The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-28

Was Lincoln a traitor?" s k The
Baltimore Sun. No. sir. he was a
North Carolinian.-Asheville Citizen.
The finest hog in the world has been
purchased by the Vanderbilt farm at
Biltmore and is SOON to become a res
Daniel l. to C piace-Durham
Herald.
The fact that Judge Simonton acted
In this case shows that he believes the
craig law unconstitutional and void,
ana ne raises no question as TO the
right or these corporations to seek and
receive relief In the United States
courts TX they choose. Notwithstanding
they have declared themselves to be
state corporations. And the question
arises. What Is to be lone about it?-
Asheville Citizen.
IL is an old aytnE that nobody
fights SO hard as a scared man. That
the erstwhile leaders OF the republi-
can party are thoroughly and suffi-
GENTLY scared Is shown in the fact h n
they nave buried personal differences,
bitter as some OF them were. have
made their political Wills. looked their
last on the sun and sky" and
for a desperate onslaught on the
forces that hem them in. II is the GUS
mess Of the democracy TO see that they
do not get a~way.-Raleigh News and
Observer.
Yes, the state owes II 10 itself. 10 it's
history. to it's love of duty well and
promptly and properly performed at
n time when our own had betrayed
US, not only to place the portrait Of
| Judge Brooks in the library. but to
| erect a more lasting TO his
! memory. The North Carolina railroad
is going to perform n tardy act Of JUS
tice by erecting a monument to Mr..
Graves. Let the state also thus honor
this hero, for his n act, under all
the circumstances G rounding,
and which we fear would not be over
! come now as he overcame them then.
was as heroic as ever characterized
the sacrifice OF man upon the battle
feld.-Raleigh Post.
, The New England states have had
no troops in the Philippines, but we
know their sentiment through the out
spoken u~tterances OF their newspapers
and public men; IL seems to be n OF
almost unbroken opposition to the
and those OF the Middle west are less
united in the sentiment OF opposition.
but, If the reflect their
feelings, the tide Is there also setting
strongly against the policy OF the ad-
ministration. In the south IL has been
more difficult to gauge public senti-
ment, because the view that the south
was On its good behaviour in relation
to any foreign war in which the recon
structe union might be engaged.-Fay-
etteville Observer.
If the people will not come to the
church house, the church workers must
go to the people. There are thousands
of people right here in North Carolina,
n many of them in towns OF four
churches, who never go 10 church ex-
cept to a marriage, a funeral or lodge
turnout. These people can sit on their
porches on Sunday or prayer meeting
night and hear the songs sung, they
can see the crowds go back and forth
to the churches on the Sabbath, yet
+, these non-church-goers are not moved
to go into a church building and hear
the gospel preached. Because they do
not take this interest are they to be
neglected? No, assuredly no. Il is n
special work TO get these peo.ie inter-
ested in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN. c.
Baptist.
This thing of privilege tax is all
wrong. 1t Is all right TO put a special
tax or an itinerant dealer, a man who
comes along and scoops up the peoples
money, puts ii in his pocket and leaves
the town, but when a man makes in
vestment, pays valuation tax on his
| property and conducts a legitimate
business it is not fair to put a privilege
tax on him while his neighbor in an
other line Of business pays 10 such
tax. That great exponent OF pure
democracy, Thomas Jefferson, said:
The excise law is an Internal one.
The first error was to admit ii by the
constitution; the second, to act on that
admission Let every man pear the
burden Of taxation alike There is no
justice nor democracy in putting an
excise tax or a man for dealing in one
necessary article and letting another
man deal in another commodity with
out having TO pay a special tax.-Mon-
roe Enquirer.
At a recent meeting Of the board Of
trade Of Asheville Captain T. w. Pat
ton offered the following, which was
adopted: THAT a committee of five be
| appointed to TAX in charge the gem
eral question of public taxation, TO
point out the injustice which now ex-
lists, by reason Of unfair returns and
valuations, n to insist on corrections
Of same, n also to suggest legisla-
ton calculated to annul these evils"
Such a movement could wisely be
made in every county in the state.
| Citizens generally notice the inequality
of assessment, and the gross injustice
lone thereby. Taxation is a burden
every citizen expects to submit TO for
the honest and economical support Of
the government. Knowing the neces-
sity for this taxation the people have
provided for ii in their organic law.
And they likewise provided in that
same law that the tax should be i'm
posed upon ZACH and all, fairly, inn
partially and without discrimination,
with just uniformity, according to the
fair value Of the property taxed-not
on the ability Of the owner 10 pay, but
only according to the value OF the
property involved and subject to the
laws OF the state.-Raleigh Post.