The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-13
FLORIDA. TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 10, 1909.

CLEAR THE LOBBY AND YOU
WILL CLARITY THE LEGISLATIVE
BRAIN.
Castro mas to fullest extent taken to
heart the strictly up-to-date business
cry, Get a move on yOu!"
JacksonviHe's spring music festival
April 18th and goth will be a credit
to the whole state.
Worth thinking about: A change
of twenty-nine votes would have kill
ed the Payne tariff bill in the house
of representatives.
The conscience of our Legislators
grows tender-no nepotism in theirs;
no Stree! Good. Let them keep
up this pace.
Judging from the number of jollers
contained in the tariff bill the Heath
en- Chinee" himself would never win
out in a game with the G. o. P.
The road to old Nick's dominions
may be paved with good resolutions.
BuL AntF were lHOthluudl OiAtS HOA
the product of a wise and considerate
Legislative body.
Should success crown the efforts
to break up gambling at the French
Lick Springs it may we'll be assumed
that reform has the devil by the
heels and means to dash his brains
out once and for all.
Frank Clark, according to the press
reports, is one Democrat VINO received
loud applause from the Republican
side,' in the language of the Congress
sional Record.-Tampa Tribune
Is this supposed to be a feather in
his cap? If so, please pass the lead
pipe for ours.
There is a rumOr in the air that
the legislature means to eut out all
light and airy persifiage" and actual
ly do something. Welcome the happy
sound and may there intervene no
diseord to destroy our faith and hope
and compel the use of Charity.
An honest investigation of the
RooseveltNewberry order closing the
Pensacola navy yard will result not
only in the abrogation of the order
but in largely increasing the capacity
and usefulness of the best and most
accessible naval station south of
Hampton Roads.
The sentence of five years imprison-
ment imposed by a Texas court upon
girl by a mock marriage was not
severe enough punishment for a crime,
which Is just as brutal as the name
less deed whose doing is often avenged
by the halter in the hands of a mob.
An exchange says that "a crusty old
bachelor. speaking of woman suffrage.
says no creature who will wear such
hats as fashion prescribes is fit for
self-government. much less the priv
ilege Of governing other people" And
this is worthy little calm study and
dispassionate philosophic treatment.
But excuse US, if you please, from
any application.
1t has been prophesied that what
senator AluFlCn ana MS 0lSn prOteC-
ton partners in sin will do 10 the
tariff bill as it passed the house will
be An ample sufficiency;" and lazy
senators are already beginning to
sguirm at the thought of the long,
hot summer days they may be COM
PEELED 10 spend in the sitting atmos-
phere of Washington
It is difficult to imagine such brazen |
effrontery. but the following is credited |
to John ID. Rockefeller;
There is no mystery in business |
succeeds. The man who starts out |
simply 10 make money won't succeed |
there can be no permanent success |
without fair dealing that leads to /
widespread confidence in the man him |
self, and that is the real capital. If /
you do each days task successfully /
and stay faithfully within these natural /
operations of cOmnrarcial laws and /
keep your head clear, you will come |
out all right"
Roosevelt's revenge on Haskell has |
slipped a cog. BY the way this white /
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