The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-01
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NOu1L I'll ANOJh III - kHS R0~@~@
excuse for the highest cour of law In
as fine a state as North Carolina that
any good commonwealth has ever been
afflicted with, we think. It and Father
Worth have been deciding things in
North Carolina to suit themselves, h
supreme court being especially regard
less OF law or right IN it's decisions, ex-
cept as viewed out of the narrow peck
holes of the Observation-Disclosures Free
Press.
And the plea of the party that de-
bauched the ballot by placing 1t in the
hands OF recently em~ancipated slaves
talking about purifying the ballot! 1t
10 rather a striking coincidence that
the greatest election frauds are perpe-
traded in Philadelphia, a CITY that IL
completely controlled by the republi-
cans. In that strongly republican city
elections are a farce, SO frauduaenf are
they. And this is not "a democratic
1ie," but al be proved by other EVIL
dences.-PittsbOro Record
White men of all parties viii vote
for the amendment. The news comes
from Craven county, where,
of the political pie resulting from the
large negro majority, there Is a large
white republican following, that these
| same white men win vote for the
amendment. These white men have
found the negroes, especially through
election times, very insolert a
them. The negroes knew their power,
and would demand equal political, and
some social equality, with their white
allies.-Wilson Times.
The resolution of the penitent1ary
board places us under the necessity
either of rerracting and apologlZlng 10
| Summerell or c~ontrOverting their acton.
We are certainly not prepared to do the
| former, because we have neither seen
nor heard any evidence radlct
much less ~disproving, the evidence
mentioned bove. All the evidence so
far advanced places the penitentary
board before the public in TIE light or
having wthitewashed an official guilty
of the grossest cruelty, and IL they
have any evidence to sustain their
view of the case they owe 1T to them>
selves and the public to make 1T pubic.
Rockingham Anglo-Saxon.
Instead of lifting his eyes in seach
of more inviting fields elsewhere, the
negro of the south should look around
him and contemplate those blessings
he has. II he have HIS here, bear them
and remedy them-not fly to others he
knows not of. Let him strive to create
more leaders for his race of build of
Booker T. Washington, or S. G.. Atkins
or James B. Dudley-men who have the
real benefit of their race ever BURNING
ait their hearts,, and who are wearing
out their lives to free their felloWmen
from the chains of ignorance and sin
n moral and physical degeneration.-
Greensboro Telegram.
Last year the Post suggested to the
farmers of this state that broom-corn
could he ~profitaJbly cultivated in this
state. Until recently the crop sold for
form $50 to $50 per ton, and there was
some profit at hat price. Now it has
gone up to $40 and $3.50 per ton, and is
in demand at that price, with the sup
ply short. Suppose our farmers had
taken the advice of the Post last sprihS
and could each now send to market
some tons of this useful commodity,
it would be extra money in their
pockets which would prove very com
fortabIe.-Raleigh Post.
The superintendent of Public 1nStruc-
ton of North Carolina lays that the
the SALARY is, males, $26.33 per month,
females $23. 65; of negro teachers, mafes
s22. SO, females $40. 20. The average
length of school terms is for whites a
tride over fourteen weeks and for ne
groes a little under thirteen. weeks.
This showing is a disgrace to North
Carolina. A teacher who as not worth
more thar $23.65 Or s26.33 a month
should not be employed as a teacher.
Those worth more should be paid more.
The moulding, shaping and education
of children are far too important mat
ters to be paid for with such nlggaro-
ly sa1aries.-Asheville Citizen.
preme court in the case of Abbott VS..
B~eddingfield for Corporation Commls-
sioner was as f~oreshadoWed by this pa
per sometime ago. Of the legal aspects
of the case nothing need be said. The
/ shallow and speciOus reasons apolOgetl-
cally put forth in the opinion OF the
majority of the court have been sufh-
cient1y exposed and answered by the
dissenting opinion of Justice Clark,
printed yesterday. 1t IS worth While
to note, however, that the opinion IN
this case is but the elimination OF a
series of absurdities gravely put forth
by this ''non-partisan' court as op1n-
ions. Let it not be said hereafter tnat
1.-the law is common
New and Observer.
The people who are c~ultivating these
farms and directing these multitude
nous industrial, commercial, banking
and transportation enterprises conStl-
tute a population that cannot be ex-
celled, and their interests are so inter
woven that just laws impartially and
honestly administered can be relied on
The dark loud of anarchy and agra
rianism which threatened the state but
a short while ago has passed, and witt
it will soon pass from the scene the
last evidences of such ever having
hung upon the horizon. The business
interest of all the people will hereaf-
ter receive the best consideration
honest public %rvant can give.-Ra-
leigh Post.
A certain man died in North Caro-
lima the other day. 1t was asked OF
one of his friends of what he died, anC
the answer was, of whiskey and NOR
phine. He vas a man of gifts and
promise, and it was asked why he
should thus dispose of himself, and
the reply was, 20, we'll he was tired
of the game" The answer was full
of meaning. The world is full of PEG,
pie who are tired of the game. They
nave worried and struggled. Perhaps
, they have reared, or tried to rear, chill,
dren who have been a disappointment
F TO them. Perhaps to them fortune
had looked backward" They LAY
worked hard and seen no result OF
their labor; the past has been unfruit'
full, the future is unprOmising. They
nave thought upon the problems of life
and thay 500 nothing in If for them