Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-09-28

lender walking side by Slde engaged III peace1u
conversation. This is the great south which Irep
resent; the south which before the civil war stood
first in commerce, first in agriculture and first il
the halls of the national congress, and which comes
today marching with the tread of giant on to it,
former supremacy"
Now that sounds exactly right to us. W.
love man loaded with that sort of inspiration az
we despise the man of crouch and grumble whC
continually predicts eternal destruction.
Fitzgerald
Our Careless Congressman.
AS represented by his partisan supporter, thu
Albany Herald, Mr.. Jim Max Griggs, ans
wering ROddenbery's charge that he refused tx
vote to prohibit the sale of whskey in the Phil
pines, makes statement that causes Southern
man shame at the insignifcancy of it's congressional
representation
He confessed that he thought so little of the
PHILIPPINES that he had recollection of the issues
at all and had to appeal to the clerk to find out
''where he was at" We are not now concerned
with the subject matter of the issue between the
two candidates. What saddens us is the reveal
tion of the Indifference of Southern representa-
tive to the great questions of the age and ma
ton.
Here is great people whom the fortunes OF
war have placed under care and through whom
we became related to the other great powers of
earth. A people that indicates new mission
among the nations of the world as governing peo-
pie, as philanthropic people, as a humanitarian
people, and we have one hailed, at least by the
Albany rabble, as the greatest statesman Georgia
ever had, proudly and disdainfully declaring that
he thought so little of the wards of America that
he did not know whether he had ever voted to
make them sober or drunken; whether he voted to
help them to a better or meaner life; whether he
favored a policy that meant elevation or perma-
nent degradation
Underlying this confession is the fact that in
public life craftsmanship, that is able to com
prehend broad relations and enlarged Opportuni-
ties is supposed at least by congressman to be
secondary to the tactics of holding Office
Careless of national responsibilities but in cutting
pie to the voters. What docs the veal of millions
for time and eternity mean to these little fellows
Rural routes and star post offices the supreme
destnes of men, so they are active in placing the
peoples money where it will make them most
votes.
No wonder that the South counts so little in
congress- The little fellows we send there feel so
little interests in international affairs that nobody
notices them. The essential conception of their
congressional calling is get there and stay there.
Really we ought to change the names of the
office Instead of representative in congress-
we ought to dub them ':Dist1ict solicitor of plums
and pie,'' for the consumption of small minority
at home.
To his old sobriquet 'Sunny jim" We
must now call him Careless Jim" Indeed it
would be the best lesson to public men to leave
our careless congressman at home and send some
body there who would rise to the dignity and
breadth of congressional esponsibility.-Thomas-
vile Times Enterprise
Editor Mccartney hits the bulls eye in the
above criticism of the man who has represented
the Second Congressional district ten years
The prohibition claims of Griggs are so ridicu-
lous that believe the people of the district will
resent the palpable absurdity at the polls and end
a sober to represent them in the Matte nal
Congress.
The plum and pie getting proclivity of the
small men who conSpre with other small men from
other states to pifer the treasury for small appro-
prations, intended mainly to appease the consttu.
encys is the very cheapest craftsmanship"