Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-05-21
Jesse Mercer will Win His Race.


prise seems to be in the lead for prison commits
sioner, and this is no surprise to his brethren of
the press who know him.
He is one of the strongest writers and most
fearless men in the state today. lie is staunch
advocate of Hokc Smith and the administration,
but that makes no difference to those who know
him, whether or not they with him on stat:
politics There is no politics i'll the race, Mercer
is the man for the place and Georgia needs him
badly on her prison board We recommend him
because we know him.-Sylvania Herald
Augusta and Savannah do not seem to be
worried over near beer Can it be. But that's
another story.
DON'T neglect to register as to be able to
vote at the city bond election June "a. The books
are open now and will remain open until June IA.
Remember your being registered for the county and
state elections will not grant you the privilege to
vote at the city election.
There's enough brightness in this old world
to gladden. all of us; what good does 1t do 10
eternally fret over unpleasant things that are
passed and gone. They cannot return unless we
bring them back in memory's chariot and house
them in the palace of fretfulnesS. There is one
receipt that works wonders in curing perslmlsm
(the blues) and that is: take smile and put 1T
on YOUR lips; plenty of kind words for your neigh
bors on your tongue; fill your mind with beautiful
thots, then mix every day with your fellow man,
never seclude yourself within the narrow confines
of ~, We or Mine"
Be thotful of those around you today and the
future generations will rise up and call you
blessed Try doing good deed-you will enjoy
it so we'll that you will want to do another. The
pleasure of doing good is the only one that does
not wear out. We are surrounded with so much
to enjoy we should all be happy and If we practice
being happy we shall be the better able to with
stand sorrow when it come to us. Learn to be
optimistic like Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
who, when she lost her only pig said, 'lets be
glad it's not one of the children"
There is truthfuness in the poets saying:
Life holdeth more of sweet than gall
For every one; matter who,
Or what their lot-or high or low;
All hearts have clouds, but Heavens blue
Wraps robes of bright around each woe;
And this is truest of the true:
That Joy is stronger here than grief,
Fills more of life, far more of years,
And makes the reign of sorrow brief;
Gives more of smiles for less of tears.
Joy is life's tree-grief but it's leaf.
A two-billion dollar congress-
Not so long ago the whole country was agog
over congress that had in two sessions appro
priated billion dollars from the treasury.
Now that body appropriates more than a
billion dollars in a single session and there Is
scarce any attention paid to it.
Has the country become Indifferent to ex
travagance that scatters with careless and lavish
hands the public funds? If the present extrava-
CANT methods prevail thru the next session of
this congress the only thing that can keep it from
being two billion dollar congress will be the
depletion of the treasury. And if the election
were out of the way there is doubt but that the
majority would go on spending money even if there
were none left in the treasury to spend
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Following period of extravaganza,
servatism regned for while and the natl
onal treasury accumulated healthy surplus.
Now, it is estimated that the deficit for 1907
OS and the extravagant appropriations for
19OS-9 will completely wipe out the treasury
surplus by June 80, 1909 when the lavishness
will either have to stop or debts will have
to be created.
1t used to be that the item OF pensions
was held up as a prolific source of republican
extravaganza; but other expenditures have
grown so large as to almost completely dwarf