Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-01
Official Organ Of Ben Hill County.
SATURDAY, AUGUST /, 1908.

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A resolution condemning all newspapers i'll the
state that print liquor advertising was passed by
the Georgia Farmers Union at the state meeting
just closed in Macon.
The Union is strongly opposed to the organl-
zltiOn to the liquor traffic. and is standing as
unit back of the law in this state. AS an express
sion of their views, the organization in state
meeting condemned newspapers that admitted
liquor advertising to their columns.
Almost simultaneous with the action OF the
Farmers Union the state court of appeals hands
down decision which declares that the soliclta-
ton of whiskey orders by letters sent through the
mail is in violation of Georgia law
It would appear that John Barley Corn is in
trouble as usual.
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We are endeavorng to separate intellect and
manual labor; we want one man to be always
thinking and another to be always working,
and we call one gentleman, and the other an
operative; whereas the workman ought often to
be thinking, and the thinker often to be work
ing, and both should be gentlemen in the best
sense. AS it is, we make both ungentle, the
one envying the other despising his brOther
and the mass of society is made up of morbid
thinkers and miserable workers!--John Ruskln
Indeed many thinkers should be workers,
or what is better term, laborers. At least they
are bad thinkers-mo indeed; and it is quite
possible that many laborers would be more useful
as thinkers if they had the education and Oppor-
tunity.
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Fitzgerald's water, coming from an exhaust
less stream between two vast layers of rock eight
hundred feet below the surface, is as pure as 1t is
possible for water to be. The very slight traces OF
mineral is supposed to add to its healthfulness.
The water is pumped in large stream from this
deep well into large concrete reservoir, closely
covered and carefully protected, thence into the
large standpipe hundred feet high from which it
flows into the city mains, a constant stream. The
standpipe is also covered, altho it is above the
binary fight of birds. There is nothing that
could possibly eontamnate the water, for if there
is leak it leaks out and not in account of the
great pressure constantly on the mains.
Then what can be purerg Every summer from
some mysterious source, rumOr starts to the effect
that the city water is not pure and clean. Some
old Cad. about guesses that the standpipe is not
covered (decause they can't see it away up there.
He tells it to someone who concludes that there
must be number of birds roosting in the stand
pipe and of course quite few of them dead and in
the water, and before the gossipers realize that
they have got to work good, all sorts of ridiculous
yarns are being told about the city'S polluted wat
cr supply
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Copying from the Enterprise reference to
Tom Watson's candidacy, the Ocilla Dispatch says;
1.-THE editor of the Enterpris sat upon the plvt-
form frnm which Mr. Hoke Smith spoke in FitZ-
gerald in 1906, and from which was suspended a
large banner with these words, Every pupulst
votesfor Hokc Smith, pledge and ALL" Hoke
Smith candidate for the democratic nomination
waswillng then for the sake of a few votes to
ctioh and approve the words which on the
banner and the Enterprise not willing to mar
the effect by writing a single word of protests
sGhe editor of the Enterprise was delegate to
the State Convention at Macon which passed reso
buttons centuring the Democratic Executive Com
mittee because they had made effort to keep
che pOpulist from voting in democra tic primary.
SIN view of these facts why should Mr.. Watson
be criticised now, by his friends of 19O6s''
The Dispatch is slightly in error as to the in
BcriptiOn on the banner and as to who 'sat upon
the platform" but that does not matter Neither
nAe Editor of the Enterprise nor Hoke Smith was
ponsible for anything that was the banner;
but Mr. Smith did receive many Populist votes,
which is material to the coOtention of the Star.
Why should Hoke Smith or the Democratic
anventi0n reject Populist votesi We have al