The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-07-20
TnR WORSHlP on hONEY.

ThE WORSHIP OF HONEY.
A Kansas City Ice man admits that
he made S45, 900 In one year on a capt.
tai OF $500, and with Characteristic mod
esty declares that the price Of ice ought
TO be higher than the $7a ton for which
he sells It. Tampa Times.
OF course, he thinks so. Is II not so
all over the world7 Just give that kind
Of man the privilege Of gouging that
much money on a small investment, and
almost always he sets out to try and
capture the balance of the worlds cash
Few there be nowadays who believe a
good, hard-earned dollar IL better (for
honesty and q clear cOnscience's sake)
than ten illy-gotten or stolen ones.
But then it's just as to how one has
been raised from infancy. Too often the
thieving, grasping, money-wOrshipping
habit IL instilled into most sSoundrels
when parents are teaching the ''yOung
idea how TO shoot" Many promising
youth has been spoiled by parents in
setting bad examples to their children.
Money Is q very convenient thing 10
have lying around loose, but humani-
tvs worship Of It Oftentimes becomes
a curse, as Is now evidenced in the
Thaw-White murder scandal, and in
many other instances that have been
chronieled during the year among the
very rich people Of America.
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Governor Folk, Of Missouri, Is en-
ployinR the military when necessary 10
enforce the Sunday closing Of saloons
In that State. 1t must be q pretty
tough city where the barkeepers can
lick out the policemen and 90 right along
selling on Sunday contrary TO law. It
10 the prevalent opinion In the country
at large that q policeman who cannot
close a saloon ought TO resign. Tampa
Times.
Better have no saloons, for the moral
and religious effect 1t has on communi-
ty TO be without them. When Law au-
thorizes the conduct of a business that
breeds 80 much misery and crime, are
we not all somewhat parties to the ills
that come from II, from the fact that
we by influence and help in voting for II,
aiding and abetting it, are parties to it7
Let's do without the open bar-rooms,
and create such healthy sentiment
against the blind tiger violator that
none will defy the law" and the evils
can be shut out of any community that
votes itself clean of II. An election
probably will soon be asked for in Leon
county Let the religious and moral
element get busy, and now at the very
beginning Of the battle. Vote Leon
dry for another season, and then LEI
that same majority say to blind tiger
men scat, get cut; we've got you, anC
we propose to hold you, There must
be no halfway ground. Get out on tho
right and clean side Of this great ques.
ton. and let's 40 In 10 win u seeont
victory. There Is nothing personal II
our opposition TO the whisksy traffic
We oppose II on general principles.
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The Lakeland Sun says: There 4
one consolation for Editor Collins Of thu
Tallahassee True Democrat, and tn
editor Of the Sun. end others. and thai
is, q Governor cannot succeed himself
in once In Florida. " We do not bsliev,
the present one would desire 10 do n
after wadiRg into and through the hOi
waterhs and his advisers have prepared
for him. Maybe he would rather be a
Insurance officer Of some kind, or cap
tain Of one Of those Ditch Digging
Drodgos In the Florida Everglades.