The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-10
WHY SPEND ssO.O 600 TWICE?


1t is well for the business interests of Pensacola
and Escambia county to consider what stopping
tick eradication at this time would mean and act
accordingly.
Every cent expended by the county. by the state,
,by the Federal government and by individuals
that spent for building watts would be lost.
Unless conceive it to be possible that Escambia
county is to be the only county in the United States
that is to remain under fever tick nfestation the
work of Systematically dipping the cattle in the
county will have to be done sometime, and if the
work stops now, it will all to be done again.
II it is continued when it has progressed so
far and so well, in few months it will be so far
completed at least that the county be released
from quarantine. and in short time the ticks en-
tirely eradcaed Last year the cases carried to the
Supreme Court delayed progress to that extent
that dipping is necessary this year over the
most of the county. The delays that are being
brought about now by few cattle men is costing
the county state and the individuals
whe own cattle the county additional money
because if the few ticks left permitted to ma
ture and lay eggs. dipping must continue until the
period these will live in the egg and larval stage
has elapsed, while if these are permitted to
mature, so soon the danger from the few left
alive from last year Is past dipping can cease
The larger cattle owners of the county realize this
ana are anxious to so ahead and take ad-
vantage of the present opportunity to get rid of the
ticks and be released from the quarantine
The men who are opposing the work and have
called the meeting for Saturday. own but few cattle
either individually whole, and pay very little
of the taxes of the county. Some of them are ac-
tuated doubtless by good motives but have not
taken the trouble to properly inform themselves
Others are fearuy afraid that if their cattle are
dipped and counted by the inspectors that the tax
assessor viii find out how many they really have
and possibly compare il with the number given in
for taxation; and still others being influenced
by cheap politicians. who hope to ride into office
by appeals to ignorance and prejudice neither
knowing or caring what such a policy is costing
and will cost the county, both in tax money ulti-
matey expended in holding back its AGRICULTURAL
progress
The thickly settled farming portion along the Ala
bama line will be particularly heavy sufferers if the
world should stop now as it would mean that thev
would have to either fence their pastures or herd
them back from the Alabama line as under the law
in that state undipped cattle running at large are
taken up and sold and the proceeds coverted into the
tick eradication fund of the county And that law
applies just rigdly to cattle strayns over the
| line from Florida it does to Alabama cattle 1t
| cost Holmes county farmers about thirty head to
learn that. If the work of tick eradication stops
now in this county it may cost our people that
much or more. while long as the work is being
done in this county along the Alabama line the
stray law is not enforced applying as it does only
| to ticky tick exposed cattle
1t is not only we'll for the real business interests
Of the city and county to consider what stopping
the work would mean, but to throw their influence
into the balance in favor of continuing the work
The state and federal officials who are doing all in
their power to carry the work need not only
your passive but your active influence and interest
| behind it, Thousands of your tax dollars are at
stake, in the question to whether this important
iS tn
all have to be done for would be willing
tc concede that Escamba county is be the one and
only county in the United States that is to remain
under federal quarantine and to continue to raise
only ticky cattle.