Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-04-06
Shall The Press Mould Public
Sentiment to Suit Its Own Desires?

] 1t is high time for the people O.
our county, our State and of the Uni
ted States to wake up to a reasonable
and justificable way of dealing witt
one another IN common cause.-the
Labor Situation throughout the coun.
try for instance.
We people of the South are all term.
ed common laborers and should work
together for our common cause or in
terest; by SO doing all would prosper
alike: But we are found kicking and
framing around trying to Guido the
other fellow and put him to the bad
by any kind of method obtainable,
while the financial or Money Kings
of the world are sitting back laughing
and saying to themselves Fight it
it out Boys, or Sic 'em Tige". GIVE
got the dough and we will keep it until
you have brought starvation to your
selves and have bankrupt the South,
and the we, the Money Kings. will
stretch out our hands and YOU labor
ers of the South will obey" All be-
cause of one class of labor arrayed
against the other class. Why should
not all classes of labor work to better
their condition? Why shouldn't the
farmer work for the betterment of his
condition as same as other laborers.
The Bankers are organized, Mer-
chants are organized, Clerks, Automo-
bile men, Warehouse Men, all kinds
of businesses are organized for the pur-
pose of demanding of the people a Ii
g1tlmate income on the business done.
The laws of our country in its wisdom
has seen fit to fix legitimate fee for
the service rendered by our officers.
Hove you ever known any officer of
the law crying and kicking about his
fees being out of sight and ought to
be cut down to where he cannot live?
Oh! No! There is no bowling around
like that. The law in its wisdom has
fixed rate for legal advertising, based
On reasonable income for the work
done; the law does not intend for the
publisher to do work without a just
compensation for same.
Have you noticed the EDITORS
getting up in the air about getting too
much for their work and protesting
that it should be cut down below the
cost of production, or that the price
tor his paper was too high in keep
ing with the depressed times, oh! no!
No cry from this public press. No cry
from the officers. No cry from the
bankers, the law is with them on the
rate of interest charged! No cry COM
ing from any business organization,
including doctors, who fix their own
fee for their work, or the commits
! sion on the dollar invested in each
particular business. But when that
other class OF Labor who goes into
the Shops and the Mills and on the
house tops in the hot broiling sun and
into the fields behind the old mule from
sun to sun, them and their families
exposed % all kinds of weather, hall
clad, toiling to produce food that 9TH
ers might live. When this class OIL
Laborers want to even talk about de.
handing an income on his LABOR OF
on the produce of his soil, the finan.
cia1 agents and sympathizers get or
their heads and charge through tht
PRESS at least some of the paper!
of our country, and try to blind it!
readers by placing their poisonou!
dope in the columns Of their paper
that they might prejudice the minds
Of some weak-minded person agains
the cause of a laborers just reward
Because men work in shops, in tn,
mills and on the house tops and follow
the old mule day in and day out, they
are no worse than other people in 9th
er walks of life. who have the advan
tage and a motion for holding tn
, working man under their thumb anc
charging him with wanting to rule OF
ruin. About all of our National. ou
State and County officials salaries anc
fees are fixed. All rates of interest
legal rates for publication are fixed b,
law. So the Editor of paper hai
the advantage over its citizens il
spreading its propaganda to its read
ers. AS good as to say We've Go
Ours.
| quote the Editor of the Herald
The Lord Helps Those Who He'll
Themselves. If the Herald is pros
pering the LAW has been the materia
factor. The Lord did not fix the rat,
for advertising, nor do I think tn,
Lord fixed the subscription price t.
his paper. I mention this that w
might think of ourselves and not t.
be too anxious to slur and abuse O
criticize others who are striving t.
organize and who are organized, ant
who want just and reasonable com
pensation for their labors.
notice the Press of this distric
is organized. What did the Editor
organize for? 1t would be unreason
able to think they organized to d.
some dirty work. They organized 70
their own protection and they will de
mand it. The Farmers are now try
ing to organize a Cotton Pool Asso
citation. We may have some troubl
along the way, very likely, we wi
conclude that we will charge it to tn
speculator because he will have a mo
tive in creating public sentimen