The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-08-20
eILcHEIsT MAKING GOOD

Governor Gilchrist is delighting his
friends and surprising his foes in the
manner of his making good as a gov
ernor. In his speech at Tammany
Hall on the fourth of July he made a
palpable hit and received a full meas
ure of unstinted praise from the New
York newspapers. Recently at Spo-
kane, Washington, his address at the
meeting of the National Irrigation
Congress he made a most excellent
impression. But six states, he said,
according ID the census, has made a
larger increase in population than
Florida.
Continuing, he is reported to have
said:
Florida is mining more than one
half of the phosphate Of the United
States, and more than one-third Of the
phosphate of the world, being the
Fountain of Youth for the WORKOUT
lands of the United States. On ac-
count of our climate we are renew
rs NAC ACeAANn VI many pCOpAC VI NAAN
United States. We are furnishing
the fountain of youth for the health
of many people who could not live
elsewhere. Oar state census report
shows the death rate to be &C per
thousand. while in the registration
area of the United States, including
the New England states, New York,
New Jersey. Delaware and the Dis
-, r,f C-1 hn 70 &c
rs per thousand. In the little town
in which | live, it, like many others,
ships six or seven million pounds of
fish every year. furnishing the brain
food, the fountain of youth, for the
WORKOUT brains of part of the east
ern coast of the United States. We
have twenty million acres Of timber,
furnishing annually, probably, as
much lumber as any state in the I'm
ion, and furnishing one-half Of the
turpentine il the United States, thus
supplying a fountain of youth in pre-
serving the life of the buildings in the
United States. One town alone, in
the last six months, has manufactured
129,000,000 Havana cigars. Whose
clouds all other clouds dispel and
wrap you in their light We grow
one-third of the Sea Island cotton OF
the United States. The fibre is so
fine until it constitutes, without their
knowing it. a part of the silk Of the
dresses worn by the ladies of SpO-
kane and other parts of the United
States" He added: while some
lands in the west produce some 100
bushels CT corn TO the acre, represent
ing $500 pounds, still there are many
thousand acres of land in Florida
which produce over 10000 high grade |
pineapples to the acre, weighing five
pounds each, or $4,000 pounds to the |
acre. | could indefinitely enumerate |
a list of 1900 or 1900 pounds of high !
grade tobacco TO the acre; 100 quarts /
of early strawberries, 200 to 500 |
crates of vegetables, etc. While ap- |
prciating the fact that the great |
west is growing and prospecting, yet |
| hope | have said enough to convince |
you that the southeastern part of the |
country is also worthy of considera- /
ton
Albert Gilchrist is making gooj as
a governor. He is holding up the dig
nifty of the state in most creditdble
and is presenting her posi-
bilities in a way that is attracting
much attention.
But greater than all, he is not max
ing the office a lever for the build
ing up of a political machine. He is
not an uncompromising partisan.
He has made good the prediction of
this paper that the people of Florida
would find in him a man without
guile or bitterness. His administra-
ton has been. and will continue to be,
clean. He has shown himself a most
lovable man. and will go out of office
possessing a higher esteem of the peo-
pie than his foes thought possible.
He has shown that TO be too "savi
grous" is not always the best; on the
to be fair and considerate
Of all. is the better way