The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-02-07

and mad-fOaming oceans, where men
and nations perish as if without law,
, and judgment for an unjust thing is
sternly delayed, does thou think that
| there is therefore no Justice? 1t is
! what the fool has said in his heart l
! tell thee again there is nothing else
but justice. 1 would advise thee to
call a halt, to fling down thy baton,
and say, in Gods name no! Thy sue
cess, poor devil; what will thy sue
cess amount to? If the thing is I'M
| just, thou hast not succeeded"
A word from Judge Story: THE old
world has already revealed to us, in
its unsealed books, the beginning and
end of all its own marvellous struggles
in the cause of liberty. Greece, love
ly Greece. the land of scholars and
the nurse of arms For two thousand
years the OppreSsor has ground her to
earth. Her arts are no more. The
the barracks of ruthless soldiery. Tie
! fragments of her columns and her pal
aces are in the dust; yet, beautiful in
ruins. She fell not when the mighty
were upon her. Her sons We're unit
ed at ThermOpylae and Marathon, and
the tide of her triumph rolled back
upon the Hellespont. She was con-
quered by her own factions. She fell
by the hands of her own people. Phil
! lip of Macedonia did not do it. Rome,
republican Rome, whose eagle glanced
in the rising and setting sun, where
and what is she? The eternal city
yet remains, proud even in her desc
lation, noble in her decline, venerable
in the majesty of religion, and calm
as in the composure of death"
We might go on giving cities; but,
my dear friends, will you think of it
any longer than you are reading; and
will you look for the cause and COM
pare it with the power of the present
day? Let US take Newton, whose
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OF whose knowledge of it was philoso-
! ply, not those visionary and arrogant
orcsunptions which too often usurp
| its name, but philosophy resting upon
| the basis Of mathematics, which, like
| figures cannot lie. Newton, who car
| ried the line and rule to the uttermost
| i o,,,.ir Of hn
principles by which, no doubt, all Gre
ated matter is held together and exist.
Now, let us, without prejudice to any
one, look at our town as it has pro-
| crossed, and how and on what basis.
| Has justice been measured by New
tons rule? Why is it some men never
pay any taxes on anything. and 9th
ers pay to the last cent? Why some
allowed so many privileges, and 9th
ers none? Where is the justice in my
paying for the proposed addition for
automobiles. wagons, carts, buggies
and every other vehicle, when l have
not even a bicycle? Even the side
walk. the outsiders get more benefit
from it than l do. Where is the JUS
| tice in certain men being allowed to
run six four-mule teams, automobiles,
| ice wagons all over town, buggies and
carts wearing out the streets without
extra taxes? And how is it that ice
| factories are free from license? Why
C h,-icl
Ocala 40 cents per square yard more
than Gainesville pays for the same
brick? The officials promise to pay
one-third of the eXpense-quite an in
| ducement. How SO? Do not the peo-
pie pay the whole taxes? And this
year they have gone up 40 per cent.
| Why not stop some Of the leakages
SONG on, and start on a solid founda-
ton? Why are the people on the north
side of Fort King avenue allowed to
encroach 21a feet on the street and
leave it so narrow that it is dangerous
TO turn around? A part of the Tay
lor's curling has already been brok
| en-.
A gentleman from Denver is here
spending the winter His wife owns
a lot there. When she bought it, it
was several miles out. The people
| built up quite a town with all the i'm
provements-paved streets, water
works, sewerage, gas, and everything
that Denver could boast OF. The au
| thorities bought OFF the majority of
| the men and they were annexed to
Denver. The taxes went up to pay
! expenses. The mayor went in a poor
man and came out rich and is now
enjoying the old country. The tax as
SCISSOR tried to equalize things, and
made those who owned SO many au-
tos and other property pay their just
dues. When it came time to elect a
new mayor the assessor ran for the
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