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By the State NEWS AND VIEWS Press All Work Together. newspaper men to the substantial eximprovements are sometimes slow cellence and progressive spirit of our veloping. Sometimes there are solid, growing little city of Live Oak. ss-backs who stand in the way of Editor McCreary of the Gainesville progress. Sometimes people Sun is the last to come forward with old-fashioned ideas which will his tribute and it is characteristic of permit of advancement, and the the man-frank, clear, honest, comis that the good roads moveprehensive and right to the point, is no exception to the rule, and with no frills on it, refreshing, sentimes a community suffers for sible, and without a trace of flattery because of the want of enterin it. Mr. McCreary doesn't find our of its original citizenship.-We city "pretty" because some of the that Duval county will not have buildings on the business streets are an experience. We are confinot in line with the others, but as a that every citizen, from the least matter of fact that can be said of the greatest, the richest to the very few of them, uniformity being will all work hand in hand the rule in nearly all of the commerside by side to develop the good cial district. But barring this minor in this county. The good roads objection, the Sun editor finds us all vement is a development. One right and does us justice.-Live Oak of good roads means two more. Daily Democrat. miles of good. roads means four more, and so on. The only The Miami Way. necessary is to get the comThe people of Miami have shown sentiment of the entire comthemselves fully equal to a grave pubin favor of the movement. lic emergency and deserve very high accomplished, all the rest folpraise for not doing what so many as surely as the day follows other people, less intelligent and wellht.-Jacksonville Metropolis. balanced, have done under like circumstances and wrought widespread Have Their Share. injury to the community in conseFive mills is a pretty heavy road quence. The other day a prominent especialiy to those in the north Miami bank suspended and was deof the county, who, up to the clared insolvent. Prompt notice was time, have derived very little given that the other local banks were from the sums they have connot materialy affected by the failure, to the various funds of the but doubtless if the panic spirit had in public improvements, and it prevailed and the example of a few nothing but natural they should timid and nervous souls had been folto such a levy. lowed, a general run on the other The Metropolis believes in good banks might have been precipitate and while it wants to see as and they might have been found improvements as possible in without enough cash to meet the unend of the county, it also wants expected demand of every depositor. see the same thing in the north This would have been a terrible blow because the people of that part to Miami, not in the least degree entitled to it. Had they received chargable to the banks, but to a in the matter of public impanic-stricken herd of depositors who vements and expenditures the had lost their good judgment and division movement would very were insisting. upon an unreasonable have not been created. demand. But the people of Miami the five mills levy prevails, they were not that kind. They rållied be given assurances, and then around the two, banks whose solvency that their full quota of the aswas unquestioned, no rün was made, will be spent in their imand, to show their entire confidence, vicinities. Otherwise harthey even increased their deposits. In cannot prevail, and other trouthis way they saved their, banks and complications-may arise. their city from a great disaster, and Metropolis. that, too, without making any sacrifice. or incurring the slightest loss, or Grapes--? risk, but simply by exercising good 'alk about graft, talk about bosscommon sense and refusing to get corporations and favoritisms. excited in the presence of an emerTallahassee Sun has that soft gency. Even one man who keeps his that no paper ever had in Florhead and does the right thing at a net even during the Sterns recritical period is a big asset in a comMican administration back in the munity, but when there is a town full 70's. It is certainly a melon of them, as seems to have been the ting time for the editor of the Talcase in Miami, that town is wealthy Sun.-DeLand Record. beyond computation, in the character of its citizenry and there can be no ht Sort of Spirit. doubt of its future.-Live Oak Democontinue to get unsolicited crat. timonials from visiting Florida
