Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-04

son. Inc men VINO cODSCtnUly UeU Will w dill
street gamblers sometimes won few hun
dred dollars but in the long run lost out as mat
ter of course because they letting against the
man who played the game and of course must lose
In the absence of the bucket shop the temptation
is so far removed that instead of betting on the
future market they keep busy at something useful.
double column editorial in the Waycross
Journal inveghs long and loud, and logical y
against the talk of riot between the races in that
city Immediately following the lynching that oc
cured there last week.
report was started 'Ethat that the negroes
we're gathering near the old fair grounds and ex
pected to march thru the streets killing every
white man in sight" The Journal is correct in
the stand it takes anent such rumors, but the bot
tom of the trouble is deeper down than that 1t
is one of the big questions that confront the Ameri
can people, Can the two races live peacably to-
gether?
Tom Watson uses the head line E'EX. President
CIeveland's Death as an excuse for publishing
column or so of ''tommyrot' we use the term
advisedly about the great crime of the age, the
issue of two hundred and sixty five millions of gov
eminent bonds by Mr. Cleveland.
Notwithstanding the fact that the whole
amount involved was much less than half our an
nual appropriations.
Mr. Watson calls it lone of the most infamous
wrongs ever perpetratedn althO the total annual in
terest does not amount to twelve million dollars,
and in the same article Mr. Watson charges
that one item in the Tariff Bill, passed that
wear, robbed the people Of this country Of fifty
million dollars per year. Mind you, the difference
in what would be legitimate interest on the Bonds
and the interest permitted in the sale of the bonds,
would be but small part of the twelve million
dollars annual interest.
If one item in the Tariff Bill costs the people
fifty million dollars annually, then what must be
the total tax or cost of the tariff law as compared
with the small difference in what the enemies of
Mr. Cleveland calls an exorbitant rate and what
would be reasonable and just rate Of interest, on
the bonds.
That bond issue has been made to do service
by the demagogues all these years, and now that
the greatest of democrats has passed off the stage
OF action, we trust that the hippant flannel mouth
ed political demagogues will find something else for
use in bolstering up their rotten politics. MI
Watson admits in the same article in which he
charges the great crime, "that it is true the MI
Cleveland was personally incorruptibe, that he
had the courage of his convictions, and that he
meant to do what was right, as he saw it, but he
had imbibed the financial ideas of Wall street. and
this made him the unconscious tool of Wall Street
fnanciers. He doubt honestly believed that
Wall Streets theory of finance perfectly sound
and Just In acting upon that belief, he was no
doubt sincere
The fact that Tammany hated him bitterly,
was immensely to his credit
We think that it is to his credit also that he
never agreed with Mr. Watsons wild cat theories.
The senate Thursday morning passed strin-
gent anti trust bill, as introduced by Senator
Weaver. 1t provides for the prosecution and
severe punishment of corporations or lndlvid-
uals found guilty Of selling at lower price in
one community than in another for the sole
purpose of crushing competition. The bill was
aimed at the Standard Oil Company and sim
liar one is pending in the house.
Several senators spoke in favor OF the meas
ure. Mr.. Weaver read figures showing that
the Oil trust had at one time sold it's product
for 174 cents gallon in one community and
81 cents in another.
Last Tuesday we had an editorial on the above
subject, atho we had knowledge of a bill of
that kind before the legislature. The editorial in
full follows
..THE MEDICINE FOR ROCKEFELLER.n
ttWhen we say Rockefeller we mean the Stan
dard Oil Company. We are not a doctor nor
the son of a DOCTOR but if the law required