Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-07-04
An Appeal to The Men Of
Fitzgerald.
Continued from First Page

able district of Central 4 venue.
No body of lawmakers ever en-
acted law higher than the One
Great Lawmaker. All powers that
be are ordained of God" In the
sixth chapter of Romans this code
of Equal Rights for men says, There
fore thou art ineXcusable O man,
WHOSOEVER THOU ART that
judgest: for wherein thou judgest
another, thou COMDEMNEST THY
SELF: for thou that judgest DOEST
THE SAME THINGS. .... And
thinkest thou this 0 man that
judgest them which do such things
and DOEST THE SAME, that thou
shalt escape. .....?"
1t is a most deplorable state of
affairs for any town when great
numbers of her prominent men
engage in violating the laws of the
state and others sit by silently con-
senting to the same, while still
others never lift their voice to con-
denim. 1T is a crime to conceal a
crime" says the law of Georgia yet
there are crimes being concealed in
our midst until they are discovered
and published by the women and
children. Are our men shorn of
strength? Can it be possible that
the mighty are fallen?" Only few
years ago our women banded to-
gether and created a public senti-
ment, and the men of Fitzgerald
responded almost to a man. But
what are we going to do now? Then
men went in body issued warrants
and saw that the law was executed.
Now many of those men would be
defendants in the case.
Gentlemen our hands are tied
without you. Your wives are the
heart-broken ones, your homes are
blighted, your boys are the ones
who are patronizing blind tigers and
brothels and carrying pistols and
shooting them off in the woods or
the outskirts of town on Sunday
afternoon. They are the boys from
the best families.
We have not yet discovered that
these boys have any special place
to meet and drink whiskey and
beer and play cards but they are
doing these things once in a while
at different places.
In the name Of these boys and
girls, 100, and in the name of every
good woman in Fitzgerald, we make
a final earnest plea to the men for
help, and for deliverance from this
wave of crime and lawlessness.
We do not appeal to the church.
The men of the church have a duty
as members of the church, ALL men
have a duty as MEN. 1t is your
MANHOOD and not your Christian
ity to which we appeal. we are
DEPENDENT upon you. We are
trusting to you.
Hogs will waIIow in the mire
and be happy and contented no
where else. A real hog will leave
a dry place any time and 90 to the
mire, if there is a square inch to
be found, but if a man falls into
the mire he will scramble out if
possible, and if not he will cry for
help. He will get out SOME way
as soon as he knows it is mire, and
then he will slip in the back way
and get his wife to help him fix up
and will ever after avoid the path
that lead to that mire.
Some beings CD will debauch
themselves as long as they have
breath, no matter how foul that
breath may be, but MEN won't do
this.
tits the MEN to whom we appeal.
We believe the men will respond.
When women clean house" they
usually begin upstairs and in the
parlor and 90 through to the back.
Right now we would like to start
on South Lee and South Main, near
the drive, on down Central Avenue
and on to the Court House, THENCE
across to pine street on up to Grant.
Everything is ready but the men.
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