The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-02-07
TWO CRITICS-AND A THIRD

The Times Union receives many let
tiers of commentator and many of
censure. 1t appreciates the one and
sometimes privately expresses appre~
citation and it does not object to the
other. But it rarely if ever refers to
either in print. But one came in the
mail today from which we wish to
quote to show how badly this paper
has been misunderstood in Florida.
The writer begins by saying he is a
northern man but does not say wheth-
er he made the assertion boastfully or
alphabetically. He need not have
stated it at all for his letter neither
gains nor loses respect from the fact
that he is a northern man. Some of
the best people on earth live in the
north and some of the biggest chumps
and just that same thing may be
said of the South.
The writer says he has been in Flor
ida three weeks-three whole weeks
and has been reading the Times
Union. He is surprised and nonpluss.
ed at our pro-British attitude and SO
he says he takes it that Englishmen
own the paper. He winds up his let
ter by giving US the sad news that he
has quit reading the paper. He says:
at does not represent the American
idea. This is republic. You should
move your print shop over to England
your stuff would be music to the ear
of Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and
the rest of the English hogs here and
there"
Now we want the editor of the
Ocala Star to apologize for his nume1
Gus scathing denunciations of this
paper for hating the British. AND
there are others who have accused the
Times Union of this feeling. We have
not been conscious of such an attitude
We only felt that we loved America
and had no second choice. We thought
those who accused us of hating OF
even of disliking Great Britain accus.
ed US unjustly for as we understand
our own feeling it was-America
first, nothing else anywhere.
A lot of people in Florida have at
cused us of disliking Woodrow Will
son. Here comes our northern frienc
and shows them how badly they were
mistaken. He let's the public know
that this paper is a Wilson worship,
per. So the people who have been In
Florida more than three weeks now
see how badly they misunderstood the
Times Union.
By the same mail comes patroniz-
ing and complimentary letter from
another writer who informs US that
he supposes he was publishing a paper
before the writer of the Times-Unior
editorials was born. He didn't know
what close race with Methuselaf
this supposition represented him as
running. He probably thought the
editorials appearing in this paper were
written by some bright or otherwise
buL ID GhAhoo~N 60 Jul
stand on the tariff question under the
impression that it is a subject with
which we are not at all familiar. He
may have been publishing paper be-
fore the writer of this was born but he
did not get any further into the tariff
question than the path that was IA
n1iliar to this writer fifty years ago
He represents the tariff as for tn,
lenetit OF labor-an assertion will
which We were familiar fifty years ag;
but he does not mention the fact tina
the AVERAGE republican tariff contain
ed duties from twenty-five to one hun
cred per cent, averaging fully fifty pc
cent, to protect labor when the labo
cost of the products protected wa
only about eighteen per cent. If tn
tarif was only intended to make u
the difference between wages her
ard abroad the foreign laborer in
stead Of receiving wages must hav
paid as much as the American lahore