The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-13
GILCHRIsTs SPEECH
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"iH De one VI Inc greatest III Oui
great states. Its star in the blue
heaven of our flag, the dearest and
most beautiful of all flags, will twin
kle, twinkle" SO brightly that no one
in watching its developments and
growth and prosperity will ever say
Il wonder what you are" While in
search of the Fountain of Youth.
Ponce de Leon landed in Florida on
Easter Sunday, day celebrated
Christendom as the day on
which the Fountain of Eternal Youth
was freely offered to whomsoever
would freely partake.
But few people realize that owing to
our climatic conditions and healthful-
ness, we are renewing the life and
youth of thousands of men and wo-
men who could not live elsewhere,
making them valuable and useful
members of society.
In our berries, fruits and vegeta-
bles, we are making life worth living
to many people of other states. In
our millions of pounds of fish annually
shipped to all parts of our country, We
are regenerating the brain of the ma
ton. Through our phosphate, of
which we furnish more than one half
of the nations output, We are re-
juvenating the lands of the nation.
Through our pine forests We are
furnishing one third of the turpen-
tine with which, as a basis for paint,
we are renewing and rejuvenating
most of the buildings of the nation.
In our cettonseed oil we are furnish
ing our part of the delightful olive
oil you use; through this oil we are
-Heroding Herod in providing you
with lard of King Hog, and through
the meal of our cottonseed We are pro-
viding meat on you cattle. In our
high grade, long staple or sea island
cotton, of which we produce about one
half of that raised in this country, we
are furnishing without their knowing
it a part of the fibre Of the silk dress
es of women. We hope that through
the fibre of our palmettoes and of oul
moss to furnish the fair women with
their crown of glOry-cOmmonly call
ed hair, of which you see such al
abundance these days-I am scared
to say of which you see SO much here
tonight. Through our plume birds
we are furnishing the hues of the
rainbow of promise to the hats of oul
the necessities, comforts and the lux
uries of mankind and of womankind
we are an ever increasing factor.
| Owing to the peninsular shape o.
Florida the gulf stream is formed
sending out it's warm currents of Flor
ida warmth to various portions of the
world. If it were not for Florida
there would be no Gulf Stream. If il
were not for Florida, there would bs
no battleship Florida. There would
be a battleship, but it would not bt
called Florida" Shakespeare asks
whats in a name, rose, by an!
other name would smell as sweet,
That question was asked and answer
ed long before the christening of the
battleship Florida. To all Floridians
the Queen Rose of the navy, the Flor
ida, would not be as sweet by any
other name.
| We will ever send the Gulf Stream
of our warm Florida good wishes tt
the officers and men who man, and tt
all those who build, the battleshil
Florida. We regret the president:
absence. Every man, woman and chile
in Florida, and the thousands of thos'
who intend moving to Florida, fel
a heart throb at the knowledge tina
at the christening of the great battle
ship Florida, the occasion was to hav'
been honored by the presence of tn
Commandments of the army AM
navy, our president, the president O
H. Taft.
Of the three great nations, tn
British, French and Spanish, VIII
have done most in the discovery an
settlement of the continent, Florid
is the only land over which the flag
of the three have floated. We hav
inherited the best qualities and tn
characteristics of them all. The bes
of every state in the nation, and tn
best of every nation on the globe i
represented in our population. Thi
is a distinctive feature of the peopl
of our great nation. In no other stat
lis this distinctive feature so prom
nently recognized as it is in Florida
We are therefore more national tina
any other nation.
In conclusion. it is therefore highl
appropriate for the state whose pre-
ducts contribute so much pleasur
and so much JOY and so much comfoI
to all the people of the nation, an
. whose population is more natiOna
than that of any other state, shout
have it's name borne by one of tn
greatest battleships of one Of tn
greatest nations of the greatest worl
in which any of Gus ever lived, NOV
ed and had our being"
For Jersey mich cows Of good Dual
ity apply to the Hiawatha Lake Stoc