Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-12-02
} Saturday, December 2, 1905.

Don't talk about the beauties of some other
town.-Covington Enterprise.
But suppose she lives in some other town.
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It is now predicted that cotton will soon
reach 10 cents pound Va1dosta Times.
Fifteen cents would be as lucky, aud easier
to calculate.
There was a great deal in yesterdays wealth
err to be thankful for, and considerable IN the
smoke-houses and corn cribs, to say nothing OF
what's in the banks
The Covngton Enterprise says.
"Twenty years hence the boys of today
will be men. They will be doctors and drunk
ards lawyers and liars, editors and idiots. winch
is pretty much the same thing en-"
The Enterprise is heartily in accord with
Golfers in it's campaign against the patent med
icne fraud one of the greatest evils OF the time.
One that lives and dourishes on the love OF the
American people for humbuggery.
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The use of the word 'metropolises" by
the Valdosta Times, raises doubt in our gram
matically benighted mind, but since it's only
doubt that is raised we presumably, would not
be justified in raising more than two or three
ruci about it.
There are 10000 drygoods stores in the
United States.-Early County News.
Ten thousand of them are conducted by
men with sufficient business sagacity to appre-
ciate the value of printers ink and with sutic-
lent energy and tact Git takes both) to properly
use the opportunities offered by the advertising
pages of the home papers to succeed, and the
other twenty thousand sit stupidity around their
places watching their more enterprisng COM
petitors till they realize that they were not cut
out for merchants anyway.
~ There has been some money stealing IN
Cordele and the embezzler is likely to have his
shortage made good and the prosecution quashed
on account of the fact that respectable" and
prominent people will be exposed in connection
with the gambling that led to the stealing.
Editor Ship, of the Rambler, makes the
Following illusions to the case in his yesterdays
paper.
LET Monroe Lewis stay in the Americas
B Jail for safe keeping. If he was brought to
& Cordele it wouldn't do. Cordele is not ready to
Investigate such witness as he could make"
LET Monroe Lewis stay in Americas until
d the gam bers disgorge, or let him plead guilty
d over the telephone as some of our prominent
people might be EN- barrassed if this is not DONE
1T is believed that the gam bers of Cordele
will pay Mr.. Wilkes the money that Monroe
Lewis EN- bezzled rather than allow the matter
to come to trial 1t is to be hoped that they Will
8 do this, as the young man was all right until
they got him, besides the Cordele people would
MT prosecute these prominent gamblers any
way, as they are among our best people"
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The papers of the state that are willing to
resort to misrepresentation, and the papers of
the state not informed on the important matter,
are printing great deal that is misleading on
the question of disfranchisement. 1t is Mr..
#Smith's purpose, clearly stated, to advocate the
disfranchisemen law that is in force in most
Of the southern states and which does not dis
Franchise the illiterate white man, and we want
right here to insist from the black maus stand.
point, that it is not so unfair as first appears.
Esit unreasonable that the negro race should meet
&fe same requirements in the matter of prepa-
ration for the use of the ballot that all electors
Ia the history of the world have submitted to?
The so-caed grandfather" clause iucor-
norated in the constitutional amendments of
hose southern states that have dsfranchised
fhe negro safeguards the ballot of every white
nan No white man of voting age in Georgia,
we're a similar amendment adopted1n this state,
could be denied the ballot because he was one
ii the number who make up the very small pro-
bortion of white literates.
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