER.
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that these deposits have increased in
recent years from S65 900 to $500, 900.
A great deal was said in the public
prints some time ago about Senator
TaiiaferrO being connected with the
{. b. Rogers Company, OF Jackson
vile; that said company was guilty
OF receiving rebates from the railroad
companies and that 10y doing so
the wholesale business houses in
Jacksonville had been stified and
almost destroyed.
Senator TaliaferrO is connected
with the G. B. Rogers Company on ly
by virtue of being a stakeholder; he
has scarcely more TO do with Il e
management OF the company than
an outsider.
At the end of the year be is sent a
tsbulsted statement showing the net
earnings of the company and a check
for his part of the profits.
But he did not seek to hide behind
these facts. If the company were
guilty Of sny:Obliquity he was will
ing TO shoulder his full part of the
responsibility and proceeded TO show
thar the rebates given 10y one of the
railway cOmpar les doing business at
that time wholly within the limits of
the state Of Florida, did so, so a. TO
put jacksonville on a commercial
footing with Savannah and ill.,
stead Of the wholesale business houses
being stified that the wholesale
grocery firms alone had multiplied
from four to twenty eight and the
gentleman who had made the charge
against Senator Taliaferro in receiv-
ing rebates as doing something sinful,
was himself 3 member of the Com
mercisl Company CT Tampa, which
company was receiving identically
the same proportion of rebates as was
the c. b. Rogers Company. of Jack
sonville, since which time the
voters Of Florida have heard scarcely
. word on the subject of rebates.
Senator Taliaferro is only incident
ally connected with the Bank of
Tampa although his name figures as
an officer of it. he has nothing to
do with its active management but if
there is any Onus connected with it
he stands ready to share his full part !
Of the responsibility and the blame.
Is il crime for bank doing bust |
ness in Florida to receive deposits
from the United States?
Governor Jennings thinks that it |
lie and for doing which plasters Sena-
tor Talisferro from head to foot with |
. coat of mud.
The government receives large |
moneys in the shape of import duties
~ Tampa and these moneys have TO |
be deposited in some bank for safe /
keeping-why not in a democratic |
bank?
Granting, for the sake of argument,
that this constitutes Especial priv.
lege," and a. such is against demo-
cratic pOlity, what then?
So is the tariff The democratic
party has been fighting the policy of |
protection, which the tariff fosters,
time out of memory, but, because of
which, must a democrat doinga man
ufacturing business alongside of re-
bNbAANah COuCeELS,
refuse its benefits and let his republi-
can rival receive it all and drive him
from the fielde There would be no
sense IN that.
The best that he can do and all he
can reasonably expect to do, is to ex-
Pose its unfsirness and by publicity
create a public sentiment that will |
enact laws against it.
Hundreds of men in the south were
opposed to the system slavery yet
owned hundreds of slaves.
There was nothing inconsistent in
their position. They were unwilling
70 part with their slaves, which were
theirs by inheritance, for fear that
they might fall into the hands of
cruel masters.
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