Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-10-16

III this section of Georgia mourns the un-
ly death of Editor ]. W. Hanlon.
Mr.. E. w. Stetson was elected by the Coun-
sentral Committee, Saturday, as Congress
hal District Committeeman.
Fitzeerald real estate is bringing e tie
ices than we have ever seen it. There is
E,re doing in the real estate market than we
Iva ever known. The present prices will look
lightly small before this season closes. Fltz-
krald dirt is much cheaper today than it will
y next spring, Mark the prediction.
We are announcing today for tax collector
Norman Dormny who was very satisfac-
tory tax receiver for old Irwin. Mr.. Dorminy
is a farmer and guano dealer of the eastern end
Of the county. He reluctant to get into pol
itics this year. but hail storm in July practi-
y ca1ly des royed his cotton crop and that OF his
neighbors to whom he had sold guano and his
friends urged him to make the race largely for
that reason.
The Stoney Glover case, better known as
the Fitzgerald high license case, will be heard
4 by the supreme court one day this week, proor-
bly, about Thursday, Col. Eldrige Cuts will
argue the case for the saloon interest and Col.
4 e. d. Graham will represent the State. The
court will not deliver opinion for week or
two In the main time the prohibition sentl-
nient is growing in Fitzgerald and if, by chance
the law should be decided unconstitutional the
people who stand for prohibition will be in hne
temper for prohibition election that will for
yer bau>h the rum shops from one OF the most
Progressive of all Georgia 8 cities.
The present season will undoubtedly be the
best Fitzgerald has ever had. We have made
h the prediction several times before and every
h time we have been right. 1t gets better and
better and this winter will be record breaker,
and an eye opener to any who think the present
L~prices of reaestate are good.
Fitzgerald dirt is changing hands like the
proverbial hot cake" and the price is going>up
ike sky rocket.
Wen bet the Enterprise against hun
dred thousand dollars that Fitzgerald tax values
increase another million within the next twelve
months, and we are not in much of betting
humor either.
On another page of today's Enterprise is
a chapter of very strange views That OF break
ing up the gambling dives, or more properly
I the gambling palaces of Hot Springs, Ark. The
spectacle of law and order league five hund-
red strong marching the streets of that city and
literally drum ming out hundreds of gam blers
with hundreds OF thousands of dollars worth of
para phrenalia, literally ban1shing the gambler
& s thing that if it had been predicted only
few weeks ago, the prediction would have been
laughed at and ridiculed. The breaking up OF
the French gambling houses few months ago
did not even lead to the thought of the dlsman-
ling of the gambling palaces of Hot Springs but
this is day of wonders. Decency is asserting
herself Fitzgerald started crusade against
the gambling hells here several years ago and
the Enterprise has been condemned by the 10.
cal vide openrs for the part it played in the cam.
paign. But read the Hot Springs story. We
are going to organize skidoo club or lmprov.
ment committee here.
In his salutatory, Mr.. Watson says: The
Jeffersonian will make war upon no legitimate
enterprise and will never be found doing the
work of the demagogue, arraying class against
class or section against section.
It realizes that there are many rich men who
are honestly rich; and many poor men. who have
nobody but them selves to blame for being poor.
Therefore, it makes no crusade against the rich
because they rich, and no crusade IN favor
of the poor because they are poor; but inasmuch