The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-04-26

Won TO believe me about it. Remem-
Der. Trammell admits that he does
not know. He can inform himself, as
/ did, by consulting such witnesses as
Doctor Wiley, State Chemist Rose,
Mr.. Walter Comfort, of the Huyier-
Comfort Candy Company, and many
others who have taken the trouble
to find out by actual experiment. II
sick, do you go to lawyer? IL IN
| Jail. would you send for doctor 70
get you out If you want expert al
vice about sugar cane and farm lands,
will You take it from Park Tramme.-
or from a chemist and food prcduc1
expert of international reputation, or
from 2 former manager of the Diss-
ton Sugar Company, or from mem
Der of a large corporation which pro
poses to produce in the Everglades
the sugar necessary to run its candy
and ice cream factories?
And just here let me explain a'2ut
the Disstcu Company. They AZ say
il failed. 1t certainly did. Captain
Rose. who was manager of it, in an
article published in the Jacksonville
Metropolis, November "a, 1911, says:
"The failure at St. Cloud was not
caused by climate, soil or quality OF
cane. as no richer cane, nor larger
tonnage is made in Cuba than was
made at St. Cloud and South Port
In the same county, on reclaimed
muck land-and is still being made
on the same and similar lands in the
same locality. The failure was caus-
| ed
First, by extravaganza.
Second, by ignorance of proper
methods of culture and manufacture,
and neglect of drainage.
Third, by want of proper business
methods on the part of the company
and it's managers.
Fourth, and most important, by
SpSCuldLlOu-U Iui ming a. iOSi'AAiS'1O
agricultural and manufacturing en-
terprise into joint stock speculation
concern"
Is Captain Rose or Trammell the
better qualified to tell these facts?
Deliberate Misstatement
l quote again from Trammell's adj
vertisement. He says: "Louisiana's
convict sugar cane farms have made
no such profits as the figures set
forth in Mr.. Millions literature. The
facts show but bare wages for the
convicts" A considerable part of the
cane in Louisiana last year was kill
ed by frost, reducing the profits to
i''bare wages" NO. CANE. WOULD
BE INJURED BY FROST. IN. THE
EVERGLADES. This information
was before Mr.. Trammell Why did
he not state it instead of trying to de-
ceive the people?
Practical Questions
If a man owned the land that will
produce sugar cane, could get the la
Dor for the cost of maintenance mere
ly, could raise produce of which the
consumption in the United States ex-
ceeds the production by one hundred
and ninety-five million dollars, what
WOU' D YOU CALL THAT MAN IF
HE REFUSED TO FARM HIS
LAND?
If man owned one million two
hundred thousand acres of land and
couldn't possibly utilize even the two
hundred thousand, and had a chance
to enhance the value of the million by
inaugurating a great industry, what
would you call that man if he refus-
ed to inaugurate the industry?
If, as the government reports show,
we have $752,619 people, and they
each consume annually 1897 pounds
of sugar, which is worth at wholesale
in New York, 4.97 cents per pound,
and if we send out of Florida every
year for sugar more than three mil
lion dollars, don't you think we might
as well keep that three million in
Florida?
] If Watson, Gibbons and Trammell
are devoting all their speeches and
most of their literature to futile eff
forts to answer, and to abuse, Millions
proposition, don't you think the prop
osition must be pretty sound, and
that Millions victory is imminent?
LOOKING THROUGH BLUE SPEC
TACLES
Sartorius Says Ours is the Worst
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