Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-01-12


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The Enterprise will be glad for its contem-
porares with whom we exchange, to take up
the matter of foreign advertising, with the view
of agreeing on system that will simplify the
handling Of the foreign business protect the pa
pers of the state against the dead-beat advertls.
ers as well as protect us in the very important
matter of advertising rates. It is easy and mex
pensive. All that is necessary is that the pa
pers agree on some Joint agency representing
the papers of the state The plans must be
perfected before the meeting of the weekly
press association for the association conventions
are devoted more to pleasure than to business.
The Townsville Press does this paper an
injustice when it nsinuates we have been an adj
vocate of devil dens." No doubt the writer
preaching prohibition when the editor of the
Press was wearing three cornered pants. No
doubt the Press editor draws his inspiration
from MERGERS Lancaster as to who are the
good goodies" here in Fitzgerald.
Leader.
We must confess that the fact we have had
that the editor of Leader favors prohibition, for
during all the hot fight against the bar room in
Fitzgerald, we don't remember having seen any
very forciable prohibition sermons" in the col.
umns of that paper. However, we are pleased
to see the Leader crawl out of it's shell even If
it is after the storm is oyer.
We hope that our good brothers will not en-
volve us in their imbroglo. We are for peace.
Peace at any price. The very thought of even
slight discord shocks our nervous system. We
are never so indefinite on any question as to be
misunderstood, and in this case are for
peace, or a piece Of our lam baster.
Say that the sections are not fraternizing
They have Lee.Grant hotel at Fitzgerald
Gainesville News,
Yes we have many other evidence of frater-
nizing between the north and the south. The
streets of our city are named for union and
confederate generals. East from Main street
we have, Grant, Sherman Sheridan, Thomas
Logan Meade and Hooker of the Federal army
While west from Main Street our streets are
named Lee, Johnson, Jackson, Longstreet, Cor
don, Bragg and Hill. We have in Fitzgerald the
neucleus of the Blue and Gray association which
has already attracted wide attention North and
South and is dstined to do great work, in
bringing together the two sections that was so
bitter when the writer was child. But that is
not the extent of the fratenizning hereabout In
business relations and social relations and enter
marriage between northern and Southern fami-
lies have practically whipped out the distinction.
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Everybody may be said TO live by their
wits" that is, every sane man who takes care
of his business affairs is supposed to-
But
There is a class of men who live by that
sort of wit that takes advantage of the unwit-
ting.
About the great cities, particularly New
York city, there is tribe of scheming, auda-
cious gamblers, who gamble with other peoples
money. They use the United States mail every
day, through which they send millions of1etters
to well-to-do people in every state in the union
advising them how they can make quick and
large profits on money intrusted to them
They advise that cotton, or stocks of some par
ticular class, will go up or down Gas they happen
to guess) right away. Always, not yet but
soon.
And
Why shouldn't they!
The world is full of suckers
Somebody, probab big stock gambler, has
figured it out that at least one sucker is born
every minute; in the south the ~ fad thousands of
honest men, men absolutely straight and hon
est in ordinary business affairs, who respond to
these trickey, scheming letters, with the result
that millions, even hundreds of millions of dollars
are paid by Southern business men 10 support
these rascals who live by their wit-and by the