Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 17, 1913, Page 4

1 i 3 A E i e R e “Toe Evening Telegram Published ever); 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. ONO YOAT o ¢ s ¢ vvibisiaisisiseissieinis $5.00 8ix months ............. oo 2,50 Three months .........e00e 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits o. the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a weel. —Fx:;'x] the some office 1s issued = THE LAKELAND NEWS, .. A weekly newspaper giving a resume +tof local matters crop conditions, . county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. O ——————————————————————— The buzzards, also, are having fine picking in Mexico these days. —o Quite a spurt in the lynching in dustry as shown by our dispatches yesterday. It was doubtless done to help out the annual total to be fig- ured up at the conclusion of the year! and published as evidence of our growing civilization. R S, T, R et —— We note with much satlstactlon'iot ancient Ameritan" history ¥hown |Leader w.i that Senator Tillman of South Caro- as the Civil war; and here in Lake-|good paying lina is going to throw the whole land where there are so many fine|to live easy, but we ‘.w whisky ads at any price even weight of his influence in an elfort}people from all sections of the coun- to prevent the electlon of Cole Blease try and old soldiers galore from both | hav to the United States Senate from that | North and South living on terms of State to succeed Senator Smith. Ifiperfect amity, it would be impres- Tillman had good health and could|sively appropriate to see such a fea- fight with his old stroke he would be‘ ture of the parade as General Cox pretty sure to succeed in his patriotic suggests. leflort to do his State a great service. It “fatigues indignation,” as Bobl .Toombs used to say, to thirk of, Blease as a United States senator. . | ———————— We recently called attention to the words of Judge J. Emmet Wolfe ad- o dressed to a jury in a Dade county! court which brought in a verdict in Think of Massachusetts, boastful ! ! |a murder case after less than one |of her progressiveness and fret’.domimm“te of deliberation. The judge ' | ' from any and all sorts of prejudic%,!stemly rebuked the jurors for tak- l\'oting down a constitutional amend- ing their solemn duty so lightly, and| ment to make women eligible to 8D-|yy o 1atter g of so much importance' pointment as notaries public! That'sl as a salutary public example that we| what that State did the other day. | give the exact words of Judge Wolfe, It is enough to make Massachusetts|, telling the jury what he thought| suffragettes go out on a window- . {ts conduct: breaking raid, and also enough to make Massachusetts critics and re- formers of other people’s morals hold their tongues or employ them ex- yclusively about shortcomings at { home’ ' “Gentlemen of the jury: I am go-| ing to discharge you from further| attendance at this term of court, be- . cause in returning into court in less| 'than a minute from the time you re-| lceived the charge of the court, you showed that you did not give the case that ronsideration which honest minded men should give, when they are in the jury room, in important matters. I cannot in any way, gen- tlemen, change the result of your verdict. That is ended, but you o It would consume all the opales- cent and other gilt-edged adjectives {in the dictionary to adequately de- scribe the deep and satisfying charm of these incomparable winter days in South Florida and then but half jus- TuE EVENING TBLEGRAM, LakELAND, FLX.. DBC. 17, 1is. LABOR NEWS AND NOTES ..| ide th these advertisements at! d thus help us - et i1l not cm-ryl} Colorado is facing 2 State-w it we |strike in all trades. e e to go elsewhere to make a liv- f The czarin i ing.’ £ Russian laborers. | PRS- Bt Us 1 A campaign of Detty falsehood | dren O to against Senator Fletcher seems ‘ i have been already inaugurated. It| Municipal ownership is 8al g was recently stated without qualifi-| papidly in the State of \vl:x:icccn:]sliir;j ; cation that at the late waterways|ipirteen privately ownedkpu b ¢ convention attended by Senator | jty plans having b.een taken 0t fh 4 Fletcher and Governor Cole Biease | yunicipalities during the pas of South Carolina the former T€"|years, 14 ferred to Blease with apparent sait- e i : ! s his “future colleague” in| jf the Lo : :;f:Lst::‘I;t: The idea was to Preju-|carry out their threats to strike, ove:‘ b dice the senator in the eyes of the, 59,000,000 in at least eight di.fl('el"fan . people of Florida by making it ap- ountries will be aff.ected in receiving 4 pear that he was pleased at the Pros- thejr Christmas mail. i pect of the election of the South Car- | Loy i ndon postoffice employes olina freak to the United States| ¢ is officially stated that durlng’i Senate. It now appears that the‘the past year less than $4,000 haveig statement was a pure fabrication and | poen paid out in strike benefits by f§: Senator Fletcher has denounced it|tne International Typographic.al;g as such, as have others Who Were pyion, while $250,000 has been dlS-“:: present at the convention. The sen- ! .ipuced in old age pensions. i:f' ator did not in any way refer to the I I "%: candidacy of Blease or speak of him| . chington reports that a bill will as his prospective colleague. ANy | on ve introduced in Congress pro-, man pleased with the prospect of |\ iqing for the establishment of a na- : Blease as a senatorial colleazue| ana1 government employment bu- | would be himself a freak in bad ..., The proposed measure will be & taste. based upon the system now in use abroad, notaply in Germany and Eng- a land. i Biriaidaided 7y VNS Colorado, Illinois, Kansas. Arizona. . regulating by F. D. Jacop, Al igusranteed. Reference, ), « Fletcher. Orders left at jp, '] a of Russia contemplates emg or Mrs. L. M. Futey, By starting a trade school for the chil- ceive prompt attention, Rey. atiisson, of Migm), haxlng|me would be done to the subject. (t]:eiz‘ :;::;l t(ll]‘etMe;h‘)d:,St I:lmlstry ?nfily.fl.nd the glory of it all is that no 4 omisy GERren At 04 19 trast, corporation or other combina- EYO0D801ty speak g nyiedted IDEDEs tion in restraint of trade can limit, lic curiousity to know the reason abridge, corner, corral or bottle up have demonstrated that you are men who are not, for some reason, willing to carefully weigh the testimony and the court’s charges when you go into the jury room, and almost before you Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. New York, Ohio and Wisconsin have es- tablished the eight-hour day for child laborers by law. R The Ilorseshoers’ Union of Min-i neapolis has succeeded in obtaining | ap increase of 50 cents per day andf the nine-hour day. Added to this the why. The enterprising Miami pa pers should interview Dr. Atkisson right away on the subject. _—O— Carranza would better keep one our blessed climate and it is here free and without price for plutocrat and pauper alike and no ingenuity of man can make it otherwise. Not each of us may own a slice of this get in you turn around and come out with a verdict of not guilty.” o0—— ¢ Jeff L. Davis, the veteran news-, paperman who has friends all over, eye cocked on his victorious General!rich citrus soil, but we are all joint) Florida and who has recently as-, Villa these days while he is looking heirs to the climate and there can!|gumed editorial charge of the Ma-| after Huerta with the other one. If never be a division of the estate.|rianna Leader, writes to a friend on: Villa wins out and overthrows the give much for Carranza's chance to suc- Huerta regime we wouldn't ceed to the presidency. It will be ‘“viva Villa!" all over Mexico and there will be no halo left for his nominal chief. B R The worthless check avtist and the sturdy safeblower are tourists of the undesirable class who are manifest- ing & growing fondness for Florida Their during the winter months, idea is to “‘make expenses” while en- Joying the benefits of our incompara- ble climate, and our sheriffs and marshals should be especially vigi- lant at this season in giving them welcome to the hospitality of our far- famed Florida jails and chaingangs. | S ——— 5 Thus does the democracy of natureithe Telegram that he is getting laugh to scorn the plutocracy of man along mighty well with his latest| and put John D. and Andrew C. in venture in Florida journalism. Jeff | the same class with the rest of us.!is certainly making an excellent pa- 0 Iper of the Leader, and is doing the That was an excellent suggestion, K good work he "is always capabie of made by General (ox in yesterday's;whep he gets down to business. We ‘Telegram to the effect that one of are heartily glad that he is succeed- ' the features of the parade on Jan, 1|ing and particularly pleased to finfl| ,when Lakeland celebrates her thir-{in the last issue of the Leader the tieth anniversary, should be Confed-|following elegant and suggestive erate and Union veterans marching|paragraph. Bully for you, Jeff! together in the fraternity that seems “The Leader received a letter a .80 peculiarly becoming fifty years af- few days ago from a whisky house ster the war in which they opposed wanting to know if we would accept each other. A year which witnessed a whisky advertisement. The propo- the marvelous reunion at Gettysburg sition of this paper on this question and a Grand Army encampment in #'is: Jackson county has been voted . Southern city, ought to see the last dry, and being in dry territory we do of the moss-covered, mildewed hatesfnot feel inclined to publish whisky and prejudices of that stirring bit advertisements. We could fill up the union labels of the organization are, to be generally used. the ratepayers of Kingston, Ont.,'% will vote in favor of control of the public utilities by commission today, hen the question is submitted to, them. Then at the January elec-' tions four commissions will be elect- ed to act with the mayor. oo foogedrde ool | | It is a foregone conclusion thatl | regsgredregredegedde e 3 ————————————————————————————————————— 10 CLASSIY CHOOSING A WP o PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER — Room ' is an easy matter here.. We have| 5 miliston building. Your work every style for every use and at| (icited. 1682 about any price. Our whips are only||jousk FOR RENT-—Call 346 Black a sample of our harness and horse A. J. Black. 1683 goods, Youll find the latter just as good as the whips and equally por RENT—5-room / bungalow; & low in price. large rooms, with lath and all 3 modern conveniences. J. R. Boul- o M C fi l AS I'I AN ware. 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