Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-03-19
Get Busy and Stay Busy.

engaged in raising seventeen dlHerent and
distinct kinds Of. trouble 1t has b e en-
truthfully said that An idle brain is the
DEVILS workshop" There is so much use
full work to be done in this and every other
towr that no one should be engaged in stir
ring up strife, and envy, and scandal; or in
puring business, running character, de-
stroying friendships. 1t much easier
and much more pleasant for the citizens of
any town to dwell together 10 peace. 1T
any have made mistakes let it be forgotten,
for there are very few among us who are
always right But the busy man hasn't
any time to growl and quarrel and fight.
Get busy at something useful" and stay
busy.-Cordele Rambler.
you never miss the water till the we'll
runs dry" Dawson has lost her militia COM
pany and now au effort is on foot to raise about
a thousand dollars from the city and county 10
pay off the debts Of the disbanded company and
encourage t 8 reorganization The Dawson
News, among other things says:
Major Wilkinson has been urging some
action by the council aud the county authori-
ties for some time in behalf of the local
company, but none has been taken, and
none was plated until the company
was mustered out Of service
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There is no more valuable aid to the po'
lice power Of the state or municipality
than an efficient military organization. The
national government arms equips and in
spects the soldiers, and they should have
proper quar- ers and be maintained proper
ly by that community in which they are
stationed and needed.
In the shooting up' Of Brownsville last
summer but one person was killed. In the
shooting up" of Atlanta recently fifteen
or more innocent negroes bit the dust
Fitzgerald Leader.
Pity tits. It's pity. Innocent negroes"
CD. Wouldn't that jar your mothers pre-
serves in Ireland? These innocent ne
groes" (?) didn't assassnate County Police
man Heard, OBJ, no! He was one of the
best officers on the force, and was on duty
when assassnated The negroes precipi-
tated this Atlanta riot, and a thank
Jehovah that the mob wa unorganized.
For had it been organized and had lead
er they would have Jared much worse.
respect the law, he need not fear the white
man. Anyway, the episode had the desired
effect. 1t stopped the outrages and assaults
upon the white women in and around Allan
ia. But the negro soldiers, who should have
acted as cusodians of the peace, shot up"
Brownsville through pure heliishness then
lied about it.-Broxton Journal
All of the above is unfortunate in view
of the very serious question involved 1t ought
never to be touched on by the ignorant or the
thoughtless writer. And the whose mall
evidence out weighs his judgement should care
fully shun the subject. The Atlanta riot is terri
BILE blot on southern civilization. We believe how
ever that it will be turned to good account-tbat
it has caused the thinking people to sit up and
take notice, has opened the eyes of the leading
men of the South, and that it sounds the death
knell of lynching and the mob spirit.
The ignorance and anti southern sentiment
that characterizes the first quotation, pals on
us.
The writer of the lines is utterly inca pabe
of forming an intelligent opinion the ques-
ton and unfit to express one that might be
formed for him. 1t is unfortunate that we have
in this particular section of the country, writer
who is not in sympathy with his race in so i'm
portant matter. A man who not shake off
the bitterness and animosties of the sixties
should curb his distemper or take it 10 more
congenial climate.
We speak by the card when state that
we do not need in Georgia man, who, in the
same breath that he condemns southern whites
for killing innocent negroes" palllates the acts
of vicious black soldiers, who in the expressed