The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-15
The Kind of Settlers
The South Needs.

i ne SOuCIl 1NSCNS.
Capitalists of Alabama, Illinois,
and California have secured a tract
OF 10000 acres In the vicinity OF Mo-
bic, Ala, on which settlers from 9TH
er sections of the county win be To-
Gated.
A company Of Savannah, Ga, will
sub-d1vide a tract Of 2.400 acres near
that city into truck farms, erect resi-
dences and other buildings and sup
ply homes complete for home seekers
from other parts of the country.
There seems no good reason why
Escambia should not have It's share
! OF the home seekers who are settling
In the south eastern mart Of the coun
! try.
/ Gradually, but very surely, the tide
OF travel is being directed to the south
east, and especially to Florida.
Pensacola has found long since that
this city cannot depend upon lumber
and naval stores as the only feeders
for her territory. Agriculture is the
backbone of most thriving communi-
ties. Manufacturing is important. but
! an a country such as this, the great
est assets of which are pure water
fertile land, and equable climate, ag
rtculture should be the main pursuit
The various fairs held in Pensacola
have already fully demonstrated that
almost anything in the United States
can be grown right here In Escambia
soil
But these cannot be grown without
work.
The farmer who thinks he can come
to Florida and spend his days at the
corner grocery or whiting sticks on
his back piazza had better stay away
for Florida is no place for him.
When the pioneers went to the far
west and settled up those great plains
and arid deserts thev had not only
the climatic conditions to fight-they
had also the red men and the des
perado. But in spite OF this, alone on
those great ranches, out in the mining
regions. on the deserts, they fought
for life. the generations to come
and won the fight.
Such conditions have never prevail |
ed in Florida as have prevailed in the |
west. Here we have no billiards, no |
on the warpath, no greasers, no des- |
peradoes.
This country is as fertile as the |
west, and as many paying crops may |
be raised if the same attention is paid |
to agriculture as is paid to it in the |
west.
Unfortunately, Florida has fer so
long been looked upon as the Land of
Plenty, exploited as the Place OF Gold
en- Opportunity, vaunted as the Gar
den Spot of the Universe, that men
have come to look upon real work
in Florida as a sort OF hold up game.
They SEEM to think that the goddess
who holdsythe Horn of Plenty should
spill the fruits of the soil at their feet,
and hand them Good Fortune on a l.
Golden Platter.
The fact of the matter is that the
farmer in Florida has got to work, /
just as the farmer in the west or the
east or any other place has got to
work, just as the business man has
got to work, Just the professional
man has got to work
The sooner the theory is exploded l.
that the farmer who comes to Flor
ida has got an easy Job. the better for |,
Florida /
No mans job IS an easy lob. else It
is not a mans Job. Work that paws :
Is not chiid's play. The merchant b
works night and day. So does the sue
cessful lawyer. So does the successful
doctor, or the successful man in any
profession. II
1t is a business proposition. Just as I
any other business.
The man who works on small 3
scale, will probably get as good a liv- {
ing as anywhere in the world. in any
other business in the world, on a small
scale.
The man who puts energy. inteln- :
gence, money and time into his work, /
Will reap a golden harvest.
1t is like most other things in this
world. You have to put something in. E
before You can take anything out. i
Let Escambia try to get settlers. but 7
while making the effort, let US en-
deavor to see that they are settlers :
who want to farm, not farmers who c
want to settle.
The state OF PENNSYLVANIA celebra +es
two arbor days each year-one for >
and ono Tho