The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-28
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be secured.
They must be Constructed by toll
and paid for in hard cash.
Things do not spring into exis-
tence any more by some one mutter-
ing cabalistic words or making mys.
tic signs.
Tais Is a matter-of-fact age.
Men do not sit under the shade OF
the trees and expect to be fed by ra'
vens
The Aladdins. with their wonderful
lamps. and the Magics. with their
marvellous wands. have ceased to ex-
list.
They are long since dead.
Things of beauty and utility can
now only take shape by the labor OF
ones hands.
The scepter of the tutelary gods
has left the world to its fate and all
mundane things must be worked out
by the expenditure of brain and
Drawn.
Good roads will come at no mans
beck and cali.
They cost money and must be paid
for in money and this money can
only be secured by taxation.
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up our minds to submit to taxation
or do without them.
We have our choice.
In this connection We can truly say
that there has never been time
when taxes were popular.
In New Testament times the "tax
gatherer" was the idol neither of the
rich nor the poor.
The people groaned under what
they considered an excessive rate OF
taxation and their groans have reach
ed down to our times and we are add
ing our quota to them and are send.
ing these groans resounding down
the ages.
If the building of good roads is put
off until tax paying becomes a pleas.
ure it will be when Gabriel with his
trumpet sounds times requiem.
There may have been better times
than the present but we have no rec
ord Of them.
There is more money in the world
today than ever before since the be
ginning of time.
There is more money in Europe,
more money in the United States,
There is more money everywhere;
there is more money in Marion cOun.
ty; there is more money in Ocala.
The bank deposits-our financial
barometers-show it.
The farmer gets more money for
his products; the laboring man gets
more money for his hours of labor:
the merchant gets more money for
his goods; the manufacturer gets
more money for his output.
Prosperity the world over is meas
ured in those terms.
Why not put the idle money TO
use?
Pauper prices for farm products,
for manufacturers and for labor spells
poverty
The million and a half dollars that
we shall receive for the sale of the
bonds. and the additional sums to be
donated by the state and United
States governments, will enter into
the channels OF trade and arteries OF
circulation. and in one way and an
other some of those dollars-many
OF them. in fact-will find their way
into the pockets of the people-ou1
home people.
Not a dollar will be destroyed or
lOst-every dollar will benefit some
one.
And consider at what a low rate
of interest we are to secure this mil
lion and a half dollars!
Adding to it the donations we are
to receive from the state and United
State governments, the rate of inter
est will be less than five per cent.
The legal rate of interest is eight
per cent.
We have seen money so scarce
right here in Ocala that individuals
have mortgaged their homes and or.
ange groves TO secure it at Is PEI
cent.
So securing the use of money foI
less than 5 per cent is bargain in
finance