The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-12-30


We fear that this action OF Colonel
Carr viii to q large extent curtail hi:
benefactions. This .ehoiier than thou
crowd cannot AFFORD to accept the bene-
factions OF Colonel Carr In the future.
because 1t win be money made In trust.
and that, you know, makes the recip-
lent particeps criminis-ConcoTd Times
Never. except possibly just after the
reconstruction and carpet Dagger days,
has such an opportunity for benefting
a people been possible TO a North Caro-
lima legislature. We are living under
most pernicious and unwise regulations.
Notably, our public school system, the
management of u state institutions
and a most wretched and corrupt cleo
ton law need immediate fighting
Our people expect much from such
men as compose this body of law-mak-
ers and we believe the remedy is pre-
pared for our public ills.-Snow Hill
Standard.
So far as we are concerned, il makes
little or no difference whether the leg
islature appoints the railroad commits
sioners or not. The main thing Is to
get men Of character and of sufficient
intelligence to do what is fair to all
concerned. The position of railroad
commissioner :, one of vast Importance
| both to the people and to the rpora
! tons which come within the range of
| the commissioners Jurisdiction. The
object of the same is to adjust matters
in such a way a. to promote the good
| of both and never do injustice to eth
er. A commission that will do this is
what is needed and demanded.-Lex-
ington Dispatch.
Every trust formed in the United
| States is illegal, and wherever one is
operated in the same territory it is done
in defiance of law, and in violation of
| a plain statute. If the esteemed Times
will acknowledge that men should not
be censured for breaking the laws of
this country, it can easily be excused
for sneering at some who may have
| %scruples about trusts from the stand
| point Of good morals. But it is being
| pointed out that the Bull concern has
| not gone into the trust. Colonel Carr
has always held it a virtue not To be-
| long to one, which, if you will think
Of it, is rather queer if they are all
Clt1Zeu.
A communication in this paper last
Sunday from Captain Thomas B. Beall,
of Salisbury, as gallant a man as
fought under the starry ross, and a
| communication in this paper from a
lady friend of another town, express
the real southern sentiment upon this
subject. There is no purpose to re-
buff the president OR to receive his
words ungraciously, but the southern
attitude toward the proposition is one
of digniied self-reliance. The south
can and should and will take care Of
the graves of it's dead and Of their de-
pendent survivors. This duty is ours
not the north's. The north would
not receive the propositSon kindly; We
canrot blame it; and for any southern
man to turn it to bad account by an
exhibition of greed is IN expression OF
bad taste of which we could have harG-
1y believed any southern man capable.
Charlotte Observer.
President McKinley's address to the
pupils of the colored normal school at
| Tuskegee, Alabama, on Friday indi-
Gates pretty clearly that the president
thinks the race problem will be settled
| WACh Tx hCSlo DC1JALCo SuoSUtCo'
Thus have Thought many other persons
as sincere as the president who left
their northern homes and came to the
south not for a day, but for a life
time. A noted educator Of NORTH
Carolina who came south 20 years age
to make the education of the colored
race his life work, told The Citizen only
a few days ago that experience had
taught him that the race question could
not be settled by educating the negro
that the trouble lay deeper than thai
and was as far from solution today as
it vas 80 years ago. And there are
few men more consecrated or conscien'
tious in their work, either North Of
south than the man who uttered thi:
conviction.-Asheville Citizen.
"It seems to have been reserved fol
an ex-mayor of this city, n Glenn b!
name, to have capped the climax O
ELUSIVE gush and nauseating laudatiol
with the following outburst: "Afte
his speech last night the presiden
. might make a number of negro ap
p%ointments and the south would hard
ly take an exception. 1t showed no
. only that the past is dead, but tina
. this is a new country, and all section
! are now in sympathy; that the nortl
: can honor the confederate dead be
Y cause they were Americans. The pres
ident has carried the city off its feet.
[ 1t is reasonable to suppose that Mr.
ex-Mayor Glenn is of the class witt
. whom the wish was father to tn
thought. Be that as it may, We scorl
to think that he voices the better sen
. timent of his town, as sure we are tina
he believes the almost unanimOu
!, !, thought of the white element of tn
south. The proposed decoration O
t confederate graves would be but scan
j ; atonement for the degradation of tn
S sons of those who fill them.-Colone
w. J.. Green in Fayetteville Observer