Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-29


If the south is growing rich at the rate OF
III million per day, how long will it take us 10
own the balance of the ball?
Governor.elect Hoke Smith has quit work
ing for money. Well, we did that several years
ago, that's how we came to be well OH
The camera has done it's faithful work, and
the people throughout the civilized world are
gazing on photographs of street scenes in
the earth-quake-stricken city of Kingston.
Personally we are gratifed at Harvey Jor-
dams vindication. He may not be the best man
for president of the association, but he
deserves the treatment he received at the as
sociation's hands.
FITZGERALD is attracting men with capital
men seeking investment men looking Tor ousl-
So opportunities, men looking for healthy
xomm unity in which to educate their Children
THAT'S why there is not a vacant business house
or residence in the city, and that is why our
real estate is bound to be much better in price
than it is today
The people of the South are richer by two
billion, six hundred and fifty million and odd
Hollars and few cents every twelve months,
And this i'm mediate section of Georgia will show
ratio of increase so much greater than the
HVerage that would open the eyes Of men seek
nk Investments.
The papers over the state are trying to
ssh Hoke Smith into the UnitedStates senate
bo% %aly 10 emf There
IS use Of such haste in this matter. He will no
N&Nbt reach the senate all right when the prop
lime comes.-LaGrange Reporter.
Why sure boys you might as well take 1t
ksy and let your hair grow.
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All laws are made to be enforced, all officers
harged with the enforcement of laws are elect
to enforce them, are expected to enforce
hem. Good bad and indifferent laws, all OF
hena, should be enforced as long they are
&Ms. The officer who fails in such duty is a
eFelict, and should resign should be i'm
ssched
The Ben Hill News is the latest candidate
the public favor in Fitzgerad's newspaper
Nld We congratulate Clarence Lee and
harlie Brightman on the first issue of the News.
|s neat and newsy and, better still, it is clean.
bespeak for them generous treatment by
people of the county.
Counting two negro publications and a
#&nthly secret order journal, there are seven
oers now published in Fitzgerald. Entirely
many for the prosperity of all, but we have
feason to guess that the News will be the
Ak to fail to make dividend or be the hndmost
The race for patronage.
al friend of the Enterprise informs us of a
turdsy night incident in which several small
AlIdren took part some playing highway rob.
rs, others innocently acting the victim. The
Tins naturally got the worst of the game, and
they had not been consulted about the pro-
IN, they naturally felt aggrieved, and their
rents some what incensed.
These family troubles are sort of DANCE
as things to tamper with and we refer to the
kident simply to make point, which is,
at children, good or bad should not be per-
Nstted to roam the streets after dark. 1t will
Insisted by some that that is the parents
afr, that it is not the province of the city or
tate government to interfere. They call it
ternalism, and we suppose it is. But our
is that the lack of paternalism at home
&&nsd be made up with paternal police regu1a-
We have not the slightest patience with the
xeHt against paternalism. If it is pater-
TO prevent a parent from working his
"a the cotton factory, if it is paternalism to
az infant boy from smoking cigarettes,
ternallsn to ring a curfew and clear