The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-02-28
From the same Office Is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS
THEY ALL MAKE FLORIDA
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The present winter, though q mild
one, has done much for Florida in
tie way of increased population and
wide advertisement Of her incOmpar-
able climate and other advantages.
and nearly every train which crosses
the State line is bringing people here
who come to stay The knowledge OF
the really marvellous and unequaled
resources of our State is spreading
rapidly through all the North and
West, and that we have other sub
siantial advantages as we'll as eli
mate to offer to the outside world is
a big fact that is pulling for us with
Increasing power.
The great Northern dailics prob
ably give more specific editorial at
tention to Florida than any other
State, although the entire South Is
receiving a large measure of adver-
Using in this way liere. for in
stance, is the leading article of the
Cincinnati Enquirer Of Tuesday OF
this week:
'The winter in the Southern States
has added much TO the financial
strength Of the people of that sec
ton, and has brought with ii into
nearly every State additions to the
population through migratiOns from
other States Of hundreds and thou
sands OF wcll-to-do, energetic, hus-
ting business men. These newcom-
ers are to be found In the agricul-
tural and mineral districts Of the
South, as well as in the cities, and
the immediate future, the present
year and the years to follow, will en-
hibit in the enlargement Of Southern
production and the increase in the
volume of Southern trade the results
OF the brain and the Drawn of these
settlers in the South.
when one who knew Florida in
the SOS and COS of the last century,
la the days when the Indian River
country was reached only by sail
boats, and Palm Beach and Miami
were known only by the adjacent wa
tiers, Lake Worth and Biscayne bay;
when Tampa was a rural village and
Pert Tampa was non-cXistcnt, the
present Florida, with it's masnifi-
cent hotels. its populons cities. its
me transportation lines throughout
the length and breadth of the State.
Its commercial ports and its profit
able manufacturing establishments.
seems a most marvellous creation in
a brief period Of time.
But the changes are as great in
Alabama. in Mississippi, Louisiana.
Texas and Arkansas. Indeed. every
Southern State. from the Delaware
line around the coast and up to the
Kansas line, has had most remark
able. yea, wonderful development,
and substantial. sound growth dur
Ing the past twenty-five years. The
great change came with Cleveland's
hrst administration. when the sec
tional ban was lifted and the blight
OF the civil war was banished from
this section of the country SO fav-
oied by nature with waterways,
ports, harbors. soil and climate. Tho
South for the past ten years has lust
been getting ready for still greater
advancement in its material inter-
ests. for an even more surprising
period Of prosperity. and for cxpan-
sion of its business along financial,
commercial. industrial and agricul-
tural lines that will command the
respect and admiration of the world
THE South is ready now for the
trade that will come to its peo,ile hv
reason ~ the opening of the pana-
Ma c-nal
IT South is ready now 10 well
come the millions of people to her
soil which that trade will attract.
sustain and enrich.
THE republic is ready now to
benefit by the prosperity Of the South
and to participate in a glohe-encir-
cling commerce. tho benight in1u-
cree of which will reach the most
Isolated portions of the continent