Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 12, 1913, Page 4

?ublished every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ON6 YORE 7. s il i vileis e $5.00 Biximontha 1 uioniay 2.50 Three months .............. 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, ecounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. Fred De Berry has been appointed deputy. internal revenue collector. | He was originally an applicant for the job of fourth assistant postmaster |. general. —_—O— The order of the State tax com- mission to tax assessors to assess all property for taxation at its full cash value seems like a startling innova- tion and if it were enforced there would be a mighty kick from every taxpayer in the State—but a great gulf yawns between that order and its enforcement. Tax assessors are but human and will continue to be. 0— They propose to hand Mr. Roose- velt a lemon when he gets to Colom- bia in his lecture tour through South America in recognition of their ap- preciation of the way he stole Pan- ama from them while he was presi- dent of ghe United States. And it is rather probable that if he undertakes to speak in the capital of Columbia that some of those lemons will take the shape of overripe eggs. Fo IR jovernor Trammell is not afraid to remove an office-holder who doesn’t do his duty. He recently decapitated a sheriff in West Florida for neglect of his work, and he has now removed a justice of the peace in Lee county for drunkenness. One of the most demoralizing factors in the social structure is an office-holder who ‘“falls down” on his job and there ought always to be some way to promptly get rid of him after his un- fitness is clearly established. 31w 2305 0 Tne Evening }elégram, mmm““‘%cx ISSUE led the meat. good a paper as the Pensacola Jour- nal strongly endorse a recent para- graph in the Telegram to the effect that the eradication of the cattle tick in Florida was many times more im- portant to the people of this State than the much discussed Bryan prl-l ‘We are heartily glad to have tol mtary law. Quoting our paragraph the Journal adds: ‘ ‘Insectivorous’ looks like a good word. While the discussion of the primary law or of any other law af- fecting the political liberties of the people s a good thing, {t must be ad- mitted that the material develop- ment of the State receives entirely too little attention at the hands of many of the newspapers. [n this time of high prices and dacreasing supply of beef, Florida should profit by helping to supply the demand. In- stead of doing that we are shipping ‘lout calves and cows by the train load and then buying them back again after the packing companies have killed the stock and refrigerat- The cattle tick has cost the cattle industry of Florida millions of dollars and our present policy of shipping away our calves and breeding cattle is going to cost millions more. We are sending hun- 'dreds of thousands of dollars annual- ly out of the State for hay, when Florida should be the greatest hay- producing State in the Union. When Florida people learn to produce the things they consume and to keep their money at home instead of pay- ing an immense annual tribute to the producers of northern and of western States, we 'will then prosper as no other people in the world. This is a proposition that is equally as im- portant as any political question which may arise and it should have at least equal consideration by the people of the State.” | e e The Tampa Tribune knows a man' in South Florida who could be elect- ed to the United States Senate “in a walk” if he had the campaignfund. The presence of such a capable per- sonality in cur midst arouses an ar- dent curiosity to know who he is. 0 Doubtless on the theraupeutic principle of counter-irritation the Mexican press is now featuring the news it professes to have received of ; a tremendous revolution in the Unit- ed States in which all the negro sol- diers in our army have risen in mut- iny, massacred their officers, captured and sacked the city of Denver and' Jfik@W WQ&W&WW? S B PO HORBNON R BRI R OB QL BB CRR B O osmxmw«m BROHBCR QBRI § 00 Shoes at 2.25 Remember, this is right in the door of Christmas and the beginning of winter. clothe and shoe tue boy. Come earlv before they are all picked over. AILEY CLOTHING CO presented verdicts of guilty. | Times is glad to greet the change. | i it EGR 3*'\ al pre playing the dickens generally with the ultimate possession of, the government at Washington as their objective. This is out-Hearsting Hearst in yellow journglism and i8 geveral laps ahead™of Baron Mun- chausen in his most startling stunts. Those Mexican journalists seem to be still in the cradle stage of their de- velopment into newspaper men. Editor Mayes, of the Pensacola Journal, was the most conspicuous and effective Wilson man in Florida prior to the latter’s nomination at! ! Baltimore, and, although in the pub- lic mind he was booked for the best that Mr. Wilson could give him in the way of office, nothing has come to him yet and there seems no prospect of anything. Some Democrats have cooled on the president for treatment like that, but Frank Mayes is not that kind. He is a Democrat, not for revenue, not for office, but be- cause he believes in the principles of the party. Likewise, he is a Wilson man and has been from the start be- [ cause he believes Mr. Wilson the best man for president regardless of his recognition of Mr. Mayes as a personal beneficiary of his adminis- tration. The editor of the Pensa- cola Journal seems to think more highly of the president now than ever and concludes a recent article on the subject as follows: “If the Democrats in Congress will only uphold the hands of President Wilson, the Journal believées he will go down in history as one of the greatest men who ever occupied the position, and will leave behind him higher ideals and a more faithful conception of duty as a heritage to his country when he retires to pri- vate life.” —_————— Hil'shorough county has at last se-| cured a jury that has the nerve to convict a defendant of a capital crime; in fact, it has had two such ! juries recently, and the Times hands' them this deserved praise: “In both cases, the juries being ¥ (satisfied beyond reasonable. doubt of the nature of their duties, promptly The We are not blood thirsty; but we be-' lieve in the prépriety and efficacy of capital punishment for rape and mur- ' der when the guilt of the parties ac- ) cused is proven to the extent re- | quired by the law. In both of the' cases referred to this degree of proof was attained, and it was the duty' of the juries to convict. They fear- lessly met the issue like good cm-1 zens and discharged the duty, dis- 300 Suits Boys Clothm At Sacrifice Prices TN We are crowded for'room and must move them, nothing reserved. Every suit goes in this sale. Blue and Fancy Serges and \W‘ steds, Cassimeres and Cheviots, in all the seasons latest designs and styles. Russian, Sailor and Sailor Blou:e Norfolks, single and double breasted $3.50 and $ 4.00 Suits Reduced to $2.75 500 and 6.00 Su'ts Reduced to 3.75 12.50 and Suits Reduced to 7.50 - Boys’ Shoes Must Go, Too - There are no better made than we carry in our stock of goods. Every pair guaranteed to give satisfaction, or we wm make & $1.75 shoes at $1.25 $2 shoes at $1.50 3.50 shoes at 2.75 Styles, button and lace kinds. Gun Metal, Russian Tan, : <) Visit = The New Jewelry Store Next door to Postoffice | Select your Christmas present while the stock is complete. We have them to fit all tastes and every purse. Yours to please, Conner, 0’Steen & King RS T TR 5 T3 T T S A —— " . GET YOUR CHRIDTIA agreeable as it was. If we had had more such juries in past years wejl | i | would have had fewer offenses such g as those for which these juries have s had to administer the penalties, and g the record of our county for crimes & of violence would not have been such & as to cal] for lame apologies and at- tempts at explanations that did not explain.” -Wfi C‘ BOHCH IO ICH N A:« B pefoefeefoce ICNERCHEO SHORBCRBCIEACHE OB OB OR S-OR B kB O nii BOXES ORANGES, ; i1 GRAPEFRUIT, AND & 5 TANGERINES Z h Off now and avoid tile rush \Y,'E pack the best and most attraciies boxes---can mix them for you MAYES CLIRUS FRUIT (. Lakeland, - urp MM&WWW BBDubiddudir biduidrifdringuiinfuiniiul WW ).. A ——he , (L I i . nosf ‘Yo, ot J' ! HIS LIFEOR ! MY KOK( lwmi“ oy Scene from the *“Red Dagger.” by Starnes’ Stock Co. All Next* Week. PREPORBCREOB0 0 WWW@G‘ &all a o ‘hh ns' in’g e o h [‘“.] he s Lcl audy con ;mp rche 750 and 8.00 Suits Reduced to 5= 9.00 and 10.00 Suits Reduced to 6‘M3 = A - $2.50 shoes at $2.00 4.00 shoes at 3._ Patent Leather and Vici Take advantage of ¥ this Money Saving opnortuml"1 =a = mww‘wmmmw : oyt R S A . 8 Y il 3