Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-02-21
Pull for Fitzgerald or pull out.

was asked the other day for and expression
about the pay of preachers
Mr.. William said;
II do not think the city preacher needs a
raise but the preacher laboriug in places of
5000 inhabitants and under, Oh, how he does
need better attention financially.
why talk about your hard life there it is.
The country preachers life and work will take
the cake every time.
do think they need larger salary Well
l should say so. Many of them are promised
5000 year and are able to collect only about
one-third of that amount.
And vet Their are some people mean enough
to cuss and abuse him wien he leaves the place
owing small balance on his grocery bill. MY,
my, how much some folks have got to answer
for Yes, let's raise the preachers salary Let's
give him what he's WORTH
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The Fitzgerald Enterprise discovers, thro
a correspondent, that Fitzgerald is growing
more rapidly than any other two dozen towns
10 South Georgia, mot excepting Albany, Tiff
ton, Bainbrdge ct. al" Good! A town that's
doing all that should tickle the pride of every
man in the state. We hope the Enterprises
correspondent has not in the excess, of his eu-
N,
Certainly our pride is tickled. We did
not make the discovery thro a correspondent,
we simply quoted the correspondent as support
log our conclusions, already formed.
We do not know how long we will keep up
the lick but it is evident to every observant man
who is at all posted as to our growth and deVe'
opement, that unless there is some interruption,
Atlanta and Birmingham must look to their laur-
els. We mean no invidious COMPARISON. for COM
parsons are always odious. Certainly Albany,
Triton nor cambridge have no reason for envy.
They are prospecting beyond expectations of the
most sauguine, but as for Fitzgerald she is TAX
ing on the airs of boom.
1t is generally supposed that people are
afraid Of booms, ia about the same sense that
an old maid is afraid of beau However
skeery given municipality may be, there is
hankering for boom that will not down
thehankerng nor the boom.
state road from Chattanooga to Savannah
full length of the state to connect at Chattanoc'
ga with system reaching the lakes at Chicago
via Cincinnati is one of the possibilities of the
future decidedly more than a pipe dream
Governor elect Hoke Smith has evolved the
idea which is attracting serious attention from
men capable of putting the plan into execution,
if the Georgia Legislature is willing.
Mr.. Smith has written a Chicago inquirer
on the subject;
MIR. SAITH S LETTER
Il am very much interested in the rail-
road rates from the lakes to Georgia. Our
state owns railroad from Atlanta to Chat"
tanooga and there is strong sentiment IN
favor of extending it to Savannah.
IF Cincinnati would reclaim control of
the line built by it's citizens from Cincinnati
to Chattanooga, aud Cincinnati aud Chicago
would join ia a movement for the construc-
ton of a line from Chicago to Cincinnati,
thereAm be made through trunk line
from Chicago to Savannah operated solely
for the purpose of paying expenses and it,
terest on the actual cost of construction
without the burden of watered stock and
bonds.
Such line would prove beneficial not
only to the great cities through which it
passed but to broad territory ad jacent to
the line. 1t would regulate freight rates
from the central northwest to the southeast.
1t would reduce freight rates more than Is
per cent. 1t would have marked influence
upon our trade relations
II give you the liue of thought, which isou
my mind, because believe the time must
come when the question of cheap transpor-
tation from Chicago to the southeastern
ports will be one which must interest your
citizens as it now interests the people of our
sections"