Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-28
ne H. FOUNTAIN.

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Sheriff w. r. Fountain who has just finished
his first year as sheriff announces his candidacy
for re election Like most of the county officers
he asks vendication at the hands of the people at
the primary. lie stands on the record he has
made and confidently expects the endorsements OF
the voters He is stronger than ever and will prob
ably not have competition at the March primary
Pull for Fitzgerald
Papers intended for general circulation should
not be in the hands of or under the domination OF
degenerates. Knowing how to write is one OF the
least important of the qualifications of an editor.
Personal nonentities are the poorest apologies
for newspaper writers. The average reader of a
newspaper is not only entitled to the published
thoughts and suggestions of a representative clt-
zen but every subscriber should know that he is
not putting into the hands of his family the writ
ings Of a callus cuss who writes to hold job, and
distorts facts and perverts truth for sake of the
sensation
The tendency in Georgia is up.
Give us representative clean men on the press.
Pull for Pull
Panama Canal To Cost $500, 100000.
From Scientific American
''The Chairman of the Canal Commission,
Colonel GoethaIs, ex-senator Blackburn, the
present Governor of the Canal Zone, recently
appeared before the Interstate and Commerce
Commission of the House to give informotlon
regarding the present state of affairs at the
Isthmus Colonel Goethals stated that, In
spite of the great difficulties due to the wet
season in the tropics, which he had expected
to be the cause of much delay, the work was
making more rapid progress thanhe had looked
for Nevertheless, he gave it as his opinion
that the final cost of the canal would reach
$500 600, 900, this including, of course, the
10000, OOO paid to the Republic of Panama
in purchase of the strip of land from ocean to
ocean known as the Canal Zone, and the $40,
5000 paid to the French company as the
price of the canal. This increase in COSTS due
largely of course, to the greatly increased dl'
mension of the canal and to the proposed in
creased dimension of the canal and to the pro-
posed increase of the locks from the original
width of 80 feet up to ITO feet or more. Col.
Cocktails stated that, at the present time, the
number ofIaborers on the payrollso the canal
and the Panama Railroad fluctuateS between
80, 200 and $1,000, and that it consists mainly
of Spaniarls, Italians, and West Indian
negroes. There is no scarcity of labor and, in
fact, during the last two months there have
been more men available than could be employ
ed Outside ola few machnists' helpers there
are no Americans on the labor rolls.
Pull for Fitzgerald or Pull Out
THE BREWERS THREAT OF CIVAL MAR.
''Chicago's 'whiskey rebellion" has taken
another step in it's defiance of law and Amer
lean institutions. On Sunday, January 10,
the speakers of the SO, called 'United Societies
outdd themselves in their former reckless
ranting andopenly threatened armed resistance
to the laws of the state of illinois, In q meet
ing at Schoenhofen Hail. one, Emil Hoechestr,
who, by the way, is deputy sheriff of Cook
county, said: