Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-07-23
TUESDAY. JULY %. 1907.

K ing Edward may be hard worker, but we
haven't heard of him pitching hay.
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According to an Arkansas City, Kan, paper,
men who want drink must go four miles to geti
but they do not make as much fuss abouti as they
would about going two miles to church.
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The Fitzgerald Enterprise is expecting cotton
to 20 to Is cents this fall Lots of folks up this
way are expecting it to 20 even higher.-Early
County News.
WE'LL up there is upsome.
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Deal T. Jackson, a negro farmer OF Daugherty
County marketed the first bale of cotton OF the
year at Albany last Monday. The bale weighed
323 pounds and was fully middling. 1t was ship
pad to Savannah and will be sold at auction.
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The Judge of the City Court should be selec-
ted by the people. AppOintive positions in
variably fall under the sway of politicians and
that is not exactly what the people of this city
DESIRE Judging from the expressions OF dlsap-
prevail arising on all Sides The Originators of
the bill will display wisdom by changing that
feature of it.-Ben Hill County news.
You are dead wrong, Clarence The city
ourt of Fitzgerald, with elective officers, would
81 farce, nuisance and menace The election
81 superior cOurt,judges is all wrong, and we shall
ION see the end of it, But wouldn't we have a
sss of it if our city court judge should be under
~ obligations or for any reason want the favor
the rabble that came before him!
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The News would like to see the road commits
oners of Ben Hill County effect an organization,
that a definite and uniform system ofrOad build
might be inaugurated all over the county.
Ech an organization would prove valuable in sew
IA ways as the opportunity would thus be at
Hded of exchanging views and ideas, and the sue
sses or failures of any method or line of procee-
ire would be valuable as guide to the rest. If
he News attains her desires in the matter Ben
I'LL County will eventually possess the finest roads
any county in South Georgia Such system of
ads would be worth double their cost to Ben
i'll County and her farming interests.-Ben Hill
ounty News.
We can get along nicely for quite
lille with our present arrangements for a court
house altho of course we must at the proper time
axe county court house that would be a credit
the county. But what we need right now is a
stem of public roads, and we need them bad.
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In Harper's Weekly there appears an interest
SO article on the subject of prohibition, entitled
Dry Days in the South" Perhaps the most
liking statement made in the article is to the
ect that in the near future both of the great
tional political parties will have to declare for
against prohibition. The writer thinks that
ia be the absorbing issue in the campaign of
8S'I2 or 1916.
In view of the recent legislative action in
eorga the reference to this possibility is inter
ing The article is written by Edward Lssner,
Nd, in connection with the probability of making
&Ie question national one, the author says;
sProhibition is ceasing to be local question.
thas taken ON political aspect i'll Kentucky,
aenneSsee and other Southern states, and the fact
say also be recalled that it was due somewhat to
De temperance issue that Myron T. Her
sek was defeated for re election for governor of
hiO, and the first Democrat chosen to that office
Ice James E. Campbell defeated Joseph Benson
Xoraker back in 1889.
''The time, therefore, seems to be rapidly ap-
hrOaching when both the Democratic and Republi-
tan parties will have to take their stand the
nbiect. 1t may not be in 1908, for the tariff and
he trusts, economic problems that go to the means
oRr livelihood, naturally overshadow the ques-
81 of solcial order; but that 1912 or 1916 may
e the issue of prohibition the limitation of the
lie of intoxicating liquors as the subject of planks
khe national platforms of both parties is by no
ans improbable.
IL the Democrats and Republicans in the
already named have been forced to see the
kee thing, who shall deny that the
pc way to become national Ones