Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-08-21


wall puny little howl, about the effects of clos
ing the,saloons on business. That is we presume
they did, we never read the dirty sheet but the
Douglas Enterprise quotes the paragraph and
answers it thus:
Alice samee like Mystic" remarked sa-
loon man as he called the scrbe.s attention 10
the deserted condition of the streets today, not
a vehicle appearing on Pine street looking east
from Grant at 2 p m. No one, not even the
most ardent prohibitionist, will dispute that the
abrupt termination of any well established and
thriving line of business, even though that be
a whiskey business, will exert depressing Of
feet on all lines for time, at least. Oh yes
Fitzgerald will show visible effects of the "goin'
dry" process. '-Fitzgerald People.
We agree with the writer that the sudden
termination of any thriving business will make
things seem dull for while. And more the pity
if the business is one that tends to the good of
humanity from moral, social, spiritual, or edu-
cation standpoint. but when the business is one
that damns the man who is engaged in it, and
destroys the homes hearts and lives Of his pa
irons, is it not time that it should be stopped,
regardless Of the temporary dull times that it
brings. I
Business will be duller in Fitzgerald for
while, but the city and county will be better off,
Poor Tom will drink less and will be seen few
er times on Pine street with his team, that would
not long remain his, had the barrooms of Fitz-
gerald remained open, and will stay at home and
work more, and when the cotton is gathered and
the meat in the smokehouse he will take Bette
and poor little Mary, and Salle and Jimmie, and
his dear little boy Tommie, who was named for
him. because his dear wife thought that Tom
was the best man ia the world, and put them all
%no.~
had beeu enable to pay for by not having
chance to spend it for mean liquor on Pine
street in Fitzgerald, they will be driven to the
good town of Fitzgerald, and when they walk in
to the stores on Pine street, every merchant will
be glad to see them, and he will buy his patient
wife, Bette, more nice clothes than she has ever
had before. The dear little children will get
shoes for their little feet this winter, and they
will not suffer with the cold like they had to do
last winter They will have better clothes than
than had ever been used to and the good mer-
chants will say, that Tom has come out more
than any man could possibly have expected since
those hell holes on Pine street had been closed
by the good people of the grand town of Fitz-
gerald and the county in which it is located.
Tom will stand before the people an honor
ed and respected man, and the look OF pride
and happiness on Bette's face will be more
pleasant to behold than all the wagons in the
country standing on the best street of the town,
and the owners grove1lng in the dirty saloon to
drink to know where they are, what they are
doing.
Which is the better picture? Give us Bet
tie, and the babies in preference to rum.
Times will not be dull for them if the faith
cr will leave off drinking, and make up his mind
that ne will make a husband for his wife, and
father for his children.
If this little picture could only be true in
one instance it would create more genuine good
and happiness than all the vile and damnable
stuff this side of the place where it belongs. We
are glad that our sister city is cleared of the
blight that is running so many and we feel con-
fident that in the long run that every one will
admit that it is the best thing that ever happen
ed for Fitzgerald.
The Atlanta News has been audacious
enough to take hold of the fashion of white lad
les riding in buggies with negro coachmen.
Some of the incest ladies in the south do
so A daily paper like the News took all sorts
of chances in criticising the fashion, but the
News is eminently right. Since it has broken
the ice we hope that the campaign will be push
are not shocked by what we believe to be one of
the most pernicious fashions to which the south
ern people seem to be welded. A woman who
has no other means of going about the city
should stay at home, walk. Ii her husband