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

The Democratic leaders expecting victory
this year.
for Pull
Macon claims to be the hottest city in the
country, that is it was that hot Thursday and Joe
Hill Hall wasn't at home either.
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull
The Enterprise is intensely interested in the
price of spirits of turpcntine and of cotton. At
this of the year these two items are of great
importance to this section.
Pun fol- Fitzgerald
1t is now certain that the beer tax will be
5000 90 per; that is the state tax, the municipal
tax will be fixed to suit the various city govern
ments.
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In preparing the farmers exhibit planned by
the Business Mems League, it is well enough TO
take advantage of the State Fair to be held in
October and collect here such an exhibit as will DC
credit to the county of Ben Hill and send to
Atlanta to be exhibited there
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull
Ike Bashinski the most celebrated notorious,
famous and Infamous of all the blind tigers, at
ter being fined the full limit of the law and sen
fenced to prison and to work on the streets of Ma
con- appealed his case secured his liberty on bond
and Immediately returned to his illicit traffic in ar
dent spirits He says that it is absurd that the
police should come to his place every time they
are looking for a tiger. He probably thinks they
really don't want to find one.
Fun for Fitzgerald or
A good paper is one thing necessary to a
good town and the good people must sup
port it-must own it and control it.
Fitzgerald Enterprise
We believe everything in theabove clipping
from the Enterprise except the last clause in
which it says the people ''must own and con
troll it," OF course good paper is necessary,
and in order to have a good paper it must
have good support, but the community idea
of ownership and control is not good one.
The Enterprise bears the individuality of it's
editor, not the community. Suppose all the
good people of Fitzgerald owned stock in the
Enterprise and the editor nothing but a
figure head to express the whims of the good
people, you would have mess of it sure
Coffee County News
We said the GOOD people must own and con-
troll it, by that meant to say that the Editor
must not be under the influence of the other sort
of people.
Next Monday the jury box revisors will
uerCake Gno Important uuUleS lDcuInUcHG On Uncln,
about every two years. that is going over the list
of the tax payers of the county and placing in the
jury boxes the names of those tax payers of full
age who are worthy to be selected for the very i'm
portant duties of the juror.
The jury system, said to be only just and
righteous system in the civilized world, must be
safe guarded by the men selected by the Judge of
1otorD ybo ic md vbO iC
not competent or fit for the duty. man is not
entitled to the honor of having his name in the
jury box simply because he pays taxes or because
he is man of intelligence or because he is man
of high moral character, but good juror should
have all of these qualifications. Some of the most
conspicuous and even public spirited men in every
county are utterly unfit for jury services, they
have no reasonable conception of the great princi
pies that under lie the jury system, and some of
them have no prosper understanding of the oath
of juror regard for the same The revsors
selected by JudgeWhipple for this county are good
men, by that we do not mean merely good citizens
but competent for the serious duty of selecting Ca
pabe and conscientious jurors from among their
neighbors, and we believe that they will do their
duty well next week. and bravely leave out of the
box the names of their fellow citizens and neigh
5ors who may have prejudices against the enforce
ment eff certain laws against the evidence of a
certain class of witnesses that for one reason or
another will not carefully ntelligently and impair
As-TY ILL.,