The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-20
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1916.
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND FLORIDA

Said the Pensacola Journal recently:
Better markets, better farms, better
roads, more acres opened to settlement,
and the development of tourist traf-
fic to country that has no superior
in the United States-these are the
blanks in The Journals preparedness
platform for West Florida.
Said the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
taking the above quotation as text:
We fear that Florida has set other
states bad example. We fear it is out
of sympathy with an essential and
time-honored principle, the principle
which insures Americans free thought
and religious freedom.
Our estimable contemporary added fur
tler:
We say this to Florida because it is
the first American state in the dawn OF
this new day that has abased itself be-
fore the teachers Of Intolerance, Bigot-
ry, Demagoguery, and Hickism 1t is
the first state to go to the extreme
limit
The Advertisers editorial-which is
somewhat shorter than Carranza's note
describes how Florida has abased itself. 1t
is quite interesting.
Our recent election, we are informed,
stirred the passions and added the reason
ing faculties of men, The government we
chose will be corrupt, inefficient, partial
biased and vindictive To choose Cats and
Trammell was "the greatest error that ever
came into American politics. and the Ad-
vertiser trembles lest the rest of the union
be contaminated-get liking for the "un-
canny brew" is the Advertisers word
and adds that Florida needs leaders if it
would get along in the world.
Sitting on the Olympian heights of-Dex-
ter avenue, Montgomery, Ala, the Adyer-
tiser has assumed the vast attitude of Zeus,
the giver of laws; but if it would tell us
where it got the information that Mr.. Cats
has been elected, or nominated, we would
feel easier in our minds regarding the logic
of the arraignment Certainly there are
no official or trustworthy returns in Flor
ida proving the fact one way or the other
Florida, of course, appreciates very
greatly the space our Alabama contem-
porary devotes to its welfare, at time
when the liquor laws of Alabama are being
violated on so gargantuan scale as to pol
lutte the very rivers; at a time when Judge
has been struck down by the assassin's
hand for opposing the booze element OF
Alabama.
j Let it be said, before we 60 any further
That The Journal opposed Mr. Cats and
[r. Trammell during the campaign, and
did everything in its power, consistent with
decency and honesty, to accomplish the
nomination of the candidates whose cause
it espoused; but the Pensacola Journal does
not tremble-as the Montgomery Adver-
tiser, does-lest the hand of intolerance
rend our social moral and economic fabric
Suppose Mr.. Trammell did inveig1
against tobacco while on the stump; sup
pose he did shed tears at the thought of Z
mans taking drink Where are the ma
tional perils? The writer's respected aun
many and many time has walled and weep
over the same things-but her conduct ha
not been subversive of public morals, no
has she INDUCED in Vaccinations agains
her family's welfare.
Suppose Mr. Cats did say he was op
posed to everything Catholic that he woulc
seek to eliminate Catholics from office; W,
know of at least one Cathab- gentleman