Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-09-22

are criticsing the new law, complaining at the
The truth of the matter is:
The legislature has done the best it could un-
der the circumstances. We just now begin to
realize that there has been battle royal be-
tween the men who have grown rich on convict la
Dor, and the administration with barely majority
in the legislature.
The cost-the forty thousand dollars that the
extra session cost the state-is not to be consider
ed with the real issue involved, any more than the
trying of a case in court in connection with the
verdict of guilty or not guilty.
These who doubt that the lease system is at
an end have only to wait few months and take
note of what Governor Hoke Smith does next April.
Pull
The week closing with last Saturday was one
of the best known to commercial life in Fitzgerald
for many months In all lines the improvement
was marked. Local trading in general merchan-
disc always remains about the same with the nat.
ural increase that comes thru the ever increasing
population; but in furniture and such trades the
improvement was distinctly noticeable which shows
that there is a healthy financial feeling.
Dealings in real estate was feature and the
trades made were numerous and at good figures.
There is quite market for building lots in the city
and also for small farms just outside. Saturday
there was one option secured on a two hundred and
Fifty acre tract by party from Indiana who is
DESTROYS of locating in Ben Hill county and there
are several other deals reported being under
way for farm lands and which will probably come
to the selling point this week.
Indeed the future of Fitzgerald and it's sur
rounding country never looked brighter than now
Pun for Fitzgerald Ont
The following significant statements taken
from two Of our exchanges coming from different
sections are pregnant with thoughts that are not
spelled right out in the print:
"The Journal is being issued under many diff
culties of late but the greatest of all is the lack
OfmOney. tits, and has been, our desire and am
bition to give the people of this section a first
class local paper, but it is impossible to issue
such paper as we wish to on such scant
support, therefore, to make the Journal the pa.
per it should be, and wants to be, we again ap
peal to those who are due us on either subsrip
tion, job printing, advertising or any other
way, to come forward and settle up The am
mount each individual owes may not be much
bnt in the aggregate these little amounts, if
handed in at once, would greatly relieve our
present financial embarrassment"
Another paper puts it this way
eve apologize for all mistakes made in for
mer issues and say they were excusable, as
all we have to do is to hunt news, clean the
rollers and set type sweep the floor and pen
short items, fold papers, write wrappers and
talk to the visitors and distribute type and
carry water and saw wood and read the proofs
and hunt the shears to write editorials, dodge
the bills and dun the delinquents, and take
cusSing from the whole force, and tell our
subscribers that we must have money-we say
that we've no business to make mistakes while
attending to those little Matters and getting
our living on hoppertail soup favored with
inauguration, and wearing old shoes an no
collar and patch on our pants"
A hundred papers in Georgia are in about the
straits referred TO in the above clippings They
are being ''issued under many difficulties" ''The
greatest of all the lack of money" There is but
one reason and there can be but one remedy
There are too many of these little papers,
1t takes lots of hard work and some money
to run newspaper A dozen people work faith
fully six days in the week on this one and they
must be paid For nine years they have been paid
regularly but some of our neighbors have not
Jared so well and many of our exchanges have had
a hard road to travel
There is strange nfatuaton for newspaper
publishing. Men who would make success in al
most any average business take it in their heads
to publish paper where there is absolutely no ex-
cuse or the slightest probability of financial success