The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-30
STATE PRESS.

Well, the legislature has adjourned.
It was a session hat will be remen1
bered. 1t has added no glory TO North
name-Charity and Chill
dren.
Othello, In one Of the scenes Of that
play. PUSHES upon the stage. where Cas-
sio and Roderigo are fighting. and ex-
claims: Put up your swords. he who
strikes make me his foe" Governor
Russell has raised the thing a little and
says: He who crosses my path shall
eat dirt" or words to that effect.-Ra-
leigh Tribune.
AS Thomas B. Reed has been again
elected speaker Of the house. his length
OF service in that office. past and pres
ent. Is six ears In duration this record
never beaten but twice-by Henry
Clay. who served as speaker ten years.
and by Andrew Stevenson, OF Virginia
who occupied the speakers chair con-
t~inuously for years. Besides
these, Nathaniel Macon. Of North Car
DINA, Schuyler Colfax, OF Indiana. Jas.
G.. Blaine and John G.. Carlisle served
each as speaker six years.-AshevillJ
Gazette.
One Of our exchanges remarks that
the last legislature was more friendly
to the temperance people than any Of
its predecessors. We fail to see il that
way. Several towns n counties petit
toned fer dispensaries, and strong
and determined workers like c. A. G..
Thomas went to see the bills properly
brought before hat body. and fought
like heroes until they passed. The leg
islature deserves no special praise for
his nor anything that was don or
left undone.-Charity and Children.
The republicans Of North Carolina
are divided into two hostile camps OF
Pritchardites and Russellites and the
general public has no conception of
the Intensity of feeling between these
two factions. The rpublicans who
stood by Governor Russell il his at
ack on the lease of the North Carolina
railway are completely shut out from
any federal patronage because the pat
ronage must come through Senator
Pritchard; and the republicans who OPP
posed the governor will receive no ia
vors at his hands.-Statesville Land
mark.
DR.. Lyman Abbott, the New York
divine, who recently came before the
public with the proposition that he
didn't believe the swallowing of Jonah
by the whale ever happened at all, is
paying the penalty for his unbelief.
Sometime ago, before he had made
known his views about Jonah and the
W ii1 Io'S Gil ~ ~
ture in the hall Of the Young Men,
Christian Association at Philadelphia.
Arriving there last Friday to deliver
his lecture, he found the doors of tn
hall closed against him. The managers
of the association barred him because
they considered his views unorthodox-
he was to lecture on the Bibla-an :
they further justified themselves upon
the ground that his engagement haH
been made with them before he had
tried to turn down some Of the Bibles
notwithstanding Observer.
Note the similarity between the Ore
gor and North Carolina cases. In Ore
gon Pennoyer, Who had been thrown to
the political surface by a populistic
craze, made the wonderful discovery
that Owen was the beneficiary in a
trade where the state could get a
largely increased price for the land If
the legislature would enact a law an
nulling the sale to Owen. No doubt the
poor school children" act was played
to accomplish the passage of the null
lifying law. The act was passed by
the legislature, and Governor Pennoyer
proceeded to do things for
the people. How did it wind up? The
supreme court of the United State
struck Pennoyer just below the e
and told him that Oregon must be
honest as we'll as sovereign. The state
Of North Carolina disrobed herself Of
her state sovereignty, Joined other in
corporators, and organized the North
Carolina Railroad Company. She Dor
rowed the money to pay for her stock
and she owes it yet. In the matter OF
the North Carolina railroad lease she
will be treated as a private citizen by
the United States courts. To the or
binary wayfarer the proceeding in Ore
gOn looked like a suit against the state
l,,k ~ c,;S ~ No~th % ~n1ino M n 7
ter how distorted, shows no feature
of an attempt to proceed against the
state. Carolina, Carolina, thou has
fallen into the hands Of a cruel master
Pennoyer-Russell. Par mobile frat
rum.-GreensbOro Record
Governor Russell and his me tCOs'
are struggling to make the people be
lieve that Judge SimontOn has com
mitted a great outrage on the state o.
North Carolina by issuing a temporary
, restraining order to prevent the gov
| ernOr from carrying out his insane
ideas about the lease of the North Car
clina railroad. Why Governor Russell
should try to use the people OF tn
state of North Carolina and his higf
office to advance the interests of tn.
SeabOard railroad is a c~onundrum tina
is asked every day by thinking men
Men and newspapers who are now en-
~deavoring to embitter the minds OF tn
people against the United States court
are doing North Carolina very grea
damage. Judge Simonton has dom
just he had a right to do. Th'
state of North Carolina is a stockhold
er in the North Carolina railroad
through her proper officers she made
cont act of lease, which is binding am
sacred. Here come along a new gov
error who thinks lie sees a seat in tn
United States nate at the end OF al
attempt to repudiate the states action
He cares nothing about an honest con
tract: the reputation OF his state; o
the expense, as long as 1t costs hin
nothing. He is a born tyrant who ha
spent twenty-five years swinging tn
lash over the backs Of shivering ne
groes and servile whites in the city o
Wilmington. He is undertaking tn,
same ole with the people of the state
Greensboro ecord
The reports OF the negro teacher
show an average attendance largely IL
advance of the whites. the consequence
J being the awful truth is brought t
light the negro children are toda.