The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-05-16
What Shall We Do With the
.MalOr:

'1hd JOI
What Shall We Do with the Ma
sjor?" is a question which no doubt
more than one Florida legislator has
asked himself, this session as well as
former ones, and a question which TO
one, outside possibly of Claude
LEngle, has ever attempted to an
swer. We have forgotten what
Claude's answer was, if he ever made
one. but We have no doubt as to what
it would lOok~like in print
They say that the Major has been
lonesome in Tallahassee this year
that he has been cross, irritable, and
otherwise a changed man from pre-
vious sessions--and that lack of Oc-
cupation on his part has possibly sug-
gested even to him the question as to
what he was ultimately going to do
with himself.
Business, they say, hasn't been as
good as 1t was in the palmy days of
old. Even Pat, with his usual step
and-fetch-it alacrity has found little to
do and less coming in for it, and both
part been wrapped in what the poets
call dark and gloomy thought. But
that is another story.
The question of what we shall do
with the Major does not belong exact
~ in the same category with that
other long-mooted question-"What
Shall We Do With our Old
en?"-because the latter has never
been answered and We purpose 10 an
iswer the former. The Major, in fact,
is not now. or should not be, quite
such difficult proposition to handle.
Elsewhere in The Journal to-day We
publish a report of the provisions of
an immigration bill which is likely to
become law. Under that bill good
man will be required to take charge
of an immigration Department, and on
the selection of that man will depend
the success or failure of the object of
this particular piece of legislation.
What Shall We Do with the
Major?"-put him in charge of the
states immigration Department. He
is the one man above all others who
is qualified from the ground up to
make it a success. A practical. sue
1cessful farmer himself, he can demon
-strate the advantages and resources
'pf Florida soil from a bonafide, prac-
.stical standpoint
For be it known that the Major,
while accustomed to biennially farm
the farmers as they appear in the
legislature. looking to his corporation
connections for ready and profitable
sale for his harvest, is a. practical til
Ter of the soil, and his broad acres
down in Volusia county constitute
model demonstration of the very best
that Florida soil can produce.
Add to this, the Majors practical
knowledge, gained from long expert
ence, of how to make other people see
through his glasses and his smooth
way and effective method of influence
ing men, and you have a combination
that ought to pull more immigrants
into the state of Florida than all the
chestnuts that the Majors tools have
pulled out of the legislative fire in
all the years of his long service in
Florida's distinguished third house,
and that would be a good many.
This plan would solve the question,
what Shall We Do with the Major"
and would, in addition. accomplish
two things-give the state a good
man for immigration Agent, and en-
able us 10 get rid of the Major while
the legislature is in session. And this
latter consideration would not be
among the least of the good things to
be accomplished.