Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-03
hing to gi'me, GIMME.

The brewers of Texas have pledged 81, 100000
to combat prohibition in Georgia. Alabama and
Mississippi. The confagration is spreading that
way
PuI Fitzgerald
Decidedly No, don't you be fooled by false
issues. 'False issues' have elected more disrep
utable men to the legislature than any other one
thing.
fol Fitzgerald
Judge Speer's Grand Jury, at Savannah,
last week indicted thirteen clubs and about forty
citizens of that city who have been identified with
the locker clubs.
Pull for Fitzgerald or vi
Macon's chief of police says the gamblers
must get out of Macon. We don't need them
down here, we are quite well supplied. We may
have more to say in the immediate future.
fO.
The Fitzgerald Enterprise says, 'EPull for
your town or pull OUT good motto brother
Effngham County News.
1t has built the biggest town in the length Of
time, ever built in Georgia.
for Fitzgerald Pull
We are contemplating raising the subscription
price of the three times week Enterprise to $3.50
If daily, C times per weekly is worth $780, GER
tainly thrice week is worth half as much If
d weekly is WOIGH 3I, d UuIICc d Wech OuSuG W U0
worth 80. 5O and is. if
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pun Out
STOP THIEF.
When the hue and cry is raised against thief
the thief has been known to save himself and con-
ceal his identity by joining the mob and crying
''stop thief Now to make local application, when
local candidate bowls out F'Don't be fooled by
false issues, it is the part of good sense to look
scrutinizingly at HIS false issues"
Fitzgerald Pull Out
W. j. Vaughn has sold the Milledgeville News
which he has ably managed several years and
built up to high place in the ranks of the best
newspapers in the state The new owners J. Q.
McAuIiffe and Aitchison. We have no doubt
that he has left the paper in good hands and
we extend hearty welcome to the new owners,
but we part with editor Vaughan with deep regret
May his health be restored.
The brewers and liquor people or distillers
have parted company, they say The brewers
believe that prohibition in the south is due
largely to the liquor traffic They calculate that
by starting campaign of education in the south
to show the difference between liquor and beer as
beverages that they can relieve the public mind of
the prejudice that exists against beer. They have
probably waited entirely too late.
Pull Fitzgerald or Pull Out
''We don't care to miss single issue OF the
Fitzgerald Enterprise for the next few weeks.
Editor Mercer has his gun sighted one of the
legislative candidates in that county and the old
sheet is going to be decidedly warm. This partc-
ular candidate is J. G. Knapp, of Fitzgerald. He
walked into the Enterprise office the other day,
threw the price of his card on the table and when
the editor modestly told him that he would oppose
his election, he said he didn't need theEnterprise's
help he could be elected without it, he a
ddate of the city of Fitzgerald and he didn't need
even the country vote. This was like shaking
red cloth in the face of Mexican bull, and the
battle has already begun. "-Shellman Sun.
Fitzgerald OF Pull Out.
Several years ago Fitzgerald had charter
that permitted the robbery of the tax payers and
the rate up to- two or three times what
it is at present 1t became unbearable. Nobody
wanted property in a town where they could not
stand the tax rate In consequence tax values
shrank, everything was for sale, and the property
in the city was worth about eighth it's present
yalue-about ten or twelve cents the dollar.
We were at the mercy of the grafters 1t was
necessary to appeal to the legislature to limit the
tax rate which was done Since that time the
citys growth has been the marvel of the people at
home, and wonder for every visitor. We will
take no backward step now. When the city char