Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 3, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Evening Telegrami wv= rosrtomws omes pGGRETON THE oo Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- iznd, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. e R e A. J. HOLWORTHY Susiness and Circulation Manager. R SR R e S B SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ODe JEAr ....cccvoro00+$6.00 RiX months ............ 2.50 Three monthf ...-..... 1.36 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, Prom the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newspaper giving & Te- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent snywhere for $1.00 per year. — ————————————————————————————————————— DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—Woodrow Wilson. The gendency of population toward the cities continues, despite the coun- try life propaganda that finds its testimonials in picture sections of A balle- tin of the census of 1910 shows that the papers and magazines. R LA NG RS ITELEGRAM, LAKLLAND, FLA, AUG. 3, 1912, reate a situation by whicl the colored men of the south will ul- ! ‘ NEEH“ lN Pm-mcs { timateily get justice as it is not pos- | sible for them to get justice if we are to continue and perpetuate the (Continued from Page 1.) | present conditions. The men to U'nion where there is a considerable | whom we appeal are the men who coloved population we are able in|have stood for securing the colored very fact and at the present moment, | man in his rights before the law, and {t6 bring the best colored men into|they can do for him what neither | the population of some of the East-|(he movement on the same terms as the northern white man nor the ern States is in the cities to a start- | the white man. ling extent. For instance, Rhode Is- land has 521,000 persons in cities, and only 18,000 in the country. The country, by the way, means not only the open country, but also includes towns and viilages of less than 2,500 inhabitarts. In the whole United States several million persons live in such communities, and are in truth more urban than rural. Massachusettes has 3,125,000 per- sons in cities and towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants, and only 241,000 in the country and the villages. Even in Illinois, in the heart of the agricultural region, the urban pop- ulation has outrun the rural; and the same is true of Ohio. Vermont is the only New England In Rhode Island and | colored men themselves can do. Our Maryland, in New York and Indiana, . wise course from the stand- in Ohio and Illinois, in New Jersey | point of the colored man himself is and Pennsylvania, to speak only of | to follow the course that we are fol- States of which 1 have personal|lowing toward him in the north and knowledge, this is now being done,|to follow the course we are follow- and from some or all of these States|ing toward him in the south.” . colored delegates will be sent to the National Progressive convention in HAND WORK BAD ENOUGH. Chicago. “In the Republican nationa] con-| A boy was asked by his mother to ventions the colored members have|go to the country with her, but the heen almost exclusively from the|boy refused, says the Philadelphia south, and the great majority of | Record. { them have been men of such char- All the coaxing and pleading was acter that their political activities|of no avail. were merely a source of harm, and When his father came home that of very grave harm, to their own |cvening he was told by his wife that race. We, on the contrary, are hop- | Johnny (the boy( refused to go to ing to see in the National Progressive | the country. convention colored delegates from “Did you ask him why he didn't the very places where we expect te|want to go?” said the father. develop our greatest strength, and “No," said the mother, “I didn't we hope to see these men of such|think of that. I will go up to John- Tire Troubles Ended Have Your Tires Filled With RUBBERINE Rubberine guarantees you against punctures, blow-outs rim cuts and leaky valves. The method of fillingis mechanically correct. The inne tube is filled while on the rim. ‘It is injected into the tires through the valve stem, at a temperature that does not impair the inner tube, and when once cool is a substance in feel, con. For Vice President—Thomas C.|State where rural-population , thus Marshall. reckoned, exceeds urfan. The South Presidential Electors—Jefferson B, |#nd Southwest contain the greatest proportions of rural inhabitants, Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. |, .0 }oo three times as many rural Jones, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J.|,5 yrban, Georgia almost four times character that their activities shall | oy and ask bim, be of benefit not only .to the people race. “For forty-five years the Repub- Then the mother went up to John- at large but especially to their own |ny and said: *Johnny, why don't you want to go to the country?” “Well,” answered Johnny, ‘‘they sistency and elasticity not wunlike a good class of rubber, by: light—s0 light that the little added weight is not noticeable and so resilient that one cannot tell when riding in a co whether its tires are filled with rubberine or air. It is thought by many that the rebound is mot as great as when using air-filled tires, consequently there is less strain Henderson, H. C, Sparkman. Congressman, State at Large— Claude L’Engle. Congressman, First District—S. M. Sparkman. Congressman, Second District — Frank Clark. Congressman, Third Distri-t—Em- mett Wilson, Governor—Park Trammell, Attorney General—Thos. F. West. Secretary of State—H. C. Craw- ford. y Commissioner of Agriculture—\W. .A McRae, i Treasurer—-J. €. Luning. Comptroller—W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc- | tion—W. N. Shet s, State Chemist—R. k. Rose. i Adjutant General—J. C. R, Foster. | THE LAKELAND-BARTOW ROAD. Just suppose the entire road be- tween Lakeland and Bartow was of the same splendid character as the two or three miles leading out of this city-——what an asset it would be to the two communities, to the people living in the territory contiguous to the road, and to the county whole! This is a piece of road which we | as A as many, and Arkansas more than six times as many. We are coming to realize that the conditions of this problem have been precisely reversed in the last gener- ation. The country used to be the place for the man without capital; Uncle Sam, as the old song goes, was rich enough to give us all a farm. Today, we begin to hear the com- plaint that the countryman must be either a capitalist or a hired man, It is the city, we are told, that affords the opportunities for energy, enter- prise, talent, to gain recognition and reward, even though they have no immediate backing of capital. The city makes the capitalist, and then the capitalists go out to the country for week-ends and vacations and the fun of spending their money. There is something in these ideas no doubt, and the reports show that they are having their effect upon the movement of our pop- vlation. Yet there is another side to the picture. The greater the rush to the cities, the fiercer becomes the competition for every opening in bus- As the producers of food in numbers and the consum- ors multiply, the cost of living is for- ced upward and the conditions of the struggle become more and more difli- cult, The rewards of success are still there, but the penalties of failure grow more and more terrible, census iness, dwindle believe ought to receive attention first. It conneets the two principal communities of the county, and there would be more travel over it if it were in good shape, than any other portion of road of the same extent ia the county. It would do more than anything else to bring about lctween the people of Bartow and Lakeland that neighborly and friend- Iy spirit which comes of constant in- termingling, and which can be en- couraged and fostered by a good con- neeting road better than by any other agency. By all means, let Polk's most pop- ulous city be connected by a first- class road with Polk's lovely capital. We do not think it in good taste eor that it is good policy for the newspapers of Jacksonville to liken Tampa to Sodom or Gomorra, or for the Tampa papers to throw a similar brickbat at Jacksonville. Nor is it just the thing, as we view it, for the newspapers of the State to throw out the impression that these two cities are country, As a matter of fact, both cities have much to be desired in the way of moral perfection, but this is true of all cities of similar class the world Tampa and Jackson- ville are both splendid, progressive cities, with =a citizenship equal to any to be found in the country. If there are any cities in this country with a population of 50,000 or 60,- 000, where there is not considerable crime and law-breaking, we do not know of them. over. We fear that in this age of prog- ress that we are approaching a revo- lution in mewspaper reporting. For iustance, the Boston Herald, in re- porting a wedding, says: *“Miss Lor- irg, the bride, presented an impos- ing if not a handsome appearance.’ So far as we know this is the first bride on record who, in the newspa- pers, was not beautiful, lovely or handsome. Are we going to have such a journalistic revolution in America that the newspapers are go- ing to tell the truth about the looks o7 a bride? Surely reform is mov- irg forward in seven league boots.— Montgomery Advertiser. Let the farm lad who drecams of the “opportunities™ of the city think twice yes, thrice—before he yields to the lure of the crowded market place. Will money—even if he can succeed in grasping it--repay him for leaving the healthier and more independent life of the country, with its freedom from fear of the squalid poverty so hideously in evidence in our scething slums.— Munsey's Mag- azine. FLORIDA AS A SUMMER RESORT. South with the birds in the fall; North with the birds in the spring, was the old order among those who could afford to have two homes dur- ing the year. It has been positively unfashionable for any one in the South to spend a summer vacation in kis own section, and it has been con- sldered positively ridiculous tor a northerner or westerner to come to the south during the summer. He will frizzle and fry under the 'hlisl(\rhm sun in the North, he will the most wicked in the |be carted to the hospita] with sun- stroke-—and all the while will pooh- pooh the idea of going South for the summer. It is all a habit and a fashion, based on a very plausible argument, to effect that if Florida is a winter resort, it cannot therefore be a sum- mer resort. This delusion prevails «ven in the interior States of the South itself. It's a foolish delusion, a senseless habit, a fashion without rcasonable foundation, and in the very near future, when the people of these United States discover what a delectible climate Florida has the year round this State will become not ‘m)!y the winter resort of the entire {country, but the summer refuge of {the south, and of a large portion of the north and west On the face of it, it does scem non- sensical to go to the same place for L relief from winter cold and summer heat. There is nothing foolish, how- I €ver, In & a re ple nt place for the sum- mer. and that is what at least two- | thirds of the people of America would !do if they came to Florida—any where in Florida.—Pensacola Jour- nal. from where you are to lican party has striven to build up | kave thrashing machines out there, in the gouthern States in question a |and it's bad enough here when yol party based on the theory that the|do it by hand.” pyramid will, unsupported, stand permanently on its apex instead of on its base. For forty-five years the Republican party has endeavored in NOTICE, that I, the undersigned those States to build up a party in|master in chancery, wil] sell at pub- which the negro should be dominant, |lic outcry to the highest and best a party consisting almost exclusively | bidder for cash on Monday, the 5th of negroes. Those who took the lead | day of August, A, D. 1912, the same in this experiment were actuated by | being a legal sales day, within the high motives, and no one should now | legal hours of sale, the following de- blame them because of what, with|scribed property, to-wit: One 12- the knowledge they then had and un- | korsepower Simple Traction Engine der the then existing circumstances, | 14,961 and one Short Cab at the plant they strove to do. Bat in actual|of the Lakeland Lumber Company, at practice the result has been lament-|or near Kathleen, Florida, the sam» able from every standpoint. It has|being the sale advertised for the first been productive of evil to the colored |day of July, A. D. 1912, which sale rcan themselves; it has been produc- | was postponed until the above date. tive only of evil to the white man of . J. MORROW, the south; and it the Master in Chancery. gravest injury to, and finally the dis- ruption and destruction of, the great Republican party itself, “There has in the past heen much venality in Republican national con- ventions in which there was an ac- MASTER'S SALE. hus worked The One Thing That Matters, When you come down to the very bedrock of affairs nuothing matters to a nation exc the health and { number of itc b tive contest for the nomination for president tor the most part among the negro delegates from these southern States, Finally, in the convention at Chicago last June, the breakup of the Republican party was forced by those rotten borough dele- gates from the south. In the pri- mary States of the north the colored men in most places voted substan- tially as their white neighbors voted. But in the southern States, where there was no real Republican party, and where colored men, or white se- ? ; s lected purely by colored men, were sent to the convention, representing | Of all the attentions you can show nothing but their woney or oflice, the majority was overwhelmingly anti - progressive Seven-eights of the colored men from ihiese rotten borough districts upheld by their votes the fraudulent actions of the men who in that convention defied and betrayed the will of the mass of the plain people of the party “It would be not merely foolish, but criminal to disregard the teach- ings of such a lesson. The disruption and destruction of the Republican party, and the fact that it has been rendered absolutely impotent as instrument for anything but chief in the country at large, has Leen brought about in large part by the effort to pretend that in the southern States a sham is a tact, by the insistence upon shost party ag a rea] party, by refusing to fa the truth, which is that under oy { isting conditions there is not and | i cannot be in the southern States a R0 A0S & Son: Wiy att party based primarily upon the negro | vote and under negro leadership or iN i Atl t (;a dl the leadership of white men who de- : orr s’ a“ a, n es rive their power solely from negroes With these forty-five years of failure of this policy in the south before our eves and with catastrophe thereby caused to a great national party not vet six weeks distant from us, would be criminal for the Prog sives to repeat the course of action responsible for such disaster, such timately get justice as it is not pos- own greed for or the presents you can buy nothing is more appreciated than a box of nice candy now and then. Our Candies TasteGood and Are in Good Taste This is about all the argument ceeded for the young fellow, but re- member this.. After she is yours such things are appreciated even more than before. She knows that you think more of her, of course, but | still she likes to be told and she likes to be shown even better. Naturally | she can’t tell you this but try her just | ence with a box of our candy and see an mis- treating 1t in the southern States | | Quick Delivery Red - Cross - Pharmacy n “It would be much worse than use- less to try to build up the Pro sive party in these southern = where there is no real R a party, by appealing to the negroes cr to the men who in the t ing and manipulating “1 earnestly bel ing to the best sonth the men of j PHONE 89 | e o ] as well as of stren and by frankly puttir the move- ment in their hands from the outset on the springs, the car rides easier and life is added to the car in general, making automobiling a pleasure as it means the end of tire trouble. It eliminates uneasiness, blowouts, loss of temper, broken engagements, pumping, heavy repair bills, 75 per cent auto trou. ble, relieves your wheel of any attention until your casing is worn out Will increas: life in your casing 100 per cent. 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