The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-01

and simply Nature everywhere. When |
stop to think of the great success of this
colony in so short time, so much greater
than ever dreamed possibly could hap
pen, gentlemen, do not fear to state that
God only can tell what will happen in the
next two years. Cooperation is a glOri-
rous work and we thrive upon it. Pull
ing together will earn reward for us all.
want to tell you here story have Of
ten told before, and think it appeared
once in the New Florida
There was once an old Roman Father
who had come to his death bed, and he
sent and called all his twelve sons to his
side. Boys" he said, Come here, all
twelve of you come to me. Now 90 out
and pull twelve rushes and bring them
hither." When this was done he contin-
ued, "Now boys, each of you take one of
the rushes and break it across your
knee" and they broke them with great
ease. Now" said the father, go out
and get twelve more reeds, also get a
sheep thong and wrap it around these
twelve reeds. Now boys, each one of you
take the bundle and break it across your
knee; but it could not be done, because
these rushes were bound together.
The application was then made to the
colonists here. and to their strength, if
they were bound together.
Mr.. Sieg then spoke of the birds of the
field who make their little homes, and
carefully plan and do their work; he talked
of our little children who must be care
fully trained and cared for before they can
become men and women of strength, and
even in Florida" New soil must be de-
veloped and educated before we can reap
a full harvest In two years time you can
raise twice as much as you raise now, but
only consider what can be done after five
years work Yet let me say again, you
must stick together, fight together and
work together.
know we will have thousand more
families here in the colony within eight
months; over $500 people have been
here to see their land, who have gone
back to their homes and are making
preparations to return here to live. We
must work, but as we work, thank God,
we have a little time to play. AS said
before, cooperation should be our motto,
we should pull together, and also play to-
gether and rejoice to see you here to-
gether tonight and to know that you find
some time to play.
This Board of Trade, say gentlemen,
for a colony scarce eighteen months old,
is wonderful-and | say the like of it
never has been heard of before. With oil
my ideas for the colony it never occurred
to me to do such thing as this Board Of
Trade is doing and other work that you
have done here yourselves. The work
that you are doing here, gentlemen, is ten
times bigger than what | am doing. |
would be helpless without you"
Mr.. Seig then spoke of the development
which would be made here by the New
South Farm & Home Company in the near
future, and of the added capital which
had been put into this company and
I which made this work possible, 81 did
not hope" he continued, Ito have hard
road through this colony for possibly
eighteen months more, to run from Silver
Springs on to the edge of our colony, but
gentlemen, we are going to have this be-
fore snow flies in the north this year, We
will 90 straight to Palatka.
Il scarcely know what to say to you
here tonight. but want to impress upon
you that we must all pull together. This
company will be behind you in every
thing that is for the betterment of the
colony, and if anything, you will find us
willing at all times to 60 little further. ="
There was great applause throughout
Mr.. Sieg's speech which indicated palmer