The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-27
Albertus Vogt Favors
Five Billion Dollar
National Bond Issue

they first make mad. :"
1t is said, too, that the sympathy
of all humanitarians are ever with
the bottom dog in a fight. If this
maybe true, and there are seven ma
tions shooting at Germany and Aus
tria in the face of all of the facts,
am reminded once upon time had
pack of hounds my good wife had
a very tall brindle cross bred dog,
half Russian wolf hound, half Ger
man Boor hound, Gilbert. There
are lots of folks in Florida who knew
"Gilbert. . On occasion he would
lick any two of my hounds on time
at once. My wife went to Asheville.
had to mine rock. So colbert" and
the pack stopped home.
On Saturday Sanders and / went
for venison. We had all of the dogs
up on Blue Springs. The hounds
trailed into Long hammock. Gilbert
! had been trained to stay at the
horses heels. A big doe came out at
the stand more than a mile ahead
of the pack. said, Bob, don
shoot. I'll bet you $40 Gilbert can
catch and kill that doe in one mile. .
| He was one. | told Colbert" "go
to her." We followed about 1,20C
yards and found the big doe ham
stung and her wind pipe torn out
The pack came one and in the meelet
"Gilbert" bit several of my very bes
dogs viciously. l beat him off. W.
lgavated the deer, put it on my horse
and started home. When we got t
Clements Mines some of the boy
caught colbert" and tied tin cal
to his tail and set my own an
Clements combined packs on him
He ran about a mile, the can slippe
off and he stopped in fence corne
and snapped and licked the entire z
hounds. 1t took my kennel ma
three months to repair the damag
done to them by Colbert. He wa
.. born and reared in Stuttgart, Gel
many.
II we can't for the lack of bottom
export our excess products why M
the U. S. float domestic loan OF sa
. five billions of bonds at per cen
Build brick roads, dig canal fro
the Great Lakes into and down tt
: Mississippi River, straighten tt
y yazoo, the SLnflower, the Arkansa
s the Missouri, the Red and the Cha
) tahoochee and Ohio and make the
+ all navigable for big ships; dig
o shin canal across Florida, fortify o
coast, give everybody work at no
g est wages, consume our home pr
l. dNcts, raise childl en- and let us all
" PROSPEROUS and glad of life.
10 Britain has done fairly we
" even if she has never paid debts
" Cured in the Napoleonic and e.
"a man wars and has never had trout
~ in refunding them and continua
!. lowering her interest rates. And
- little Japan can saddle herself W
= her present pro rata national
CAPITA debt and strut around will
small splinter in the cloth OF
= shirt shoulder and take herself
" iously enough to imagine its v
D BILE chip. l do not believe there
~ one single citizen in America
Ia would joyously subscribe to
IL cent. national five billion dollar II
" ! to be used for domestic impr
ments and the promoting of pie
Ia and the despoiling of stringent m
OF ey markets and if l had the po
on to order it, such bonds would be
is sued and improvements begin now
IN These five billions of bonds ad
his to our national debt would equal
en- and a quarter billions of dollf
i've What sort of business man We
ue- fear six billions of liabilities v
one hundred and sixty billions
ned real assets. Let us issue the nve
sly lions and laugh at possible pal
U. insure prosperity and KICK out
gle fear by any foreign invasion.
or reclaimed lands in the Delta w
pay in crops; foodstuffs alone ra
to on the reclaimed swamp lands
in five years. Everybody would
God lands and homes and all of Eu
d If that we would allow to land a
,ere would rush here to help us BULL
of to still greater national accomp
ON ment our invincible peace LOVING
,ter- public.
rage We are going to continue peae
the We can and ought to have pien
II is work. of comfort, of gladness
prsperity for everybody.