Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-11-28
A WORD OF ADMONITION.


TO have fallen under evil influences. He is evil
IDENTIFY taking advice from very questionable
source, and pity it's, for Artie is good boy
and his little paper, the People, has field of
usefulness in this community in which it might
be happy Some lousy cur (of course we know
who, but since the name contaminates whatever
it touches, we shall not print it here now) The
fellows mother evidently scratched feas with
her hind legs and his bestial carcass has been
a fostering sore on this community all too long.
Artie, cut loose and paddle your own canoe.
We have not been irritated nor have we
been profoundly impressed by anything we
have seen in your little paper, but we have read
unmistakab1e evidences of the handiwork of
what will prove to be your evil genius, and they
are so frequent of late and so constantly nag
ging at the Enterprise that we fear that you, or
the evil genius is having Nightmares regularly
on the subject. They seem to banker after,
positively crave, the Enterprise lam baster
We candidly dislike to use the machine on boy
so innocent as Artie, or paper so harmless as
his little People although we may give the lam
baster a turn or two just to keep it in good
working order.
Last week we published letter, not for
the purpose of self-laudation, as Artie's evil
genius would suggest think, but merely as
an offset to the chickering's and snarlings OF the
discounted toughs hereabouts, who imagine
they have a grievance against the Enterprise
for the fight it has made for decency these sew
era1 years we have been in editorial work.
It is said that drunken man amaglnes
those he meets is drunk, so also d rascal
is said to measure other peoples oats by his
half-bushel, and for, certainly, no better reason
Artie's- evil genius has whispered into his inno-
cent ears that when we published the letter
above referred to- without the name and post
office, that it was fraud, fake. No doubt the
same son.of-a-gun that made the suggestion to
Artie has often adopted that expedient. You
couldn't make him believe that an honest pub
Usher had never manufactured or wilfully pub
1shed lie in his paper. The delapidated moral
degenerate would experience great difficulty in
bringing his conceptions to focus on an
honest proposition. All the more is it pity
that Artie has fallen under such an influence.
Bless the boy, too bad, too bad.
Listen to him Yesterday in his little pa
per, the People, he says: We admire the COZ
sideration which Editor Mercer displays in
withholding the name of his enthusiastic adj
mirer at -, Ga, who wishes to be remem-
bered to , and puts his signature -
to his or her letter."
Now, Artie. tell the lousy reprobate who
prompted you to publish that insinuating little
piece of meanness, that the letter is here and is
signed by w. M. Bitch, minister Of the gos-
pei, who is admired and highly respected by all
decent people, and perhaps as heartily despised
by the disreputab1e, detestable, ung od1y toughs
such as suggested your little insinuation that we
had manufactured letter praising the Enter
prise. Why, Artie, we have hundred better
than that, which we have never had time to
publish, and almost every day some good, re-
spectacle, unselfsh, high-minded citizen tells us
verbally much more than was contained in Rev.
Bitch's letter.
Now remember this, when some snaky
apology for a man comes to you to spew a little
venom and spite i'll your ear against the Enter
prise, consider we'll the source and anlmus. We
are not only proud of what they say to us about
the Enterprise, but we are proud of the people
proud of the disapprova1 of the pusilanimous
thugs that find fault with our work.
Now, Artie, we have consumed altogether
too much space and too much of our valuable
time, but we do it out of pure love for you. Al
most every day you lay yourself open for good
mbastipg. You allow that evil genius to con-
stantly inject his filth and venom in your clever
little paper the People. Cut loose, Artie today.
you can sail your little craft better without