Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-05-15
WATER AND LIGHT RATES.

was made on the city water main, there has been
gross partialites and inequalities In the matter
of rents paid by consumers Two years ago it
ing fifteen to twenty dollars worth of water or
lights paid into the treasury less than two dol
lars while other patrons consuming less than
a dollars worth paid into the treasury three or
four dollars. We have often referred to the
matter and great many of the gross errors
have been corrected, but we were astonlshed to
hear the Superintendent of water and lights say
last night that one drug store was paying $3OO
per month for the same privilege that another
was paying $500 per quarter for, and other in
stances of partiality.
The city has been imposed on in this par
ticuar until it has become exasperatlng. Ihe
honest consumer who pays according to his con-
sumption is made to contribute to the CRATER
who is willing to use the city water and light
plant without paying his just proportion
The Enterprise will make it its business to
follow this matter close for the next few weeks
and keep the public at least informed as to who
is grating in this matter and what officers are
derelict in their duty. We will make some enc
mics but what of it, we have done that before,
and without any selfish purpose.
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The state executive committee is vested
with large powers. They are sacred trust.
They are intended to be employed honorably,
fairly, Justly. The members ought to hold
the scale evenly balanced. They ought to
be as upright and as fair as any judge upon the
bench.
We're they? There are not fifty men in
Georgia so confding or so foolish as to doubt
that this high and sacred trust has not been
kept. 1t moves almost to tears. The men who
did this thing are men who walk upright in all
the ordinary things of life. They conform to
the usual standard of good faith and personal
rectitude.
And vet here, where the standards are
little dimmed by neglect or clouded to the Wis
ion. they fell short. Not one of them would
selves aside from partisanship and prejudice
and the heat of battle rs it right?"
1t was grave perversion of hduciary
power, in the interest of faction.
And it was so futile. Why not have gone
further and made the wrong effective!
Why not have ordered that no man should
vote in the primary who did not prefer Parker
to Hearst? Or even none who will not agree to
support the candidate preferred by the commit
tee? It would have been more effective and not
one whit less partisan.
The committee have incurred the criticism
of partisanship exposed, without winning the
advantage that comes to the bold and reckless
Observation-Disclosures Georgian.
The Milledgeville News says that a Hoke
Smith paper cannot tell the truth. We pre-
sumo this is because the other sainted side has
a MONOPOLY on all the available veracity in exist
ence. as shown by the above assertion.-Camp-
bell News.
1.-THE Milledgeville News did not say that.
We said that the Hoke Smith papers would not
tell the truth about the gubernatorial campaign
and the Campbell News has verified oar state
ment by misquoting us already. We do not be.
lieve there is an Hoke Smith paper in Georgia
but what has printed something gotten from
"some source" that they knew was untrue or
greatly exaggerated. If they fingered long
enough to taste their own medicine they would
have seen it. While this paper is supporting
Howell, it is fair to all the candidates, and we
have given more of our space in advertising
Hoke Smith than any other OF the candidates.
Milledgeville News"
The Editor of the Milledgville News re-
minds us of brer rabbit where be encountered