The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-13
Too Much
is Baneful.

is Banetul.
The Live Oak Democrat tells some
very wholesome truths, well worth
reading, marking and inwardly, di-
gesting," in the following editorial:
TOO much politics, too many can
didates, and too much perfectly profit
less and acrimonious discussion OF po-
litical men and measures in Florida.
A great commonwealth never grows
up along those lines. A land fair to
look upon, with beautiful, well-tilled
farms, nice farm houses, fat stock,
neat villages, pretty growing towns,
and fine cities throbbing with life and
energy is never developed on diet
of politics and candidates.
I'VE apprehend that the men who
have built up the great trucking and
fruit-growing interest IN this state
and are still at it, busy as beavers,
planting, harvesting and marketing
their crops and using their fine edu-
Gated intelligence and splendid energy
to make Florida a rich productive
state, look with honest contempt upon
all this political gable and the sell
FISH ambitions of warning politicians
and their noisy henchmen and horn
blowers which take up so much space
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used. Doubtless they wonder why a
state so full in opportunities. so
much in need of material develop
ment, so splendidly inviting to the
man of brain and Drawn in the rich
profuSiOn of it's native resources ly-
ing all around us, gives so much at
tention to the brawls of the 'ins' and
outs in politics and the. ambitions Os
office-seekers, and so little to those
thousand and one better things that
make for a strong, prosperous, edu-
Gated and progressive people and 4
fair, smiling land in which the Wild
erness has been subdued and a high
development is everywhere apparent
Truly it is anomalous and hard to
understand, for while as a self-gOV-
erning people, we must have politics
and office-seelers, we should feel that
they are something in the nature of
necessary evil to be minimized as
much as possible and promptly dis
posed of at stated times, and not per-
mitted to seriously interfere with the
real business of our lives.
That business is to make Florida
a land where all men and women are
educated, where beautiful homes are
general in city and town and country
alike, where loafers and vagrants are
unknown and the love of law and or
der and right and justice are in every
heart, where thrift and industry are
universal and We are all in generous
competition to build up the whole
etate while promoting our private In
terests, remove. every unsightly fea-
ture.. moral and physical, and make
Florida the synonym for land that
is beautiful and rich. not merely in
native resources, for which we de-
serve no credit. but in the high civil
lzation our own energies have planted
upon her fertile and responsive
bosom. Other people have done 1t in
other states where opportunities were
not nearly so numerous nor rewards
half so rich-why not we? Cut out
The excessive politics and snub the
Dffice seeker. Tell him YOU are too
busy either to listen to him or read
about him. and when you have re-
nuced him and his organs to proper
humility, We can all begin to find time
TO repeat in Florida the work that
has been done in Southern California
and make il great garden of sur
passing richness and beauty"
Just COZ We aint expresst emmy
opinyun erbout that feller Orchard
aint no reason We aint got none. COZ
We have, but we ain been able yet to
get it in the sort of words as wood be
akseptable to both us and lady read
erS of this sheet--The Gambone.
Freak propositions for the utilization
of the Tampa Bay Hotel have been
numerous, but the craziest of the col
lection is contributed by the man who
wants the state capitol moved to Tam
pa and the hotel used for the CAPT
tol building.-Tampa News.
Probably he had to stay at the
Leon.
The Live Oak Democrat hands |
out the following very pointed ad- /
vice to a recently announced guber- |
natorial candidate:
1t is alleged that the Hon R Hud- |
son Burr is the administration" can
didate for governor next year. Mr.. |
Burr should get in his disclaimer as
soon as possible, for the man who I
fails 10 make the race on his own
merits and his own policies is the man
Who Is very likely to get left.
The Live Oak Democrat calls atten-
hon to one of its own good sugges-
3icns and equally good act of the leg
sslature as follows: