Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-02-27
The Wesleyan Christian Advocate
On the Moral Status Of Fitzgerald.

From the Fitzgerald Enterprise Of February we copy the
following interview between the editors of the Enterprise
Citizen papers published in Fitzgerald and President w. G.
Raou of the Atlantic Birmingham Railway concerning
ton of the railroad shops that enough open
eyes OF the citizens and weakened christians of that thriving
community Business has learned long the peril
saloon and almost day of the business world
putting the saloon under the ban of oeraon
will not peril its welfare by association with the
saloon And when gold gain their voice
against the saloon is time for the good abiding
order loving people the community besr
the saloon of business Greed should community
this country outweigh claims of decency sobriety
Here is the interview
president W. Raou1 accompanied by his daughters and
VicePrsdent George Dole Wady passed through Fitzgerald
this morning.
with Editor Knapp the Citizen went depot
and were invited aboard the private "Hidago."
Mr. Wadey stated, response question: purchase
OF the B. B. and the transfer of the property altogether
probable but that there nothing definite this time
In the short conversation with President Raou sounded him
the question headquarters shops frankly that
the headquarters would maintained WaycrCss least until
after the road extended when possibly they
ered to the western He statement
with reference the shops He believed the logical
place. from words will never
forgotten by the writer
His sole objection Fitzgerald Saloons and what this
of affairs said would be revelation have insisted
that Fitzgerald saloons desirable business point
He dreaded their demorang effect the labor stated
that experience had demonstrated that which exist
this community would render the labor unreliable that thew
could not at this time consider the proposition move the shops
Fitzgerald When the train pulled good man of pe
business stood the platform adeu he left
two editors standing by the track with the singing rebuke
though gently spoken ringing in their
painted the picture of six open as buwa
between loved city and what might industrial future
The editors of the Fitzgerald papers we'll grow over the
situation of community that allows the gain dollars from
the license of few baooms blind the ewes of the pene
the barrier these industrial future of the
community The six saloons with their revenues stand as
buwar not only the moral and religious to the
dustrial webeng of the entire community we'll Whv should
six with business that ruins character buns moral
tons and which stands the of the interest of
and child in the tolerated. Whv shoud
such business have the protection of law? Raou
prohibition crank but he knows what interests of the
business he has hand Economic have condemned
the barooms Fitzgerald they have every where else The
loss of the railroad shops Fitzgerald has town in dollars
vastly than the from the six baoom
brought or will bring to them.
We trust the COOL sober this railroad president w-f
nothing else Does the good people Fitzgerald to war on
the barrooms there until they shall out of the town
not business beat pey of moral Drunkard fac
with all the attendant and evils business should
not be dearer than the moral and material prosperity nv
muny Even the wholesale liquor dealers publicly dsonn
their offspring the barroomsWesleyau Christian Advocate