The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-21
PENSACOLA FLORIDA WEDNESDAY MORNING. 1909.

Excuse us please: Taft has that
COW to supply Charlie Fairbanks with
buttermilk when he calls for friend
1y chat.
Congratulations to the 1909 Iegisla-
ture-it is far ahead of the record of
accomplishment compared either with
1905 or 1907.
Polly wants a Cracker would
sound quite natural should the new
president of the F. E. c. ask a favor
of the legislature.
The Sultan sees now what comes
of temporizing. Louis XVI discovered
st when too late and he was condemn
ed to the glIillotine. y
Easy money, therefore speculation
is rife; and New York banks are
precious careful to keep money easy
in that burg in order to feed the Wall
street sharks.
The popular slogan nowadays,
keep the boy on the farm" ought to
be especially interesting and encour-
aging to manufacturers of Yale locks
and steel chains.
Health Notes for April thus quotes
from Gladstone, making it the lead
ing thought of the issue: The first
duty of the statesman is the health
of the people" Is not that true?
Many people wonder why, Jack
sonviIle makes such strides forward"
says the Fort Myers Press. It is
funny that the old gal doesn't get
dizzy and stumble sometimes-con-
sidering, you know
Perchance the republican high tariff
sharks roll their eyes heavenward in
they are helping to fulfill the
prophecy of Christ: The poor We
have always with you"
Give the state board of health
ample power-and ample money to
assert that power. Destroy sickness
and you save many millions of money,
TO say nothing of the far more i'm
portant item of human life apart
from its commercial value.
In all seriousness and with a deep
feeling of fraternal concern The Jour
nal advises the editor of the DeLand
News to keep away from jingling
Jacksonville if visit there always
affects him in the way evidenced by
his editorial of April 18th.
The placing of new whiskey in old
barrels by the Carroll Springs dis
tiIing company of Maryland did not
burst the barrels. but it may bust"
the company. as Uncle Sam swoOped
down and carried away the whole lot
IS, 600 barrels of it.
Rather unkind in Peter Hains's
counsel to try to have him proved
permanently insane and such a hope
less bugnouse candidate that even
the aid of alienists is not required to
prove it. He will not be given
Thaw's chance of escaping from the
lunstic asylum
That Oklahoma lynching party or
ganized in the rooms of the Ada
Commercial Club must have been a
highly respectable body-in their own
estimation. Accounts fail 10 state
whether the officers of the club were
present at this gathering to boost the
reputation of their city
Editor Gray, of the Havana News,
left Mrs Gray TO run his paper dur
Ing his sojourn in Tallahassee; and
judging from the way things are
being conducted along the regular
excellent lines one is compelled to
have a suspicion as to who is the
real boss of the establishment.
For one thing we must thank Frank
Clark; he has done much TO Te-rivet
Abe sound democratic principle of a
tariff for revenue only on the con-
science of the people of Florida.
'Tis true that pineapples are more
delicious than alligator pears, but
sincerity is to be preferred before