Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 23, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKLLAND, FLA. JULY 23, 1912. : ] COUNTRY WAS NEVER ON {he Evening Telegram MORE PROSPEROUS BASIS Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Build\ag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- i1snd, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. AL e M. F. HBTHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. PR S B r i B a ] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ....-.o......:$5.00 Six months ... . 2.50 Three months Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newspaper giving & Te- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent suywhere for $1.00 per year. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—Woodrow Wilson. For Vice President—Thomas C. Marshall. Presidential Electors—Jefferson B. Browne, J. W, Henderson, H. ', Fred DeBerry, Charles E. Jones, Chipley Jones, Leland J. Sparkman. State at Comgressman, Large — Claude L'Engle. Congressman, First District—S. M. Sparkman. Congressman, Frank Clark. Congressman, ettt Wilson, Governor—Park Attorney General—Thos. Secretary of State--H, ford. Commissioner of .\ McRae. Treasurer--J. ¢ Comptroller-—\V. Superintendent of tion -W, N, She: tz, State Chemist - R, K. Rose. Adjutant Genersl 1, €, R, POOR MEN FOR OFFICE. Sccond District Third District--Em- rammell, F. « West. Craw- Agriculture -V, Launing. V. Knott. Public Instrue- Foster, Albert Williamson, late candidue for cong s, would have a law passed prohibiting men owning nore than $20,000 worth of real or personal property from becoming candidates for high office. There is nothing in the proposed prohibition that promises to procure for the people better material with which to fill their postions of public trust. The possession of money per so should by no means debar a man frem seehing ty serve his State or country in an oflicial capacity. Rath- er, if honestly earned, and no improp- er political use of it be attempted, it as o recommendation; do not believe in reserving pablic favors for failures, who have detonstrated their incapacity for successtully conducting their own af- tairs. I is true that the man of means, who chiooses to stoop to unscrupulous methods, has a decided advantage over the poorer aspirant. And yet victory is not always to the rich, for woe have instances right in our own State where the candidate endovod with the least of this world’s zoods wis elected by an overwhelming ma- Jority wealthy apponents, who had poured thei freely Our governor-elect is Broward was not the like that other d to whe the man | should serve for we over money inty the campaizy worth 20,000 not clected governor pus- =t anything BUIRH miny instand Copointe T people o this State have set ibove the dollar, e nog pulous or dishonest, tflaws of character that would render tionable On o them objed trust unortunately, st m the positions of pehlic other all poor men are not ion re- made. A= we make the ad refor it vither n's honesty o isefnlness by the amonnt when |t Mr. E. O. Flood, cashier of the State Bank, is in receipt of a letter from Alexander & Co., a prominent Wall street financial concern, which cxpresses a most optimistic view of conditions affecting the country’s prosperity. The letter says in part: “In our previous letters we have called attention many times to the fact “that fundamental conditions were right for a decided improve- ment in business conditions provided both crops and politics resulted fav- orably. “With regard to crops, the esti- mates in the Government monthly crop report was one of the most im- portant events of the week. The net result of these estimates is a proph- ecy foo the time being for a total wheat crop of 629,000,000 bush !s, against last year's harvest of 1, 000,000 bhushels, a corn crop of 2.- $11,600,000 bushels or 100,000,000 bushels more than that gathered in 1911, this being the result of an in- crease of 3,000,000 acres in the area planted to this grain in the present year, and an oats crop also consider- ably in excess of the last harvest, The data on which these various re- ports were compiled were taken on the first of the month, or just pre- vious to the time when a heavy full set in all over the west and the general agricultural situation, perienced such decided improvement, which has since steadily continued, The government also issued the July cotton report on July showing the condition of 80.4 compared with the ten-year average of 80.7 and an acreage of 34,069,000 acres, a de- crease of Tper cent from last year's record crop of 16,500,000 bales, and indicates for lhiu ye. 1,756,000 to 14,250,000 bales, or in other words, the largest crop on rec- ord with the exception of the phe- nomenal 1911 crop. Hence the agri- ultural prospect for last week, al- ready excellent, made stronger and brighter still, and some pretty bad news will be required to impair it “With regard o politics, one of the tactors referred to above, with the long waited for nominations out of the way, the influence of politics is becoming less of a factor in mar- st for the time be- ing, and if the many public and pri- vite expressions of opinion are any guide to the trath, and they prob- ably are, the result at both the re- cent political nominating conven- tions were ved by the varied in- country with satisf urance. The candi- dates named hoth of them men of high « 1eter, and of unques- tioned patriotism, and are sincerely desirous of the prosperity of the country, “Undoubtedly the people in the financial comnunity would have preferred, other things being equal, that Governor Mr. Underwood should! have been chosen at Baltimore; but the proceedings at DBaltimore were Liardly under when it became clear that these other things were not equal, ex- ket values, at 1 terests of the tion and r majority ol proper Liarmon or Wiy of either of the two gentlemen would have produced a break in the Demo- cratic the Roosevelt movement and unsettle matters generally As affairs have turned out they stand in the best possible shape. “The plattorm upon which Wilson running nothing revolutionary, even and said of its general Gov- ernor is contains shocking or may be its speciti novel, whatever £ recommendations Jiff rit notably s from the a few particul pr ive Republican platformitself. In s ! th nuseru- affected with [of the hand, | Guties, Mr. | i . Wi scure and | | | { | the | ties u‘ it s dim s upon w! ult to see just what I the two par g un tarify; but every one | tarift the underlying three-quarters of the Democratic parties is the same. Both part in favor of a reduction of the upo entimen membership and BT tarift “but not so as to hurt Imm» mate industry,” and the indus! any tbove all not so as to hurt rics in the home ction of m m‘nr of Con LEADING SOUTHERN INDUSTRY. |side of the border. If be is dissat- isfled with freight and express But a comparatively few years ago.|charges here he should consider at a time that we can distinctly re-|what he would be getting into before member, we saw the beginning of a|he rushes to enlist in the army that southern industry that, although|is serving the Canadian transporta- still very young, is a lusty giant|tion monopoly.—St. Paul Ploneer whose size is far more than com-|Press. and that the nomination!| ranks, which would reinforce | in} Republican | mensurate with its years, This “infant industry” has grown so fast that those concerned in it and connected with it hold annual conventions to discuss its prospects and promote its interests. The an- nual convention for the present year of the cotton seed oil mill superin- tendents was held during the past week in Atlanta. The attendance was the largest ever seen at any gathiering of the organization, its members came from more different fields of trade and represented great- er capital than ever before. To give a slight idea of the mag- nitude of this industry and the wide range of its activities, it is only nec- essary to mention the subjects of dis- cussion included in the program of the meeting for single day. They were applied chemistry, mechanical engineering, the employment of la-|! bor, methods of marketing and sev- eral other subjects that arose inci- dentally out of the regular discus- siong, covering many questions of economics and applied sclence, And yet this great young industr: has to do only with what are know! as the by-products of a single agri- cultural crop of the fields of the south. And it has been but a few years since the cottoa seed, the basis ot this entire by-product, was al- most literally thrown away. But the growth in importance of the different manufactures from cot- ton seed has been so tremendous that the value of these products at the present time well-nigh rivals that of the cotton from which they are de- rived. The uses to which the pro- ducts of the cotton secd have been shown to be adapted prove that from this wonderful plant that con- stitutes o large a puart of the wealth of the southern States, may be ob- tained not only our clothing, many, and important, ingredients of our food. And they contribute their aid to the solution of the grossing problem reducing cost of living, CANADIAN SETTLERS BEING HELD UP The Northwest Development League and other organizations that are busy trying to gzet settlers onto the vacant lands in our own coun- try and to stem the tide that is flow- ing to Canada could do no better than to circulate among prospective settlers a statement showing railway rate conditions in the Canadian northwest, The farmer and mer- chant in the small town on this side of the line almost invariably is of the opinion that he is contribut- ing too much for freight. Ile getting dirt cheap bargains com- pared with the prices charged Canadian neighbors. In extent to which the Canadian northwest up is shortsighted from { standpoint the railways, tariff. sheets seem to have pared on the that the r 1y and express companics shonld leave the farmer and merchant erough to encourage trying. The Manitoba Fre nipeg is his the settlers in the are being held even th I'h pre ai fact of been theory only him to Keep on Press of Win- rmined or publishing momaking a det fight to secure better shippers. 1t has tables showing the hus treatment been way in which the the held shippers on t people of Canad are being Eastern rates n e Hock of | The ro to exacting handle that ext u.o ade is offere lack of cars is well An interes problem was « »tacked on a ors wl are doing | 1 of the ) must be YRy R other | but all-en- | the | ¢ i Apply . ELLERBE "| shoe and harness shop, POOR MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE. \When the president of Yale said that the public life of this country needs a large body of young men of independent means he was influ- enced, it is feared, by the interests of his own hundreds of young men of independent means. Theoretically, the young men of independent means is the young man who can best afford to devote him- self to the public service. But, in practical fact, that is just the kind of a young man which the public can least afford to have in charge of its affairs. The young man without means but with the right stuff in him sees lit- tie satisfaction for himself in the public service, even in the way of a > living; manufacture, commerce, lance and the professions offer him [1ar more glittering attracitons, And yet, this young man, fresh | f'rom toil, with the inspiration that comes of empty hands, and with sym- pathies undefiled, is the one who through all history has held the pilot wheel of the ship of progress with the steadiest hand and stoutest heart., The man of independent means, he lie young or old, is ordinarily out of sympathy with the real emotions and the environments of the masses. He views the common lot only as one looks into a house through a window. Ile knows the common life only as cne who dwells in the hills and Lknows the life of the valleys, The great movements of human progress have seldom originated with men of independent means, They bave sprung from the heart of the common people. The great leaders of men have come up from the soil What we need in public life, and - private life, too, is not the man { rich enough to resist temptation,” Lut the man honest enough to despise an too true in his sympathies | n + public good and too [uick in his intelligence to be migled, Pensacola Journal. Hotel 0range North Kentucky Ave. and Oak St T. I McINTOSH, PROPRIETOR. Modern improvements, hot and cold bath and running water in every room. $2 per day. Specia] rates by week. W. Flske Johnson REAL ESTATE Loars Negotiated Buys and Sells Real Estate. ¢ Grove Property a Specialty. Orang SURE DEATH TO BED- IBIJ(iS AND INSECTS nts wanted anywhere and ev- ht's rest. 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