The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-10-25
Political Notice.
To the Voters and Taxpayers OF
Putnam County:

10 the Voters and Taxpayers O.
Putnam County:
There are two good times to buy
when you need and when you hav,
the money to pay down. Putnam
county seems to have made a recent
purchase when she had no money t.
pay, and if she needed that for which
| she has gone in debt for present uses
her servents, the County Commission
ers, have not troubled themselves tt
explain.
She has recently bought and partly
paid for about $525.00 worth of shell
and now comes another purchase oil
$500. worth more with Mr.. Perry
and now comes another purchase OF
objecting.
Without questioning the wisdom OF
the three members of the board,
would like to ask if they have figured
on the entire cost of this transacr
tion? The number of carloads it will
take to the mile, laying four inches
thick and IL feet wide, and the cost
per mile? Putnam county, after
consulting with government experts
and other experts, decided upon the
sandclay type of roads as being the
best road for Putnam county all
things considered, and yet the most
necessary and essential feature in the
success of that type of hard road has
been almost entirely overlooked, viz,
drainage. Would it not be better to
do this necessary thing rather than
to buy new material which the coun-
ty is not able to pay for and begin
building a new type of road which a
great many of the people of the coun-
ty do not need? | hope our commits
sioners will not close this deal.
Better do like they did about the
first bridge across Etoniah creek if
they have to-pay little money and
back out.
Any appeal to the old soldier who
is passing to the "Great Beyond" is a
very strong appeal, one that touches
our minds and hearts with especial
force, but you will have to show me
how, when and where the commits
sioner from the Second district of
Putnam county would have anything
to do, as commissioner, with raising
the pensions of the old soldiers of
Putnam county to $3.50 per month.
Information has come to me that
white democrats are asking republi-
cans to support Mr.. Moody because
he would not be opposed to the open
saloon in Putnam county.
We all know that intemperance is
the great curse of our age and ma
ton. Our asylums and prisons abun-
dainty prove this to be true. Believ-
ing the immoderate and excessive
use of high taxed and high licensed
poisonous stuff sold as whisky makes
good people bad and bad people
worse, | have always favored local
prohibition as our surest means of
promoting temperance and maintain
ing order in our city and county, and
yet shall not violate the law nor fail
to follow the law if a majority of the
electors of Putnam county should, in
accordance with law, see fit to take
such action as will bring back upon
Palatka and Putnam county the great
evil of the open saloon. | have no
quarrel with the saloon-keepers who
obey our laws, nor with the man who
insists it ishis personal privilege to
drink when he chooses, but we should
remember those who cannot vote up
on this question-our mothers, wives,
sisters, sons and daughters and the
little ones, and that they are not only
in the great majority as to numbers,
with the strongest feelings against
the great evil of intemperance, but
who are by every Divine command
and should be by every instinct of
true and loyal manhood and by tender
and sacred emotion that real men of
all ages prize most, the objects of our
tenderest care and most unselfsh
love.
Very Respectfully,
u CTIRRY