The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-09


nails against the adoption OF the
proposed amendment. Much Of the
stuff printed by these papers would
be insulting to the intelligence OF
Floridians were 1t not so absurd BY
may be best described by the ineIe-
CANT but expressive word bull
The question TO be decided by the
people at the November election is not
| whether auto license taxes are to be
| used to pay interest and provide sink
| ing fund for bonds or any of the hun
dred and one other matters brought
up in connection with discussion of the
| proposed constitutional amendment,
but Shall the legislature be given the
| power to issue bonds for the con-
| struction of good roads in FIorida?"
| If you vote for the proposed con-
titutional amendment you will vote
to give the legislature that power. If
given the power to issue bonds, the
| legislature will provide the method Of
meeting the interest and providing a
sinking fund.
To our mind, the people of Florida
never have had question of greater
Importance before them. Upon their
| attitude toward the proposed amend
! rnent depends to a great degree the
future progress and prosperity of our
| state, for it is admitted on all sides
that good roads are the greatest fac
tor in promoting progress and devel-
| opment in new country.
If Florida is to continue to ad
vance she must build roads, and her
growth and development will be meas
ured by the miles of roads she builds.
/ Unless the proposed constitutional
amendment is adopted allowing the
state to issue bonds, or some other
method of raising a large fund is de-
vised, Florida will lose her share of
| the federal aid road money, which this
year amounts to- considerably over
| s1,000,000, and the work started by the
State Road Department must be
| abandoned.
Since the State Road Department
has shown its willingness to give this
section it's rights in the matter of aid,
| If the proposed amendment is adopt
| ed, Punta Gorda and this entire section
/ stand to receive a fair share of the
bond money, and with the creation of a
new county in southwestern DeSoto
we will come in for an even greater
| portion, for it is the policy of the
| State Road Department to connect all
| county seats with state or state-aid
roads.
| Punta Gorda and this section of
southern Florida needs roads almot
as much as any of the non-progres-
sive western and northern Florida
counties. The fact that we haven't
| hot de- f6oY1
some of these non progressive counties
is not because we are behind the time
or because we are stingy, but because
we have just about reached the limit
of our means, and If we are to do much
| road building we must have some help
from some source. This is, of course,
| the selfish but nevertheless practical
view to take of the matter, and if the
people of this section know which side
! our bread is buttered on we will@vote
| for the proposed constitutional amend
| ment.-Punta Gorda Herald
We have heard of portable houses.
but this is the first time we ever
heard of moving the porch around the
country and letting the rest of the
structure stay put. But we realize
that edifice is so shattered that much
moving might wreck 1t entirely.
%
The republicans charge that Cox
has pitched his campaign on a low
plane. What did they expect? That
he would pitch it over their heads?
Not quite thirty days, and then cast
your vote for Cox.