Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-12-27

Mobile is to Alabama prohibition what Saw N
nah is to Georgia and her efforts to be rid Of tie
traffic
The Mobile ladies' or women at least went 70
Montgomery to lobby against the prohibition bin,
and now mobile court declares the law uncon-
stitutonal The result of the whole matter may
be that Alabama will adopt prohibition law and
send troops to Mobile if necessary to enforce its re-
quirements. The Savannah booze fighters are
Strengthening the determination of Georgia prohi
bitonists every time they make an effort to dodge
the law which goes into effect next Wednesday.
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The Thomasville Press says: eve have work
ed and used every honorable means possible to de
feat the plan of shutting the off the streets"
and the Press says further
cit has taken the anti-coW forces, with the
assistance of united force of scheming poll
ticians five years to gain majority OF half
dozen votes, and we predict it will only take
one year, if their plan is carried out, to change
the opinion Of enough good men on the issue
to bury them again for five more years"
Now, Brother Press, you are entirely off your
kazip. 1t will take much less than year for a
majority of the voters who voted with and for the
ever hereafter to keep the cattle off the streets and
the hogs entirely outside the city. If next Christ
mas you find we are wrong in this prediction we
will go all the way to Thomasvile to beg your par
don in any public way you may designate.
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We note with alarm the editorial tone Of
some of our exchanges on the present trade diff
cuties. One of the brightest of them, the Wrights
vile Chronicle says:
ga month ago, the country was bandly in
formed that the stringency was temporary, that
conditions would be normal again within few
days, that money would soon again flow back into
the accustomed channels of trade and commerce,
and prosperity's Notification again make every
body as merry us marriage bell.
EEBut the man up the steeplc, with weather
eye that's literally hungry for rift in the clouds,
reports no Improvement, and we've come to the
conclusion that like Hugo's storm, this blooming
gale of panic is thousand leagues long or mOre,-
that fog and haze must perforce be endured for at
least twelve months. ~
The fog and haze is matter of the magma
tion and will obscure the commercial horizon just
as long as the people think its there. In other
words the fog will lift the day that business
confidence is restored will not come back in hurry
as long as the press says it viii not or may not.
The influence of the press can not be estimat
cd in an emergency of this kind, and it's duty is
clear
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One negro gambler shot and killed another
negro gambler in negro gambling hell in the
eastern part Of this city yesterday.
The negro doing the shooting was named Pies
Harris and the negro killed named Allen ColscD,
but it does not matter about their names or pedi-
grees One bad negro is dead and the other re-
mains to be turned loose on a long suffering pub
lie after the County has been put to 81, 900 ex-
pense in trial that will probably result in his
freedom as it seemed that he really acted in self
defence The place in which the crime was com
mited is a menace an incubator where negro Grim
nails do congregate and not only commit crimes
but plan others. If the negro who keeps the place
and who is now in the custody of the officers of
the law could be used in road building few years
along with dozen of the witnesses to the shooting
and who beyond doubt frequent the gambling den
and participate in other crimes connected there
withg 1t would not only have wholesome effect
but would actually REIMBURSE the county to some
extent for the cost that must be incurred
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The past year has been good one for Fitzger
ald Not only has the town progressed but the
individuals have prospered. The bushes houses
have done record breaking business