The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-04-05

| recommend resolution uelhOIldl-
izing the Congress Of the United
States to purchase territory, either
domestic or foreign, and provide
means to purchase the property of the
negroes, at reasonable prices, and to
transport them to the territory pur-
chased by the United States. The
United States to organize a govern
ment for them of the negro race; to
protect them from foreign invasion;
to prevent white people from living
among them on the territory, and to
prevent negroes from migrating back
to the United States. believe this
to be the only hope of a solution of
the race problem. More especially
do | make this recommendation for the
good of the white race; to keep sweet
the lives of the white people; to keep
their conscience keen and clean.
The Right of the Public to Correct
Information.
Accurate information furnished to
the people Is good for the people.
Inaccurate or false information is bad
for the people, as it may deceive
them, and in that way be of financial
benefit, or in some other way profit
able, to the persons furnishing or
disseminating such false and inaccur-
ale information. A newspaper pub
fishing accurate information to the
public is a good institution. A news
paper publishing inaccurate or false
information to the public, innocently,
is harmful; wilfully, is positively bad
and a menace to the public welfare.
1 recommend that it be made mis-
demeanor for any person or persons
to circulate, through a news bureau,
or newspaper, any literature bearing
false information to the public, upon
any public question, and to make 1t
misdemeanor for any person to mali
ciously print any mis-statement or
falsehood about any candidate, or
about any public official, which tends
to destroy the confidence of the peo-
pie in the candidate or officer; and
that the publication or distribution, or
either, be made prima facie evidence
Of the intention of the person or per-
sons so publishing or distributing same.
| further recommend that a law be
enacted authorizing the County Solic-
itor or State Attorney, in any county,
to file information, either in the Cir
cult Court or the Criminal Court of
Record or if the Circuit Court is at that
time in session, bring to the attention
Of the Grand Jury for investigation the
fact of the presence of any publish
ing or distributing agency publishing
or distributing any false or mis-lead-
ing literature, that they may be in
vestigated and indicted, or informa-
ton filed, according to the law. We
take every precaution to preserve free
from transformation, or any influence
which will prevent a true and Just
verdict, the juries in our courts.
Shall we not also take care that that
great jury, the people, to whose YER
dict-public opinion-all must bow,
shall not be misinformed and deceiv-
ed by designing interests and news
bureaus and newspapers controlled
and directed by them for their own
private and personal ends? l recon-
mend that statute be enacted maxi
ing public mendacity a misdemeanor
and Furnishing any newspaper writer
or editor or publisher who deliberate
ly and Intentionally writes or pub
fishes an article that is untrue, and
making the public printing of an I'M
truth prima facie evidence of the mis-
demeanor. Respectfully submitted.
N. B. BRoWARD, Governor.