The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-18

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Jacksonville is planning for fifteen
sorry office building. Brace up, Tam
pa.
Foraker says he is "out of politics, -
and it certainly looks that way-down
and out.
B~adstreet's says stock speculation
is at a low ebb." So there's some
thing to be thankful for.
We fear Brother Hetherington, Of
the Lakeland News, is a, what-dO-you-
caIIe'm? oh, a ''reactionary," by
Jawge.
Speaker Cannon has declared war to
the knife against Champ Clark but he
viii have 166 democrats to fight in
stead of one.
Hope Tennessee and North Carolina
will not have to resort to arms over
their boundary dispute, but there be
soma savage folk in both those COM
monwealths.
President Taft's message was so
short that it requires no comment
1t didn't say anything except to refer
to his inaugural address, and that's a
bach number.
The speaker of the Texas house of
representatives has resigned. Such a
thing never occurred before, but
strange to say it has not been follow
ed by any seismic disturbance or dis
astrous meteorological phenomenon.
In arranging to raise the money
necessary to keep their high school
open eight months, the citizens of
ChipIey demonstrate that they are
awake to the great need OF the hour
education for the rising generations.
An exchange ANONYMOUSLY or rather
foolishly remarks that Taft's appoint
ment of Dickinson was made in order
to reach the South through lone of its
leadeFs"-a Chicago railroad attorney,
who had practically abandoned the
land Of his birth!
If. J. Fitzpatrick expects to run 125
miles an hour in his motor car, the
"Red Devil. on the Daytona track this
year, and 1t is high time that prayers
for his safety were being offered up
in all the churches; for the devil is
evidently making a strong bid for the
gentleman.
It is all well and good for city to
have a competitive spirit concerning
matters of progress and development,
but it is distinctly Objectionable TO
cultivate that spirit too promiscuous-
Iy; and Just because Jacksonville
showed up with three. cases of suicide
on Monday was no good reason for
the Deep Water City 10 try TO equal
or even approach the record.
Some of those timid people of Tam
pa who are afraid of spending a few
dollars on much needed public i'm
provements ought to come to Pensa-
cola and see how literally its citizen
ship has subscribed for municipal
progress in every direction. And not
one cent spent but means ten cents
in actual returns.
Between the milliners and feather
dealers of New York the proposed bill
for the protection of pretty wild birds
is threatened with defeat The thought
is most abhorrent. This destruction
Of innocent life to cater to feminine
vanity is, if anything, worse than the
pagan arena where human beings
were "butchered to make a Roman
holiday
People who do not see a most in
teresting political situation in Wash
ington would do well TO buy some
magnifying glasses. If there was ever
"A time when the G. o. P. required an
absolute autocrat as speaker in order
20 go just far enough with tariff re-
vision to fool the people without in
vading the sacred rights of the trusts
it is now. And the tangle is made
especially annoying because the pres