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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
PENS CoLA FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 49,
Tax Dodging Is
Akin to:TreaSon.

The following thoughtful and very
timely editorial appeared in the
Panama City Pilot. 1t should be
pondered by every man:
Within the past few weeks a county
in this state, and another in an ad-
joining one, have been enjoined from
ably the largest land owners in these
counties. Both cases have been ap-
pea1ed by the states in question to a
higher court, but in the meantime the
town. county, and state governments
must be carried on, to do which, taxes
are levied and collected.
It is probable that the two laws
which have Deen declared void by
these courts may require changing,
but far greater public demand
exists, entirely overlooked by the
courts, that duly constituted govern
ments of town, county, and state
should be furnished the means neces-
sary to protect their citizens lawfully
in health and property, and carry
out their established prerogatives-
Failure to pay any considerable
portion of the taxes, as has been
threatened at times, would prevent
this being done, and if carried out by
a SACaI AuL4DS1 VI SAISAS2hS pIODSI-
ty owners, local or state governments
could be so badly embarrassed as to
become incapable of carrying on their
lawful functions.
Wherein do such acts, threatening
the very existence Of state govern
ment, differ from the treason which
levies war upon it, or gives aid to its
enemies? 1t is evident that the state
should enact, and the courts uphold,
laws that would prevent such con-
ditions. The people have a right to
laws that would require the payment
of just proportion of the taxes
levied, with interest on the same, or
on that portion of them which might
eventually be upheld, from the time
they were due and payable, as a con-
dition precedent to an appeal to the
courts
In the meantime the small mer-
chants, farmers, and fishermen, form
ing the greater portion of the tax
payers, are being mulcted to meet the
expenses of these costly suits with
wealthy litigants, and paying out of
their scanty incomes all that is being
contributed to maintain local govern
ment, and protect the property of
these multi millionaires. 1t is high
time there was reformation in our
tax laws, and in certain tax payers
Panama City rtIot
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
NapoIeon and Waterloo.

Military men Of all countries have
repeatedly declared that Napoleon's
last campaign was admirably planned
and, up to Waterloo, admirably ex-
ecuted. Napoleon was defeated at
Waterloo not because of any twist in
his brain, but because of the rain that
fell on the night of the 18th OF June
and the incompetency or treachery of
Grouchy. Had it not rained on the
18th, or had Grouchy obeyed orders
and kept Blucher from the French
right, Napoleon would unQuestionably
have gained victory at Waterloo
New York American.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

One gets used to most things in
life. but there is no accustoming the
public to the recurrent news of the
death of little children. For months,
sometimes daily for periods, the To-
cal press has chronicIed the death of
children from measles, whooping
cough, or a combination of the two
maladies, and every now and then
it happens that death comes a second
time in the same guise to strike again
hearts already cruelty wounded.
There is hardly an adult in Pensa-
cola who has not directly or indirect
ly felt the pain of the sorrow that
comes when a bright little life is end
ed, when the sweetest music of earth
the merriment of child-is stilled
by the touch of death. To the par
ents especially. and to she commun-
ity as such, the sympathy of the
thoughtful can not help but go out,
for whoever the child that dies,
whether known or unknown, who of
us all does not know and love some
child, and who of us does not feel
that the love of a child and love
for a child, are the purest blessing
that can come into the life of any
one?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
sehopenhauer on oeniu..

By itself genius can produce original
thoughts just as little as a woman by
herself can bear children. Outward cir
cumstances must come to fructify gen.
ius and be, as it were, father TO its
progeny. A man OF learning is a man
who has learned great deal, man Of
genius one from whom we learn some
thing which the genius has learned
from nobody. Great minds. OF which
there is scarcely one in hundred mil
lions, are thus the lighthouses of hui
manity. and without them mankind
would lose itself In the -boundless sea
Of monstrous error and bewiiderment-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
A Big Canal Project of
Benefit to Whole State

The Mulberry (Polk county, Times
has the following interesting bit of
news:
Below we give few lines from
Crosby Thompson promoter of the
Eloise canal project, which is to cross
the state. His article speaks for it.
self. He says:
Our survey just completed from
the south fork of the st. Lucie river
to Lake Okeechobee, gives US a much
more satisfactory route than any here
tofore surveyed. We have an aver
age of only two feet of overburden
and all sand and muck cutting, while
the survey made by Fries a little
further north showed some cutting as
great as forty feet, and their borings
showed much rock.
"'Ours is the first and only COM
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
The Passing of
The Bar Room.

The rapidity of evolution of pub
Hardly any one now recalls the late
Jerry Simpson as radical, and ex
Senator PETER is quoted as declaring
that Roosevelt is a pOpulist after
his own heart.
1t is only a few years ago that to
talk of prohibition was to arouse
Southern ire, over gross interior
ence with private rights" The COCK
tail and mint julep, and that queen
of subtle beguilement, the Virginia
teddy, not to mention the more re-
cent Mamie Taylor" and the sooth-
ing 'Sea-gull,'' protested in their
poesy against the overthrow of the
traditions of the olden days of ro-
nance
And yet. to-day, we find the prohi-
bition sentiment strong, widespread,
strengthening, and growing wider and
wider Georgia is practically certain
of prohibition. Alabama, by its oro-
posed non-shipment law, which has
passed both houses, and its early
closing in wet towns, is all but on
a prohibition basis. Louisiana is
dotted from end to end with five
mile circles, with school houses as
the centers, in which liquor can not
be sold, and well-infermed persons
expect Santa Rosa county to go dry
next week
1t may be hard on some. it may be
an unnecessary step as regards those
in whom temperament and judgment
unite happily on the drink this side
of the one too many" but the
spread of the prohibition sentiment,
active and passive, means that the
day of the barroom sway in politics
is passing, and that despite the ridi-
cule provoked by Carrie Nations and
other wild extremists, the people at
large are growing more and more to
look on the retail liquor traffic as one
that can be easily dispensed with.
Whether prohibition prohibits or not,
it lessons the extent of drunkenness,
puts it into a greater disrepute in
the public sight. and lessons the op-
portunities for young men to become
addicted to a curse which is so gen.
tie in its inception, so jovial and
pleasant in its development, SO damn
ing when become firm habit. that few
men have either the wisdom or the
will power to set themselves free
when the clasp of the curse has
closed on their souls.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
A Touah Man.

What man was made OF: a $40.
quantity Of Dust, a large quAnn9
water and a much larger quanuH
hot air. "a.
What man ought to have been p,I ~
of: a steel frame covered WIN -. Oh
a funnel shaped mouth papeFeu r 10.
asbestus and a goats stomach .,.r.
with double copper plates. IL ! e.
anteed that this man Will hot ~ a..
fected by railroad and nutoLn0pn '..o.
cidents, boat wrecks. subway cLII III,
fire insurance companies. docools n
and all the other dire nece'
life-Kansas City Independent
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

plete survey, with stakes set every
200 feet, and borings made to depth
of canal cut every quarter mile
The Florida Engineering Com
pany has charge of the work under
Fred C. Evers. The canal route Is
twenty-eight miles long spd will be
sixty feet wide and ten feet deep
The survey from Okeechobee up
Kissimmee river, through TO Lake
Istapoga and up through Arbuckle
and Reedy lakes to Crooked lake is
now in progress. A junction will
there be made with the Eloise canal
of the Inland Transportation and
Lumber Company.
Surveying in that country at this
time of the year is very hard. but We
have a corps OF the best men ever
in the state"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

Man& an American makes himself
as contemplate, though few succeed
in being as pitifully ridiculous. as
Count Boni is grasDing for millions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

We expect to see Milton go dry,
and be happy, too, about the time that
the people of Florida elect governor
who will please all the people all the
time.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
NEWS AND VIEWS

Judge Jones All Right.
There is one thing about Judge
Minor S. Jones. He is boss of his
court, and will have his orders and
rulings Obeyed, even if someone has
to go to Jail as a consequence If
there were more judges of this cali
bre there would be better courts and
better law and order.-Miami Me
tropolis
A Progressive Mayor.
The Tribune has ever maintained
that the greatest need of Florida to-
day, every section of it, is more peO-
people. To obtain these people must
be done by properly advertising the
state either through an immigration
board, which the last legislature re-
fused to provide, or a state fair which
fortunately it did not make an ap-
preparation for or else by literature
circulated through local boards of
trade or other agencies.
The recommendation of the mayor of
Orlando strikes as us peculiarly per-
tfnent and as exhibiting a broad COM
prehensiOn of the vital necessity for
doing all things to secure new set
tiers In his message to the City
Council he advised that a small tax
be levied on property specifically for
the purpose of preparing and distri-
buting literature to advertise this
city
This impresses The Tribune as Re
ing wise recommendation. And it
is one, we believe, that would meet
with no opposition from the citizens
OF any municipality in the state The
result aimed at is of such farreach-
ing and evident Importance that it
would necessarily appeal to every
tax payer and meet with universal
approval-Tampa Tribune
Make Up for Lost Time.
More water trouble This time it
is Tallahassee where it is claimed the
rates are extortionate, and the
meters register on the never sleep
plan. The Sun says 1.-The Lord pro-
vided water for the use of hrs crea-
lures and the devil provided meters
The Tallahassee company charges
SO Is cents per thousand gallons and
the meters every now and then clip
a cog and add several thousand gal
Ions that never went through The
trouble with Gainesville is not the
meters so much as the lack of water
to make them move, but when they
do moye-Oh my!-Gainesvilie Ele-
vator
Good Roads Material.
And now it is said that the refuse
of the turpentine retorts will make
the finest roads in the world if sub
jected to the pressure of ten pounds
to the square inch. They have tried
it in Lake Butler on short piece of
road and the results We're all that
were claimed. This material can be
had in great abundance in Florida
and our city council might do well
to investigate the matter and make
some experiments on our streets right
here in Live Oak G. F. MarkviIle,
OF Lake Butler, is said to be thor
oughly informed on the subject. and
he would be a good man to write to.
Live Oak Democrat
Would Be PIeasanter.
The Railroad Commissioners could
not do the people of Florida a better
service than to require the railroad
companies to equip their coaches
with tenders, the same as sleeping
cars are equipped with, says the
Gainesville Sun. 1t would not only
keep out much of the dust, but would
protect the eyes from einders. The
expense to the railroads would be
immaterial as compared with the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
FLORIDA AS SEEN
BY HER EDITORS
. ~~>~~>~~~~~e>~~
Philanthropist Wanted.

Philanthropist Wanted.
1t Is with pleasure we announce
that the college property at Lake
City has been turned over to the Bap-
lists of Florida who will establish a
Baptist college there. The Baptist
state convention will hold an extra
session in Lake City on July oath,
to formally take charge. Now If some
rich philanthropist wishes to do the
greatest good with his money, let him
endow this college.-Bronson Times
Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
By
the State
Press

comfort afforded the travelling pub
lie. Let thefc commissioners get
busy" in this matter.-Jasper Banner
of Liberty.
Good to See and Read.
Editor Collins, of the Tallahassee
True Democrat has brought that ex-
cellent paper fully back to its old
form and it is now in the front rank
of Florida weekly journalism. 1t is
tempting to look at and a dip into
its contents never disappoints the
reader. Mr.. Collins is going it
solely on the merits of his paper, and
it is impossible not to- admire the
sturdy grit and unyielding purpose of
the man as he humps himself to his
arduous task week after week, con
scientious in work, fearless in cr;ti-
cism and determined to get there"
in spite of all obstacles. The True
Democrat deserves a generous state
wide patronage and we suspect that
it is getting it.-Live Oak Democrat.
Against the Improvement.
Captain c. w Lansing, of tie ST.
johns River steamer City of Jackson
vile, was at DeLand over Sunday
last, visiting his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Porter Lansing The captain has Just
returned from a trip to Lake Okee-
chobee. He was off on the first va.
cation he has had for eight years. He
says it is his opinion that even if
the state should succeed in lowering
Lake sOkeechobee, the Everglades
will be a vast inaccessible wider
ness, and will forever be as a white
elephant on the hands of the people
of Florida; that only millfonaires
could undertake to put into a state
Of cultivation those lands; that there
are millions of acres of lands Just as
good, lying all over Florida, already
drained and can easily be brought
into cultivation He sees nothing in
the drainage of the Everglades but
the useless drainage of the state
treasury. He would not give the rich
drained lands up and down the ST.
John river for the entire Everglades
after they are drained.-Deland Rec
ord.
Inverness Chronicle Sold.
The Inverness Chronicle, so ably
and successfully conducted by
Messrs. Hardy and Hugh Geiger, sons
Of Rev. L. D. Geiger, has been sold
70 W1IIlam W4rnOcK, an old EeWS-
paper man and for years the popular
and efficient clerk of Citrus county,
who will see that the paper is prep
erly conducted
The object of the Messrs. Geiger II
disposing of the paper is that Hardy
has chosen law for his profession,
while Hugh will become a physician
and they desire to reach the goal of
their ambition and take a profession
al course
We understand it is the purpose of
Mr.. Warnock to organize a strong
stock company for the Chronicle, so
as to successfully butt against the
corporate influences on the west side
of Crystal river. who have a good
company backing the News, whose III.
innate aim and object is to locate
the county seat at Crystal River
Ocala Star
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS
NNN%%%>>%%ANN>,.
Not Like claude. Eh2

Not Like Claude, Eli?
Writing from Micanopy, cprre-
spendent suggests the name of Mr..
John G. YL'Engle of Jacksonville for
governor and says: Talk about
yRurS men for governor, what is the
matter with the Hon. John G. LEN
'gb or Duvsle He is liam that
'wouldf hlls the bill, and would certain
tly give u.s. good, clean adnrinistra-
ton. We, would like to see a sue
.cessfnl business man; and that is
what we need at the head. of affairs.
And he has a genuine backbone. One
of the right sort Times Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
Florida Cotton.

The National News Service of
Washington reports that Florida leads
all the cotton producing states in
present crop prospects, while Geor-
gia comes second, with Louisiana
third. The relative. standing in fig
ures being: Florida SO; Georgia IS;
Louisiana sc, and otner states below
the last named figure. Florida is
well to the front in the production of
the great southern staple cotton, as
we'll as in those products which are
many, in which she leads the world
Barlow Courier-Informant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

Very Nice of Myers.
We understand that, in view of the
fact that both United States senators
have endorsed Judge e. Q. Maxwell
for the judgeship and the improbable
ity of securing the appointment of a
Democrat without united action, Mr.
Myers has requested his friends to
proceed no further in his behalf, not
withstanding the very fattering sup
port that has been rendered him by
members of the bar at Jacksonville
and other places.-Tallahassee True
Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
Browns Candidacy.

Browns Candidacy.
The Punta Gorda Herald is inclin-
ed to the opinion that Col Browns
candidacy for the United States SEN
ate will prove nothing but & joke.
The Herald says: 1.-THE newspapers
may regard Col. T. ]. L. Browns an
nouncement for United States sena-
tor as a joke, as some of them say
they do; butfif Col. SparI1man keeps
out of the race Col. Brown will DEM
onstrate the fact that his eadidaey is
anything but a joke. He is a hustler
with plenty of ability to arouse the
voters, even if he should fail to cleo
trify the newspapers. 1t is Just
such pluck and energy as he pos
sesses that usually win out in any
kind of any undertaking. Gaines
vile Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
Bio Weiuht and Bio Money.

B. F. Collier, who lives on South
Palmetto avenue, brought from his
garden and sold to Peter Ladas, a
watermelon of the ice cream variety
which was estimated to weigh 60
pounds, and sold for s1.50.-Daytona
Halifax Journal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
Brown Is No Joke.

1t is little early ia the campaign
for some Florida newspapers to In
augurate the Jess laff" policy in ref
erence to the candidacy of T. J. L.
Brown, who is ambitious to fill SEN
ator Mallory's place Besides the
Jess Iaff," got ignobIy left once on
a time and their reputation for
prophetic wisdom IS not the best in
the world Mr. Brown is all right,
and man who is competent to hon
orably and intelligently serve Flor
ida in the u S. senate.-Arcadia
Champion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19
Look Out, California.

Proving that Florida soil and eli
mate is able to produce apples of
quality and size rivaling those raised
in Michigan or Delaware, s. S. Fetch
er, of Magdalene, yesterday brought
to the Tribune office an apple raised
on his land. The fruit was well
formed of large size and splendid ap-
pearance and, though hardly ripe,
showed by the skin that it would ma
ture into beautiful speclment of the
apple family. It was of a variety ex-
cellent for cooking purposes Mr.
Fletcher stated that there were many
more on the tree which he planted
as an experiment and he probably
will plant more Of the same variety
Tampa Tribuna-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-19

comfort afforded the travelling pub
lie. Let their commissioners get
busy" in this matter.-Jasper Banner
of Liberty.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24
MONTGOMERY WON THE
CRESCENT CITY DERBY
Earnings of One Race Repre-
Sented SmalI Fortune,
Amount Being $4,000.

NEW ORLEANS, March 23.-Chinn
& Forsytbe S colt, Montgomery. the
favorite, won the $4,000 Crescent City
Derby today. with a length to spare.
Temaceo, the winner of the california
Derby, was second, while Gargantua, ar
IS to l. came third With a neck the
lead over Yankee Girl, winner Of last
week s City Park Derby.
Montgomery gave splendid exh'bi-
tion of speed. The nine starters round
ed The turn into the stretch so closely
punched that it looked like anybody Is
race. UP to that point Montgomery
had been as bad as fourth, after being
cut off al the first turn by Sir Tod
dington and Morales. Montgomery
came into the stretch IN the lead with
Sir Toddington and Yankee Girl stick
the finish Montgomery, running stead
lily as a clock, worked his length out.
Temecco moved up from fifth and Gar-
gantua from sixth place in an effort
to challenge the leader, Yankee Girl
looked dangerous for moment, ont
her race was endc1 in 4 pocket nj the
eighth pole.
The weather was clear and hot and
the track fast
First race, six furiongs Donna Ell
vira. won; Bosserain, second; Posing,
third. Time, rs a..
Second race, four furlongs-Moihe
Montrose, won; Monteberr. second; Bit
ter Sir, third. Time, Al 3-5
Third race, five and a half furlopgs
-Colloquy, won: Southern Cross, sec
ond; Charlie Eastman, third. Tine,
1:06
Fourth race. two miles, selling
Gamestcr, won, DR. Young, second;
Sanction. third Time, 3:303.5.
Fifth race, mile and an eighth, Tie
Crescent City Derby. $4,000, value 10
winner, $S000-Montgomery, III
(Shilling), 5 to 2, won; Temaceo, l22
(Lloyd), S TO /, second; Gargantua. 10
(Foy)l - TO !, third. Time, 80 %
Yankee Girl, Pink Star. SIR Todding
ton, Jileing, Morales and Halbar1 also
ran. Pink Star aud Morales coupled
Fizzer Woodford entry).
Sixth race. two miles, selhng-Am-
berlack, won: Layson, second; Mae
Lynch, third Time, 3 80 l-5
Seventh race, mile and a sixteenth
Agra, won; Bye Bye, second; Delmore,
third. Time, Al 10.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-24
This Garment Made and Guaranteed by
ChaS. Kaufman s. Bros.
CHICAGO.

trotting horses is greater than ever be
fore.
A suggestion Of what has been done
in one department Of this line alone is
furnished by the fact that no less than
twenty-five trotting stations with rec
ords better than 2:10 have been sent to
Europe, the list including such famous
horses as Onward Silver. 2:03M, Tom
my Britton. 2:06ha; Caid, 2:07h !;
Glenwood NJ. 2:07H: Jupe, 2:07l2;
Gayton, 2:0SA Trevillian, 2;0sh Gen.
Forrest, EOS; 4. Penn, 2;0SM; Poin-
dexter, 2;o9; Dillon Boy. 2:09h Idol
ite, 2:09h: Alton, 2:G9h; Que AL
len, 2:O9ad; Baron Rogers, 2:oo&
B. r. P. 2:09$4; Ellard, 2:09% :
&thanio, 2:10; Senator A, 2:10;
and Kirkwood. .Ir,, 2:10. These
were aged horses at the time of their
shipment. although several of the lot,
notably Tommy Britton, Jupe, Idolita,
and B. B. F., had been stake winners
in this country when two and three
years old.