Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-25

The Enterprise will receive and forward
contributions to the Bryan Campaign fund. One
dollar is the size Of the poor mans contribution
and the Enterprise starts the list with one dol
lar and will publish the list Of contributors and
the amount of each from time to time and the
final receipt when forwarded. Enterprise $1.OO
Pull FOL Fitzgerald Pull Out.
The Legislature met today in extraordinary
session to consider the convict lease question and
the first business on the program was to re
ceive the report of the special commtte (which has
been several weeks investigating the convict
question and the lease system.
1t is believed in some quarters that the com
mittee will make two reports, which indicates that
politics is playing conspicuous part IN the
game If So no man can tell what the out come
will be.
Fitzgerald Pull Out
In commenting on Tom Watson's speech, at
Fairburn Editor Toney of the News says:
''During the first part of his speech he tried
to explain why he antagOnized H0ke Smith In the
recent gubernatoral race, but his explanation was
not satisfactory. He stated Gin brle) that be
supported Gov Smith in his first race on the dis
reimbursement issue, but never attempted to offer
a SINGLE solitary reason for giving his support 10
Brown"
Tom evidently had sense enough to know that
statement of the truth would not help his cause
and any other statement would not help his con-
science However, if either one must be violated,
there is little doubt as to which one would suffer.
Further on in it's account of Watson's visit,
the News says:
EEWhen reduced to it's last analysis his speech
was simDly anti Hoke Smith and anti Bryan, with
out giving single specific, states man like reason
therefor"
Tom has reason In each case. He is anti
Bryan because Mr.. Bryan is entirely above and be-
yond Toms class, and he is t-Hoke Smith, gen
eraIlv for the same reason and for the further rea
son that the Governor would not turn loose an
Augusta murderer because Tom (who had recelv-
ed large fee in the case) had supported the gov
ernor in his first campaign.
Fitzgerald Pull Out.
The picture of the eighty four old negro
lynched by the Springfield rioters brings to mind
a sad thought and brand new line of reasoning.
1t is claimed that the old negro had made shoes
for Abraham Lincon and that he lynched in
front of the Lincoln home.
The act is itself his tory making event. 1t
doesn't matter who was responsible for the old
negroes death nor what may be the punishment
m0C0u OuU W HIS CAC law oA1''O my
years after the emancipation proclamation an old
inoffensive freedman is lynched for no other Of
Tense than that of being negro, at the very
door of the old home of the emancipation
is evidence that is convincing to the averagemind
1t plainly shows the direction of the storm
that is sure to soon break over the two races
that are trying to live together in this country.
We may be mistaken but it looks to us Xix it
all means that the black man must die, or depart
1t is better to discuss the question now while all
heads are cool and all sections of the country are
calm.
1t might be possible for the negro to live here
with the dominant Caucasian if he fully
acknowledged that dominance and the superiority
of the race which nature only controls
The ballot and the laws in many of the states
that permits inter marriage of the races are IN a
large measure responsible for the outbreaks Xix
a the capital of Illinois last week.
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Every puff of the compress means that fifty
dollars worth of the greatest staple In the world
has been squeezed into the smallest possible pakage
to ship across the ocean to the factories that will
make it into goods worth many hundred dollars 81
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Cotton Will Be Higher.
We think so, and said so last week, OF course
no man knows if he did, he could soon own half