The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-03

should be given full and competent
power to equalize the taxes of all
property lying within our domain.
Changes in Primary Law
''The primary law will also come in
for its change, as the recent election
muddle proved conclusively that it is
very deficient in regard to second
choice votes Just what the changes
are to be cannot yet be said, but we
notice that many newspapers of the
state are taking this matter up, and
are insisting upon it that the law
shall be simplified and the second
choice vote cut out entirely. Our sug-
gestion will be that not only this
change be wrought, but that others
also shall be effected which will ma
terially change conditions of collus-
ion and fraud, and which viii sim
plify the ballot to such an extent that
the wayfaring man, though fool,
need not err therein.
Initiative, Referendum and Recall.
MANY of our sober and best think
ing men also think that the time
has come in the history of our state
when the initiative, referendum and
recall laws shall be put eupon our
statute books and become a corpo-
rate part of the laws of the land.
They also think that, with proper
provisions of protection, these laws
should run the gauntlet from con-
| stable to the highest officers of the
state, and thus insure in times of
danger that no czar-like procedure
shall ever be taken part in by any
official or set of officials.
Prohibition.
another problem that will come
up for solution upon the initiative
of the house and senate, will be the
matter of prohibition. This is ques-
ton which, like Banquo's ghost, will
not down until it shall be finally set
tied for what is best to the greatest
masses of mankind The whiskey
men of the state all feel that it is a
question which will ultimately go
against them, not only in Florida, but
in the nation.
Opening All Closed Institutions To
Police Inspection.
"The next question that will come
before US for solution will be the
opening of all closed institutions
within the state of Florida for police
inspection, such as converts, paroch-
ial schools and other institutions of
like nature. The taxing of all church
property, with the exception of the
pastoral homes and the churches
themselves, and the same universal
examinations for all teachers, wheth-
er they De in public or parochial or
UNCONVENTIONAL schools. This possibly
will have some disquieting effects
! upon legislation, but like the great
question of prohibition will never
down until it is settled upon a basis
of Americanism
Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls
Another question which will
claim the best thought and attention
of our house and senate is the mat
|. ter of industrial schools and training
for the boys and girls of Florida
AS Senator Williams says, the time
is past when boys and girls know
all about Latin, Greek, French, He.
, brew, Sanskrit and all the dead Ian.
guages, and yet when they go to sci
goods know nothing about how to BE-
polite to people, to cut the good!
: right, or to retain their positions
and when they go to farm it will tax,
. two years to make their sugar cane
grow big enough to chew If we de
! sire to retain the respect of our
J selves and the nations of the eartl
: we must educate the hand as well a
!, the brain. This is one of the grea
schemes which we hope to see insti
tuted in Florida in the next fou
e years.
Better Shipping Laws
~ n Another question of vital import
ance will be to get cooperation be
> tween the people and the railroad
e of the state, by system of properl
: regulated freight rates which will in
: sure to them the early shipping O
e their commodities, vegetables an
: fruit, no discrimination against Their
e and such thorough cooperation a
: shall put the magnificent production
y Of Florida into the eastern market
:, on the same basis of railroad coop
GRAFTON as California now enjoys. T
/ do this we must have the attentio
% che railroads to such an exten
p1tAz$ - must attend to the want
q EssKiA with no less avidity,
> kAx2ng Yesnty of cars always o
II kA1& rapid transportation, To-
nu&gA4 yzxE, ETC., as now marks tn
= sAlwRAw liabilities from the wheat an
u err feGions of the west, and from tn
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