The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-29

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again knocking at the treasury doors.
There are said to be hundreds OF pri-
vate bills already on the calendar of
| congress-: and this vast piece OF Job
berry is more than likely to 90 through.
Charlotte News.
The republican and populist organs
claim that the amendment is uncon-
stitutional and in the next breath say
IT viii disfranchise iIiterate whites.
These W statements do not exactly
dove-tail- IL the amendment is uncon-
stitutional, as a matter of course it
VIII no one.-Durham
Herald.
The Washington Post says there is
a very striking resemblance between
Senator Pritchard and Roberts. the
Mormon eongressman-elect of Utah.
and that they might readily pass as
twin brothers. This shows the desper-
ate straits Of administration organs for
material to boost Pritchard. Rather
hard on Roberts, however.-Mt. Olive
Advertiser.
From the testimony adduced and the
charges made il must be assumed, I'm
the absence OF denial, that the outh-
ern is resorting to every e~xpedient to
prevent the merging of the various
lines which would constitute the new
Seaboard system. which would then
have something like $500 miles of
track and be a formidable rival of the
Southern railway. Perhaps this is nat
ural: perhaps, If the conditions were
reversed, the Seaboard would seek by
the same means to balk the Southern.
Nevertheless, if the latter should sue
coed in its undertakings, il would
prove a great misfortune to the south,
which needs railroad competition quite
as much az 1t needs competition in
any other line. We nave no preference
or prejudice as between these lines of
railway.-Charlotte Observer.
The age is a money making one. a
great deal of selfishness and little con-
science being it's characteristics. We
are all squeezers and We often get well
squeezed for our pains. The littleness
in small private concerns and consci-
entiousless disregard of another's
rights easily broader out into an ocean
that will sweep all before it. Nor will
the use of the ballot check il, we are
all impregnated with the virus and no
government rises higher than it's sup
porters. Good men may check the
tide, but until the limit is reached that
makes the combination of capital un-
profitable or a revolution that rises in
madness at oppression or we are sud-
denly changed into angels, the trust
making n grinding of another's mus
cles will go merrily on.-Rocky Mount
| Motor.
That is a very significant order the
| n ma onrc of thn Southern, ~ ;I-nol
have sent out which requires all of it's
employees in South Carolina TO o.
smoking cigarettes or vacate their
places. 1t means that this business
corporation has found that the habit
of smoking cigarettes incapacitates
these officials from doing satisfactory
ly the work required of them. AS a
matter of business the management
thinks it has ascertained that the en-
ployment of such fiends will not pay.
Years aco the drinkers of intoxicating
liquors Eyere excluded from railway
service and everybody said we'll done.
The general public will approve no less
heartily this order. The habit is a per-
nicious one The body, mind and heart
of a man are all seriously impaired by
the vice.-Lumberton Robesonian.
At the very hour on Monday that
the republicans in the house of repre-
~sentatives in Washington were passing
the bill to establish the single gold
standard and turn the issue of paper
money over to the national bank trust
"a measure demanded by the men who
| put up the money to buy the election
of McKinley-at that very hour, Wall
| street was in the throes of a panic and
the rate of interest rose to 185 per cent.
If the birth of the gold standard act
| precipitated a panic, what train of evils
may we not expect when its perfect
work of contraction has had time to
grow? If the advocates of the gold
standard bill are right in saying that
we have money enough, why is the
birth of the act heralded with so fierce
a demand for money that men franti-
cally offer 185 per eel for it? The
panic in the stock market in New
York followed a like panic in gold
standard London, cut off from the
steady increase In gold from the Trans
vaal which has frightened times for
the past year., the London stock ex-
change went into a panic.-Raleigh
News n Observer.
The white men of the state Except
the "mossy-backs" and pap~-suckers")
have resolved to make White Supre-
macy permanent. The white man who
in his youth was denied the advantages
Of an education is as determined to Sc
cure such supremacy as the best schol-
ar in the state, n in many instances
more so, for he saw the insolence of the
negro in 1889 and in 1858 when the
scholar was in his library pouring over
his books. The rich man can leave
North Carolina If We have a return to
the disgraceful rule hat has prevailed
under Russell. 1t is the man of small
means or of no property at all who
must stay. He Is determined to permit
no more occurrences such as those that
he voted against in 1S9S.-Raleigh News
and Observer.
The American Tobacco Company has
never, so far as We know, been accused
Of fixing prices upon all grades of leaf
tobacco, and we made the point two
weeks ago that the Journal was deny
ing something that had never been
Enlarged when Ii said that that combi-
Inafiou did not do it What We do as