The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-24


have overlooked the night rider.
The Tines Union asks: what is
a lobbyist?" Behold, an Israelite
indeed, in whom there is no guile"
Why not an inheritance tax? 1t is
one Of the most just and least felt
that can be levied. The state needs
money. Here is 4 chance to raise il.
And that canal will cost half a bill
lion. What has become of the pTopo-
sition to raise the pay OF government
clerks?
To think that the fairest flower on
earth, the rose. should bear a thorn
whose scratch brought death to an
innocent child! What an opportunity
for poets and moralists.
IT'S a lucky thing that some twenty
miles of water blue lie between the
Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg
Independent. One hates to think of
the consequences if they should get
at each other.
DR. Lewellyn Barker has discovered
that the rising generation have a
third beat to the heart which was I'M
known to their ancestors. Guess it
must be all riglt if it isn't a dead
beat.
The latest sectional map of Florida
a copy of which is greatly priced by
The Journal. is the best printed, clear
est and easiest for reference ever
produced by the department of agri-
culture.
Again the insistent rumor that Har-
riman will bring the Central of GeOr-
gia railroad to Pensacola. IT'S cheer
ing. tits exhilarating; but o, for the
sight of the first rail, the first spike
and the ring of the first blow Of the
hammer.
Patten. the wheat gambler, may
have retired to his peaceful New
Mexico ranch for other reasons than
TO get rest-percI1ance the desire to
avoid the possibility of experiencing
too much of the thing should he re-
main among ChicagO's bakers and
beggars.
The one-time Payne but now Al
drich tariff bill is being hotly scored
in the ranks of the ought-to-be faith
full The smell of the outrage is too
rank for the nostrils of several re
publican senators who may love the
q. O. p. game-but that tariff bird,
it's too high" by the eternal.
At last something has stirred up
those most peaceful religionists, the
Seventh Day Adventists, who are MAX
ing strong objection TO a bill in CON
Eress requiring Sunday observance in
the District of Columbia. 1t only goes ,
10 show that nobody can do anything
without some one else putting in an /
objection-but. after all, it's healthy, /
and keeps things moving.
YES. the hcusefiy ought to be lynch /
ed" exclaims the Times-UnOn Short
Talks man, and The Journal gives en- /
thusiastjc approval from the amen cor
ner. Let the proclamation be forthwith 1
carried out, and what a glorious op-
portunity it Will afford for hitherto .
Iawless forces 10 direct their energy
and vengeful procIivities toward ad-
vancing the peace. health and comfort
of their communities instead of Great
ing discord, disgust and Ill will.
Talk about wisdom: compare the
gentle and complete yielding of Abdul
Hamid to the demands of the Young
Turks with the discrimination and
teaching Of Charles !, Louis XVI,
James II and other Christian mon
archs who were either executed or
banished from their thrones and
verify the Mussulman has shown a
superior intelligence. 1t may be that
his complete subsection TO the doc
trine Of fataIism has had a good deal
to do with bringing old Abdul to such
. sensible frame Of mind.