Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-10-02
Long Staple Cotton VS.. Short Staple.

Sanders, of this city, has proved conclusively
the farmers of this county are losing money by
not planting long staple cotton. His experi-
ments for the past two years go to show that as
much lint per acre can be secured for long staple
cotton as short cotton.
This year on 20 acres of long staple cotton
of the Florodora variety Mr.. Sanders will
make twelve bales of cotton. At the present
time this cotton is worth on the market 121a cts.
per pound. He has 40 acres in short cotton
from which he expects 70 pick and gin twenty
four bales of cotton. This cotton is worth on
the market cents
His experiments goto show that the Flor
adora cotton requires no more cultivation than
the short cotton and it can be grown at the same
cost per acre as the short cotton. He has the
Florodora ginned and pressed at the same plant
that is used for short staple cotton.
There are thirty thousand bales of cotton
raised in Laurens county annually. Taking
Mr.. Sanders success with long staple cotton as
an index of what others can do, there is loss
to the farmers of the county this year of more
than $525,0O0. Had they planted long staple
cotton they would have received this sum in ex-
cess of what they will get for their short cotton.
There is every reason to believe the cotton
crop this year will be considerably less 1n Lau-
rens county than last year. From every sec"
tion of the county comes the report that the
weed is deteriorating. There will be many bales
less made than was thought to have been grown
iusta few weeks ago unless conditions improve
very much shortly. This improved condition is
not expected.
Frequently we are called upon 10 deny that
old falsehood to the effect that whisky brings
trade to town. We have known conclusively
by the record which Dublin has made under
prohibition that there is no truth in the statment
It is we'll known to every person in this part OF
the country that Dublin's growth commenced
with prohibition, and few believe that this city
handsome, prosperous, progressive that it is
would be anything like the city it is today if
whiskey had not been voted out and kept out
Recently Fitzgerald became dry town.
Some of the croakers mme dately predicted
that the growth of that city would stop. The
truth is that it has just commenced to grow. In
five years from now the people of Ben Hill coun-
ty will feel like 1ynching the who might
suggest that whskey election be held.
Immediately following the Punishment Of
the saloons from Fitzgerald, one of the leading
business houses OF Douglas announced that it
desired to do business in Fitzgerald because it
had become dry town and that it's stock OF
goods would be sold at actual cost To enable
every person in Douglas to see for himself or
herself that the goods would be sold at cost, the
cost mark of the firm has been made public.
This action on the part of the Douglas firm will
prove that not everybody believes that whiskey
draws trade.
We congratulate Fitzgerald on becoming
dry, aud we trust that it will always remain true
to the blue ribbon cause.-Douglas Enterprise.
The Atlanta riot was depiorable. Nobody
denies that it is blot on the South's escutcheon.
But what of it's effect? Have you heard or read
of an assault since the Atlanta riot? The twen-
ty-four hours before Atlanta and vicinity had
four assaults and attempted assaults by negroes
on white women. IL the seven days preceding
that Saturday night seven good women of Allan
ia were brutally assaulted by these black devils.
That night of terror and the innocent blood
spilled was terrible price to pay for surcease
of criminal assault, but certainly it is some com.
pensation.
There are people, men who have given con-
siderable thought to the question who hold stead
fastly to the belief that the dread of summary
death at the hands of an outraged mob is the
best thing to awe the would be rapist, that but
for the dread of vengeance of men who will not
wait for the law there would be a great many
more crimes of the kind that lead to the Atlanta
riot.
We confess that we do not know, but we
are impressed by the fact that rapes have oc-