The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-10-13
True sS . Parable.

If Florida railroads would pay less
attention to tourist travel during the
winter months and more to the set
thing the state with German farmers,
Florida would be recompensedi in part
for the tremendous land grants given
to the corporations in times past. AS
| it stands today, no effort is made by
the railroads to secure this German
immigration. hence everything goes
west: and the plains of the west are
dotted with farms owned by this en-
| ergetic German people who know
how to farm, raise horses and many
other profitable things. immigration
can be secured for Florida if the
work is done in a proper manner.
| Special agencies should be established
in the old countries that are overdOne
with population, and the men in
charge of these agencies will not find
it at all difficult to turn the tide Flor
idaward. Florida't railroads owe
something to the state and its citizens,
and they could pay that debt and at
the same time make it profitable to
the corporations. al C h ic o la
Times.
Sir Oliver Lodge, of England, con-
tends that crime, like alcoholism, is a
disease and should be so treated, and
convicts. especially young ones, in
stead of being sent to penal institu-
tions, should be sent to real reforma-
| tories, where, instead of being pun
ished and degraded, they can be re-
| stor. d to moral health 1t will come
to this. Gradually the instruments
of torture and punishment are disap-
pearing and the world is growing all
the better for it.
Speaking of the New York Life in
surance matters, New York preach
er says: "That money was stolen just
as surely as if he had placed his hand
in the policy holders pockets and
| filched it therefrOm," and in a letter
to President Mccall embodied the
following verse:
In vain men call old notions fudge
| And bend the conscience to their dealing;
| The Eighth Commandment will not bulge
And stealing will continue stealing
| Ex-Presldent Cleveland contributes
an article ON ''Woman's Suffrage" in
the last issue of the Ladies Home
Journal. Considered from a literary
stand point it is superbiy written and
those who may differ from his con-
illusions can but admire its literary
beauty and the delicacy of its compli-
ments to womanhOod. No finer article
was ever penned by him.
The Atlantic Coast Line will trans.
port free, county exhibits forwarded
| by county commissioners from sta
tions on its line in Florida, to Tampa,
| when consigned to South Fla. State
Fair Association Full tariff rates
will be assessed on all exhibits, or Dor
ton of exhibits, returned from Tam
pa to pc ints of origin.
The fact that the Times Unions
correspondents are discussing agri-
culture, prohibition Christian science,
evolution, and kindred subjects, is a
very good sign. that politics in Flori-
da are at very low ebb. The pot is
not even simmering.
Mr.. Mccall thanks God he helped
to defeat the double standard and yet
the books of his company-one set
for the directors and one set for the
public.-Bryan's Commoner.
The Charleston News and Courier
says that it is significant that John A.
Mccall considered it incumbent up
on him to become republican when
he began to misapproprlate the funds
of the widows and orphans.
Hon. Samuel Sasco, of Monticello,
ex-United States senator, who has
been spending the summer abroad