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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
TWELVE STATES AND
WHAT THEY CAN DO.
Birmingham Age-Herald.



1t is reasonably well determined
that the corporation tax proposition
will be added to the Aldrich bill and
will get through conference. It is not
so well determined that a two-thirds
vote can be secured in the senate for
the submission OF q constitutional
amendment permitting an individual
income tax. A two-thirds vote is 80
votes. The Denver platform should
secure 81 democratic votes for the
proposed amendment, leaving 81 more
votes to be picked up on the republic
an side of the senate. Republican
senators represent as a rule wealth
and special interests, and it is by no
means certain that 81 republican SEN
ators can be mustered when the vote
is taken.
Let it, however, be assumed that
the constitutional amendment will be
forced through congress, then would
follow the deepest and craftiest
schemes of bosses and magnateS to
prevent a ratification by three fourths
of the states. The Springfield Repub-
lican says that Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Maryland, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Utah, Idaho and West
Virginia would oppose ratification.
Twelve states either rich or venal
could defeat ratification. There is at
least one error in the Republicans
list Florida would not be controlled
by Mr.. Flagler or any other magnate
in such a matter, but Vermont stands
ready to take FloTida's place The
contract between the republican lead
ers and the Mormons could readily
be fitted to Idaho and Utah, and the
Republicans list is doubtless correct
when Vermont is substituted for Flor
ida. Organized wealth can, through
political bosses, control the legisla-
lures of the II states named. True
the business would involve the repub-
lican party in shame and confusion,
but that party never hesitates when
great campaign funds can be rolled
up. The defeat of the proposed
amendment would not be a bit more
shameful than is the revision up in
the Aldrich bill, after all the cam
paign talk and promises made last
summer by republicans from Mr.. Taft
down.
If congress really desires to secure
the ratification of the proposed
amendment il will prescribe the con-
vention method Of ratification rather
than the legislative plan Congress is
left free to name the mode Of ratif-
cation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Plenty of Money
Up In New York.

There is much wonderment ex-
pressed by the ordinary mortal here
about, also in other sections of these
United States in general, as to where
all the money goes. Elaborate state
ments Of circulation are printed perl
odically by our Uncle Samuel, and in
these the benevolent old gentleman
always insists that every man, woman
and child in his broad domains ought
to be in possession of thirty-five good
dollars-cash.
And so he might were these funds
equally distributed. But, as Shake
speare frequently observed, Thereby
hangs a TAIL And this little extract
from Bradstreet's is illuminating-it
throws Hmelight on the said tail and
allows one to see just where it is
suspended:
Bank clearings for the week ending
June II aggregate S3,449, 376. 900, a
gain of I per cent. over last week and
an increase Of SO per cent. over last
year. The total exceeds that Of the
corresponding week of 1907 by "a per
cent, and of 1906 by 20 per cent.
Outside of New York the total is ST.
1869 900, q fraction or 1 per cent.
over last week and a gain OF 81 per
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
lI2-II4 S. PaIafOx St.

this has now been changed. The
Times Union was the first paper to
put in improved machinery and issue
a great state paper. The Tampa Tri-
bune followed and lately the Jackson
vile Metropolis and Tampa Times
have installed three and fOur-deck
presses to handle the rapidly increas-
ing subscription list. The Pensacola
Journal and the News, the Gaines
vile Sun, the Ocala Banner and the
Star, the Miami Metropolis and Rec
ord, the ST Augustine Record, the
Orlando ReporterStar, the Key West
Citizen, besides the great array Or
weekly papers are now filling tha
field of Florida journalism, and no
reader needs to take a paper publish
ed outside the state line in order to
get all the news. Florida papers
generally are taking on the better
tone and appearance and striving TO
give the reader a real newspaper 10
every sense of the word. The day II
the pot metal sheet printed in apple
butter has passed and the new phase
OF Florida newspaperdom is taking It's
Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

doubt, and that he is a factor to be
Teckoned with goes without saying.
But it is also true that opposition is
being developed that will cause him
to sit up and take notice, among
those mentioned already being ex
Governor BToward, Hon. W. A. Blount
and Judge Lucius ]. Reeves, both the
latter gentlemen Of Pensacola.
Senator TaIafeTro, there is no
question, has lost many friends in
West Florida on account of the posi-
ton he has taken in turpentine mat
tiers, and which, they believe, were
derogatory to their interests.
The gentlemen named from PenSa-
cola are good, true and wise men, and
from a sectional point of view would
naturally command our first support,
all things being equal
Ex-Governor BroWard is a born
fighter, and if he should enter the race
will inject a large amount of ginger
into the campaign
At any rate, the next campaign for
the United States senatorship is
bound to be a lively one, and more
than likely there will be something
doing from start to finish.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

cent over last year. The gain at New
York over last year was 1876 per cent
That's fine is it not?-for New York.
How gaily this giddy Gotham appro-
PIRATES the lions share Oion's? mas
todon's) and uses it for its own sweet
purpose; turning loose little when
it is sufficiently glutted or, perchance,
gets a little scared. And all the rest
of the cities and the little towns and
hundreds of thousands people scat
tered over the wide land look on like
foolish pumpkins and can only grin
and marvel. In the meantime Wall
street tickers are busy in the national
capital; Aldrich and his standpatters
forge still stronger shackles for the
west and south; God rules and the
government at Washington still lives"
Doubter. be still: the devil hasn't
blessed thing to do with it, Ask Lodge
and Pat McCarren.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

price. It is by no means uncommon
to see on EARN a house and barn
and ether oUtbuildings worth i've
thousand dollars, and the fine horses,
cattle, hogs, and farm implements ~
almost the same value.
The rural free delivery carries mail
to every farm house, and also each
home has the telephone, and a large
number have their automobiles, so
the best OF city life is had by these
rural people.
Just yesterday a phone message
was sent to friends four miles IN the
country asking them to meet US 1t
the home of a mutual friend in town.
and within an hour the whole family
arrived In the auto
The first house in this Grand Ridge
was built in the winter of 1872 and
there were as many doubling Thorn
asses" as now surround the Florida
town OF the same name-and many
other like centres in our fair south
land-but today this town has a larg-
er proportion of fine city residences
than any town of its size that 1 have
ever known, and a good share or
them are retired farmers, who now
have money in bank and rent their
farms and live on the income.
Such is the marvellous development
of this country in half a century, and
the footprints Of the writer are not
entirely obliterated. Can we hope
for as much for it's namesake in Flor
ida within the next fifty years? Trees
We planted here in the centennial
year-1876-are much too numerous
and too high for beauty, and many OF
them three feet in diameter, and the
evergreen trees then planted-and for
many years afterward so beautiful
are now large, and some unsightly.
Fifty years ago there was not a tree
over these prairie lands except along
the water courses.
JOHN THOS. PORTER.
Grand Ridge, Ill, June p, 1909.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
HOT WEATHER GOSSIP
AMONG POLITICIANS,
Milton Star.


The hot weather is coming on apace
and with its advent the ubiquitous
candidate will again bob up serenity
and furnish food for the dear people
to discuss in their gatherings on the
front porch of the village store. The
questions, however, to engage atten-
tion will not be so strenuous, for local
or county officers will not come UP
for selection at the primary the COM
ing year, the ones to be selected at
that time being rather Of the long
range variety-a United States sena-
tor, for the seat now being held by
Mr.. TaliaferrO, and a congressman for
the Second district, in place of Hon
Frank Clark, and state officers.
The selection of a congressman for
the Second district is of no particular
interest in this section, but that of
United States senator and state off,
GERS will undoubtedly furnish us food
for thought and some speculation. As
to state officers, though. there has not
so far as we have noticed, been the
faintest ripple. The United States
senatOrship, however. even at this
early date, is awakening a great deal
of talk among the politicians.
That Senator Taliaferro viii stand
for reelection there seems to be no
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

Since a recent painful experience
in affairs PASTORAL, at Palatka, The
News, of that city, turns a leary eye
on all preacher folk, even casting
slurs upon the greatness of Pastor
Russell Of Brooklyn, guying the rev.
erned gentleman FOR being so solicit
Gus about the locality of the dead and
The Tampa Tribune and Jacksonville
Times Union because these two pa
pers are publishing RusselI's sermons.
Same old story. "A burnt child fears
the fire."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Five Ears Grow Where
One Grew Before.

In the DeFuniak Breeze of the past
week The Journal found the following
editorial paragraph. 1t tells an inter
esting story and is recommended to
be read and thought about:
The demonstration acre of corn on
the Breeze farm was not grown for
the corn that it will produce alone,
but for the value of the experiment,
not to its owner but to all who want
to know whether such farming will
pay, and we would like to have every
farmer who is interested see it, it is
an object lesson of value. 1t has been
grown on a plan that any farmer in
Walton county can follow. The land
is naturally not so fertile as the aver
age farm land in the county and from
present indications the yield will be
as much as five ordinary acres of
corn.
The expression about the great
worth of a man who will make two
blades Of grass grow where one had
before sprung up which is so popular
is discounted many hundred times by
the foregoing. If one will stop to
think a minute he will realize the
enormous significance of growing five
ears of corn where before only one
ear was produced. Why, it means a
prosperity the like Of which has never
been known in this section. 1t means
that an acre will put five times as
much money in the pocket of the man
who cultivates it skillfully as it did
under less scientific treatment
And what the Breeze says about
Walton county land is equally appli-
cable TO the land Of Escambia county.
The process pursued on the Breeze
farm" should be enquired into and
studied by Escambia farmers. Such
study would doubtless be succeeded
by its adoption and its adoption would
mean, without a shadow of doubt,
great addition to the wealth of Es-
cambia's agriculturists. 1t must be
remembered. too, that the product re-
ferred to is corn, grain of the great
est value especially throughout the
south.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

If you have any bad feeling or
little patches of hatred for your neigh
Dor, 'cut it out" on Monday July 5th
and come to Melbourne for a good
time. 1t will do you gOod.--MelbOurne
Times.
That is good advice. Nothing like
being prepared for the possible out
come; and it is well when leaving the
''pomps and vanities of this wicked
world to be lin love and charity with
all men"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
MIscALLED CHAIR ToNlcs.1
Most Hair Preparation Are Merely
Scalp Irritants, Of No Value.

Most hair preparations are merely
scalp frritants, miscalled hair tonics.
When hair is brittle. IusterIess and
begins TO fall out, the dandruf germ
is getting in its deadly work at the
root, sapping the vitality. Since
science discovered that dandruT is a
germ disease there has been only one
preparation put on the market shat
will actually destroy the dandruIf
germ, and that is NeWbTo's HerDicids
It quickly reduces scalp fever. de-
stroys the germ; and the falling hair
stops, and hair grows iuxurIantly. Ask
you~ druggist for Herpicide. It aiIayg
itching instantly, and permits the hair
to grow. Sold by leading druggists.
Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The
HeTpicide Co, Detroit, Mich.
One dollar bottles guaranteed. W.
A. D'AlembeTte, special agent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

1t takes a rich man to draw a check,
q pretty girl to draw attention, a
horse to draw a cart, a porous plaster
to draw the skin, a topper to draw a
cork, a free lunch to draw a crowd
and an advertisement in your home
paper to draw trade.-PerrY Herald.
But what we are anxious to know
these dull days is what it takes to
draw an ace to a bob-tail straight
flush. VIII the wise Herald please
put US next.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

The Panama City Pilot thinks Pen
sacola is jealous OF its little town.
Now isn't that funny? But 1t is ex-
eusable when one takes into consid-
Grafton the immature judgment of the
papers young editor. Bless your soul.
boy, DO you suppose we are so foolish
over this way as not to know that
everything that benefits Panama City
also helps Pensacola, the metropolis
OF West Florida, together with this
entire section CT the state? Think,
think and study the constitution OF the
United States and the Declaration OF
Independence.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

Was not the exertion of Guessing"
out the Florida legislature sufficient
to satisfy our belligerent press, that
they must now butt in on the Georgia
aggregation, and with the mercury
touching the 80 spot, too?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

The Tampa Tribune also is some
pumpkins" on a fish story. Witness
its narrative last Friday of a devil
fish at Fort DeSoto running of with a
large life-boat and two anchors in
the presence of forty soldiers and
their oficers.-Punta Gorda Herald.
So glad it did not catch our eye.
For we have ever maintained Editor
Lambright's great redeeming feature
to be his strict regard for truth
Yes. we have even gone so far as to
rank him with the Butcher in THE
Hunting OF the Shark" who when
accused OF deceit by the ever sus-
picious Bellman, Indignantly replied:
you may charge me with murder or
want Of sense
eve are all of us weak at times)
But the slightest approach to a false
pretense
Was never among my crimes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

heart to think of Katherine Glenn
mons's restricted, desolate existence
with only $4,000 annual pin money.
She must go back on the stage and
realize her ambition of playing lead
ing lady to her hero, Farnum, besides
attracting many dollars to her purse.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

The Sopchoppy Argus links together
thoughts of June brides and luscious
watermelons. Ye gods! what an in
spiration Pass the carving knifei
All! A dream of pinky freshness.
But, horrorsI Are those black things
small poX scabs?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Home Market Neglected.

1t seems TO us that our growers
and shippers do not look after the
Florida market for their fruits and
vegetables, as they might proftably
do. For instance, in st. Augustine,
last week, we were told that only a
very few strawberries had found their
way to that city during the entire
season, and st. Augustine is only one
of a score or more important towns
or cities where strawberries would
find a ready sale at a reasonable
price. And yet they are wasting IN
the fields around Lakeland. We do
not doubt that enterprising growers
who formed proper connections in
these Florida towns could realize
larger net returns than by combining
their attention to the great cities of
the North or East.-Lakeland News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

What sort OF a bluff is this Jeans
pants" talk over in Georgia, anyway?
Are the dear people" hearkening?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

The marvellous traits of east coast
turtles as exploited by the Daytona
Gazette-News and Jacksonville Times
Union have cast even Editor Jordan,
of the Punta Gorda Herald, into a
state of "innocuous desuetude." But,
perchance, his Diogenic and hopeless
search for pure food may have damp
ened his ardor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

No, Sheriff Drago, Of Mobile. is not
the man who caused so much taIky-
talk at the last Hague conference.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Only a Dream.

The Augusta Herald exclaims.
How pleasant it is to think that after
the present tariff revision is COM
plete il will probably be at least ten
years before the country will have an
other such infictiOn." It may be
pleasant to dream, but whoever
dreams that the pretense at revision
that the present congress is making
will settle the tariff question for ten
years will wake up about two years
hence. when a democratic house VIII
undertake revision that will be no
DEMONSTRATION Times Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

VIII Governor Joe Brown, unlike
his predecessor, turn the militia loose
70 preserve order" along the line Of
the Georgia railroad? What would
the militia say?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

boast with justice until some way OF
protecting our women from these ir-
responsible floating beast is de-
vised.-Arcadia Champion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
PENSACOLA FLORIDA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 90 1909

The Kissimmee Valley Gazette looks
like daisy in its new dress.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS

Sizes II Up Well.
One ting can be well said Of the
present constitution, il is an efficient
obstacle in the way Of progress
BrOOksville Argus.
UnWarranted Inference.
For some reason or other Col
Flournoy has been clasSed by some or
the Tallahassee correspondents as be-
ing in the doubtful list when it comes
to the prohibition question. Such an
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

AS the okra season is now on, will
L be asking too much TO have Cow
ernor Gilchrist repeat his receipt for
cooking this most succulent dish?-
0cala Banner.
Seconded by The Jorunal. And in
return we will give the governor a
receipt for making gopher gUmbo-
TODD for the gods and. the noblest
children OF men.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
VIII Adorn ANY Ohice.

Hon. William Jennings Bryan has
decided to make the race for senator
from Nebraska in 1910 and his cleo
ton may be considered almost a GER
tainty. We would have liked much TO
see Mr.. Bryan in the presidential
chair, but he will be a useful public
servant wherever he may be placed
and will adorn any office with which
he may be entrusted by the people,
Barlow er-Informant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

All things considered, what is the
use lowering the duty on cash regis
tiers?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Criminals Are FOREIGNERS.

1t is worth while for our indignant
people who would wreak vengeance
on the whole negro population be-
cause some of their number are lust
full beasts, to remember that the
crimes that have been premeditated
toward our women have not come
from those coIored men who belong
among US. In every instance the as
sault has been made by a tramp ne
gro or one brought in by the turpen-
tine or railroad industries. They are
not citizens. but tramps. and tramps.
white or black, are to be feared and
guarded against. No community can
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Florida journalism.

Several years ago the tourists Wis
iting Florida we're forced TO take the
northern papers to get all the press
dispatches and news OF the world. All
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

Editor Walpole, of the Manatee
Record, is talking about buying an
automobile; but his wife is away from
home, you know. and the poor fellow
must not be held strictly accountable
for what he says or does. 1t will be
all right when she gets back, and in
the meantime let us join in prayer
that he may resist temptation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29

Hoke Smith doesn't like democrats
who disregard party pledges and, as
in the majority Of cases, Hoke Smith
is right. No opportunism for Thomas
Jefferson's party. if you please. And,
by the way, he is poor sort Of DEM
ocrat or anything else who would en-
rich himself at his neighbours cost
especially his poor neighbor's.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Why They Left.

Why They Left
The sea serpents now choose
northern waters for their habitat
Times Union. Surei Since prohibi-
ton covers most of the South, our
waters are shy of these fellows and
surf bathing is safe.-Chipley Verdict.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-29
Not q Bad Name.

1t is predicted that Governor Gill
christ will go down in history as the
veto Governor" He could have ex-
ercised his veto upon at least three
other bills enacted by the last Leg
islature and not offended this editor.
Gainesville Sun.