Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-17

In all the ages Of the world .the.poor, or rather
the masses of the people have been oppressed by
the strong Usually il has been.a naatterof6lasses
patriciaps agais the plebeians, but now it is the
great corporations against the common people or
the public.
For time the railroad corporations menaced
the state and generally imposed on the public but
the masses resented and largely rjghted the
wrongs For tjmeit locked like we were going
to the other extreme, that theTaroads would Dot
be permitted to grow rich as rapidly as they once
did Now il Is SUCH corporations as the Western
Union Telegraph and the Southern Exp ess Co.
They mast IjecoIftroIed or they will control. The
Legislature and Congress must DO something
and Of conrss they 6Il restrain these crafty mer-
CHESS, inefficient monopolies. ~
A biittoihrS$3 penalty onTeIegragh Com
panies for failure 6 render q proper and reason
able service failed in the laet Georgia Legislature
but some law Of the kind is absolutely necessary to
protect the people against the monopoly that cNorts
price that entities its patrons to prompt service
but which is VIGOROUSLY unreliable and tardy.
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F,tzgcra'd is trying 10 start daily paper
with telegraphic news service. This is one of
Idot growing LOWDS Vi eOutH NeOISlfh anu w hCh
they get through with the sanitary improve
~ ments that the city is now working OIL it will
be an ideal spot to live. However, the claim
that they make that many north Georgians
are leaving the red hills to go there to farm, is
mistake. The red hills were never better
thought of than at the present time and the
fact that land in north Georgia is rapidly in
creasing in value is q proof of this.
South Georgia is all right except for the fact
that that there is so mnch fever down there.
S0medo not suffer from this and in that case
that part of the state is a suitable place to To-
cate But up here we have as rich land as
there is anywhere and TO add to the other adj
vantages we have q climate that is more even
and natural drainage that makes this section
one of the most healthy in the country. And
when you stop to think about-i5 health is one
thing that money cannot buy and even if you
have farm th,tt will produce over abund
antly and have net health you cannot enjoy
the fruits Of your labor, and it is well to re-
member this.
Last summer two families removed to Lincoln
county to q south Georgia town, lured there
by the flaming advertisements oft in the state 4
papers; buf they are trying to sell out and to
return here. They give rs q reason for this
is that they have none Oh them been well since
goI0g down there
Still when south Georgia has learned how to
get rid OF the mosquitoes, malaria and malIg
nant typhoid that section of the state viii be
as desirable TO live in as any 0ther.-Lincon
Journal.
Editors good people as rule, they nearly
always aim to be right, but editor Boykin has fall
en- into error and committed grievous wrong in.
the above. Our guess is he is writing on SUB
ect that he knows little about, because know
he would not Intentionally and wiIlfully mistake
the truth as it appears in the above article.
''South Georgia is alright except for the fact
that there is so much fever down there" he says.
We will stake our reputation and hundred dollar
as matter Of expense in conducting the investi
CATION that we arc as free fxom fever in Ben Hill
county as are the people in the good old county Of
Lincoln. That We have smaller percentage o.
deaths, and That people live as long.
The only indication of q delibsrate purpose to
be unfair in the above quoted article is in the last
about the two families who moved to
aSouth Georgia town. There might be three f1mi-
lies move to the healthiest town in the world and
none of them ''be well since going down there. =
There are districts in Georgia where the ma.
lara makes il unhealthy, but Georgias bigstate
aud South Georgnis the big end of it, and there is
no part of Georgia that is freer from malaria than
Ben Hill county There is nothing to produce
malaria in all of this section.
Pull 70 Fitzgerald