Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-05-16


The Fitzgerald Enterprise came out last
Saturday without it's masthead. WHAT'S the
matter brother Mercer, that court aeclsion
didn't knock you clear out OF the rlng' olo It,
Ft. Gaines Recorder.
The court decision knocked us all right, but
we are not clear out, as you will perceive.
LOCAL PRIDE.
From the Savannah News
"Ouite building boom has struck our little
CITY, ''says South Georgia weekly; our popular
liveryman, ST Lyle is building new shed 10 MS
stable" That's right, friend! Whoop 'er up
every time anybody drives nail or puts pint
of whitewash where it will do the most good.
There's nothing like local pride.
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In New York city and in Chicago there are
more negroes than in any other two northern
communities. In both cities last week the col
or line was an issue.
There is great deal of pleasure in the
world for those who don't hunt too hard for it.
New York Press.
Which reminds us that the pleasure seeker
often finds anything else. This applies paticu-
arilv to the summer excursionlsts who leave
b ONE to find comfort; whereas, if he spent half
the cost of the trip in home comforts he could
reap much more pleasure. Of course, there are
exceptions in case of chronic sicknesses.
But the rejecting bachelor in the New
York Press probably meant that the man who
made it point to seek pleasure found less of it
than if he unsefshly performed his duty not
onv to himself but to the public.
Sometimes we have had occasion to call
attention to the fact that the Enterprise
does not publish scandals or details of hor-
rors We believe that it does not tend to
improve the reader, although more than ~
per cent of the reading public enjoys reading
the ugly details of terrible happe nings and i'm
moral doings, but the effect on the mind is bad.
On this point Pennsylvania preacher says:
1T is maintained that the press thus con-
tributes to the suppression of vice and wins men
from sin. 1t reveals the horrors of crimes and
acts as a deterrent force upon the viciously dis
posed. We believe that they suggest crime to
those who have not creative power. Scarcely
home is without its daily or weekly paper. Its
columns are open 10 all the family. The boys
and girls, possessed with morbid curiosity,
eagerly devour the descriptions of crime. Their
minds are quick to perceive, their memories are
retentive, and the sugges tons abide with them
for long time Sin is presented in such an at
tractive way that youth becomes Injured to it and
sees not it's Nervousness. Dime novels right
fully condemned by us all, because they poison
the minds of the youth. Is 1eniency desirable
toward an agency of evil suggestion which daily
invades the home? Surely the pulpit is not
ceiving preceptible aid from the press in turn
ing men from sin and lifting them up into higher
living"
A letter to the Irwinville legal advertising
bulletin, claiming to be from Brighton, but which
citizen of that place says was written in Irwin
vile, is instance of the dirty political methods
which have for too long disgraced that good old
county. 1t an effort, by perverted facts and
downright fasehood, to infame the prejudices
or bias the ignorant mind against the new coun-
ty movements. The intimation that Triton
proposes to build a 100000 court house, (to
which he adds two ciphers to make it look long
err, he rolls a choice morsel from his pen
and it makes the chief point in his pretended ar
gument that the people of Irwin should perpet-
uate existing conditions for the benefit of few
court house politicians to their own great ex-