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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
THE END OF WARS

Some months ago this paper con
tanned an editorial entitled the Con
quest of the Air. in which among
other things it said that 1.-The per-
lection of the airship meant the
cessation of wars" This position met
with adverse criticism in some quart.
ers so this paper prints with great
deal of pleasure Mr.. Edison's utter
ance along the same lines.
The great inventor says:
Anyhow, the war game has been
spoiled for good by the perfection OF
the areoplane l have been told as
fact that France was able to enroll in
one day twelve hundred airmen for
the areoplane branch of the army
This tempered in no mean way the
position taken by Emperor William in
the Morocco question. Think of the
effect of a feet of a thousand areo-
planes and they can get more than
FIVE thousand of these air war engines
for the price of one dreadnought. All
the great destructive possibilities of
the areoplane are dwarfed by the
moral effect on populations caused
by the fear alone of discriminate an
Inhalation.
"We have passed the era of con-
quest, but the lesson for generations
to come would be more plainly his
torical monuments of Paris that ex-
cite so much admiration the details of
its cost to the French people were
placed. But the French are great
people and they have more freedom
than any other nation.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
SAVE YOUR AMMUNITION

When the candidates for the gov
ernorship get busy and on the stump
there is going to be lot of talking
The list looks inviting with Gibbons
of Jacksonville, Milton of Mariana
Trammell of Lakeland. and Watson
of Miami, having announced them
selves For many voter who enjoys
the friendship of these four men, it
is going to be hard task as to how
to decide to cast his vote-West
Palm Beach Tropical Sun
Let's see: Gibbons, Milton and
Trammell were supporters of the
Broward policies and enthusiastic
supporters of Governor Broward.
Mr.. Watson was on the opposite side
of the fence, and he will receive the
support of those who opposed Brow
ard and the Broward policies. In our
opinion of the three first named Mr..
Milton is the ablest and would make
a most excellent governor. He would
bring to the office a ripend judgement
and ability of high order; in short,
he would make a governor that all
Florida would be proud of.-Apalachi-
cola Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
GOOD ROAD THOUGHTS

In connection with the good roads
movement and the national highway
here are few thoughts:
A good road to a town is a good
thing.
Good roads promote prosperity
bad roads provoke profanity.
Rome's temples have fallen, but
her roads survive.
Life is hard road in a poor roads
neighborhood.
II the roads around town are bad
it might as well be on an island.
If you want to know if good roads
are good thing, ask horse.
In considering good roads remem-
Der that there are few towns that
look so good to a farmer that he will
kill horse to get there.
The town is the heart of a commun-
Try. the country the body. Roads are
the arteries by which they live. Good
roads means good circulation and
good health.-Troy Messenger.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
THE RECALL OF THE JUDGES

Why all this clap-trap in opposition
to the recall of judges, or any other
public servant for that matter?
President Taft accentuated the i'm
portance of the subject when he We
toed the Arizona statehood bill, but
it will require more than the dictum
of a president of the United States
to convince the great majority of
sovereign citizens that they are in
capable of deciding for themselves
who should compose the judiciary and
how long a judge should serve them.
The president opposes the recall
of judges on the ground that it would
subject them to "momentary gusts OF
popular passion" and might result in
lynch law for the judiciary"
One would imagine, from the vigor-
Gus language employed, that the pres
ident himself were subject to MON
entary gusts of passion" He over.
looks the fact. however, that every
Judge who is now elected by the peo-
pie is subject to recall at the end of
his term Every judge who stands for
reelection subjects himself to recall,
because defeat is nothing more nor
less than a recall
President Taft's theory is the old
tory idea that public servants-and a
Judge is one-should be as far re
moved from the people as possible.
But he ignores the fact that a judge,
even though removed from the influ-
ence of some one. And, if subject to
any influence, why not the influence
of the people whose servants he is?
The fact is that the fear raised by
the recall proposition is nothing but
great big bug-a-boo. Where the re-
call for public officials is in effect it
has seldom been used. The reason is
plain-it makes public servants more
careful. 1t prevents them from be-
coming arrogant. 1t instills a whole
some respect for the rights or the
public, and the public officials there
fore seldom violates those rights or
subjects himself to the possibility of
recall
The very existence of the recall OBJ
viates the recall for judges and all
public servants will from this time
on be more generally accepted and
yield more satisfactory government.
Journal.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
Mr.. BRYAN MAKES 1T WORSE

Upon the strength of dispatch
from Washington to an Omaha paper,
Mr.. William J. Bryan made an accusa-
ton in his Commoner paper against
Mr.. Underwood, of Alabama, the DEM
ocrat leader of the house of represen-
tatives, which, if true, would brand
Mr.. Underwood as a dishonest man,
traitor to his party and utterly I'M
worthy of the confidence OF his fel-
low-democrats of the house. says the
Baltimore Sun. Mr.. Underwood de-
MED the charge and proved by the
testimony of the speaker of the
house, and all the other democrats
connected with the affair, that the
charges made by Mr.. Bryan were
false.
And now Mr. Bryan in the form OF
an apology offers an additional insult.
If the dispatch upon which he oased
his accusation was not true, he says,
he apologies and expresses regret
that he brought the charges he did.
And then he intimates doubt as 10
whether the dispatch was true or not.
Is not the character of Mr.. Under
wood and those of the other democra-
tic members of the house who affirm
ed the truth of Mr. Underwood's de-
NAL such as to justify Mr.. Bryan IN
accepting their denial as true and as
ending the matter Is not his refusal
to do so an additional insult as I'M
merited and as unjustified as the
other?
1t is reported that Mr.. Bryan Will
abandon politics and take to the MIN
istry as his profession. If he should
do this, he may demand the privilege
of writing the creed of the church TO
which he attaches himself, and he
might denouncec as anti-Christ any
who refuse to accept it. Mr.. Bryan
would make a great preacher, and he
would preach to a full church and
could do an enormous good in arous-
ing the people to a sense of duty. He
could preach a powerful sermon, for
example, taking for his text Exodus,
Xxx. 16 Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbor. "-Pensa-
cola News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

After all, there is something in
talk If a customer goes into a
store and the merchant is talking
about hard times it leaves sort
of blue impression on the customer.
He will think that if times are so
hard he had better hold to his dollar
rather than to risk the spending of
it in such a time. Tell a man that
he is sick and you will soon get him
to believe it and he will be sick. If
you tell lour neighbor that this coun-
try is all sand and dry weather and
that it is almost a miracle that crops
are raised here, you do yourself and
your friend an injustice. There is no
country where bumper crops are a
certainty. Always try to find some
features about town and country to
talk about and you will be surprised
at your own feelings, especially if you
are a bit blue.-Olney (Tex.) Oracle.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
DIVORCE AND THE CLERGY.

Our amiable contemporary The
World takes issue with the Herald re-
garding clerical protestations against
Mr. John Jacob Astor's projected re-
marriage. The World, of course, has
the right to hold any opinion it
chooses, but has not Mr.. Aston the
same right?
The Herald's comments were fully
justified by the fact that Mr.. Astor's
divorce is perfectly legal in the state
where it was issued, consequently is
legal throughout the country, and
that he undoubtedly intends to re-
marry in conformity with the law of
the particular state where the cere-
mony takes place, and consequently
the new union will be legal through
out this country.
So long, therefore, as Mr.. Astor
has not violated the law and did not
contemplate any violation of it the
Episcopal clergy overstepped their
rights in criticising him.
The proper object of their criticism
ought to have been the conflicting
law of divorce in various states. The
need of uniform law governing divorce
has been pointed out again and again.
In South Carolina divorce does not
exist. In the eastern states divorce is
oDtainable without much difficulty. In
the western states it is obtainable
without any difficulty at all. The
grounds also differ widely in the re-
spective states.
To prevent this diversity from be-
ing misused uniform divorce law
should be passed in all states. but
until such law has been passed it is
an injustice to denounce people who
nave complied with the existing law
ana contemplate no violation of it.
me Herald has done no more than
10 protest against such an. Injustice
Our contemporary The World is
wrong in asserting that the Herald
abused churchmen as a body. The
herald never resorts to abuse. On
the contrary. it is rather scrupulous
In It's respect for courtesy and parli-
mentary language in controversy. It
merely depreciates the action of GER
tam demagogue churchmen who get
little cheap notoriety are meddling
IN domestic concerns of some one
whose onense is his vast fortune
New York Herald.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
lNeERsoLL ON WOMAN

Ingersoll said more pretty things
during his little transitory pilgrimage
through the world perhaps, than any
other man of his time. He was
lavish with his gems. Few were
more beautiful than the following on
woman:
When God gave woman to the
world he transplanted the fairest
flower that bloomed in Paradise. He
placed the snowdrop on her brow and
the pomegranite on her lips. He
wove the spledor of the sunburst in
her hair, and buried the sheen of the
stars deep in her eyes. In her heart
He placed the diamond of Virtue,
and in her bosom He planted the
flower of Love. He made her the
portal of life. And then the Lord
God builded a beautiful temple. 1t
was fair for the dreams of the Holy
OLSS are ever ldlI. AuU Wu6IGN SI
the foot of man pressed the face of
earth, the temple was there. On the
sands Of the desert, where the great
Eastern stars look down, in dark
morass, in forests deep, and by the
deep sounding sea the temples rose,
and it was fair and pure and holy.
Joy tarried in its portals; and the
incense of purity ascended forever
and ever And the All Merciful
ordained woman the priestess of this
temple, and He called it Home.
"To this divine institution of the
home do we, swear fealty and faith.
Sister, wife, mother-these are our
wards. The citadel of safety is in
our hearts. There breathes no loyal
man upon the face of the earth who
does not place upon the brow of
pure womanhood the crown of
reverence. In him the gentle chiv-
airy of Arthur and Charlemnagne
find a true exponent. His honor is
her shield: his arms is her defense.
He is the sovereign liege who wins
priceless service for she is sister,
wife, mother-the Empress-Queen of
the Home.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
WHY TOM WATSON FAvoRS RE-
cIPROcITY WITH CANADA


~ Because it is free trade
measure. The liberty to buy where
prices are lowest, and to sell where
they are the highest, is a law of
Nature that the law of man should
never abridge.
(2) Any license-fee imposed upon
Canadians, for the privilege of selling
their products in our markets, must
be added to the price of the goods,
and we pay it when We buy the goods.
The same thing is true of American
commodities shipped into Canadian
markets. Whatever license-fee tar
iff) is charged for the privilege,
comes out of those who buy the
goods.
Therefore, when the two countries
reach an agreement which promises
relief from the extortionate prices of
the Beef Trust, the Lumber Trust,
the Paper Trust, and the Flour Trust.
heartily support it.
CD Because the stand-patters who
made the damnable Payne-Aldrich
law, oppose reciprocity When such
men as Vice-President Sherman Bit
terly denounce the treaty, you may be
dead sure that it is bad thing for
the interests, and a good thing for
the people When The American
Economist, the organ of stand-patism
excoriates the measure as the be-
ginning of the end of the protective
system, | know the measure is bles-
sing to the country. Protection"
means that the government shields
the manufacturer from foreign COM
petition. Then, when the Trust shuts
off domestic competition, those of us
who have to buy the comforts and
necessaries of life have no option
in the matter of prices. When we
buy, the other fellow says how much.
When we sell, the other fellow says
how much This Internal trap is
made by the tariff which makes the
trust possible With lumber, corn
and wheat pouring into the United
States free of license-fee (tariff) we
can refuse to buy from the American
trusts We can buy the cheaper pro-
ducts of Canada. Surely cheap lum-
Der, cheap bread and cheap meat
would be a God-send to the common
people.
ca Because the Lumber Trust,
the Paper Trust, and the Beef Trust
have combined to fight it. Having
failed to kill it through their Roots
and Shoots and Lorimers and Bail
eys, they have put up an enormuos
slush-fund to fight it in Canada.
The Canadian Premier is a Catholic,
but he is working manfully for the
adoption of the treaty by the people.
But while Sir Wilfred Laurier is for
this free-trade measure, the Roman
Catholic hierarchy, as whole, is not.
The priests are preaching crusade
against it. BY infaming race preju-
dice and religious fanaticism, the
French and Irish Canadians may be
arrayed against reciprocity, and even
the English Canadians may be fright
ened into opposition by the bugaboo
of annexation to the United States.
60 Because the best men in con-
gress voted for it; and those news
papers that are in sympathy with the
people were unanimously its advo-
cates.-Tom Watson's Jeffersonian.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
"GROUTING A NECESSITY

Robert CANDLES interview in Mon
days and today's issue of the Me-
tropolis demonstrated most emphati-
cally the necessity of "grouting' the
brick roads of the county, and it is
gratifying indeed that the county
commissioners also realize this ne
cessity.
Commissioner Forrest Hyde stated
last week that recent experience in
paving work had made the necessity
evidennt, and hereafter some kind of
'grouting" will be used on all impor-
tant thorougfares in order to make
them durable.
In this day of fast-moving automo-
biles and heavy trucks the old-time
roads have little chance for long life,
whereas thoroughly "grouted" roads
will last for years, as has been dem
onstrated by those in and around
Athens, Ga. The famous Indianapolis
Auto Speedway is another illustra'
ton of the effectiveness of the
method. Capt. James Wilson, a
thoroughly experienced engineer, who
has built many of the county roads
and city streets, states that "grout-
ing" is necessary, and has so argued
to the commissioners. The cost is,
of course, somewhat heavier, but it
is much cheaper in the long run.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

Charged with violating the Mass
achusetts lottery law by rafting of
a horse and a phaeton at a county
fair of which he is the chief officer,
Thomas w. Lawson. financier, was
served with summons at his home
in Egypt the other night.
The summons calls him to appear
I'M the Plymouth county court to an
swer to the charge on Monday, and it
was procured and served at the in
stance of the Watch and Ward So
ciety.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
p. ". Leavengood, Business Manager

Eod bless the flag! Let It float and
I'LL
The sky with its beauty; our heart
strings thrill
To the low, sweet chant OF its wind
swept bars,
And the chorus of all its clustered
stars.
Embrace it, o mothers! and heroes
shall grow,
While its colors blush warm on your
bosoms of snow.
Defend it, @ fathers; there's no sweet
er death
Than to float its fair folds with sol
dier'r last breath!
And love it, o children! be true to the
sires
Who wove it in plain by the old camp
fires.
Samuel L. Simpson.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
THE FIGHT GOES ON

This paper has upon its exchange
list the Enid (Okla.) Events and it is
observed that freight Determinations
prevail there the same as here and
elsewhere and the Events is
making war against the injustice
there the same as this paper is here.
The Events says that since the
state railway commission has been
established in that state freight rates
have been uniformity higher and in
stead of the state commission having
been a benefit to the shipping inter
ests it has been a direct detriment.
The Events shows the following
inequalities:
First classrate to Texica, n. NJ,
from Oklahoma City-s1.05 per cwt.
Rate from Arkansas City, Kan, to
same point, CSC per cwt. Arkansas
City is 100 miles north of Oklahoma
City.
Rate from Oklahoma City to Clovis,
n. NJ, $1.14 per cwt. Rate from
Wichita, Kas., to same point, $1.04 per
cwt. Wichita is 100 miles north of
Oklahoma City to the designated
point at 10 cents less per cwt. first
class, &c less second class, SC less,
third class, and &c less fourth class.
If a carload of sugar is shipped
to Enid from California the rate
thereon is 63c per cwt. If the same
car were shipped through Enid to
Arkansas City, Kansas, the rate
thereupon would be 55c per cwt.
A car load of shingles or dressed
lumber from California to Enid
costs 75.5 per cwt. The same ship
ment through Enid to Caldwell, Kas.,
will be made at 67.5 per cwt.
The rate on shipment of wheat
from Enid to Galveston, Texas, is
34.5 The rate on wheat from Kan
sas City to Galveston is 95.5, or one
cent additional for the extra 329
miles-one-third the total distance.
The rate on a shipment of wheat
from Kansas City to Chicago is 14.S.
The rate on a shipment of wheat
from Enid to Chicago is 26.5-or II
cents for the extra 329 milestone
third of the distance.
This is where the farmer gets it in
the neck and loses hundreds of thou
sands of dollars annually.
A business mans agreement with
the railroads and concessions that
would give the farmers additional
tax money is hardly worth while,
Ell? Better to browbeat, pose, strut
and cuss-and let the producing
farmer the sack.
But, you say, these are interstate
shipments. Quite true. But you
could secure reductions and conces-
sions just as the commissions of
proven business experience.
will give you another illustration
of discrimination within the state if
you like: The rate on wheat from
Gage, Okla, to Galveston, via Enid
is 33c per wet. The rate on wheat
from Enid to Galveston is 34.5 per
cwt. The Gage haul is 15S miles
longer than the Enid haul yet costs
cent and half less.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01
THE HARRIS BOOM

When it comes right down to
brass tacks, there are few men in
Florida who have a warmer personal
following than has Frank Harris 1t
is not enough to say that he is OF
Ocala, or that he is the editor of the
Ocala Daily Banner. He is the COR
iginal booster" of Florida, and this is
the highest claim to distinction we
can think of.
And the Harris boom for governor
shows signs of being in as healthy a
condition as that of any other guber-
Material candidate in the state. A
letter from S. H. Bitch to F. R. Nc
Cormick, editor of the Live Demo
crat, shows the kind of friends that
are now at work mapping out the
path by which Uncle Frank may
travel to Tallahassee Fort Myers
Press.
If the editors could do all the vot-
ing there is no doubt but that Hon.
Frank Harris, editor of the Ocala
Banner, would be the next governor
of Florida, but unluckily for the state
and unfortunately for Brother Harris,
a few other people exercise that pre-
rogative, and unless we can. do some
tall persuadin" some other good man
NAV Sit Snup1v in the chair now
kept warm by the Gentleman from
DeSoto. Arcadia Champion.
=
1t begins to look now as if the office
of governor will be thrust upon
Editor Harris of the Ocala Banner
AS we are an original Harris man,
the situation suits us exactly In
Verness Chronicle.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

1t is claimed that there has been
a depreciation in Union Pacific and
steel stocks for the past month
totaling the enormous sum of $780,
100000. The country. however, re-
mains prosperous because the crops
in all sections are reported good.
After all agriculture is the basis of
prosperity.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

President Taft is booked to make
the longest tour of any president
He will go to the Pacific and will
visit many of the intermediate states,
He will travel fifteen thousand miles
at a cost of $4,000. He feels conf
dent of denomination. His re-elec,
ton is another matter.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

John Curley a Brooklyn carriage
maker has recently died and left five
hundred thousand dollars to various
charitable institutions. Hardly an ell
lemosynary institution in the borough
but came in for a share ranging from
500 to $4,000. We hope that sooner
or later our millionaires will get the
gift habit
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

John w. Gates left an estate esti-
mated to be worth s4O.O0O.0OO. With
the exception of one million which is
divided into thirty requests to par
ticular friends the entire estate is to
be divided between the widow and
son.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

When Jules Verne wrote of his
imaginary trip: around the World
in Eighty Days" it was regarded as
an impossible feat and merely the
dream of a novelist. The earth has
since been girdled in forty days and
later on the distance is still to be
lessened.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

Senator Poindexter's bill providing
that civil service employees shall
have freedom of speech and freedom
of the press was killed in the last
senate, but the bill will come back.
A bill so just and meritorious can
not forever be denied.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

The insurgent republicans an
nounce that revolutions never go
backwards and the fight for tariff
and government reform will go on.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

Graham-White says that he expects
to see sky-liners plying regularly be-
tween New York and London carry
ing 1000 passengers. He has a vivid
imagination.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

The bill changing the date of the
Inauguration of the president of the
United States failed of passage and
will have to be reconsidered by the
next congress.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

This paper would like to know what
grievance the Jasper News has got
against the people of Florida that it
wants to infiict upon them an extra
session of the legislature?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

Builders believe that many of the
buildings now in New York will
stand for a thousand years. If one
thousand why not two thousand?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-01

Around the World" is the Hippo
drome's latest. 1t gives latitude for
many wonderful and startling crea-
tions.