Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-25
81 those eight years We prospcred with
competition.

Every a6nc III those eight years We prospered with
competition.
The last two or three months we have had our
first experience in the field of monopoly, we have
not changed price. Our advertising rate is the
same it has been for several years, 10 cents per
inch and cents per line of local. The job prices
arc the same and we are exercising greater care
than ever to turn out satisfactory work.
The files of the Enterprise tell the tale.
There is 'nothing doing"
With more business houses, larger stocks and
greater business in every respect than the city has
ever had the merchants have quit advertising
And for the first time in many moons one Oh
the best patrons of the job office came in and ask
ed for quotations, examined the weight and quality
of Stock and taking the quotations sent abroad for
prices for comparison. With two three job Offices
in town he would have phoned in the order and
not asked the price.
We arc getting out extras enough each week
to keep our little crew of bakers doz-
en-, busy
The expense is ours, the pleasure is yours dear
reader and the profit is all minus, plus all sorts of
hard work, which We enjoy, even when it comes
high.
Verify ''competition is the life of trade"
Full forF or
Some six weeks ago we received pamphlet
gotten up in the interest of the whiskey dealers
and distiIlers. The literature purported to advo-
cate a "Model Liquor Liscense Law" We
presume it is expected that the law would be nat
ional in it's effect or adopted generally by the
states.
The law would be q great thing for the liquor
people.
Colonel Thomas NJ Gilmore is the president
of the league and the official evangelist of the new
liquor law He urges the Importance of the wine,
beer, whiskey and collateral trades becoming a
a unit in the defense Of the trade and taking firm
stand for the elevation of the saloon and the wip-
ing ont of the low dives and the cheap groggeres
which are dreaded as a menace to the trade.
Some of the ideas embodied in the leagues
recommendations for model law are That all
licenses not outstanding be continued unless can
celled by majority of the voters; that the licenses
transferable, and that no license should be issued
under the proportion of less than one to every 500
population.
Representatives from all the leading brewing
companies of st. Louis, Milwaukee and other
centers of the industry, and from a large
number of the great distilling concerns of the
country. In addition to speeches by the liquor
men, addresses were made by several prominent
legislators and men of prominence in the public
affairs of Kentucky and the country atlarge. Coop
ers, coppersmths and Others indirectly interested
in the liquor trade were also represented at the
convention.
Cheap groggeries are to be wiped out, not for
the great harm they do the human race, but as q
s'menacc to the trade"
All licenses are to continue until voted out,
no municipal state authority must interior
and town the size of Fitzgerald must be content
with 10 or - places.
Indeed it is "model'' scheme, for the liquor
interest
Fitzgerald o
The fashion in women's dress emphasizes the
fraties of our civilization. We have considerable
advantage over the half clad African and the
blanket covered Indian, but until we have escaped
such follieS as the straight front" we have much
to accomplish in our own civilization.