The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-27

The negro will vote in solid phal-
anx-he will stand with his color. will
the white man stand with his color?
We can't dodge the issue, and IL we
should Jose the battle those who take
no part In the fight will be sufferers
alike with those who were found in
the thickest Of the battle. To your
tents, ye white men who are white,-
Rockingham Rocket
up to this date the legislature is
a damnable disgrace to the state" That
sentence appeared in the Caucasian on
February 18th, 1897, Just a few days
before the legislature adjourned. For
once the Caucasian told the everlast-
ing truth. The Caucasian could have
published that statement and told the
truth just as fully the day after that
miserable legislature ACCOMMODATIONS
o Enquirer.
This is ne VITO US, but it reminds us
that we have heard that another COL
lege in this state. whose friends have
much to say about Christian education,
owns a block of Standard Oil company
stock. 1t is difficult to say which is
the more Ubiquitous, the cigarette trust
of the Standard Oil trust. for both of
them grind the faces of the poor, OPP
press the consumer and the producer,
crush all opposition and amass prince
ly fortunes from the tribute forced
from the sweat of the toiling masses.
We say, it would be difficult TO say
which of these trusts are the worse, but
we have to say that if it is a part of
Christian education" to be a partner
in these iniquities, then Christian ed
ucation'' need to be Christianized.-
Statesville Landmark.
Elsewhere We publish a report of a
new negro organization formed,
which takes a stand for changing the
marriage laws so that whites and
blacks may inter-marry. The politi-
cal conditions in North Carolina point
that way. With the fusion leaders re-
cOgniZing negroes as their social
equals, and with many negroes in
high offices where they have authority
to send white people to Jail, it is get
ting to be a bad row of stumps" for
decent white folks. When white men
meet a negro congressman and show
him social courtesies, it may not be
long before the ~fusionists, in response
to negro demands, start an agitation
in favor of i~nter-marriage of whites
and blacks. The white man in North
Carolina who belittles the negro issue
does so dishonesty, unless he is a fool.
Such a man is apt to be a traitor to
the white race, a man who is holding
a good Office by the support of the
solid negro vote and a portion Of the
whites.-Kinston Free Press.
The Washington Post quotes Assis-
tant Attorney General Jas. E. Boyd
as ridiculing the cry that is being
raised about negro domination in
North Carolina. Of course the fellow
that are growing Upon government pie
will ridicule anything hat tends to
arouse the white people to a sense Of
their danger. Such arOusing has a
tendency to institute a divorce pro-
ceedings between the pie eaters and
the pie counter and anything of this
sort is very ridiculous to them. But
you ask the people who live in the east
ern counties, where there are negro ma
j~orities Or where the present regime has
gerrymanded in the interest of negro
control, and they will tell you there is
nothing to laugh at in connection
with negro domination a threatens
to grow worse unless overthrow. 1t
is a sad and serious condition with
those people and they appeal to US of
the west to aid them in their struggle
to overcome it. Let this appeal fall
not upon deaf ears.-WinstOn Sentinel.