The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-03-11
NOT THE MIAMI SPIRIT

sue of Sunday, March Z; it assumes to take
Key West and Monroe County to task for
claiming an interest in business peculiar
ly their own.
Only the friendliest of feelings should
exist between the Magic City to the north
of us and the game little Island City which
is happily emerging from series of hard
ships, such as our prosperous neighbor
would find it hard to imagine.
There is no point of contact wherein
our interests conflict, and the coming pros
perity of Key West will be shared by Mi
ami, with the greatest good will on our
part.
We have not the slightest intention
of accepting the remarkable exhibition of
ignorance and ill-will on the part of our
self-important contemporary exhibited in
this editorial as in any degree represent
ing the sentiments of Miami toward our
people.
Only huge determination on the
part of the Herald to consider itself an
agent of Providence. especially charged to
see to it that, to him that hath shall be
given and from him that hath not, shall
be. taken even that he hath, could account
forgthis amazing greediness. And that is
notathe spiritaof Miahai.1 y
1t would be interesting to know on
what the Herald bases its Statement that,
THE state as a whole bore the brunt of
the tax rebate which made it possible for
the commission to acquire its needed right
of way over the abandoned rail line across
the keys
The records of Monroe County show
| a different state of affairs. The state
taxes related for 1885 and 1886 amounted
to $4,671.30. The taxes related by Mon
roe County, including school taxes amount
ed to $88,975.31. Monroe County has paid
its share to establish way of escape from
the mainland to the isle of perpetual sum-
mer
AS matter of fact" announces the
Herald, Key West is the principal bene-
| fieiary, but not the principal supporting
agency of this road and bridge project"
This will be news to those public
spirited citizens of Key West who have
| spent lavishly of their own money and
| their own energies to bring about the ac-
] complishment of this project. One might
| gather from the Herald's argument that
the bridges were built by Dade County
and that the fact that Key West happened
/ to be at the southern end of it was merely
/ an accident. Nor, is it only Dade County
| and the winter visitors to Dade County
for whose convenience the bridges and
road is being built. An imposing amount
| of commercial travel awaits their compile
/ ton, also an important number of winter
/ visitors who do not originate in Dade
County and who will not tarry there, once
the barriers between them and the United
States finest climate are eliminated.
The bridges and the road may be
merely an inconsidered trifle, to be pouch
ed in. its. stride BY the Herald but II IS the
important business Of Key vital to
its life, entirely within is territory and
the GROWING achievement DC long years of
endeavor; a thing for which Key West has
| sweat blood and spent its own money.
| The Overseas Bridge and Road Com
mission is regarded by Key West as its
! own particular business and it has not the
| slightest intention in the world to leave it's
| guardianship into any alien hands-es-
| pecially into any hands which seem to be
afflicted with clutching SPELLS such as those
for which the Herald seems to be speak
! ing; and the Herald seems to feel
that there are and that it is speaking for
them. In the interests of the future of
the Oversee Highway" the Legislature will
| in all probability entrust its destiny into
the hands that have so long and faithfully
striven to bring it to pass. and to those to
whom its maintenance is of first import
ance
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