The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-09-20
,ur, Edison, Swift.

- T.,
Busch. James J. Hill and thousand
others at the head Of our great enter
prises in the United States, began
life. with rarely an exception, as day
laborers.
50 the picture drawn BY the French
deputy loses its coloring under our
free institutions.
We make a last quotation from Mr.
]. A. Wayland. the editor Of the pa
per
He IS telling why one should be a
Fool Socialist
We quote:
Because you would Ike TO live II
2 nation where al children were
shouting their JOYOUS way 70 school
instead Of being Du- in lie -read-alili
OF industries. where the school build
ings were the finest in ne nation
where the appliances were tie mos
scientific. where he surroundings
were the most beautiful where the
uniforms or dress we're TIE pes tha-
could be produced and where TIE Ia
BE service liz the schools would oe a.
GOOD as az the finest hotels.
Because life today gives y0a little
Or no satisfaction where life = just
one d. thing after another. and
the .oy una should animate every hi
man being from the cradle % me
grave is nos here. where anxiety in
y4Ges every home. Sis aJOur every
> = wa
COMPANIONS YOU al the daily occup8-
tons. and destroys the JOY o. living
hac is me natural heritage Of every
senrient thing.
We appeal 70 me truth loving pub
lie 70 say if there Is single district
in Marion county without rs public
school where the children Of The rica
and the children OF The poor DO not
share its privileges
We have a high school graded
school and a primary school IN OcaIa,
college for young women a. ITALIA
hassee, and an University for young
men al Gainesville, where the tuition
is absolutely free.
In many OF our states We have com
pulsory education, and the little red
school house" is traditional in the IT.
erature Of New England and the west.
50 what becomes OF Mr. Wayland' S
false caricacure?
But We rurn with delight from the
Appeal 10 Reason, with its deceptive
figures. false caricatures and illogical
conclusions, to the other publication.
II calls Kansas the miracle state.
and says that the success Of It's farm
ers reads like a fairy story
Listen to the prelude OF one of is
articles
On the point where General Custer
camped in Kansas, 1000 fee above
the level Of the sea, just before he
started on his memorable campaign
against the Cheyennes and Kiowas in
1865, three crops OF alfalfa were cut
last summer
This is one of the reasons why new
banks are being started in Kansas
country communities every week, and
why the Kansas farmers are taking
on bond issues which Wall Street
SHES a..
Such is the story Of a land where
Indian war parties once marched, and
which was wilderness Of buffalo
grass summed by the white man six
ty years ago.
It says that twenty and thirty years
ago the farmers of Kansas, ignorant
of the riches that it's soil possessed,
listened to Mrs Mary Ellen Lease
and other populist orators took their
advice and raised nothing but Cain"
and raised it so long that they forgot
about all other crops, but since which
time it says: Corn, cattle, sugar
beets and then wheat and alfalfa
the magic these products have
wrought reads like fairy story"
This paper, sharpening no axe At
the political grindstone, concludes
this sentence as follows:
Did Princess Ozma Of OF wave her
enchanted wand over this favored re-
gion, bidding it smile and be glad?
Or was it alfalfa, wheat, the beef
steer and his sister, hogs and Secre-
tary Coburn's helpful hen that
wrought the wondrous transforma-
ton? Well. the fairy idea will have
TO take wings and fly away before
these realities, but when one com
pares Kansas as she is with what she
was the miracle proposition becomes
more than fanciful figure.
Here is another picture
This alfalfa thing was life-saver
in the dark days following populism.
Il showed the right way to the east
ern part Of the state, got the farm
ers started right, and then wheat got
in its work in the western part. In
the extreme west the government
forced water where it didn't want TO
go by means OF irrigation, and now
the farmers of that region are making
fortunes raising sugar beets.
The editor tells OF party Of Rus
sian "proletariats, who never before
in their lives owned anything, drifted
Out iD+0 tho uhaa+ country IF EoD-