The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-04

large numbers and develop the coun-
try"
How does that affect the farmer
unless he has land to sell and then
only those along the hard roads?
Last winter We sold berries at 8
cents when they should have brought
Is or 20 cents. Mr.. Hetherington is
loath to advise outsiders to invest
here in the mercantile business for
fear of injuring our dealers. And
yet you try to induce lot more set
tiers here to still further glut the
northern markets.
THE new corners will have the
benefit of these roads, SO let them
help pay for them"
A la taxation without representa-
tion.. Just explain this proposition
to each prospective buyer. BY the
way, this sort of proposition has not
worked very much in Lakeland. The
city is heavily bonded for improve
ments, with the results that there are
several hundred empty houses in
town which the owners can neither
sell nor rent. In many cases sew
eral families have packed themselves
in one house to avoid exhorbitant
rent. And the property owners give
high taxes as the chief reason. At
least one family was compelled to
sell their home to pay taxes.
Just look at the large amount of
money the tourist will expend here
more than the payroll of the At
lantic Coast Line"
This question doesn't affect the
farmer as much as it might appear.
Even our best hotels do not serve
) berries until they become cheap and
the same is true of other products
Mr.. Rich might, perhaps, eat more
of our products if he stayed at home
and how much will the tourist ex-
pend here if he is compelled to go
to some other town to find lodging?
The annual tourist who rents rooms
for MISUNDERSTANDING is really a
benefit. But he will come regard
less of bonds.
; Great heavens! We will lose the
Dixie Highway"
Well, l guess the farmer can live
through that-and so can you if you
have to. The Dixie Highway is
an interstate road and you have no
right to ask the farmers of Polk
; county to pay for a road that should
be built by the Federal Government.
The money Congress is squandering
. in useless argument would build
quite piece of national highway
| By the way, cur present Congress is
. a disgrace to the nation.
, 1--WE will build the main roads Is
, feet wide while the less important
ones will be 8 feet, which may be
/ made wider in the future
When will these roads be made
: wider and where is the money COM
= ing from to pay for it? You know
very we'll that such thing has never
: been seriously contemplated And
!, where will these foot roads be
built? l do not find one word in the
specifications sent out by the COM
missioners as to what the width will
be. We have come to a serious point.
n | When a farmer meets an auto on a
h 8 foot road, who will get out of the
0 way. The mud curbing will soon
IL be washed away and there will b.
). no money to replace it, If the auto
n leaves the track, it is liable to skit
and take a flop. This condition will
lead to many discussions in which
e the shot gun will take an active
e 1art.. The Polk county farmers ar
/, neither serfs nor dogs But here i
d difficulty. If farmer shoots al
e auto driver, it is murder. When al
II auto runs down a team and kills the
2 farmer or his family, it's an accident
n There is some law in Polk county
Il and We want it maintained. Will
IS the exceptions of few swell heads
d we have little to fear from autoe.
d owned in this section. This is no
the case everywhere. Only a shor
II time ago the auto drivers in lamp;
a, scored two victims in one day
y Throughout the north in general, a
Is the toot of the horn, everyone is sup
/ posed to jump for their lives. wa
born and raised in a land where If