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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
The Heavy Editorial"
Floors Him.

| The editor of the Punta Gorda 5ler
aid has his little vagaries at times
| due to the eccentricities OF an active
and honest mind always protesting
against the miscues, insists and mis-
carriages of our sad and Imperfect
old world. He says some things
which, upon reconsideration, don't
look well, even to him. and he is SC
| thoroughly ION the square" that he
doesn't hesitate TO own up when ne
has made a little faux pas" of that
kind. His usefulness and positive in
iuence as a newspaper man are ma
teriauy increased for that very
reason. Recently The Journal called
him down for advocating lynch law,
and while he dies hard in the follow
ing, he nevertheless practically con-
cedes his error:
The esteemed Pensacola Journal
devotes one of its heavy editorials to
fatherIy rebuke of the Herald for
giving quasi-approVal to that New
berry lynching on the ground that
our pardoning board will not permit
murderers to be hung "by due process
of law" The rebuke, having been
administered in the most gentlemaniy
manner, is cheerfully accepted but
We beg to assure The Journal that
the Herald is as much oppose to
lynch law as any newspaper in the
land. It's comments on the Newber-
ny lynching were intended not 50
much to encourage the mob as to dis.
courage the pardoning board in its
successful attempts TO defeat Justice.
by pointing to the lynching named as
a result Of the boards past conduct
We really think that the pardon
ing board is doing more than The
Herald to encourage mob law III Flor
ida; indeed, the Herald is trying to
get the board to change its conduct
FOR the very purpose of discouraging
the lynching spirit and fostering re-
spect for the law and its administra-
ton. We are willing to admit. how
ever, our awkwardness or causticjfy
Oh expression may cause misunder.
as in the case of The Jour-
nal, and lead TO Incorrect and unde.
signed conclusions Let the Law no
upheld by the pardoning boa-d az
Well as by the press and the pe~nIe.
nat Is the doctrine which the Herald |
IS seeking 10 impress.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
SAGE LEAVES.

vi the four seasons we usually have
the ughtest rainfall during the winter
months.
The abnormal precipitation and
chliling north winds of the past tour:s,
season have brought disapuoi .IIia.nf
TO the ''invalids who annually mi
CRATE to our genial cline of CLOUD.
less skies and healing sunshine
although the disagreeable DAYS
were numerous We had no severe
minimum to kill the fruit buds or scar
the foliage OF the orange groves
Although the d3sagreeable DAYS
were numerous, We had no severe
minimum, to kill the fruit buds or SCAR
the foliage of the orange groves.
>, Inc inability or spring frOsts grows
lighter every day, and the farming
season has opened in earnest.
Inc tendency of the financial stu
alton is to augment the AGRICULTURAL
industry When all other plants"
smut down the plow must be kept run
ming On fullest time The labor strikes
In the cities drive thousands of I'M
employed into the country to root
nos or DE. Their hands are united
from a 30 scale for eight hours work.
and the farmer is not bound to cut
down the wages of his hands to. rs
cents Tor fourteen hours work
cheap labor for the farmers will
lower the prices of farm products for
the benefit of the poor who have
them TO buy. But If the trusts get in
a grasptng hand between the producer
and consumer, am abnormal condition
may show paEadoxical symptoms.
The hfgh prices of all eatables at
the present time point to a lack of
production or eXtortion in dealers.
MaJ he Ill
have formed butter union and fixed
their price of creamery at 40 cents ?
Have the leghorns, brahmas and
shang1ais gone down to the plymouth
rocks and agreed to lay nothing but
25-cent eggs until after the season OF
Lent?
THOS. MCMILLAN.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
VOX POPULI.
Mr.. BINGHAM ON
THE TEIEP4ONE BATES

iEEE 'GGCF7ONE RA
Editor, Pensacola Journal:
Enclosed find clipping from tho Gin
clnnati Enquirer Of March l. which
follows:
Bloomington, Ind, Feb. 2S.-The
telephone controversy between the
city and the Home Telephone com.
pany was compromised tonight by the
telephone company accepting the S135
rate, in place of SI5O. Nearly i OOO
phones were ordered disconnected
when the rate was advanced from
SLIPS to $3.50 on Jan l."
III community is large enough to
discard 1000 phones, it is large enough
TO command and get the best service
there is to be had, and if they did not
DO 1t they are not the same kind OF
Hooslers you and | know.
Our local phone COMPANY talks
about the reason for raising the rates
as the great cost of putting their
wires underground. Now if a big cor
poration makes costly improvements
1t is because, in the end, it is cheap
est They never indulge in such
things just as frills and ribbons. 1t is
believed to be strictly good business,
and don't think that is reason we
should consider one minute.
Another reason they advance is the
increased service they give. Now to-
day l have been told of ten phones
that viii be taken out If there IS
raise. At that rate 600 phones VIII
be taken out. Then where is our
greatly increased service to compan-
safe for the raise?
If Bloomington can get a rate CT
S1.35 per phone, i think we are very
reasonable TO ask a $3.50 rate. A tel
ephone line can be built here just as
cheap as there, and it can be main
tanned much cheaper. We never have
ice storms here to break down wires
and poles. while there they are almost
of annual occurrence and frequently
two or three times in a winter.
A, R. BINGHAM.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

PENSACOLA has fully sustained ber
reputation as one of the leading Mardi
Gras cities OF the South The ceIA
brat1on OF this delightful occasion
which ended Tuesday night was an IN
qualified success from start to finish
Our own people gave themselves I'm
TO 1t unreservedlv in the true car-ni.
val spirit, and from all the surround
ing country came many hundreds
who Joined heartily with US. and the
result was two brilliant and notable
days in the annals of Pensacola with.
out a disturbance or episode OF anv
character to mar the general pleas
ure- Mardi Gras is u fixed Institution
here, and great as it was this year.
we will make it even greater next
year. King Priscus is a fine old fell
low; he is up TO the mark. and he
can count on a welcome that will
warm his royal heart when he comes
the next time
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

Some Aftermath Reflections
On Mardi Gras.

Down here, on these shores WASHED
by the Gulf, We all love quaint, beau
niful and romantic New Orleans. II
some respects she is interest tin;
lbove all American cities, and In al
respects she is a credit to the people
who made her and maintain her as t.;
great and progressive municipality
in which the old and new are so at
sractfvely blended. New Orleans gave
us the Mardi Gras habit, and from
the start she has set the pace in thai
Beautiful. whimsical, grotesQue and
fascinating riot of light and color and
sound and spectacular effects for the
two days and nights preceding the
dong penitential season of forty days.
Her sovereignty has been undisputed
heretofore, but now she must look to
her faurels.
Her daughters along the Gulf are
PATCHING up with the old lady, and the
Mardi Gras carnival which ended in
Pensacola Tuesday night was such a
mammoth and brilliant affair, SO COM
plete in all its appointments, so smooth
in all its workings, and such an unqual-
flied success in every respect, incIud-
ing the leading feature of magnitude,
that we feel warranted in claiming
for our city a place in the front rank
of the Mardi Gras communities of the
south.
Great as it was this time, We viii
II ND
we serve notice upon the Crescent
City right now that Pensacola is her
fullgrowl rival from now on in the
annual Mard Gras celebration, and
VIII tolerate no understanding patron
age from that quarter.
Commerce and industry are all right,
but down here in these far southern
cities under an ardent semttropic sun,
history, legend, tradition, tempera-
ment and inclination all compel us to
break away for at least two days in
each year from the exacting calls OIL
modern business, and go back in fancy
to the time when knlghthood was in
flower. and live again in a joyous, !
whimsical way as they did in Old
World lands among the Latin peoples. |
The Mardi Gras custom has every |
thing to commend it, and its very con-
tFast with modern m2terialism and
Ats merciless conditions gives 1t a |
charm which northerner and south
erner alike yielF to, and we trust that
It may endure forever and increase in
glory and beauty with each succeed
tng year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

from the scenes of excitement, pos
sessing no bias, nor prejudice in the
cases brought before them, why can
not these men, with all the facts be-
fore them, review these cases with
impartiality and arrive at Just con-
illusions even more SO than the aver
age juries, swayed as they often are,
by local colorings and prejudices?
We have no criticism to make of
our pardoning board, and feel it a
pleasure to hold up it's hands, because
we feel that it is not moved by sor-
did nor improper motives.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

Everything depends on the point of
view in this world. Editor Carroll of
the Monticello News, gives the par.
doning board fearful roast for its
recent pardon of negro murderer in
that county, and in his Indignation al
most repudiates the Broward admin
lstration, of which he has heretofore
been warm supporter. On the
other hand Editor Harris, of the ocala
Banner, who does not love the admin
fstration. has this to say about the
pardoning board:
For instance, the pardoning board
OF Florida is composed of the gov
ernor, attorney general, the commits
sioner OF agriculture, the comptroller
and the superintendent of public in
strucuon, men elected for their in
teHgence and fairness. Removed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

The Pensacola Journal is a splen
did paper in all its departments, but
1t has no right to spell employee, >
"ernploye- Tampa Tribune.
The imperative conditions OF a
strenuous modern life demand tina,
we shall abbreviate all along the
line whenever it is possible and leave
OF all surplusage. "Employe" and
employee are idem sonans, and the
final in the latter is as unnecessary
as the fifth wheel to a wagon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

The American people want per
petual rest on the. Thaw case includ-
ing the pretty but somewhat uncer-
tain Evelyn. The whole foul mess
from the start has been repuisive to
decent people and it has been exag-
gerated into an Importance far be-
yond its merits
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

That is frightful and heartbreak-
ing news story which comes from
Cleveland, Ohio. of the cruel death of
nearly two hundred school children
there in a fire in a school house. 1t
might ali have been avoided if there
had been some way to prevent the
blind, senseless panic which followed
the alarm of fire. How to do that
has not yet been discovered, although
fire drills and all other devices have
been adopted in our public schools
10 prevent such disasters. In the
last analysis, all our little preventives
usually go for nothing in the pres
ence of supreme emergencies. If this
were not true We would have no need
for religion. The time may come
when our poor human wits can save
up from the aroused and terrible
forces of nature, but it is doubtful.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

We hear much of the machine in
Florida politics, but we have never
been able to locate it.-Pensacola
Journal
Another dear little innocent lamb,
Some newspapers are really too unso-
phlstlcated for this wicked, sordid
world of ours. No machine politics
Inc Florida" Doesn't the innocence
OF the suggestion freeze you?-Ocala
Banner.
Very nicely said if you wanted to
dodge or obscure the issue, but it
won't work in this case. We are not
innocent of knowledge Of current
events nor of the past history of Flor
ida, and in the light of that knowledge
We are incredulous of the terrible
machine that is devastating the
state, thwarting the Will of the peonIe
and playing thunder generally. Go to,
Go to-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

None OF US can get reliable line
from any source on the senatorial con-
test in this state, but from such data
as we have been able TO secure we
should say that John Beard is max
ing marked Roadway and his vigor-
Gus campaign is winning votes for
him every day.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

DR., Frederick Pasco, editor of the
Florida Christian Advocate, is a most
iovable gentleman, refined, thought
ful, scholarly and tolerant and with
out trace of the iron bigotry which
mas so heavily handicapped Christi
an1ty through the centuries. We are
glad to reproduce the following trib-
ute to him from the Lakeland News:
The Florida Christian Advocate
has been moved from Live Oak to
Tampa, and is now being issued from
the job department of the Times CT
that city. That scholarly Christian
gentleman, Rev Frederick Pasco. is
still at the editorial helm, and under
SUCH direction the Advocate cannot
put be force for good. Broad. cul-
tured, tolerant, capable, cheerful-if
the ranks Of the general clergy num-
oered more such men as Mr.. Pasco-
there mightn't be so much denomina-
ton, but there would be more re-
igion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

United States Senator Red7eId
Proctor. of Vermont, died yesterday
IN Washington. He was not a great
man In the usual acceptation of that
phrase, but he was an able and honest
man and he stood for the best tradi-
tons Of New England. Our public
service is distinctly a loser in the
death of Senator Proctor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Receivers Sale of stock in
store L. Friedman & Co. be-
gins Thursday, March 5.

Bourke Cockran's characterization
OF Roosevelt and Bryan as crusaders
merely puts them in class with Rich
ard the lion-hearted. Anthony the lily
souled; Tom the system-hater, and
other gentlemen of divers motives and
diverse nfethods.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

Receivet's Sale of stock in
store L. Friedman & Co. be-
gins Thursday, March 5.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Florida Pure Food Law


State Chemist Rose, to whose office
is entrusted the duty of enforcing the
pure food law enacted by the last
legislature, has just returned to Tai
lahassee from a tour of inspection
provided for under this law, and re.
ports that dealers are endeavoring to
comply with and are heartily endors,
ing it's requirements. The enactment
of the state pure food law" says Capt.
Rose, was timely and very necessary.
as it is evident that manufacturers of
adulterated or sophisticated goods had
arranged to manufacture their articles
in those states having no pure food
laws, for sale in those states, in order
to evade the interstate or national
pure food law. A number of So-called
manufacturers attempted to evade the
United States or interstate law by
sending materials into states where
no local laws prevented their manu-
facture and distribution in said state.
The state law being similar to the
United States law will prevent the
and sale of these sophis-
ttcated articles within the state -
Palatka News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

We humbly beg pardon of King
Priscus. He is not the patron saint
nor reigning majesty of the shoe
makers, but is the king of the great
Mardi Gras carnival. A paragraph in
The Journal yesterday insisted that
he was in the leather business and
that his real name was King Crispus.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

1t has been a good many years
since Kentucky was a reliable mem
her Of the Solid South and it has be-
come unsafe to count on her as dem
ocratic in either state or national
election. She has just elected ex-Gov-
ernor Bradley, an orthodox republi-
can, TO the United States senate. So
much fos factionafism in the demo-
cratic party. Some of these days fac,
tionalism in Florida democracy may
bring some surprising results fatal
to democratic supremacy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Their First SnowbaIIing.


The following special in a recent
issue of the Indianapolis News has
to do with two well-known Palatka
boys first experience with snow, and
will interest their old friends in this
city. Robert and Charles Ryan are
sons OF Capt NJ. r. Ryan, the we'll
known Lemon street house furniSher:
Logansport, Ind, Jan -23.17Sergeant
Robert Ryan, of Fort Barrancas, Fla,
and Charles Ryan, of Pensacola, Fla,
snowbaned each other yesterday with
as much enthusiasm as is often dis
played by boys. 1t was the first snow
they had seen on the ground, and
they had made a journey from the
gulf just to see it. They were the
guests of Dr. and Mrs. j. F. holland"
DIR. and Mrs. holland visited the
two brothers in Florida last winter,
and the latter were never tired of
hearing DR.. holland tell of the win
tiers in Indiana. They had never
seen a real snowstorm, had never
seen snow except a few flakes that
melted on touching the sidewalk
Dr. holland told them that if they
would come here they would see the
real article. They came. but for two
weeks not a flake of snow fell. They
had planned to go home today and
had given UP all hopes of seeing
snow. when regular cIdtime snow
storm struck the city yesterday.
Today they left for home, satisfied
with their Observation-Disclosures News.
The important Question.
A people of a government, such as
the United States, should never know
the feeling OF want in its material
sense. There is no just excuse for a
panic, as a government OF. for and
by the people should allow nothing
to flourish that would give birth to
panic. True, the government has
Vultures that were born of greed in a
reckless age, and these vampires
are now clothed with monetary
p->s-1~- that aAnds nnIS ehiDs down
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
New Candidate for comptroIIer.
Bouquet for Storrs.

Bouquet for StorrS.
The DeFuniak Breeze was started
sixteen years ago as very small pa
per, half of which was printed in
Atlanta. Now it runs from eight TO
twelve pages, has an up-tO-date plant
and a brick building of its own, and is
one of the most prosperous weeklies in
the state. It's success is due solely to
the indomitable energy of it owner and
editor, R. w. Storrs, who is one OF
the most progressive citizens of West
Florida.-Punta Gorda Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
The Extension to Key West.

The Extension to Key West.
The Miami papers claim to be in
formed that preparations are now be-
ing made to resume the work on the
extension south of Knights Key. A
large force of men is to be used on
the terminal docks at Key West, but
Miami they say will be headquarters.
Key West is not kicking about where
the headquarters will be; it is the men
with the pick and shovel We are look
ing for. We believe the report that
the work will start soon, but not as
soon as the Miami papers would have
us believe Efforts will be made to
have the dredges in operation before
the end OF the tourist season, so that
ours. winter visitors will have an op-
portunity, if they wish to see how the
road is being built. Probably some
time next month the forces will begin
to assemble to complete the great
work.-key West Citizen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

Receivers Sale of stock in
store l.. Friedman & Co. be.
gins Thursday, March 5.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Easy to Evade 1t.

Easy to EVa6e Ii.
The Florida Railroad Commission
made one of the most aSinine rulings
ever placed on record the other day
when it declared the railroads couldn
give $50 1,000-mileage book to any
newspaper in return for $25 worth or
advertising space. On the same prin.
cipal, We couldn't give our clothier
S25 worth of advertising for SIS
worth of clothing. The principle in
volved in the ruling is so foolish that
murder would sure occur If a fool
killer" should happen to visit Talla-
hassee. If the railroads should obey
this ruling, look how simple it is TO
evade it, thusly: The railroad agent
can walk into a newspaper office,
plank down $25 for advertising space;
the newspaper man can turn right
around and plank down the same $25
to the railroad agent for a 1,000-mile-
age book, and the same end is accom-
plished, except that So was used to
legaliZe the tranSact ton. When the
railroad commission did away with
unlimited annual passes to editors,
lawyers, politicians, etc., it did a wise
act, but when the commission at
tempts to prevent a newspaper man
from selling his advertising either for
money or its equivalent in value, ii
oversteps itself and treads upon the
personal rights of every business man
in F1orida.-Fort Myers Breeze.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05

Supporting Newspaper Men.
Mr.. A. Max Wilson, of the Calhoun
Democrat, is another newspaper man
who is running for representative. We
are supporting all newspaper men who
run for this important position.-Ma
rianna Times-Courier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Lakeland Friendly to Stockton.

LakeIand FFIendIy 70 otocKtoh.
Hon. John Stockton delivered an
address at Lakeland Saturday. the
22nd inst, to a large audience, by in
vitation of the Confederate veterans.
His subject was Washington, Lee, and
Jackson. For one hour Mr.. Stockton
held the closest attention of the audi
ence He drew a splendid lesson from
the lives of these eminent men: and
advised that we stop our lives of
greed and initiate the three most glo-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
Prohibition Helps Mariana.

Who said the putting out of bar
rooms or Wh:skey shops would xii
Mariana? Notwithstanding the won
derful increase in buildings since the
town went dry, there's not vacanj
store in town and we are losing some
good and desirable citizens-some &C
tually moving away against their will
because of a lack of homes Another
move equal to the putting out of whiS
key shops and our town would be
dotted with tents for homes. Booze
never builds up or improves anything
but tears down and degrades all the
While.-Marianna Times Courier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-05
By
the State
Press

rious lives in American history. He
deplored the fact that the negro had
ever been given the franchise. He
spoke of the great power and intiu
ence of the banker under present
laws and modern conditions. The
speech was interesting and instructive
from the beginning to the end. Doubly
so, because of the sincerity with which
it was delivered. From the applause if
was evident that the people Of Lake
land are very friendly to Mr.. Stockton.
Many of Bartow's leading citizens
were there to meet him, and all OF
them. with whom we have discussed
the matter, speak in high terms of the
speech, and favor Mr.. Stockton for the
next governor. In the near future Mr..
Stockton will come to Barlow. Let US
give him a great reCentiOn