The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
AN EDITORIAL
INCUBUS.

INCUBUS.
The officials of the Florida Citru
Exchange, one of the most CAREFUL,
planned and efficient organization.
for cooperation among producer:
that this country has ever known, i!
seriously handicapped in it's growti
and usefulness by giving recognition
as an organ to the Florida Grower, q
wholly irresponsible and scurrilouS
publication which for some time back
has been issued from a Tampa job
office and circulated through the State
among growers.
No matter how excellent the plans
of the Exchange and the results OBJ
tanned for its members, it cannot hope
to thrive on the public denunciation
of fruit growers and communities
which prefer to ship through private
and independent packing houses. An
instance of the sort of denunciation
we mean will be found on another
page Of this paper, wherein the Crow
er attacks the town of Crescent City,
without doubt the largest shipping
point for citrus fruits in all Florida.
Crescent City does not affiliate with
the Exchange, but it is doubtful if in
all Florida there is a community of
growers who feel more friendly to
that organization than those of this
place. 1t has six large public pack
ing houses represented by such dis
tributing firms as Chase & Co.,
Crutchfeld & Voolfolk, Hardee, Nc
Farland & Hunt, the Empire Brand,
(2), ]. H. Campbell, besides many
growers whose acreage warrants
them in maintaining private packing
industries. The growers of Crescent
City are deeply interested in the Ex-
change; they believe in the principles
of cooperation for which it stands,
but they will not be coerced into men,
bership, nor will they stand for Wilt
fication of whole community simply
because the Exchange has attempted
local organization and failed to sue
coed.
The growers of Crescent City were
never favorably inclined toward the
bull doing tactics of William Chase
Temple, the recently deposed presi-
dent of the Exchange, and neither will
they be drawn toward that organiza-
ton by publication whose sycho-
phantic editor, pulled by little cheap
notoriety, has as his chief stock in
trade an attitude of hostility to those
communities which lie outside the Ex-
changes sphere of influence and op-
Grafton.
Crescent City has among its citrus
growers some of the most progressive
and intelligent producers in the state
and their groves, in thrift and pro.
ductiveness, both as to quantity and
quality, bear out this claim. The
grove properties Whereabouts are
pointed out by experts as among the
finest in the State, and it is here that
strangers are taken when examples
Of thrifty groves are needed to en-
phasize statements as to Florida's
leadership as a producer of high-class
fruit.
And yet this editor in a flying trip !
through the town damns the whole -,
with faint and question:.
Die praise because some knocker from
'he outside has grievance; damns it :,
90, without giving the men attacked :
| chance to be heard. This is not the
style of journalism that should rep r
'esent in an "organ-like" manner such
IN organization as the Florida Cit =,
us Exchange, and the Exchange Off
.ials should call him. II
In other words, the Citrus Ex- -
hange of Florida can lily afford to
ecognize as an organ, publication y
which thrives by blackmail in the =,
lands of a cheap editorial four-fusher -
Who has been swelled in the apex :.
through contact with its deposed, :,
ex-president. v