The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-28
VOX POPULI.
THE GREEN ORANGE
QUESTION DISCUSSED
Tampa, Fla, Oct. Is, 1911.

Tampa, Fla, Oct. 70, 1911.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
l read this in your editorial column
on Monday:
THE Journal agrees with the Times
Union when it says that Manager
Temple of the Florida Fruit Exchange.
has done the orange industry Of Flor
ida more harm than good in his fight
against the shipment Of green fruit.
Green oranges are not as good as the
ripe ones. but the green ones are
shipped ahead of the ripe ones and
market. 1t would probably be better
If there were no green fruit shipped
and while the green fruit Is not as
palatable as the ripe we do not be-
lieve like Manager Temple that it ys
poisonous, dangerous or even in
furious"
am surprised at The Journal taking
this stand.
The Journal. as well as the Times
Union and other papers of the state,
boards of trade, and citizens generally,
are condemning the foreign COLOMBIA
ton companies, and local colonization
companies which are selling worthless
lands by mail. They are sending
broadcast thousands of papers, telling
of these worthless lands-they are
shifting the real estate men who sold
this land hip and thigh.
This is correct. It is as it should be.
Editorially, by the column, The
Journal has commended this action on
the part Of Florida as a whole.
Now, for the deduction.
According to your editorial above
this protest against the real estate
operator IL sounding the death knell NJ
Union Is wrong, the boards Of trade
are wrong.
But no.
You commend this action, So do all
right thinking and fair minded people.
The way to build Florida permanently
and efficiently Is to let people know
that We do not approve OF these fake
land deals, that there Is plenty of good
land to be had in Florida.
So. applying this moral to the citrus
industry. the way to build up the
citrus industry is to let the world
know that Florida does not approve
Of the green fruit shipped out of the
state-that THERE rs GOOD FRUIT
IN FLORIDA-that not ALL Of it IS
BAD.
Now. be fair, are not the two cases
prallel?
If II isn't fair and you believe that
more harm than good. then open up
your editorial batteries and commend
the fake real estate operator. Tell the
world that II is all a mistake, that the
land is all right-it Is worth every
cent asked for IT. and that the press
and the people approve OF the fake
land schemes, and wish that there was
more of them. Tell them that there is
good land in Florida, but ii is best to
unload the swamps and sand hills first
and thus whet the appetite of the
homeseeker for the fertile lands.
Mise argument, isn't It?
just let II soak in for a few minutes.
The Journal, like other green fruit
advocates. always refers to the fact
that our people eat green oranges.
What If they do? So does a small boy
eat green apples and get the collie
when he tackles the apples before
harvest time. but you are not noticing
any ring-taile farmer packing these
green apples and sending them to mar
ket. They also refer to the banana as
picked green. II they would 10 further
they would read such authority as Mr..
Edwin Morris, who says that bananas
kill thousands of babies" and that
meat and Juice Except orange juice
are like so much poison, even If they
do not produce death AS QUICKLY
as strychnine would" Further In the
article referred to Mr.. Morris refers
to ripe oranges as the only fit orange