The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
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contemporaries do not think woman
should enter. They are willing for her
10 expound the law, TO measure lace
and dress goods, to engage in journal
ism. even TO drum for chewing gum
and soap, but they DO not want her to
play base ball.-Charlotte News.
Representative ]. Frank Rays *
PLANTATION OF his part in connection
with the defeat OF the libel law pre-
pare by the State Press Association
leads TO the conclusion hat he thinks
it better that 80 honest editors should
suffer rather than allow one dishonest
and rascally n TO escape. That hard
ly explains.-Asheville Citizen.
1t is immaterial 10 the white people
OF North Carolina what course the radi-
Gals pursue TO keep the negro and his
allies in power in North Carolina, the
white men have determined not to sub
NIT 10 it again, and the Radicals in Will
mington, Laurinburg and Rockingham
and twenty other places know that
when the white men are aroused n
preservation of White Supremacy they
know no such word as fail.-Raleigh
News and Observer.
An effort is being made in New Eng
land to form a cotton mill trust that
will control every mill in the United
States. This is one trust from which
the farmer have little or nothing &c
fear. The price paid for raw cotton is
now so low that il the trust should at
tempt to lower it, farmers would have
to go out of the cotton raising business
and the trust would soon find itself
with its occupation gone.-Durham
Herald.
1t is claimed that the cost of main
tanning a good macadam road under
the veal of rural traffic is not over $40
per mile yearly. Dirt roads, this report
says, are the most expensive. Petro-
leum is suggested as a good application
to suppress dust, and by excluding wa
ter to keep the road good in wet and
dry weather. Steam rollers are advis-
ed instead Of those propelled by horse.
Tires six inches wide are advised in
stead of the regular one inch and a half
the draught power needed being less
and the wear of the roads less. This
is a fact not generally known, but
shown to be so by experiments.-Ashe-
vile Citizen.
1t is to insult the intelligence and
virtue and patriotism Of the people to
believe they will vote to continue the
government of the trusts by the trusts
and for the trusts hat is now in power
They will rise up in their integrity
and manhood and repudiate Mckinley
and the t%raficking CORR ,tionists who
dominate him to Their own enrichment
op6 fhn nnrtnfru'c ,1rdnin0 Tho 60hi
calls for optimism and courage and
appeal to them, and go into the con-
fict with the spirit that actuated Jeffer.
son and his followers in 1900 when they
overcame the foes Of equality and lib.
erty.-Raleigh News and Observer.
Some Of the newspapers are calling
on the subcommittee composed OF
! Messrs. F. D. Winston, w. R.. Allen and
J.. F. Ray to explain why they did moi
! report the libel bill which was referred
to them. While we think the presen'
libel law should be changed, we cannot
! see any reason why this committee
composed Of three honorable and con.
scientious legislators whose motives
are not questioned should be criticised
or condemned for their conduct. The
legislature did so we'll that for oul
part we do not feel like criticisine
I them. A new libel law ought to have
been enacted and the bill for reduction
of fees and some other legislation, bur
no legislature can give all we need al
one observation-disclosures Courier.
We got the lepers and volcanoes with
Hawaii. We have annexed the snake
killing mongoose in the acquisition OF
Porto Rico. The island Is full of mon
geese or mongooses-as you please. Oul
we'll known solicitude for the improve
ment of medical science impels us tC
urge the utilization of the mongoost
by turning him loose in the magma
| ton Of the victim of delirium tremens
! The mongoose himself would have
picnic and the patient would find men
tai easement. We have no patent OF
this discovery. We make a present o.
it.-Charlotte Observer.
Mr.. Ray, of the subcommittee tc
which the libel bill was referred, gives
| it as his opinion that the editors asked
too much. The editors were surprised
| that the bill was smothered, and were
at a loss for a reason, and We venture
that not m Of them imagined that thi!
would be the excuse. The fact is tina
| the editors do more for and ask less o.
their party than any other class o.
men. At every meeting of the legis'
lature bills are introduced for the RELIEF
of the merchant, the farmer and thu
mechanic, but this was the first specia
law within our knowledge asked fol
editors, and they were not accorded
the courtesy of having their measure
defeated by a vote on the floors of tn,
legislature Durham Herald