Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-06-15

will" It is often true that the men who pay the
least taxes make the greatest ado about taxation.
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Hostility Toward Railroads.
We are of the opinion that Mr.. Smith takes
too much for granted in assuming that there is
a general feeling of hostility towards the rail-
roads. Speaking for our own community, we
are quite sure this is not true.-Newman Adj
vertiser.
We agree with the Advertiser. There is no
deep hostility toward railroads in this commun-
ity. We do not believe the people desire to op-
press the railroads. Of course the railroads
should accord the people fair, just and reason
able treatment and like treatment should be
shown the railroads. AS general proposition
the people appreciate the railroads.-Macon
News.
Yes, the people, as a rule, appreciate the
railroads, they have rights that every good man
is bound to respect. The writer has always
been, what is generally undertood to be, rail-
road man. Many of the very best business men
ia the state are not only railroad men at heart
but men who own and operate railroads. We
appreciate them and their rights, but we are OPP
posed to railroad lobby, just as we are opposed
to any other lobby.
AS to railroad legislation everything depends
on the merits of and the necessities for a given
proposition.
Mr.. Smith does not assume that there is a
general feeling of hostility toward the railroads.,
and the assumption of The Advertiser and The
News that he does is purely for political pur-
poses.
The Waynesboro Citizen cries out against
"the detestable nuisance of creating new count
ties" and demands stoppage of any further
business in that line.
On the contrary, if demanding is in order,
THE JOURNAL demands just the opposite
policy. We wish to see the General Assembly
this summer create as promptly as possible the
eight new counties provided for in the recent
amend to the constitution, locating them where
they are most plainly needed by local conditions.
Then let some member with nerve and abil-
ty propose an amendment to the constitution to
totally abolish that section of it that prohibits
the Legislature from creating new counties?
That provision of the constitution is the
real nuisance that needs to be abated. Con-
dtions in Georgia have changed tremendously
since 1877. Population has increased beyond
the expectations of the constitution makers of
that day. Lauy places that were then the
haunts of wild game, invaded only by wandering
hunters, are now thriving cities and prosperous
industrial communities. Railroads undreamed
of by Tombs audhis colleagues have been built
through regions of then despised wild lands"
and thousands of progressive white farmers
have made homes and fields where "turpentine
niggers" then hunted 'possums or hid from
sheriffs
The state is throbbing with increasing life
and development and to tie these pioneers and
promoters of "Greater Georgia" to the Procrus-
team framework of the county system then ex-
istent will be to discourage settlement, decimate
investments and disgust those who have already
done so much to make new towns, new farms,
new fields, new mills, new churches and new
schoos
Let us wipe out the prohibition and COM
NIT to the wisdom and Justice OF the General
Assembly the power to create new counties
whenever and wherever the exigences of Geor-
gia progress may urgently require them for the
popular convenience. The state that grows so
we'll and safely as to warrant new counties can
easily afford whatever expense they entail upon
the public treasury. They will return such
doles many fold in increase property valuations
and taxes.
The prohibition is archaic, anti-progressive
and dead-wall obstructing the widest and best
DEVELOPMENT of the state-BrunSwick Journal.
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The Enterprise finds much reason for be-
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