The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-08
SAYS HE DIDN'T DAMN
FLORIDA LANDS


The Sun is in receipt of the follow
ing letter from Hon. S. NJ. Brewster,
attorney general for the State OF
Kansas, who denies having used the
expression accredited to him. He
writes:
Topeka, Kan, August 81, 1915
Editor Clearwater Sun,
Clearwater. Florida
Dear Sir:
A clipping has come to my desk
copying an editorial written by YOU
in which the Attorney General OF
Kansas is quoted as remarking that
Florida lands are not worth a damn.
Enclosed with this clipping are some
pamphlets in regard to Florida land.
|, of course. care very little wha:
the newspapers of Florida may be
saying in refernce to the Attorney
General of Kansas, but in fairness
to yourself | think it right to tell
You that no such statement has ever
been made in this office AS Attorney
General | am Chairman of the State
Charter Board, and this Board has
before it the applications of persons
desiring to get permission of the
Blue Sky Department of the State
tc float land schemes and other
! schemes that they may have. 1t
has been necessary for this board AT
various times to refuse permits to
persons who have presented some
kind of scheme for disposing OF
/ lands in Florida. After investigat-
these schemes are not practicable.
| that the land was not worth what
the promoters claimed for 1t, AMI
! that they should not be permitted
to sell their contracts or stock in
Kansas. When this has been made
to appear to the board of course We
have promptly refused "A permit.
Rut at fS time has any member of
this board made any statements de-
rogatory to Florida land as whole
] don't know anything about your
land. | suppose though you are like
other States; you have good land
bad land and Indifferent land.
know for certain that occasionally
a., IL -
Yours truly,
s. NJ. BREWSTER,
Attorney General
We are glad to give space TO
this correction, for it did not seem
| possible that man in one of the
highest offices within the province OF
| the people of Kansas should use the
expression that Florida land was
not worth a damn.
| The writer was secretary of the
/ Tampa Board of Trade durinT the
land craze, and we take exceptions
to Mr. Brewsters last ragraph.
! Florida, or any Florida land COM
pany. sent no land sharks to Kan
! sas.'
On the contrary they came from
! Kansas, and from Iowa and Nehras-
ka and other States and purchased
! the poorest kind of land at 80 cents
to So an acre and then went back
with blue prints and sold il to suck
ers for $40 to sl00. an acre, and all
this time Florida was making every
endeavor to stop them from bleeding
their own people.
The writer answered more than
10000 letters TO inquiries concern
ing Florida land from people tempt
ed to buy from these foreign CON
Germs And not one of the 10000
can say he was not given good advice
about buying land without seeing it
Each letter stated: "Do not bu.
Florida land, or any other land
without investigating it,"
The people of Florida will &C
operate with the State Charter
Board of Kansas in Kidding Florid,
Of 'land sharks" but we do mo-;
want them to take snap JUDGMENT or
any and every project. because Flor
ida has some of the best lands In
the universe and a large number o.
perfectly reliable real estate aeents
and land promoters Clearwater
Sun.