The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-05-24
EXAMINATIONS
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UNCLE HENRY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS :sa'

for some days to take my pen in han
to let you know that | approve
the kind words which was spoke G
my writins, mentionin them alon
with the eiitoriels and the loce
news. Locel news requires talen
CT a high order to write and no
make any boldly mad, and | mus
say you have done reel we'll. And
will say that you have alters don
we'll gettin up your editorials.
don't know-old as | am, and eX
! gr.ienc>.l in Wiitin-.hat could Il
| any better, and have hcerd other
say the same with regards to tn
same.
| also rise to state that | an
! proye of Mr.. Ilolworthy's Amar.;
along the line OF my las lGtt>-
! ravin parks. Little dos this far
] cllry realiZe how much good results
from the friendship eAistin between
! Alr. i.clwo?thy and Mayer Eaten an,
] ne. Us three men is Workin alonG
HARMONIOUS lines and each pullin to-
.cther for the benefit and the up
! !titin OF this gloryouS town in WhlcA
we i've, M0.c and have our beings
Suppose these gentlemen which oc-
cHnys lish positions CT homer an
trust in our midst was to look do" Il
Don HE with scCru and say as la.
baen sayed by some Jellus harted
lecDle which cant WI tie SCOd enough
10 send postel card home when tney
20 down to Tampa suppose they
was to say, Uncle henry is a fool. :
Where would this town be? Or sup
POSE | was to look down upon these
gentlemen and write meen things
about them in these letters which is
red far and wide, havin drawed al
tcntion even in Plant City. What
would be the result? 1t would BE-
vastly different to what it is now.
now take my pen in hand to
make a few remarks along the sub
jock of commission form OF govern
nent, a subject which has latel'
been occupying the minds of some CT
our most patriotick and ambitious
citezens, but subjeck which has
been let drop. | have not got time
to discuss the entire subjeck as man
ny would like to have me do. / will
stick to the most interestin part OF
the subjeck, namely, to whit, Why
is Uncle Henry in faver of this?
In the first place commission form
of government is new without bein
too new. After hundreds of yeers OF
a form of City govement under
which vice and graft has blossomed
like the rose, it Is time somethin new
was tryed. On the other hand, COM
mission form has been took up by
somewhere near two hunderd and
fifty towns or more.
In the next place it has been suck
scssfull wherever tryed. 1t cannot
therefor be called experiment. The
rcosens why it has been sucksessfuli
know but am not going to take
time to eXplane here, becase the
crate fact is, it has been sucksess
full.
am in faver of it for Lakeland.
because it shows town is wide
awake and alive to the crate issyures
OF the present day when they adopt
commission form Of govement. Mu-
nisipal ownership Of light and wa
ter has give our city bigger bost
than some of us can comprehend AMI
commission form would give us
mother.
am not casting ret1ecksions on
the present offisials of this City nor
any which has been in the past. but
! am castin my eyes torrerds the flu
ture and l see that the time is 1T
hand when we have got to do diff
ferent therefor why not now? 1t is
wiser and easyer to keep vice and
graft out of this town than to let
tl.cm make there dens here AMI then
try to smoke them out. Now is the
time. We are slow as it is. They is
other towns which has got less than
two thousend in habitents and they
have took up commission form, why
not us? AS for the exspense. That is
the last question. The first one to
settle is, Is this q good thing? Then,
we may rise and asst, If so, is it
wurth the price? When we get that
fur along, we will beside that it is.
In closin these remarks, | asst my
readers one and all. to remember the
advertiser value of this crate step.
We have got a reputation of bein
up to date and We have now got
ctancet to adj to our reputation.
So no more at present.
Your true friend,
UNCLE HENRY.
P. S.-Some of them which has