The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-27
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF THE STATE PRESS
Powell Getting Too Swift.

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Powell Getting Too Swift.
| st. Petersburg has passed an ordi-
nance limiting me speed of ANTONIO
Lbiles to eight miles an hour. Is this
to be taken that Brer Powell, the only
editor in the state rich enough to own
4 chugwagon, was getting too swift
for the st. Petersburgers Lakeland
News.
Bryan's Popularity.
Mr.. William J. Bryan is willing 10
do anything that will bring harmony
to the democratic party and progress
and good government to the country
If Mr. Bryan is not a patriot he has
been Stimulating one for a long while.
The olGer he grows, the more he is in
the limelight the more popular he be-
cOmes.-Ocala Banner.
Lost His Bull Dog.
! ID. c. Norris is fifty dollars poorer
to-day than he was yesterday. He had
fine bull dog for which he paid that
amount. The dog got tired of being
kept il a close place, and last night
jumped the fence. Unfortunately for
the dog there was a chain around his
neck. The chain was not long enough
to reach the ground on the other side
of the fence, and this morning the dog
was found cold corpus with his BODY
suspended between the green earth
and the blue sky.-Milton Index.
/ 8ryan's Running Mate.
| There is another Bryan boom start
ed. 1t seems that he will have no op-
position in the next democratic con-
| 10 will in oil hob h.
nominated by reclamation on the frst
ballot So it is high time that the
democrats were looking around for his
running mate. A strong man should be
nominated for the vice-presidency-
Ocala Banner.
How to Catch Bait.
Mr.. VIII Hall has solved the bait
Question, and to him future fishermen
will refer with expressions of apprecia-
ton. Mr.. Hall says that a stick driven
into the ground from four to five
inches, and an axe repeatedly rubbed
upon this stick as it stands driven into
the ground, will call to the surface
every earthworm within ten feet of the
stick, where they can be picked up
and placed in the bait can. Mr.. Hall
says that he has tried this method with
I
Brown backs up the assertion with all
the force at his command.-Apalachi-
cola Times.
Bonds for Good Road System.
| At the earliest possible date our
state should issue bonds for complet-
ing the proposed state system of
| roads.
The constitutional amendment
should be prepared and passed by
| the present session so that our people
may vote upon it at the next general
election. 1t gives the people a chance
| to say how they will raise the money
to build the roads they have decided.
to build.
In the states where a majority of
the people may be classed as only
comfortable, the question of raising
enough money by direct tax to make
the improvement needed on the roads
bring want in many cases and sacri-
fee of the home in some cases. The
thoughtful statesman, whose first
duty should be to care for such per-
sons, will, if possible, secure the
blessing and save the home. The
longtime state bond looks to be the
best solution of this most important
question Those who pay receive
oils.
Lake City Last Case.
Lake City has lost it's case in the
United States court by which that
town sought to secure and hold the
state university. The people of that
enterprising town, however, have not
given up all hope and efforts will be
land are being) made to secure some
thing in an educational way from the
present legislature. Senator Buck
man, father of the Buchanan univer-
sity bill, is thoroughly alive to every
decentralization New Enterprise.
The Franchise Tax Bill.
The franchise tax bill in the legis-
lature deserves consideration. II
may not be phrased to the best form,
but it is right in principle. The tax
on franchises should not be heavy,
but it should be laid. It should be
provided to increase automatically as
the franchises become more valuable.
1t is not to be denied that the fran
chiSeS possess value to the corpora
tons upon which they are bestowed.
These corporations ought not to eX-
pect something for nothing. In other
states, in most of the country, the tax
is regarded as founded on justice and
is a matter of course. The franchise
is property, it is monopoly, therefore
doubly designated as a proper object
of observation-disclosures Times.
The Lesson Leaf Plan.
The first time we read the Punta
Gorda Herald's suggestion that lesson
leaves on the plan of the Internation-
al Sunday School lesson leaves be
used in the public schools it struck
us as ridiculous, the second time we
looked at iC a little more seriously,
and now we have about come to the