Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-06-11


brownsville has now joined Meigs Con the
ID In these two towns the lid is on so tight
hat you can't even buy ice on Sunday
Heigs Review.
Tomorrow is the tug of war in good old Irwin.
y they keep cool and vote to move the capital
HE geographical and railroad center of the coun-
The Fitzgerald Enterprise, in lamenting the
nfalI of former promising young man OF that
& laws his trouble at the door of cocacola and
slettes 1t is perhaps only just to the last
ed that in his latter days, the unfortunate
nc man confessed a weakness for champagne
silk underwear Gazette.
The young mans confession does not alter the
that he is a cigarette and cocacoa fend. 1t may
DC his appetite for champagne and his weak
or silk underwear are the simple results OF
bher habits Certainly he had the other habits
md strong, long before he went wrong.
b effort is going to be made to induce the
legislature to pass a law prohibiting the
ng of whiskey to dry counties AS the com
d of this legislature is Overwhelmingly In ia
Prohibition such law will surely pass if
Standardization Advertiser,
his lis one of'the bills to be passed at the
sessions of the legislature. The people of
ition counties don't want any orders
heir thirsty citizens filled by the express
INV or the liquor houses. The courts have
however, that the state legislatures cannot
be this business done by dealers from outside
state.-Savannah Press.
hat is shipped to the dry counties outside
ate is not what worries the people of the dry
$3.50 much as the miserable stuff that is
ed from the wet counties inside the state. A
percent of the opposition to whiskey in
Ia comes from the fact that the wet counties
Low emdeavoring all of tie time to make the
sfbition law of the state failure. The demand
ate prohibition has been brought on by the
<Av men themselves. Courier Dis
BIZ the Legislature control shipments within
te and congress may be depended on to take
Interstate shipment at it's next session.
takes longer for congress to get around to a
of this kind than it does state to act, just
Anuires more time for the state than it does
county,
he tendency is in the right direction and is
~ splendid progress
A8tho Governor Patterson of Tennessee on
18th vetoed an Anti-Jug bill, giving as his
s. that the bill prohibits persons, firms, cor
Spns of common carries from transport
auols from any point in this state where
ale of liquor is forbid den by law.
Liquor is a subject of interstate commerce
IS articles of food and clothing are and no
can interfere with the free and unrestricted
ent of LIQUOR from one state to another and
ktempt to interdict such interstate trade
be a violation of the federal constitution.
40re the effect of this bill is simply to give
tin liquors in other states rights and privi
Without taxation, while the licensed liquor
|efs of our own state. who are taxed by law,
aenied the same rights and privileges altho he
ather
bill has been before congress for some years
the states power to control or forbid ship
oE liquor from other states, but this has
been passed into law, and until such bill
81 by congress, it is folly to attempt state
ion of this character"
difference i'll position and that
ernor Patterson is that we believe the
ould act thereby setting an example
ing good reason why congress should
sure to do.
rsaie Liquor Dealers Association is
with literature intended to in
legislature. 1t is all we'll pre-
TER side of the great moral ques