Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-01-26
A FORECAST.

News. 1t Is worthy or more tnan casual redOlns.
Yesterdays tragic Developments in St.
Petersburg will startle the world. They may,
indeed foreshadow the beginning of the end of
autocracy and a change in the form of govern
ment in the second most populous country of
the earth. Maxim Gorky, Russia's most cele-
baated author after Tolsto, is of the opinion
that revolution is fully developed, and that
the conflict between the people aud their official
oppressors will be fought out to the bitter end.
1T is evident from the dispatches that the
present disturbance is ordinary emeute OF
disconnected workingmen, such as is likely to
occur in any large manufacturing district, and
that may be put down by ordinary methods.
The people are profoundly moved their grew
ances are great; they are desperate, and are APP
parently determined to press their demands for
fundamental reforms with desperate energy.
There is something about the St. Peters.
burg street fighting, and the refusal of soldiers
to fire on their fathers and mothers, and broth
ers aud sisters, and friends and sweethearts,
that is strikingly suggestive of the beginning of
the French Revolution. 1t is extraordinary
for Russian soldier to refuse to obey orders.
That detachment of infantry yesterday refus-
ed to obey and threw down its arms, is indica-
tive of the temper of the masses; and the COM
mon soldier is merely man of the masses in
uniform. 1t would not be surprising if the re-
bellion of soldiers should spread. If one or two
companies of troops with their arms were to
go over to the iusurrectiouists, others might be
Influenced by the act to follow their example,
and civil war might quickly result
THE trouble in St. Petersburg cannot but
have important bearing on the war in the Far
East. If the government is wise it will seek an
honorable means of ending the war-quite UNI
popular in Russia-and concentrate its energies
upon dealing with the domestic situation. But
even now it may be too late to avert tremen-
dous tragedy on home soil.
meanwhile there will be much sympathy
for the weak, vacillating, but gentle-hearted
| young man whom fate placed upon the cruel
throne of all the Russias. He kpows from the
history of the House of Romanoff that whatever
course he adopts, whether he yields to the de-
1nand OF the people for voice in the govern
ment, or holds tenacously to his autocratic
power, the chances are he will meet with vio-
lent DEATH"
TOO DEEP FOR MERCER.
From the Atlanta Journal
The Osborne-Morris pool is too deep for US
to wade in any more.-FtZgerald Enterprise.
Beg your pardon, Bro. Gray, Mr.. Mercer
has been under quarantine with small pox. He
has not furnished any editorial copy for the En-
terprse for several weeks, and is not RESPONSE
BILE for the above.
If Father Gopon and Count Tolstoi write
letters anent the strike situation in Russia, it is
hoped that they will not come to an Osborne
Morris finish.
The rebellion at Radon, near the Austria.
Hungarian border would indicate that the Rus
sian revolution is 1ong-premeditated and ger.
eral uprising, instead of local labor riot
The Dublin Courier Dispatch comes out
Growing over four pages of advertising matter
from one firm IF that keeps up, Publishers
Stanley and Hilton will soon have two automo-
biles apiece, to say nothing of new overcoat
every winter.
One of Atlanta s leading dailies which has
been devoting lot of editorial space 10 the
Osborn-Morris fuss, gave its Osborn-Morris
space yesterday, to article entitled The
Handwriting on the Wall" and novelette,, "A
Mid Summer Nights Dream"
Yes the newspaper man has his trials It
may be surprising, but it is true. But there. is
one woe which does not tread on the heels of its
fellows because it goes before them all. It is
not the belliperencV of people who have heeu