Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-10-13

Editor Tom Watson in the Jeffersonian says
of the Cotton seed oil trust:
The price of cotton seed should, OF course
be regulated by the law of supply and demand
Competition should be the life of that trade as
of every other But The Cotton Seed Oil Trust
will not have it so.
Just as the Standard Oil Co. dictates the
prices at which it will sell Kerosene, so this
remorseless and Unsuitable monster OF monopoly
is debating, throughout the Southern states'
the price which shall be paid for cotton seed.
Competition has been destroyed. Ihe
price which shall be paid for cotton seed.
Com petition has been destroyed. The price
which one buyer offers is the price which all
the buyers of the trust offer. This IS IN VIOLA
ton of the Criminal Laws of the United States.
The farmers should not submit to being robbed.
We prosecute small criminals; why should we
never pro secute large criminals? Why should
little thief be sent to the Chaingang while
big thief is honored one of the best citizens
of the community? The men who meet and
agree to fix the price of cotton seed at twenty
CENTS, or any other arbitrary sum, utterly 1g-
norng the laws of supply and demand and
striking down the healthy good principles OF
competitiou are robbers.
No matter how we'll they dress, how proud
the style in which they live. how naughty and
self com placent their personal bearing, they are
robbers. They have violated the criminal laws
of the land, and taken away the property OF their
fellow men with precisely the same kind OF mo-
tive the same kind of moral turpitude, which are
involved in the action of the pirate OF the b1gh
seas or of the high-wayman upon the public
-oad.
And now comes the great and good Macon
Telegraph with strong editorial endorsement
of the curfew law. 1t does us good to see men
like editor Pendletou taking hold Of matters of
this kind. The adoption of something in the
nature of a curfew regulation for minors-bOys
and girls, too, when necessary, restraining
them from running in the streets at night with
out proper guardianship" is very proper rule,
one that has been adopted in Fitzgerald, but ale
lowed to lapse by derelict ad dministration. The
man who sneers at "blue 1aws'', the wide open
er who prefers bar room to church, or a
bawdy house to Sunday school docs not reach
us with his logic. We have no respect for
his opinions and no patience with his politics.
Every body who IS anybody wants to see
good men elected to Office in Ben Hill county.
Let's make the road a rough one for the fellows
who stand for greed and graft and know not the
meaning of civic virtue. The Enterprse is for
the very best men who will allow the use of
their names in the primary. We do not like to
be personal but our references to the grafters
and selfish political healers will be plain enough
to point out the best men, the cleanest men and
those who are most likely to administer the
county aft sirs solely with view to the county 8
best interest.
We must divide the county Offices with the
boys in the country. They have rights that
must be respected.
Not vote was cast against Ben Hill county
in Turner county. How is that Bro. Mercer?
Turner County Banner
How 'tis? Juss right. The good people of
Turner are the chosen race. Deni2e S Of Coils
country. Turner is half Irwin and Ben Hill is
half Irwin, that ought to make US half brothers.
We love to claim kiuship with such people. We
are going over to Turner some day and shake
hands with the whole bunch.
MM
Get busy at something useful.
MM
We are glad to again welcome the Americus
Times Recorder to our exchange table. For
some months we have been tempted to say that
Eiitor Myrick is no gentleman, but we refrain,
aud promise now to meyer again say anything
that will give offense in that direction, and we
call Tom Fielder and several members of the