Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-09-14


some days ago in these columns we would not
countenance bodily harm or personal injury nor
even an injustice to any negro tenant or property
owner And we do not believe the men who are
battling against the menace to their property and
homes should be classed as law breakers. On this
point it should be borne in mind that those who
appear to be willing to put them in that light
should come into court with clean hands Men
who have countenanced the lawlessness of this
negro neighborhood and permitted and wnked at
it's vice come with sorry bravadO to the rescue CT
the majesty of the law.
East Oconee is rapidly becoming the toughest
of the tough neighborhoodS. If the administration
has not winked ut its IawIcssncs, sin and vice it has
at least been weak and ineffective in it's effort to
suppress it. We arc as much opposed to one sort
of lawlessness as another and while we condemn
any unlawful act on the part of the respectable
white citizens who resent the encroachment on
their homes of the black blight of disreputable
negro dives, they have grievance and one that
ought to interest every good citizen In the city.
The undesirable people ought to flock to themselves
in some remote quarter where their presence will
not iniure the property and their sin will not in
suit the homes of respectable people.
This affair has been magnfed by the irritating
interference of two or three property owners, who
are willing to encourage race feud for a paltry
monthly rental fee and who are themselves liable
to Indictment for leasing their property to these
disreputable characters.
Pull for Fitzgerald Pull Out.
The Enterprise is for Law and Order, not Law or
Order Both are better than either.
Full Cor Fitzgerald or
When cotton went to cents during Mr..
Clevelands administration he was blamed. vi
course he had no more to do with it than the rock
of Gibraltar has to do with the rocky mountain
goats but demogagues went on the stump to tell
the wondering rabble how the failure of ''16 to ~
had destroyed values.
There is a money stringency now, not because
there is less money or lack of confidence on the
mart of those who hold it, but for the simple reason
that the demand is greater than ever before in the
history of the world and the demand for new en-
terprises such as railroad extensions and improv-
ments, rolling mills and the opening up of new
countries, make money dear Every community in
this country and in every part of the globe is pro
ducing more than it consumes. The whole World
is prospecting and out of this wide spread prosper
ty comes the money stringency, or what is more
correct high priced money
And
Asa result railroads and large corporations
doing business on borrowed money, lind IL neces-
sarv to curtail. Conditions that forced the great
Pope manufacturing company with capital OF Slo,
600 900 into receivers hand is, in Georgia, lald at
the door of the late legislature and the governor IS
roundly abused by both the fools who know no
better and by knaves who are willing to pl ay any
role for political advantage.
Full for Fitzgerald Pull Out
Watson's Jeffersonian of Thursday starts an
editorial
"WHY NOT PROSECUTE THE EXPRESS
COMPANIES?
Not long AGO one of the five great Express
COMPANIES declared dividend of two hundred
Der cent, net profits upon the capital invested
The sum total of the loot divided among the
robbers. Of this one company, was twenty four
million dollars"
Well we're not wanting to prosecute the Ex-
press company or anybody else, but we would be
Glad TO get reasonable service for the price we pay
the contributions we make to the 2OO% dlVl-
dends
Thursday morning we phoned the local office
that we had a package for DELLA. 1T is customary
here for the company's wagon to collect packages
from the patrons in the business district. They
answered that it would go OIL in the afternoon we
INQUIRED whether it would be on the l2'4O train.
They replied ''No but on the Seaboard about
O'Clock. We were in hurry to get the package
delivered to Wallace Hanlon ut Ocllla who had
written ssrushn on his order. At $3.50 the pack
ona ,vas still in the office and we phoned them