Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-02-09
City Enjoined.

City Enjoined.
A restraining order against the city coun-
Gil has been granted by Judge Whipple restrain
ing them from paying the money voted at the
last council meeting to the ex-saloon keepers.
There is a strong sentiment against the return
of this license, and the matter will be fought
out in the courts between the city council and
the protesting tax payers.
RIA
There is general dread for the health of the
town the coming sum mer and although it is with
out slight reason it is calculated TO do great In
jury. Whieit is true that we have quite sufficient
population for sanitary sewerage, there is
positively no good reason why thourough
scavenger service cannot keep the city as free
from disease germs as the average village of
500 people. half dozen scavenger wagons
that will not cost more than the interest on
bonds, can keep this town as clean as farm
from everything that would create sickness.
MM
The following editorial from the Albany
Herald is not only true in every assertion made
in it, but they are tme-worn truths, patent and
plausible, but il is only half of the truths be-
longing to the great question treated-probably
not near so much as half 1t would probably
take much more than column to contain the
"other half of the truths. But here is t b e
Herald's half:
REGULATED BY LEGISLATURE
There are certain men who going to
drink liquor as long as they and it remain
on the same continent. Laws may come
and laws may go; saloons, dispensaries and
ho inf Of
existence, and the good and the bad may
contend with varying fortunes for supre"
macy; but Col kaintuck is going to have his
ulep, Maj. Boozer his four fingers straight,
and Weary Willie his large schooner for
Mickey" or know the reason why.
There are hundreds of thousands of men
who consider the right to drink whatever,
whenever, and wherever pleases them, their
inalienable brthright, and drink they will.
Make laws against drinking and they will
break the laws.
Move whiskey away from them, and they
will move, too.
Close the express and freight depots
against them, and they will send special
messengers stop the messengers, and they
will make their own alcoholic poison.
If every drop of whiskey in the United
States were to be poured on the ground to-
morrow and it should be made known that
not another drop would be distilled in ten
years, the next day would witness a most
astonishing exodus to Mexico Canada and
the lands beyond the seas,
When the time shall come when every
man is sober, aud the wine that is red
tempteth not, millennium will not be far off.
May God speed that good day!
Will its advent be hastend by decreeing
to the unthinking, the careless and dissolute,
YOU SHALL NOT INDULGE?" Or
may it's coming be better FASTENED by teach
ing all that danger turks in the cup
which cheers, and that temperance, love and
contentment, travel hand in hand?
Dash the cup from drunkard's hand and he
will drink again,
Teach him to fear it and the dangers that
lie within 10, and he will throw it from him.
Strengthen bin in his resolution to shun
it, and the chances are that he will fight to
free himself from the bondage, it has placed
upon him. His Il will" is worth your
You shall!' thousand times over.
Yes, drunkard will have his dram" in
spite of legislation and other things, including
highwater. It is not so much to dash the cup
from the drunkards hand nor indeed to teach
him TO fear it and it's dangers, as it is to keep
the temptation from the drunkard's son.
Make it as difficult as possible for The
drunkard to folow-his bent, and make it i'm
probable that the drunkard's son will follow 10
his Sires footsteps, and remove the temptation
from the sons of men who are not drunkards
There IS but Gre arpument-one single