Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 28, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAR ELAND, FLA., JUNE 28, 1912 | pas had no organization, only a prac- The Eveaing Telegram|SEANTOR AEEDS ELOQUENT [WILSON NAN OF TRERHOUT -0 s | sPE[c“ fl!l!!l“"s flmK mn “flp[l nEm]flHmv equal opportunity. Not his alone, mot his immortal words alone, the Fla.| Published every afternoon from Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, 1ot his personality alone, not his (Continued from Page 1.) ' matchless powers alone, but all com- (Continued from Page 1.) Entered in the postoffice at Lake- tand, Florida, as mail mattes of the second class. i ot s AT S P L M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. N M e I P SR A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year . . veees-$5.00 Rix months ............ 2,80 Three monthe ... ..... 126 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, i e Prom the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newspaper giving =2 Te- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent acywhere for $1.00 per year. DISSATISFIED BUYERS SHOULD NOT BLAME FLORIDA LANDS. —_— We have before us a copy of “The Free Press,” a newspaper published in Tampa, which devotes considerable space to the alleged wrongs of cer- tain parties, who were persuaded by Jand company literature to put their money in certain Florida land prop- ositions, and who Rave been greatly disappointed in their investments. This paper has repeatedly nounced the methods of conscience- less land grafters, who, by fairy tales. induce the guileless denizen of another section to invest in Florida lands which do not come up to the representations of the highly colored literature. But, at the sun\v.xiuw. we feel that in many in- ctances those who complain of being have shown such utter lack de- “stung’ { ordinary common sense that one but wonder how they escaped ving their money taken away from them before they ever heard of Flor- It would scem that any person who had arrived at the age of reason ida. would know that, while there are greater opportunities in some sec- by any means| tions of the country than in others, in no place can they expect to find conditions where wealth can be se- cured without reasonable effort. If such a place ever existed they can rest assured that some one else has beat them to it. Intelligent people beware of all propositions that look too good. A good business man, for instance, will have to “shown™ before he takes hold of any invest- ment that promises to pay more than a net ten per cent. He argues that no one would be hawking such a good thing around, but that investors would have eagerly gobbled it up be- fore it had to be offered in the high- ways and byways. The same prin- ¢iple holds good in the matter of lands and location; and, while we sympathize with the principal in the “fool and his money” tragedy, we cannot but feel that such people have only themselves to blame for their .misfortune, There is hardly a reputable news- paper in Florida that has not repeat- edly warned prospective purchasers of Florida lands that they should see the lands before buying, or, at lea nake reasonable investigation. Texas is a great State, and has some of the 1wost fertile lands in the world; yet one may travel for weary miles through certain sections of it, and not find what would afford susten- ance to a horned toad. The same statement applies with equal truth to California, and in a greater or less degree to every State of the Union, vet to condemn the lands of these the lack of pro- portions of Ity from a lands, of certain absurd. land western States because ductiveness of them, Floridian company is manifestly should buy exploiting tor instance, withont investigating the proposition his conservative neighbors would expect nothing else except that he would z@i the worss of the barzain. Yot people will buy land in Flovida unscen, solely on the representation of « ¢d party, and “holler™ if 1t find it covered with The Tands are her found in the » hiere 2old d a8 zood as o country; 1 for the investor 1t i the requires the merest modicum of com- mon sense in selecting one’s location to in=ure that the newcomer 1o Flor- wil] become one of the happy f <atisfied Florida residents Wi the Florida Underwood del wates will at Jeast know how it feel to be a little duck in a big puddle and probably this will be ample com- pensation for sweltering in a little two-hy-four room at six dollars per day.—Wauchula Advocate. Five times has he voted for that measure, and for years in Congress bas been its distinguished advocate. “During all of his long public service, he has been one of the most valiant champions of tariff reform. 1 place before you this record, made not when lust of office lures, but written in the story of the years, and graven upon the public statutes of the country und I challenge com- parison. *All his life this man has been a Democrat. He has not been an oc- casional Democrat. He does not be- lcng to that class of Democrats who steal out o' nights, sleep in strange political beds, and then come trail- ing home about the time they can smell the breakfast bacon frying. “He is not a fair-weather soldier. He has marched in the procession when there was no band to lead. tle did not enlist for one campaign; he volunteered for life. **His popularity is confined to no section. In his campaign, he has re- mained quietly at his post of duty. He has not afforded the spectacle of a presidential candidate clamorously prarading the country with brass bands and red lights, soliciting votes, **His campaign has been made by the people for him. It has been con- Cucted almost without money and without organization. He counts in his column substantially al] of the delegates of twenty-two sovereign States. His popularity has swept across the sea, and he will be sup- ported here on every bhallot by sub- stantially all of the delegates from the territorial and ingular posses- sior “He carried his own State by an ananimous vote, He carried State touching its borders. e car- ried the States touching the bhorders every with the home States of his distin- cuished opponents. He carried al- most solidly that great domain kuown as the middle west, With two exceptions he swept all States west o1 the Rocky mountains, “I have said he carried these let me rather say, the loyal -y, the Democracy that has faltered, that has with un- wavering allegiance followed the flag, carried them for him. “What are the great issues upon which we must fight the battle of i912? Is it not upon the record made by the Demo-ratic House of Representatives? That record is a story of achievement, of promises re- deemed, and pledges kept; of patient, wise, brave statesmanship. rever “I would not detract a hair's weight from the honors due 1) all Democratic congressmen, I would not pluck 2 single leat from the brow oi the present great majority leader, 1 give to all due meed of praise. Bu. yet |osay the real leader Here is the man who most of all has borne the burdens and responsibili- ties, whose counsel has guided, who pointed the way; whose keen intel- lect, superb courage, and masterly generalship have forged the fores which has been driven like wedge through the body o' the Re- publican party and split it asunder. “The army the Democracy is forming in battle array. The sun cf hope glorifies the horizon of the future, and sheds its splendor upon cur banners. Above us bends the myriad-hued bow of promise, We have been led to the very gates of SUCCeSs ll)‘ a veteran grown gray in the service. let him continue to lead, and the celestial bow will be- come an arch of triumph, beneath which Democracy wil] march in glor ious victory. here is of “And so | nominate this man, who buas fought thousand battles for Democracy and not one against her; who has never lowered his flag nor asked for quarter; who has never de- contradiction in history—a peop.c politically free, while economically bound by the most gigantic monop- olies of all time and burdened by a system of taxation which exploits millions to enrich a few. We have preserved the forms of freedom, but zre fast lesing its substance. Th: evils of this condition are felt in . thousand ways throughout the lanc Therefore it is that America is awake Therefore it is that a mistake in our premises will be fatal. Therefore it is that the situation, nationa] exig- ency, the crisis, call for the right man. Therefore it is that a <ilen: and resistless revolution demands ou patriotic and best judgment Tudi- viduals are as nothing, and persor 2mbitions are worse than nothing, i: the chosen candidute fails in an sense or in any degree fully and «om- pletely to meet the call of the natioun, Le is doomed to defeat. Men are known by what they sa and do. They are known by thos who hate and oppose them. Man rears ago \Woodrow Wilson said, *N man is great who thinks himsely 2nd no man is good who does not 1 to secure the happiness and comfort of others.” This is the zecret of his life. Later, in his memorable effor: to retain good scholarship and de-| mocracy in Princeton university, li declared, “The great voice of Amer- itz does not come from seats of learn- ing. It comes in a murmur from tl hills and woods, and the farms and tactories and the mills, rolling on ond gaining volume until it comes te us from the homes commoi men. Do these murmurs echo in th. corridors of our univer: not heard them.” A clarion call 1o the spirit that now moves Ameri Later he shouted, ‘I peace so long as wrong in the Here s the very soul of the silent revolution now solidifying sentiment and purposc n cur common country, “The deeds of this mor:] and in- tcllectual giant are known to all men, ey accord not with the shams aud false pretenses of politics, but mal. rational harmony with the millions of patriots determined to correct the wrongs of plutocracy and re-estan- lish the maxims of American liberty ii all their regnant beauty and prac- tical effectiveness. New Jersey loves Woodrow Wilson not for the enemies he has made. or sities, will there world.” A0t ery Is 8 New Jersey loves him tor what he is. All evil is his en- cmy. The influences that have op- posed him have demonstrated his availability and fitness on the one hand, and exposed the unavailability and unfitness of some others on the other hand. The influence that has opposed him blights and blasts any cause and any p it That influence has appealed to the sordid, low and criminal. That in- fluence fattens on ignorance and ava- rice. The man that accepts its uid, s0 far as his public usefulnes: is con- cerned, would be more fortunate had a millstone been tied about his neck and he had been cast into the dopthe of the = New Jersey believes that the opposition to Governor Wilson, such as it has been, necessitates and secures his triumph, “Similar motives and causes impel all men alike. Th me recessities, motives and causes which draw, as by omnipotence, substantial Iy all New Jersey about thi rson €Spouses necessities, redt and good man, are identic the same necessities, motives and causes that are in resistless motion in cvery State in the Union. lts so) i cannot be disintegrated. Fals, ar gument falls broken acains \ cessities, motives and causes fore New Jersey an row Wilson is the o can make Doy Cess a certainty, but s toral not only vote of almoes: I ha breast is covered with the scars of | Wo are many a hard campaign: who leadz{even a today and who should continue (‘1] ot not _|icad = the Lion of Democracy, Champ | may succeed rob . i\ lark of Missouri.” { ment What wou | | only | 3| bids serted nor taken a furlough; \\hn!m.- Union does not know how to quit a lrivml| New | or betray a party; whose back the |n.mn1\ by 1 majorit: enemy has reey will cnanis never seen, but whose | thousand of ! to win ton | BIPS FOR CONSTRUC- |rast o TION OF ICE PLANT | ™t 0 carry on )1 having Notice will be received for the a brick ice plant for the La le and Refrigerating Co. in th be in is he ziven v const of of Lakeland Rids must not | a | 1at than Wednesday afternoon i l.lnl.\ , 1912, at 2 o'clock. The N iv reserved to accept Plans and specifications ma+ | | be soen at the office of G. D. & H . Mendenhall, 212 Drane buildin Lakeland, Florida. ¢ D. & H. D. MENDENHALL. or reject ' bined, compel national faith and con- fidence in him. Every crisis evolves its master. Time and circumstance have evolved Woodrow Wilson. The 'zorth, the south, the east and the west unite in him. Deep calls to deep. Height calls to height. “‘From peak to peak, the rattling clouds among, Leaps the live thunder. Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue And Jura answers through her misty shrouds Lack to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud. “The lightning flash of his genius s cleared the atmosphre. We now now where we are. The thunder of sincerity is shaking the very soundations of wrong and corruption, “If Providence could spare a Wash- ington to lay the foundations of the I'nited States of America; if Provi- dence could spare a Jefferson to make (enee could spare a Lincoln to ob- literate chattel slavery and unite the States in impregnable unity and brotherhood, New Jersey :.uppeals to this convention to give the natiou Woodrow Wilson, that he may open the gates of opportunity to every | man, woman and child under our flag. by reforming abuses, and thereby | teaching them, in his matchless | words, “to release their energies in- |n-mgvmly, that peace, justice and prosperity may reign.’ “New Jersey rejoices, through her freely chosen presentatives, to rame for the presidency of the Unit- «d States the Princeton schoolmaster Woodrow Wilson ALL ABOARD FOR FLORIDA. The Lakeland Telegram of tract letter from Hon. W. K Jackson of that city, who was at the of a time in Detroit, Mich,, in attendance | recent meeting of the Nation- | on the lai Retail Dealers' Association: | *“To indicate the feeling for Flor- | fida. with fourteen cities bidding for | the 1913 convention of the Nutional| Jack- ! sonville won with an unanimous vote | Retail Hardware Association, of the committee of nine membe who hailed from Minnesota, York, Connecticut, Texas, M chusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, diana and lowa. “The convention vote as a whole was unanimous and a hearty yell for Florida was given. Everybody wan to go to Florida.” Statements like the foregoing may In- Iy visited other sections of the coun- try. as somewhat overdrawn, due to the very natural pride which a pa- triotic citizen feels in everything favorabls to his own State which he bears when among strangers; but to Judze from our recent experiences in several of the States to the north of uy, we don’t think Mr. Jackson puts |1t at all too strongly when he says “everyhody to Flor- ida” On the railroad trains, in ho- tel in meetings with old friends and new acquaintances, the Floridian prepared 1o meet hundreds of interested inqui- ries about the growth, the resources. the land values, the soil, the climate tiuck farming, frait raisi | the that pos probable settlers or investors would wants to come lobbies, be abroad must and all ible or other matters I vant to know In replying to these otten inqgu s nthus tically endorsed by parties who h had our statements ently visited 1} Democracy a living reality; if Pru\'i-‘ the 25th inst. published the following ex- | New | appear to some who have not recent- | Wherever You Go On Your Vacation ‘ You will want to go clothed ! correctly, See us before vou ‘ start. 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