Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-09-17
Some Things People Have Laughed FIT.
r-aIl for F'itzc,-ald or Pail Out.

whom IT, is mast that people were laughing at stew
anson for wasting his time f)oing with steam In
an effort to make 1t a power for the proPu's'"i'
of water craft. But alter awhile he aen6 noa1 up
the Hudson river without sails and the sKepGlcs
finally said that it would work.
Benjamin Franklin called down upon his neao
all manner of comment as to his sanity when ne
said that the lightnings could be haFnessed ana
used for the purpose of transmitting thoughts from
one CITY to another and from one man to another
at great distances apart. Franklin's experiments
with electricity after awhile gave to the world the
telegraph and cable.
In our grandfathers time if one said that 1t
would not be long before person could speak
personally with another at distance as great
as Chicago is from New York the person making
the prediction was considered as being subject
fit for the asylum silly and foolish, If not harmful
Still tho telephone of today is the result OF expel
ments then that when they were being made orot
fourth laughter from many.
A science advanced these things have ad'
vanced and today the NIarconi wireless telegraph
is almost at state of perfection and the wireless
telephone is fast coming into use altho but lew
Years ago some said the idea was not prl0t'olhe
and that the inventor chad found a toy"-some
thing to play with
And now we hear and read great deal about
the air ship Some say this too, Is toy-apiay tnIhg
and as for me will remain on terra hrma' But
in the light of the recent demonstrations by the
Wright Brothers and Others the time is not Tar
distant when we may travel the air as easily as
the sea or land.
Indeed the steamboat, the telegraph, telephone,
monograph, automobile, Roentgen rays, wireless
telegraph telephony and all these things that are
now every day and common place were but lately
looked upon as ideas springing from disordered
brains and not of much account.
Full for Fitzgerald all
We have received marked copy, of ''Thomas
E. Watson, the Man and the Politician, "by Louis
N. Foster We do not know Mr.. Foster but be
evidently knows Watson and what he says about
that renegade politician is plenty. We quote
few short paragraphs
ttYou may be sure that he will trail you
night and day, if need be, across the five
great continents to get even with you. have
never yet seen any substantial Or convincing
proof that he ever forgives or forgets an insult
or an injury. When you have most reason to
think that he has, you are suddenly brought
face to face with the fact that, like one of old,
he has only been "nursing his wrath to keep
it warm" Beware of taking the gratuitOus
advice of one who never does either Because
Mr. Bryan in 1896 did not kick Sewall over
the moon and across the Atlantic ocean, which
would most certainly have wrecked his party
and destroyed his own political fortunes for
ever, Mr. Watson has never forgiven him, not
withstanding the fact that Mr.. Bryan has all
along treated him with all the magnanimity
of his great nature. He has belabored the
Nebraskan ever since, although the latter has
never returned railing for railing. See how
he warmed up to Bryan Immediately after his 3
nomination ON the ticket with him, when just
beforehand, he had trained all his batteries on
him. Now he would go to any length to defeat
him for the nomination or election. Poor old
Machiavelli! He died all to 500 for his own
good and glory. Had Tom lived in his time,
or had he lived in Toms time, Tom would
have put him in class with tie kindergarten
kids Gould he now come back to earth, he
would give kings ransom to sit did Paul
at the feet of Gamaliel, and learn of this astute
latter day politician.
ssHe should be buried north and south, in
dicating thereby the manner of his life. Ample
room should be allowed for biting, butting,
kicking, and scratching. His political horo
scope would indicate that he was born in the
worst month of the worst year of the worst CEN
fury the world ever know, aud that his politi
caldeparturc promises ''nothiuy better" At,