The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-11

that is always ready to do the bidding
| of lawlessness and ignorance.
And how it does swell with pride at
the offered leadership of the Chap John
| politicians whose high sense of honor
and code of morals would not let them
touch tainted money" And not one
| of these same would be leaders whose
| knees would not knock together as he
smiled from one ear to the other,
should Mr.. Carnegie enter his place of
business and offer to exchange some Of
that same filthy lucre for a measure
| of his stock in trade. Oh, how faint
ed"
Seldom a mob whose brutal passions
were not first stirred by some imbecile
offerings of irresponsibles whom some
turn Of this worlds fortunes had placed
in a position of note. When the power
and fury of the mob has done its work,
the world wonders who was the real
criminal.
Pensacola has posted herself to the
ridicule of the world by refusing $25,-
900 worth of education in the most ele-
waiting and disseminating form known
TO modern teachers. While doubtless
many throughout the city were de-
ceived by the farcical tainted money"
cry of a few who unwittingly showed
their need of facts, for the class Of in
telligenCe and citizenship who really
defeated the proposition we need only
to look at precinct 15; the others, agi-
tators included, became only the tail
to the kite. Line up, gentlemen. and
have your photos taken, all together,
that your children may know with
just what kind of a crowd you voted
in order to withhold from them and
countless others a gift that will doubt
less be denied them until the time for
its usefulness has passed.
You would rather give 500 your
self?
You would rather pay $500 on the
thousand as taxes? Mere buncombe.
And even if you put up the coin,
(Which you had no thought of being
called on to do tell us, please, are you
not thereby just posing as wee little
Carnegie specimens yourselves? Vanity
or ignorance is lamentable, but COM
bined they are ridiculous.
Many honestly opposed the PROPOSE
ton on account of the tax; a pitiful 16
cents on the $1,000 for three years
time. If never a book therein was
opened, the advertisement gained from
the presence of such a library in the
city would many times pay it's cost;
and yet we boast of progressive Pan
sacOla."
We want factories? Sure we do;
and what do factories want: unskilled,
ignorant help with no place to spend
their idle hours but the saloons and
dives? Not much. Find a manufac-
turing town ir these United States that
has refused a Carnegie library and it's
one that did not need ii as Pensacola
does. Spend five times that 16 cents
on the thousand in advertising for
ia Ctories, and we Will yet have to face
the humiliation of trying to explain
why we declined such q proposition
That we are burdened with taxation,
and much of it wasted through lack
of information and methods taught
through these same libraries, goes
without saving; but that's no good
cause for letting the narrowness of a
few combine with the ignorance of the
many, to retard progress, science, edu-
cation and Christianity, which ever go
hand in hand.
As we are denied the library, we
suppose it will now be in order to give
us Sunday baseball. That 16- cent tax
alton won't lay the street car fare of
nineten of it's patrons, but it's in
keeping with the ideas of precinct IS;
and the chances are that every public
opponent of the library both voted to
keep Pensacola wet, and will favor
Sunday baseball, but in doing it. gen
tlemen, don't forget to look at precinct
10, and see the crowd you are lined up
with.
DO you want your boy to be part
of that crowd?
Our criminal courts, the chain gang
and hell may be represented in your
family by the difference between a
good book and Sunday baseball.
You have refused the former; are
you ready to accept the latter?
In your boys choice of a path
through life, or on his death bed, would
you send to him the advice and coun-
ell of the liquor league and Sunday
baseball enthusiasts? Don't balk at
the combination; take away the in
fluence of the former and the latter
has no showing at all. Are you lined