The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
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educated in the wrong school. 1t has
been the disciple of false philoso-
ply. What nincompoop has it made
of ITSELF 1t was taught to believe that
the man who made two blades of
grass grow where only one grew be-
fore" was benefactor to the world.
That is so no longer. That has be-
come an obsolete doctrine. The
man who today makes two blades Of
grass grow where only one grew be-
fore" is a monopolist. He belongs to
a trust. He is an enemy to the repub-
lie.
We have in our mind a modern
Aladdin. When he first visited our
state he was confronted with an apol-
ogy Of a railroad from Tocoi to the
Ancient City" He touched this
makeshift" and it materialized into
a modern structure, and the travelling
public decorated him with flowers and
all the accessories that go to make a
benefactor. Like the dove Noah first
sent out from the ark, when he reach
ed the historic city he found no rest
ing place for the weary traveller. Part
ly on ground reclaimed from the sea
he built the Pone de Leon hotel, and
followed it with the Alcazar and Cor
dova, in beauty and grandeur far out
rivaling the Alhambra of Spain
This Aladdin, with a lamp in his
hand, had then the audacity to push
his railroad on down the peninsula
through what was then waste and a
wilderness, and bejewelled the east
coast section with a necklace in the
shape of beautiful hotels, flower gar
dens. grottos and palms as an en-
ticement for the social world to fol-
low along the path that he had blazed
out.
Others less informed may say as
they please and what they please, but
this paper knows that when he reach
ed Miami the accommodations were
so meager that he was compelled to
abide in tent.
He made Ormond, DaytOna, Palm
Beach and Miami so attractive, so or
iginal, so beautiful, so radiant, and
unlike anything yet undertaken by any
human being, that they quickly be-
came the winter resorts of the nation.
True to the instincts and cravings
of the human mind, this modern Alad-
din was yet unsatisfied with his
achievements, and he pushed his rail-
road on down to the sea, and under
took the almost superhuman task of
crossing the sea and touching Key
West, the southernmost point of dry
land on the American continent
He was told by engineers that the
work was possible of accomplishment
within a certain time, now long since
past, but still the work is unfinished.
Storms have come and beat upon it
and washed away in a day the tedious
work of years, yet this modern colos-
sus is still undaunted and undiscour-
aged, and goes building on.
Computed to be worth an hundred
millions, this man has spent all of
that vast sum upon this gigantic task
and has gone upon the streets and bor-
rowed yet other millions in the hope
of the completion of this colossal en-
terprise before he is called to his re-
ward
Besides the footing of actual losses
from food and storm he has had to
face and settle damage suits one after
another, involving millions. He has
erected hospitals, churches, and other
charities along down the peninsula,
and when the settlers along his road
lost their crops and their all by rains
and floods, he supplied them with new
seeds and helped them in other ways,
and yet is denounced by socialists, an
archists and even others as an enemy
to his state and to his kind.
We are reminded that we had
call no longer ago than yesterday from
gentleman who had a grievance
against the world. So far as we know
the hand of this man is a stranger to
toll He has never been an employer
of labor. Had an ancestor. not been
more industrious than himself he
would have long since been on the
charity of the county. He had his
pockets stuffed full of literature and
was prepared to show that the gov
eminent of the whole world is all
wrong. He says that it is organized
on a false basis. The churches are
wrong. The benefactions of the rich
are wrong. and the whole and sole in
tent of those in authority is to crush
the weak and Cypress the INDECENT and
helpless. Give him the authority to
govern the world but for a week or a
day and the millennium would be i'm
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