The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-21
Results YettI Ia,
AT st. Louis 2, New York .
| What's The Matter
: With flOrida3

- rms is quotation you hear di
- eused frequently and you get
!. inherent view of the subject as ofte
= DIS you hear 1t discussed One wi
- say we need good roads, another
: oetter system of marketing on
fruits, another more publicity. an
= SO on down the line.
Inc fact is there is nothing th
matter with Florida; not a tarnatio
thing in the world. 1t is the great
est state in the Union in a thousan
Inherent ways. 1t is land wher
every prospect pleases and the onI
lault we can find is with her neon,o
Florida would be by far the riches
state in the Union today if her peo
pie would only have it that way an,
when we set about to remedy oul
own faults all the good things which
we look forward to will come of thei,
own volition. Some of conditions
winch we must remedy before Flor
ida can take her place in the front
rank are given below.
II Walking down the street of a
FLORIDA town You will see cold stor-
age eggs shipped in from the North.
when. Florida winters make condi-
Il ions ideal for egg producing and this
state should be supplying dozen
northern states throughout the
winter.
we Know man who owns
thousand head of cattle in South
florila who goes to the butcher shop
every day and pays forty-five cents
for packing house meats shipped in
from the North. This same man
ships his cattle to the northern
markets by the train loads.
We know man who has bushels
OF lemons rotting under his trees
we have also seen Florida lines
the finest that grow-going To
waste in the wild groves of the
Juneles in this county. And yet Won
will find on sale in almost every cjtv
IN the state lemons wrapped with
Italian labels.
Florida spends thousands of dol |
lars every year for imported hay
when South Florida lands can pro-
duce better hay and more of it to
the acre than almost any section of
the United States. We let our own
nay go to waste and pay the north
ern farmer $25 per ton for his hay.
Recently we saw party taking a
lunch on a dock in this country.
Ihey were eating Norwegian sar-
lines and Alaska salmon with Kan |
'as City crackers. Baltimore catsup
ma st, Louis pickles. The sardines l
'ost ten cents, the salmon twenty ,
'ents, the crackers five cents and
he catsup fifteen cents and pickles 3
es twenty-five cents, making a total
4 seventy-five cents. 1t is safe to G
stlmate that luncheon party paid I
tribute of fifty cents to foreign in n
ustries. But the worst feature of Y
is that from this very dock where q
ne lunchers ate are shipped hun d
reds of carloads of mullet. mackereI 2,
out and other fine fish every day. 81
Juliet are the most abundant in W
lorida waters and the fishermen p
ave sold them this season as low W
one and one-fourth cents per a,
'und. Canned, dried or picked OF
ey will compare favorably with he
~ other fish product on the mar
t. Our sardines are second to
me. Large quantities of tomatoes
to waste in our fields after the Ia
ipping season is over which should I
into catsup and supply not only ir'
e domestic demand, but large ex- ne
TT trade as WELL The same is -.
'gely true of cucumbers and otter at
Ids of vegetables and fruits. w
These areonly few of many like sh
editions that prevail throughout i'm
,length and breadth of the state, oh,
cry state has label displayed on
grocery shelves but our own.
We can find coolies of dollars for
auto factories in the north and Pc
oil kings of Wall Street, but If TN
lie one of US should suggest put ene
g money into a home manufacture 'e'
enterprise to convert our raw r.
-erials into marketable products
It of our citizens would either dis
7 cold feet or laugh outright In l
face at the thought of such a
Dosterous pipe dream.
oes it not seem as though the
it of home pride anil self-depend-
, characteristic of our people in
IT respects would revolt at such
iitions? With all the natural re-
'ces of wealth which Florida af-
S it is almost disgrace that we
sending millions of dollars out ,
he country annually for the Or /
~ necessities and comforts of
which are available at home
n conditions could be easily re-
ed and we might havethe mil -