The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-21
DISADVANTAGE IN
ITS ADVANTAGES
Gets Down 20 Hard Fact
Stripped Of All Flattcry
and Gives Conceit About
Natural Growth Ideas and
Ideals a Knockout Blow.
Answers Questions That
are Asked by His Hearers.

ln tho arst thundorlnn spcoch unan
Huhtcct - gcncrni interest 10 -
nadn wtthin the white walls ~ Eve
rev EHCarhia county huiidinn. James
"A. Perch. 20 hss Orleans. last ninht
enthusiastically urEod thai pansaosia
fpta the proposed sa00. .0oo far muuiel-
pal docks and hsit una rlllroad lta
nlaae he address in the mahorany-
appoluted rpum of thc court ~ record.
dr Porch - leading member ~
TIE New Orissans Progressive uninn
and sx-preHident - the New Orieana
pubic tsef commission. tir h. fha
man vho hrst realized the thinnu
Witch mutt acCrue % hir cts lf "a
bat owned ur controlled lta terminal
facliities He ~ the man wha. move
than any ether. gave time and hralnm
to promote thr Accomplishment q
what no rraiit~d He haa studied cnn-
ditions IN ths North and ln the South
aliks and he Impressed ail those IN tha
audience that ~ knew shat b. was
talking about
FOR an hour and aam inat utrht
he stood before q deeply attentive ana
possibly hypcr critical audience ard
eKpouuded the beHt doctrines a. pro.
Eressiv1sna.
RAPs CONSERVATISM
tncidsntAiiy. Ne hanmerea a. ths
ulira a-uonaev~ntinm a. enc south.
pounded a. the bu9abNo 81 railroad
pull and politics; BATTERED the theory
t1at penmcala win scms DAY amount
20 q great deal without terminal "a
ciiftfea unher 80 own cantrul and
then kiched fhe oat % natural
Rvuwth- oltd0oru
The mr~af thinE thai Pennarnls
needs now. ~ showed. % municipality
owrneo and cunrrolied docicu and q belt
line. The ttae0oo proposed 10 plenty.
he said. for fhe time. and win puf I'D
large and substantial docks ard pro-
vide ar TIE traclage needed "a affotd
access
Pensacola 10 a uaapnri. he aaid. Ana
no theorsticai opposition snSalid stand
IN the wav ~ actlon favorable - the
Improvement on Drcamhor 70. aa onns
the dochr and belt arr secured 100
few Hesming difhculties viii naturally
disappear.
HE WARNS UP.
Ana showing more euthuf.asm riwhe
un this point than haE any speak0r
shown upon ans subject In Pensacola
flr long while. ~ exclaimed
Public ownership - terminal fariil-
ties placed under proper control =
the one thing wtt4iiv essential 20 tha
future ~ PonNzcoia and the Develop
m.nt ~ Yuur maxnincent harhora
harbor absolutely the beet in many re-
upecfE thas ! have ever visited
The scaport Which does not cen.
troll tbasc thlnEs H n0w landscapes
~ tire start and. after what Nrw or
leana has shown ana what los An-
Fsics has shown may he done. ! siu
No ionEer have sympsthy--nor vii
any other student - condigionH--fn
The seaport that wlii no. push forward
and tako advantage - ~ claB.e
-'penrac cola "a q seaport, hut iFa not
on fhs map--and ten you nov In "a
sincerity that n Won't BE- on the map
IN hvc years Or ten Years ~ twenty
years unless you make vour fanN 600
effori. safeFuard y o. thf hrsf posaihla
way and fcrret aii the BITE ~ theory
y0u may have thai there iE any other
way 90 develop
INVITE oRowTH.
The docks and belt invite shire ana
thsy invite Industries. In Ns~' Orieans
our industrial prestige has Rrown enc
thousand per cent " b. al duf ID ths
fnct that wo have thn terminal faclt-
tlss Ard the best proof ~ that nam
ln the fact that our cify-oWnad belt
and our Htatr-uwned terminals taken
Out of politics and conducted har.
moniously Cor the popular good. lnst
year did a. per cent of the businssa
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