Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
ATLANTA'S COUNCIL.

option election?
It looks that way. Aud The News does not
hesitate to say that the councilmen who are de-
liberately holding up this popular measure are
taking upon themselves responsibility that is
serious from every point of view. The delay
over the higher license and regulation ordinance
is determing great many conservative men to
punish the guilty ccunclmen and the unwise
liquor men behind them.
The majority of our citizens do not want
prohibition, But they do not intend to submit to
continuance of the present situation.
The delay of the ordinance, which is exact
1y the plan first advocated by the News in its
editorial of October 9, and that was so generally
approved throughout the city, is filing the
mouths of the straightout prohibitionists with
arguments in support of their extreme pro-
gram.
They say that the council is controlled by
the saloon people-and who can disprove the
charge but the council by its acts to the con-
trary?
They say that until the people vote down
all authority to grant liquor licenses in Fulton
county we can get no relief through council for
present liquor evils in the city-and who can
deny that contention?
There is no reason for not putting the ordi-
nance now pending upon its passage and adop-
ting it. If the mayor vetoes it-then, the always
expected will have happened it will be the
bounden duty of council to ride over him again.
A $4,000 license fee for saloons is less than
many other cities smaller and larger than Attain
ia now extant.
The restriction of licenses to one for each
1900 population is now eztant in Chicago and in
other cities of the union.
Any further Juggling iu this emergency
any further attempts to shuttle-cock this leg
islation between the present ond the next coun.
Gil, means the certainty of prohibition cleo
ton. The prohibitionists can fight on bread
and water-but it will sost the liquor men over
100000 cash to defeat them, if the election is
ordered!-Atlanta News.
Some men are going to the next congress
who were elected, not so much because of their
own popularity, as because of their opponents
uupopularity.- y.-Macon County Citizen.
Editor Leon Greer is the least bit sarcastic.
Now if he wants really popular congressman
in the third now and will give him the bene-
fit of our assistance. Fitzgerald Enterprise.
Editor Mercer we'll knows, or should know,
that the above remarks applied generally, had
no possible reference to the present congress
man from the Third district. Editor Mercer,
if he does not know, will now know that we re-
gard the present congressman from the Third
as one of the ablest and truest representatives
the South has in Congress- and in popularity
without peer in the district, as every election
has shown since the death of the 1amented Crisp
But since Editor Mercer is grooming one
more popular for the next election, may we not
ask his name? Can it be possible that he is
none other than the able editor of the Fitzger-
aid Enterprise, the Hon. Jesse Mercer, of the
new county of Ben Hill?-Macon County Citizen.
Really, we are not candidate but enough
good men like the editor of the Citizen could in
duce us to do most anything.
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Hon. S. G. McLendon, the recently elected
member of the state railroad ommission. is out
in column article in the Thomasville T.-E. of
Sunday. containing some inside information con-
cerning the "car famine" which at this time is
threatening dire loss to milr men cotton and nav
al stores dealers and other shippers. He
charges that large per cent of the freight cars
of the country are owned by companies entirely
independent of the railroads aud are manipuat-
ed in the interest of large dividends-sh
interests being of secondary consideration.
Car famine constitutes one of the most trouble
some features of the subject of transportation
and the Enterprise is grati6ed to see commits.