The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-06-04

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makes reply this paper named several
things tEst it regarded as contrlbu-
tory agencies in the upbu1lding of a
city.
It named specifically location, eli
mate, scenery, altitude, sanitary con-
ditions, Eealthfulness.
OF course it goes without saying
that manufacturing Industries are
prOpeIling agencies, as are likewise
schools, churches and colleges.
The only disagreement between
this paper and Major Izlar is that he
seems to hold with the Star that man
ufacturing industries give birth to
population, and that these things are
not the outgrowth thereof.
Brick paved streets, cement side
walks, aqueducts and sewers are
good enough in their way, says Ma
jor Izlar, but they do not enter into
the problem Of enticing settlers here.
We have done, he says, some brick
paving and a good deal of work on
sidewalks, but will the Banner cite
US one or two little leaps and bounds
that real estate or business has ia
ken?
Proceeding, Major Izlar says:
Don't tell US about the cottages
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dwellings, that have been erected by
our own citizens with capital they al
ready had. but tell US of some outside
people who have come and bought
lots and built homes for themselves.
Or some outside capital which has
come in and started some new indus
trial enterprise which promises to
pay dividends and give employment to
people Tell US of some people and
some capital which have come TO us
by reason of our paved streets and
cement sidewalks
Well, viii Major Izlar cite US TO q
single residence that has been built
here following the erection of any of
our manufacturing industries? The
residences are here and more are
building.
He says that in the erection of the
ice factory Mr.. Benjamin exercised
good judgment, bit this paper asks
if it led directly TO the erection of any
residences. II is a matter of record
that Mr. Benjamin's residence was
built before his factory. and be was
established in other lines of business
before the thought occurred to him
of establishing it.
Judge BulIock's residence was built
before he establiHhed his telephone
system. Messrs. Meffert and Taylor
built their residences before they es-
tablished their crate factory and ice
plant, and so of all the others in the
city.
Major Izlar says further:
Suppose you build one hundred
houses in Ocala. and one hundred
men with a family each of wife and
two or three children. were TO come
at once and rent those cottages from
You. Suppose they had money sufi
cient TO pay three months rent and
provisions for the same time. Could
Ocala place the head of each of these
! families a. work? Is ii not more than
| likely that al the end of ninety DAYS
we would have about five hundred
unemployed people on our hands. and
| landlords without their rent?"
We presume that the meaning OF
this is that Ocala in its present con.
dition, cannot take care of any more
people, and if you were to bring any
more here that we could not only not
take care of them but that they would
interfere with the employment OF
those already here, and that great dis
tress and disaster would follow.
The editor of this paper came tc
Ocala when it had a population OF
only three hundred, and he heard the
same theory advanced then that Ma
jOr Izlar advances now. If the advice
of those prophets had been adhered
TO Ocala would have been full
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people here then who said that Ocals
had all the lawyers, all the doctors
all the merchants, all the newspapers
all the schools, all the churches, and
all the people in the several profes
siOns and occupations that the town
could possibly support. If any more
people came in, the prophets of those
days said they could not possibly find
any employment at any gainful occu
patton and would dispossess those al
ready employed of their places, and
general distress and disaster would
! follow.
But despite these doleful prophecies
the editor of the Banner saw the oown
grow from three hundred to five hun
dred- No one was thrown out of en-
ployment and no one suffered in con-
sequence.
With the same alarming prophecies
sounded in his ears the editor of this
paper saw the to~n grow from FIVE
hundred TO one thousand-all the