The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-10

relief will be given the people. Be
sides this the primary law should be
amended so that the great cost of be-
ing a candidate should be elimina ted.
Some of our best men are not willing
to afford this cost. and others are not
able to do so. This high cost tends to
make candidates accept contributions
from corporations and from people
who profit by the friendship of the
official and who accept favors to the
6etriment of the peoples interests.
For Good Roads.
The greatest movement for the pros
perfty of Florida, and the convenience
of her people would be a system OF
hard surfaced roads, laid out in such
a manner as to serve all the people
with the least burden of taxation.
In this enlightened age traffic in
human life should cease. Our convict
leasing system should be abolished.
Sufficient punishment could be melted
| criminals by working them on public
highways or on the prison farms
Criminal law should not have for it's
sole object the punishment of the
criminal, but the law should handle
the criminals so wisely as to reform
them, where reformation is possible,
at the same time that punishment is
being given through confinement and
labor.
The sudden abolition of the lease
| system would cause the state financial
embarrassment and place a heavy tax
on the people. The change should be
made so as to avoid this.
Our colleges and high schools
should be literally sustained and i'm
proved, but our rural schools, in
whose walls over ninety-five per cent
of our children receive their only
equipment for the battles of life,
should be vastly improved. Agricul-
tural, mechanical, and industrial de-
partments should be added so that
future citizenship take up the burdens
of life they are equipped for the
struggle.
| Taxation.
Inflated and large fortunes left to
children tend to degenerate them and
| efforts. Florida should have an in
| heritance tax SO that large fortunes,
passing from father to son, should pay
| for safeguarding the inheritance.
! All property should bear it's just
burden of taxation, therefore, Florida
should adopt the income tax amend
ment.
The tax laws of the state should
be amended so that the burden of
taxation should bear more evenly and
eQuitably on the people. The county
government should be supported by
the taxation of the property within
the county. The state government
should be supported by indirect
| taxation; taxes on franchises, rail-
roads, telegraph and express com
panies, licenses, inheritances, and the
profits Of the labor from the state con-
| Victs.
The drainage of the Everglades,
managed by Florida's greatest states
man, n. B. Broward should be COM
/ MI n1 roP hug
methods will permit. The public lands
of Florida should be utilized to the
best interests of the schools and the
state.
/ The natural resources of Florida
should be preserved for the benefit of
posterity.
More Power Needed.
The powers of the railroad commits
sion should be so increased that their
| orders must be obeyed, and the dis
graceful spectacle of a sovereign state
being held up by federal judge seen
no more.
Cities and towns should own their
own public utilities, such as water
works, light plant, telephone and street
car systems.
Graft, in all its forms, should be con-
demned and stringent laws, not
abridging the constitutional rights of
the people to petition their legislature,
should be passed and enforced against
Hobbies and lobbying.
Patriotism should be venerated and
while we cannot repay the heroism of
those who risked their lives and lost
their all in battling for their country's
rights, we can show our appreciation
by liberal pensions to the loyal vet
Grams and their widows.
The people have the power and the
intelligence to rule this state for
happiness and liberty, and their wishes
should be consulted.
To help to carry into effect the
above issues. and work for four years
for the uplift of the people and the
prosperity of the state, are the reasons
why I wish to become governor of the
great state of Florida
w. H. MILTON.