Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-04-16
(Adverti sement)
Georgia's Industrial Development
Halted BY Socialistic Doctrine
Promoted BY Atlanta Newspapers

government gave ample protection to
outside investors, but the recent ac-
Invites of the Municipal League, and
the vicious attacks on the Railroad
Commission have been so we'll adj
vertised by the Atlanta papers, that l
have found eastern capitalists very
slow to furnish money that IS the
VERY life blood of my business.
The Atlanta people and the At
lanta papers would resent the idea
that they have been doing great dam
age to the state as whole by their
attacks on capital, and I will credit
them with having done this ignorant
", and without intending the far
reaching effects of their acts, but they
have given the state so much adverse
advertising, that l find my business
greatly affected, and the eastern capt.
talists have frankly told me that they
do not care to put money IN the state
whose capital city is so tainted with
bolsheVism.
The leaders Of the Municipal
League may mean well, but their doc
trine and their ideas do not appeal to
the men to whom | have to go for
money to develop my business Those
hard-headed business men are salts
fled with a small rate OF interest. but
thew demand complete safety of their
investment, and insist that the moral
risk be reduced to minimum.
The Municipal League may not
know that there are in South Georgia
about sixty thousand acres of magnl-
| ficient pecan orchards, and that al
| most every orchard has been financed
by northern men. The nut crop brings
into Georgia about S2,000,000 annual
! ly, which will largely increase as the
years go by, and practically very
dollar of this is due either directly or
indirectly, to the outside money that
made it possible to bring these or
chards to maturity.
1T may seem a far cry from wafer
power to pecan orchards, but the
same type of men finance both, and
: they have already become weary about
helping us to build our pecan or
/ chards, and frankly tell me they fear
| for the safety of their investments, if
| the enthusiastic dreamers of the
| Municipal League get control of our
legislature.
Il have no personal or financial in
terest in auy corporation in the state,
except in certain pecan orchards in
Randolph, Calhoun, Lee Dougherty,
and Mitchell counties.
4 have no interest nor concern in the
! Atlanta gas rate, nor do | care in
the least whether or not Atlanta buys
or makes her own power, but when
self-seeking politicians would, with
one hand, tear down our constitution
al limitation on taxation, while with
| the other they wave the red flag of
socialism, then | feel that it is time
| for the sober minded business men of
Georgia to get in the fight, and sweep
| those fellows into the political rubbish
heap.
You have my best wishes in your
manly fight against the nefarious
schemes of the Municipal League, and
I hope that you will feel free to call
on me, if I can assist you In any way,
not as lawyer but as business man
who is pround of his native state, and
proud of the part he has taken in
helping to build up some of the waste
places of South Georgia.
again assuring you Of my interest
and with highest personal regards
and best wishes, | am,
Yours very truly,
J A. S. PERRY"
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