Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-11-21

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These are the large potato" days. The
yield of this great southern food crop is most
abundant, Notwithstanding the very, dry fall.
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How Uncle Jess must envy Adam-Adam
was the whole thing, you remember. "-People.
Quite wrong, Artie. We not envi-
Gus. We are too we'll pleased with Uncle
Jess" as he is, to envy a man that has been dead
as long as Adam. Then, being the whole thing
in the Garden of Eden is a small matter COM
pared to being so near the whole thing in Fitz.
gerald, Georgia. No, thank you, no Garden of
Eden in ours. Fitzgerald is good enough for
us, and it will be much better yet, or We'll know
the reason why.
Nearly every city in the state selects its
municipal officers in a white primary. We have
expected to see the rule adopted in Fitzgerald
ere this and we promise now that the Deem
Der election will be the last that is held with
out it. We could say a great deal on the sub
iect and tell just why it will be hard thing to
accomplish, but we will Withhold that-reserve
it rather for future use, as it would probably do
no good right now everybody knows anyway.
Yes, the Enterprise promises white primary
for our next municipal election. It is the only
right way; the clean mans way.
Grover Cleveland, the greatest living Amer
lean citizen, has written for Harper's Magazine
and the New York World an article on the
Integrity of American Character"
AS Mr.. Cleveland and the editor of the En-
terprise happen to think alike on this important
subject, and since that it is through no fault of
ours that we do not write alike, we reproduce
below some excerpts that will be enjoyed by
every lover OF good English and good logic who
reads the Enterprise:
mo member of the family of mankind
is free from the besetment of alluring temp
tation nor exempt from the danger of thral-
dom to perncious habits and inClinations.
The forces Of evil are constantly on the
watch for the unwary who venture beyond
the lines of high principle and moral safety,
and those who wander fortunate If in
good time they see their peril and are able
to break away from the destinations and
false lights which malevo)ence displays for
their undolng.
The path of return to security, though
it NAV be tosome, is plainly marked out,
and those who sincerely desire to retrace
their steps, and who have not lost the
strength and endurance Of rlght-m1nded-
ness, need not despair or TeStOrallOn 10
virtue and happiness. There is, however,
absolutely no hope for those who in their
wanderings have so undermined their con-
science and sense OF duty that they have
become victims of ncurable weakness and
moral collapse.
Let us fully realize the Unreasonable
distance between specific wrongful acts
which result from surrender to temptation
or unprecedented alteration and chron-
ically perverted moral and mental condition
no longer responsive to the voice of conscl-
ence or mindful of God aud duty.
In one case wrongdoing has not satur-
ated the moral and mental system with de-
pravity nor wrecked character nor sub
merged hope of redemption; in the other
case there has supervened such insensibll-
ity to high ideals and such paralysis OF the
power of right thinking that there is moth
Ing left to build repair upon"
Those who while entrusted with i'm
portant duties in the executive branches Of
government, national and state, have taken
advantage of easy opportunity 10 fitch pub
lie funds, or have lent themselves to the
pilfering schemes of others, wofully realize,
behind prison bars and in the depths OF ir-
redeemable disgrace, that American justice
and decent American sentiment are no more
ready to condone stealing from the public
than from an individual.