The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-11-17
DR.. WILEY KNOWS
AN INTERESTING EDITORIAL
CLIPPED FROM THE HARRIS
BURG (PA.) TELEGRAPH.
W. C. TEMPLES LETTER
Manager of Florida Citrus Exchange
Explains His Position to Gov
ernor Tener.

ernor Tener.
William Chase Temple, a native c
Florida, who made millions in Pitt
burg, where he was engaged in bus
{ ness with Carnegie, Prick and othe
steel magnates, but who refused t
enter the Steel Trust, has precipitate
his dynamic personality into the cor
test with reference to the shipment O
green citrus fruits from Florida.
Rather than go with his business
the Cahill Boiler Company, of Pitts
burg, into the trust, Mr.. Temple re
tired from active business in 1905, re
turning to this state and taking VI
the growing Of oranges and grapefruit
on a large scale. His close friends
know that within the past few months
he received and declined an offer of {
salary almost as large as that of the
President of the United States to ally
himself with the Steel Trust. He was
one Of the most important witnesses
before the Stanley Investigating Com
mittee.
Mr.. Temple is as well known in
high-class sporting circles as In bust
ness life. For several years. before
his retirement from business he
owned the Pittsburg baseball team
and during this time he originated the
idea of post-season championship
series, in which the players of the
competing teams were given the bulk
of the money derived for admissions.
The trophy known as the Temple Cup,
was donated by him and the annual
contests for it are well remembered
by fans everywhere.
About three weeks ago the Florida
Citrus Exchange telegraphed the gov
ernors and health officers of many
Northern States asking their cooper
alton in its effort to prevent the ship
ment from Florida of immature, I'M
ripe citrus fruit. A few days later
firm of commission merchants in Jack
sonville, it is alleged, made use of
local organization, which it is claimed
has no considerable bona-fide mem
bership or commercial standing, to
send out kilograms attacking the Elk
change and questioning the accuracy
of it's statement that green oranges
and grapefruit are poisonous and unfit
for food. Mr.. Temple has written the
Hon. John X. Tener, Governor of Penn
sylvania, as follows:
Hon. John X. Tener, Harrisburg, Pa,
Dear Sir,-For twenty years have
worked in the city of Pittsburg, and
while there originated the idea of
post-season championship baseball
series, which was unique in that the
contestants themselves got all the
money. I donated trophy known as
the Temple Cup" for these contest
ants.
BY paying strict attention to bust
mes and giving every one a square
DEAL" was able to retire in 1905, and
came to Florida to spend my remain
ing years in peace and quiet. Refer
to Duns for my present financial and
commercial standing.
| have invested in the citrus indus
try in Florida a quarter of a million
dollars and am proud to state that,
as in general with the most thought
full, progressive and intelligent citrus
of the state of Florida, am
hn, Of no
profit organization which exists for
the betterment of the industry known
as the FLORIDA Citrus Exchange
On October s, the Exchange wired
you concerning a threatened flood Of
poisonous, unripe oranges from Flori- |
da, and | beg to assure you, on my |
honor, that every word in that tele-
gram was true. | am informed that
closely on this telegram an
other was sent by an organization
which, although, Boosting the high
title: FLORIDA Fruit and
Vegetable Growers Protective Asso-
,iation,' is in reality practically I'M
a mouth-piece of, and cloak
or, the operation of firm of orange
SPECTATORS, who have been among
he most persistent and pernicious
shippers of green oranges from this
state, for the purpose of misleading
md confusing you as to the deadly i'm
,ortance of the step taken for the
protection of your people by the Flori-
la Citrus Exchange
Are Unripe Oranges Poisonous?
The great hospitals all have abun-
lnce of proof of it; but do not take
ny word for it, or the word of any
me interested in the citrus industry.
would respectfully refer you to the
nan who stands head and front above
III other men in the estimation of the
people of this nation as the protector
If their health and lives from poison
ID food; the man in whom the great
mass of the people have unlimited
aith.
Ask DR.. Harvey w. Wiley. He
inows. Respectfully yours,
(signe6 w. C. TEMPLE.
From the Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph