The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-07-05
rho Cor WlndoW Experts.

The man who comes to Florida sizes
1t up from the car window while his
train is passing through, sees the pines,
the swamps, the white sand an occa-
sional patch of cultivated ground, and
unsiRhtly cabins and shacks here and
there as specimens of the rural what
ever Of the state and its people, its re-
sources and it's development. Correct
general impressions long-settled and
highly developed regions man be had
that way, but in q new commonwealth
like Florida, Of vast area, heavily tim
bered and very spOrsely settled, only a
shallow-minded and unthinking man
will form even preliminary estimate
under such circumstances. II the tour
ist or intending immigrant could see
the rural developments of Pennsylvan-
ia or New York from Florida car win
dows, it would be fairer to look upon
than anything we can show here now,
but it would mean that Florida held
out no inducements to new settlers,
that she was built up, her Opportuni-
ties all taken, her population dense
and that this was no land for the man
of moderate means to come to find
abundant raw resources of many kinds
which his energy and intelligence might
convert into wealth The state is be-
ing necessarily disparaged by these car
window experts who come here and go
back without one intelligent idea of
Florida and her prodigious fertility and
bewildeming variety of resources. But
if they had sense enough to realize
that they were in new land whose
chief development was yet to come
that the "white sand" they deride is
proving every year under intelligent
,n,vIks,yaN Aknk &. L.
and trucking soil on earth and largely
supplies the North with early fruits
and vegetables, that Florida is the
richest state in the Union in the YER
salty of her native resources, and the
very fact that she is largely as yet a
tangled wilderness, unsightly to look
upon, is the strongest factor in the i'm
ducements she holds out to thrifty and
Industrious immigrants-if they had
sense enough to realize these things,
we should not have such a record of
tourist asinity in the Northern papers
when Florida is the theme for tourists
opinions in print One Georgia RoWell
has recently been writing about US up
there and after looking US over from
the car windowE, his profound conclu-
sion was that he could see mo source
Of wealth worth mentioning other than
lumber and tourist" He could't see
the numberless orange groves, the
great areas In fruits and melons, and
vegetables rapidly expanding every
year, the commercial fishing, the phOs-
plate fields worth hundreds of millions,
the many forms Of manufacturing en-
terprise, the splendid tobacco growing
industry, and other resources Of both
temperate and torrid zones 70 be found
In combination in no other state In the
UniOn- Mr.. Rowell IL q monster, q
marvel, q miracle Of presumptuOus ig-
nOranee IN his estimate Of Florida and
has shown himself q cheap and shallow
impresSiOnist whose judgement on
the question Is entirely worthless. -
Live Oak Democrat
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