Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-03-24
TUESDAY, MARCH "a, 1908.
The Cause Of The Panic.

led agitators, who Historically declare, that the
wise measures taken in this state to make railroad
travelling cheaper and safe; to make the collection
of overcharges and claims easier and the stopping
of the free pass evil has plunged Georgia into a
state of hardtimes.
The agitators know that the depression in
Georgia is no more the fault of Governor Smith,
than that he is to blame for 30, 900 men being out
of employment in Detroit, or the closing down of
canneries in Main; but, like drowning men after
straw they take to the financial question in the
hope of misleading the people into believing that
the reforms which have already benefited the
masses of the people of Georgia and which, if con-
tinued, will eternally bless them, wrong and
that it is these reforms that has caused the panic.
Governor Smith has enemies. Every man in
the worlds history that has fought for better con-
ditiOns for the masses has had enemies Governor
Smiths enemies men who belong to that class
who ARE RESPONSIBLE for the panic and they
know it and because they feel the hand of the
masses upon their necks they are crying out in
Judas like voice, and pointing to the defenders of
the rights of the people and saying "thcy did it,
not u.s.
Why not blame Smith for the San Francisco
earthquake or the Boer war, or the corrupt manip
ulaton of the Chicago q Alton, the crash of the
chain of banks in New York and Brooklyn,
Russias financial shortage or Germany's hard
finest
These things are all part of the present finan
cial unrest in America! And not alone is Georgia
affected but all the United States and Europe as
well.
But Governor Smiths enemies will continue
to cry out against him until their Threats are sore
and until his vindicatiOn comes from the masses
which will gag them into silence, for a time at
least.
He stands today, amid the whining, unreason-
able criticism of the band of treacherous railroad
lobbyists and rum selling politicians, stronger and
frmer for the rights of the great masses of the
PEOPLE OF GEORGIA determined to carry out
THEIR WISHES and to fight unfinchingly for
THEIR RIGHTS.
Fitzgerald o
t'Our friend Jesse Mercer, is making manly
race for prison commissioner, and The Gazette
would like to see him win. Mercer is good man
and can be depended upon to do his whole duty
when he takes the oath of Office" Darien Gazette.
Col. Mercer appreciates the support of such
men as the editor of the Gazette, Richard Grubb,
and coming as it does unsolicited, makes him feel
the more anxious to win in the race, and to live
up to the oath of the Office to the letter. if elected
Fitzgerald o
Every knock is boost. Every time we knock
a wide opener we boost all that is good in the
town; when we lambast CRATER we boost the citys
commercial interests and encourage the men who
have made Fitzgerald great Yes, when the Enter:
prise does the knocking it's veritable boosting
battery that has contributed more, they tell u.s. to
the moral and material progress of Fitzgerald than
any other agency. Then why should we not feel
proud when the toughS abuse us! Is it not to our
credit and everlasting honorg
Pull Fitzgerald
Wonder what was in that letter anyway?
for Fitzgerald or Pull Out
The recent rain was boon to farmers in this
section.
Fitzgerald o
John d. Rockefeller says that in all his life he
has never used whiskey. But the Standard Oil
Co., has made coloring matter for whole lot that
others have used.
To- Fitzgerald
No Pauline, the Southern Express Co. has not
joined the prohbitionistS They simply wantjugs
Grated so they can carry more jag juice in their
cars by minimizing the space.
Pull 70
There seems to be a good deal of whiskey ad-
vertisng in many of the state papers While we
do not wish to question criticlse contempt
raries business methods still we cannot help but
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