Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-11-23
THE PEACE MAKERS.


The controversial spirit has been done to
death by the Constitution and Journal. The peo-
pie are getting tired of it, they always do when
newspapers quarrel
On that subject the Georgian has timely and
strong editorial in its issue of yesterday.
We quote from the article:
$50 far as we are concerned if we measured
our opions by our business yard stick folks might
expect us to take sides with our morning contemp-
orary because their criticism is against our more
direct competitor, The Journal, and its acknow-
ledge canidate-our present governor. We can
not do SO in this case however, although The Jour-
nal and we exchange spoiled eggs OCCASIONALLY,
events have shown that they supported good and
great man for governor and they credit
due them for it, No one honestly say that
Mr. Smith has failed to achieve more of the things
promised in his campaign than any man we nave
known in public office in a generation.
stGovernor Smith probably never can seem as
honest and fair and wholesome to those who Oppos
ed him as he does to his friends-he could never
expect wholesome, steady support from the OPP
ponents to his political success. But In an age
like this-an age of optimism and progress-When
all the world is akin and one for the uplift OF
humanity, it is hardly right since the people have
selected a man for their chief magistrate, to do
less than accept their choice and spend all our
effort in building with him and clearing the oriars
from the paths of state that the welfare of the peo
pie at least may have an opportunity to push
along
ssMr Smith has not carried out all his promises
very true We know of very few who had any
idea he could do so in so short time Even some
of those who were most anxious for him TO carly
them out have weakened at the knees since the
stern work began just because the medicine has
grped little and they haven't the toreslghted-
ness to stand in until the result is accomplished.
Some of the governors good friends in Georgia
who were lying wake nights worrying for railroad
regulation now, simply because in retaliation the
railroads have stopped temporarily, are finding no
words sufficiently harsh to critcise him for dong
what they asked him to do Some men are some
times labeled F'welchers" and "crOakers" as they
are laid on the shelves of the catacOmbs OF time
they don't count much on whatever side they are
We read in the rules of politics that it is not
right to forgive, and that it is always wrong to
forget But that was the old way-the antique
method, the stage coach era, and we are living III
q grand and awful time when our words travel to
the ends of the earth on the Lighting when our
bodies are whirled through space like the COMETS
and when men more nearly unite for the uPlift OF
the race than has ever been known before. The
whole world is changing-is getting better
Thought is heaIthier-life is lOnger-homes are
happier-men are rcher-all goes more smoothly
because men know themselves better. Twenty
years ago the United States had $4,000 men in
prisons-today we have twenty million more pop
uation and only 81, 900 in prison. The world is
getting better-and why not all help it along!
cit is always the case with men who really do
things in this life that they are damned if they do
and damned if they don't, and we think the gov
ernor should feel very much encouraged over the
infaHible signs that he is doing something-men
finding fault because of what he has done, others
because of what he has not DONE"
TO Fitzgerald Pull Out. %
WILL ME?-ME WILL
Will we get the Soldiers Home?