The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-21

The more private q hanging IS the
more awful 1t Mould appear TO the
publsc- The very unfamhiarfty WIN
1t helps to beget terror of ft.-TarboTo
Souuherner.
When tins. Nurtherners denounce US
for " keeping the poor negro down"
let them recall this fact; the white
people OF The south, as poor as they
are not only pay the education Of their
own children, but for the or
the millions OF negroes who pay. ON an
average, about one-tenth OF the taxes
Charlotte News.
The divorce laws Of North CarUlina-
compared with those OF most other
states, are considered scrict, but 1t Is
nevertheless a fact that divorces are
entirely too easily obtained. The Raj
eigh Post wants q reform in the vorc
laws of TIN. state, and a reform Is need
ed. either in The laws or the anner
of administering xhem.-DWharn Her
lid
The word de.nagDgue. as used IN
North Carollua, has undergone a rauf-
cal change in it's maantng. " Is now
a favorite word with the organs OF the
Tobacco Trust. the Southern railway
ana other big corporations and monop-
olies to apply to those who dare express
an opinion not favorable TO the mon
oursies- It no longer diScredBcs one
among rood peonie 10 be called a dema-
c,og7,e by these mouth-pieces OF tho
trlsts.-Roanoke and Chowan Times.
The friends of the amendment, as we
have said before. viii have to work
and keep il up until the sun goes down
on election day. stat We are confident
that the state will be carried by a big
majority. regardless OF
and his little puEys. Hanna's boodlc
.I%a -. htf Wary Hrf1a figure in the
coming campaign. az the people are de-
terminad to have good honest white
government-Fair Bluff Times.
So Marion Butter Is opposed to h
constitutions mendrnent? Well, what
IL ne Is? Does that amour To any
thing beyond his own vote? Is IL not
rather to the credit OF the
that he Ia opposed 10 it, The fact that
he has SO frequently and fouliy stand
cred the decent people OF his native
state and the further fact that the
changes his political views according
TO personal expediency. should stop the
Democratic press OF the state nom
quoting him at al@Goldsboro Argus
There are many people who seem
honestly to think that AN men are liars.
because some men are; that ali men
are dishonest because some are; that
all politicians are corrupt, because some
are; that an politics are devoid OF pr1n-
cipIes because, some are; and that no
one can maintain principles and poll
tics at the same time. Such people pos
sfb.y Judge others by themselves to a
great extent. 1t is readily granted that
roo many men are false, dishonest, cor
rupt, and that some have no fxed pol
itical principles; that all men are so
ia denied. There are men, who, in pol
itics as well as in other things, are gov
erned by principle, and not by poll
cy. Their politics are regulated by
principies.-Salisbury Index
Our news columns have had W. re-
f~erences within the past few days, TO
the recent trip of secretary Il. Is. Bru-
ner. of the state board OF agriculture,
to the Mountains OF North Carolina,
and to what he had to say OF the APP
pies he saw there. 1t Is better than a
play to have Mr.. Bruner talk about
them. He tells OF an apple which he
saw i'm Yancey county weighing 70
ounces. and in this county, as has been
stated, there are sc, 900 bushels of mar
ketBble apples. He Also found splendid
crops in Haywood, Mitchell and Cald-
we'll But 1T is the old story: These
splendid apples are so poorly handled
and reach market in such sorry shape
that they bring only half or less than
half their value-say 33 to so cents a
Observation-Disclosures Observer.
The wilmin~ton Messenger. which
has frequently urged the subject before
is again calling the Of oG.
people to bhe great folly OF selling their
timber to Northern investors for a song
and the yet greater folly or their wan
ton waste under present destructive
msthods. The next Legislature could
take nc wiser step h to provide for
a commissioner Of forestry, whose duty
1T should be not only to educate the
people by the distribution Of literature
on this most important subject; but
to, gather in for the state all the wild
lands, especially in the re-
gion, which come under the ammer
at tax sales. UGH should never more
be subject TO entry and grant but held
In. perpetuity for the state and such
timber taken from them ny sale as good
forestry YOU warrant and 10 moge.-
Morganton Herald.