Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-10-24

Another poor soul is out of trouble. In the
meantime Fitzgerald's wide openers will look
out for fresh importations.
Now.
Some reader, as quick as he reads the above
lines, will say something unknd about the
editor.
That he speaks lightly of the dead and
treats fippantly a serious matter
Not so, dear reader.
Every word in this little squib is written
with the gravest concern, con Germ for the con-
ditions that made the occurance above men
toned possible.
Is there a school boy, ever so small; is
there a school girl, ever so innocent, in cur
public schools who has not heard, even before
this is in print, of the occurrence and wondered
what it means and formed conclusion all their
own?
Let every decent mao in this com % unity
resolve to improve the conditions in our loved
city, It's all wrong, and the necessary evil''
man has been educated wrong. He is probably
as good man as the editor of the Enterprise,
wouldn't have to be very good to be that, but he
should get his ideas of public order on straight.
This is written to discourage the wide.
openers LndIS ALL
They have organized a Law and Morality
League in Townsville. This league is not in
tended to override the law, but to aid the law
and to assist in fostering healthy sentiment.
Some of the bravest and most manly things
we have ever heard spoken" said the Times.
Enterprise, were said at the the initial meet
ing of the league" These words were spoken
by men who said they would not let personal
unpopu1arity or business loss stand in the way"
and our contemporary adds, The Times
Enterprise is not afraid to take stand on any
question on earth,'' and broadly intimates that
it stands with the Law and Morality League.
Ali of this rings home to us some serious re-
Elections on past events in Fitzgerald Six years
ago the ministers of this city organized in the
Office of the Enterprise a Law and Morality
League and honcred US with it's presidency or
Craftsmanship. In the six years We have been
up against many proposition that would cause
the enthusiastic young law and order men of
Townsville to stop and think. But much has
been accomplished; tremendous good has been
done, although at times it looked like war, veri-
table war; and like war, it was hell. There are
men in Fitzgerald today who claim that Law
and Order League is reflection on the city
government and that baudy house is 'neces-
sary evil"
Editor Jesse Mercer of the Fitzgerald En-.
terprise, pretends not to believe our assertion
that the conservative, thinking people of Geor-
gia endorse the candidacy of Hon. Clark Howell,
but if Brother Mercer is as wide awake as we
give him credit for being he sees the handwrit-
ing on the wall but right at this stage of the
game will not admit it.-Macon County Citizen.
Editor Jesse Mercer is entirely too wide.
awake to accept the assertion" of any Georgia
paper on any matter about which there is so
much difference of opinion. We have been read
ing that writing on the wall as best we could
but our Daniel does not translate it Just like we
read read it in some Of our exchanges. The
people may not be for Hoke Smith, but they tell
u.s. they are that is nine-tenths of those who talk
to the Enterprise on the subject. If they were
not, we would not be fool enough to say so, for
we never have believed that extravagant claims
carry elections.
We have noticed but one South Georgia pa
per who has yet raised it's voice against Judge
Spencer r. Atkinson for chief justice. Get
right Brother Mercer, you live in South Georgia
and your influence is too valuable to be set up
against your own secton.-T Townsville Press.
And when have we raised our voice against
Judge Atkinson? If our preference for Judge
Fish is to be construed as against Judge Atkin-
son. please tell us in what sense it is against our
own section? Judge F'ish's home we believe is
Americas and Judge Atkinson's Brunswick.
Rv looking af the man the editor of the Dress