Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-04-25

carry pistol concealed. Ii people are uetel-
mined to carry them why let the pistols be ex-
posed.-Darien Gazette.
The penalty is entirely too light the court
entirely too enient; the prosecutions entirely too
tame and infrequent. Nearly every coward
carries gun. The safety Of the brave man lies
in the fact that most pistol toters haven't the
nerve to use the weapon except on some other
coward.
SATURDAYS Washington press dispatches
strong warning against indiscrlminate
immigration of negroes from the United States
to Liberia Africa, without their being sufficient
ly supplied with funds to take care of them
selves for six months after their arrival, is con-
tanned in dispatches from Ernest Lyon, United
States minister at Monrovia which we're made
public today.
HE refers to party of 6fty-six negroes
who went to Liberia from Irwin county, Geor-
gia in 1908, twenty of whom died. The re-
mainder, who were ragged, starving and home
less, finally had to be sent for by friends
Read the account on the first page of this paper
and add your name to the list of those who will
send for these unfortunates
Douglas and Quitman are interested in Sc
curing the Augusta to the Gulf ralroad-a road
on which Fitzgerald has banked heavily.
A meeting of prominent citizens and capt.
talists of Douglas and Waycross was held at the
former place last week, when reorganization
of the Douglas, Augusta & Gulf railroad was
perfected.
Among the prominent figures in the meet
ing we're Messrs. ]. E. Wadley ]. D. Bailey and
M. L. Seasons, of Waycross, and Messrs. b. b.
Gray, w. L. Moore & Bro Ashley, Mclean,
Peterson, Oberry, Quincy & Mcdonald and F.
L. Sweat, of Douglas
The new organization is known as the
Douglas, Augusta & Gulf Railway, and it IS said
to be the intention of the promoters to fill in the
intervening gap between Augusta and Abel, con-
Meeting at the latter point with the South Geor-
gia and West Coast, thus making through line
from Augusta to the Gulf coast.
The stockholders represented at this meet
ing have ample capital. About $150,0O0 was
readily subscribed to carry out the plans of the
company, and committee appointed to raise
the additional amount of $135.OOO needed.
It is said that work will be commenced at
once on the extension from Barrow's Bluff to
Helena, and from Nashville to Abel.
1t is time Fitzgerald was looking to her
interests in the matter.
COMPTROLLER General Wright has column
interview in Sundays Constitution on the ques-
of insurance. The agitation started by Thos.
w. Lawson is becoming widespread, and what
Georgia's Comptroller General has to say on the
subject was brought out by Mr.. Lawson's writ
ings and the Equitable Insurance Company's
troubles.
The Atlanta Constitution says editorially:
TN all this agitation the question of
life insurance, it is we'll for policyholders IN the
different companies to keep in mind the tact
that the value of their policies, from what might
be termed the standpoint of straight life in
surance, is not impaired.
The insurance laws of the states in which
these various companies Incorporated pro-
vide for the maintenance of sufficient reserve TO
meet the obligations imposed upon the compa-
MES as the policies mature, and the insurance
laws of other states make this condition prece-
dent to the companies doing business in these
states.
THE accumulation of vast SURPRISES my,
however be taken as demonstrating the fact
that policyholders have been paying too high
for their insurance. There is undoubtedly
something wrong with system that results in
the accumulation of such vast SURPRISES, since
these necessarily are made up of money paid in
by the policy holders; but this seems to point to
too high cost of insurance rather than to any
thing else.
Every insurance company holds out to it's
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