FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
135 
from the second annual message of Thom¬ 
as Jefferson, our third President: 
“The prohibiting duties we lay on all 
articles of foreign manufactures, which 
prudence requires us to establish at home, 
with the patriotic determination of every 
good citizen to use no foreign article 
which can be made within ourselves, with¬ 
out regard to difference of price, secures 
us against a relapse into foreign depen¬ 
dency/' Very respectfully, 
L. B. Skinner, 
Joshua C. Chace, 
Representing Florida State Horticultural 
Society, Tarpon Springs Board of 
Trade, City of Largo, Florida. 
Representing Florida Fruit and Vegetable 
Growers’ Association. 
