The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-03-29


with the people to find that in the
less than four years he has held Of
flee state taxes increased 100 per
cent. He also showed how well the
Cats family has Jared as recipients
Of appointive offices at the governors
hands, and he defended himself from
the innundoes the governor has cast
upon the senator's religious beliefs.
He classes the governor as a man
with an overpowering imagination
and one who imagines thing and
then states it as a fact.
Account of His Work
"At the last session | introduced
tWenty-eight measures and twelve of
them became laws, and are written
into the statutes. And yet there are
those who would have you believe |
have been idle and inactive.
"a few Of the more important laws,
the enactment of which have been of
great value to all portions of the
country, | might mention. | have re-
felred to the income tax law. The
law establishing the Federal Reserve
system was most wise in conception,
and | might say providential as to
time, because without it we could
never have financed the war without
panic.
"In my first speech here some years
ago told you l would urge the adop-
tioN of an income tax law and a re-
vision of our financial system. That
has been accomplished.
81 told you l would endeavor TO
have enacted some legislation for the
relief and benefit of the farmers of
the country. | was not specific be-
cause | did not know just what could
be done, or just what agriculture
needed to place it on a sound basis.
studied that subject from every
angle.
~ introduced the first bill ever pro-
posed on the subject. | was chairman
OF a commission selected by the state
and of commission appointed by the
president, which investigated the sys-
tenn in practice in the older countries
of Europe, and conditions throughout
this country. The result of all these
years of work is the federal farm
loan act. 1t has been in operation now
less than three years and over three
hundred million dollars have been fur
nished for formers at 5h per cent.
interest and on practically their own
terms as to payment of principal
Over sixty associations have been or
ganized in Florida, and nearly $3,000,-
O00 have been found for Florida farm
ers at the hitherto unheard of rate OF
interest of 51a per cent, the princi-
pal payable at l per cent. per annum
with privilege of paying all or any
portion at any interest period after
five years. For the first time in the
history of the country farmers are
enabled to obtain financial accommo.
dations at rate of interest of 51z
per cent. and for the first time the
Florida farmer gets his money at the
same rate, and on the same terms as
the farmer in Ohio, Michigan. or any
ether mos favored agricultural state
Touching Up Cats
t".Now, my friends, since the COVER
nor has been going about the state
constantly since June, criticising MT
directly and indirectly by innuendo, il
his effort to be elected to the Senate
neglecting the duties of his office tt
which the people elected him, l per
haps ought to refer to the reasons h
urges as justifying support and th'
unwarranted assertions he makes t
diminish your confidence in me.
when man pleads with the elec
tors to make him governor he pledge
in the most solemn way to devote him
isef diligently to the duties of that of
fee from the beginning to the end o
his term. If he told them in ad
vance, 4 know | can only serve on
term as governor, but shall aspire t
the Office of senator and shape m
course, and make my plans and BEN
} my energies to that end, and for
year, at least, before you make you
} choice for that Office, shall devot
, my time to a house te house canvas
., of the state, asking votes for it, d
you suppose the people ever woul
have elected him? Of course not, bu
; they must put up with it until hi
, term expires and their power to ad
b minister proper rebuke to him
: now. by refusing to vote for him.
. "The governor dreams. He see
Q visions. He imagines things to haV
. occurred as he would like them an
. states them. even though they did no
. He does not weigh we'll his words
. they count for nothing except
. sound well. When he begins to dra
o on that imagination plain truth sit
a up and shrieks for mercy.
. "To illustrate: When, in a publ
. address, he tells quite a story to ii
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