The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-10
THE JOURNAL
IS COMMENDED
HENRY p. LASoN OF D'FUNIAK,
APPROVES POSITION TAKEN IN
REGARD TO RAILROAD PASSES.


deserves public as well as silent com
mendation.
It shows a high regard for a good
character-a patriotic self-deniaI nee
essary to maintain self government
an example which the citizens OF
republic, as distinguished from the
subjects Of monarchy, expect s2d
applaud.
One may hold unmerited citlEeA-
ship in a republic without self-dzz$sl,
just because there is a republic; but
that is the only reason.
The highway over which our faith
ers marched from subjects to clt1-
Zens-from the valley to the mountain
top is bloody with self-sacTifiCe-
1t cost much to become a citizen
to become a freeman TO the ma
nor born; but it costs little or moth
ing to become a subject.
The king Of the valley is more
than anxious to furnish free trans
pOrtation. Beware Of the Greeks
bearing gifts"
The railroad pass is guilty. That
is the opinion of our best citizens
1t is a special privilege that excludes
the masses. Like a tariff for protec-
ton, as distinguished from the neces-
sary tariff for revenue, it is demon
alizing- with free cit
izenship-a sort Of hog trough" filed
with food suitable for subjects; but
indigestible for citizens. Corpora
lions need reducing to the ranks
there is no ill-treatment in that.
They have padded salaries water
ed their shares of stock-given pass
es to their subjects; levied unfair
profits and then reimbursed them
selves by rates against everybody
else sufficient to cover it all-and
then some. If they are in 1l-repute
it is their own fault.
Worse than that. They have used
| the pass to pack cauCuses and con-
yentions-to fill official places with
their subjects, both in church and
state, until a real citizen known to
be opposed to special privileges and
I corporate aggression stood no more
chance politically than a jack rabbit
before the mighty African hunter.
| But citizens are taking notice OF
the tendency of things. They are
| awakening to the fact that self-de-
NAL, self-sacrifice, and a decent re-
| spect for the rights of other citizens,
| is necessary to maintain their own
priceless inheritance.
| A man caught today with a rail-
road pass, or any other kind Of free
pass in his pocket, who holds public
| position jeopardizes his good Teputa-
| ton as a citizen.
| Granting passes to legislators, edf-
tors, attorneys, judges, public Off
Gals and ministers of the gospel was
| devilish cunning-thereby a suitable
| RECOGNITION of their high and holy
Offices, thereby entargling the fy ma
| ture of all humanity, spider like, with
! silken COILS to restrain their zeaS-
| to dim their eyes-to tie their bands
with kindness-to soothe and deaden
their understanding, to remove all
| suspicion of Intentional Subjugation
until they had fallen into the ditch
with every drop of patriotism sucked
out of their veinS-sound asleep and
then the robbery began-the same old
robbery.
| In this connection, Mr.. Editor. I
want to introduce you to Judas. You
NAV have heard of him and know
that he is generally recognized as
bad man. Well eYec look that-bad
men often make Excellent examples.
It is the benevo1ence of this mans
heart that want TO emphasize. Here
it is:
for three hundred pence and given
to the Door?"
Don't that prove that Judas was not
such a bad man after all. See how
he loved the poor ana wanted this
money TO administer to their necessi-
| ties-and then too, he was a pretend
ed disciple. II you want the whole
story read the 18th chapter of st.
John.
But ali this only added to his de-
pravity. ST. John heard what Judas
said. He knew the man. He could
not let such dishonesty pass in ST.
IIence, and when st. John explains
ANYTHING there is no chance Of mis-
understanding what he means. Here
1t is:
This he said not that he cared
for the poor but because he was a
thief and had the bag and bare what
was put therein"
This is authentic history. 1t is the
record made by a bag-holder in the
first century, who held the bag for
plumber only. We cite it as a fine
example of the methods still used
by those who hold the bag for plum
der in the twentieth century. We dis
cover no marked improvements be
sure the insurgent republicans aided
by the democrats in the senate have
discovered in the oil schedule and
other places of the Dingley bill that
they call a Joker" that is more re-
fined and less depraved than anything
heretofore invented considering re-
sults-a tariff for plumber only, as
distinguished from a tariff for reve-
nue. onIy-simply an entire cut off.
But I am not a pessimist-we cite
these evils in order to help crush
them under the heel of true man