The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-17
STATE PRESS

The Granville county farmer, VINO
sits in his quiet country home these
October evenings and looks a. MS SIT
uation soberiy will almost shuouSr
when the -discouragfng facts are laiu
bare before him. With scarcely
enough wheat TO begin TO supply ms
wants and will have to buy hour. the
drought cutting short the corn crop. he
has only to fall back IN his tobacco
crop. the price OF which a been plac-
ed so low by the American Tobacco
Company that il is a mooted question
as to whether II rs not grown at a loss.
This is the view he willhave OF his own
productions; the result OF all the labor
of his family and hirelings for a sea-
SON. There is no way for his income
10 be increased one farthing. He has
lone his best and ii has yielded him
but lirrle; now comes the disparing
work of making end meet. With the
7 scant surplus OF grt ne or the poor
est tobacco crops hea4as made In years,
with the prices in the grip OF h trust
which takes il at their own figures as
il controls the tobacco product OF This
country, he win try to figure out how
he can pay for the fertilizer to raise
tobacco, pay and buy clothing
for his family to protect them from
winters cold blasts. Alas, for the
poor farmer. He will find IL a hope
AISS SAAOAa MIN
The Southern Methodist Publishing
House affair is repudiated by Rev. j.
Z. Scheduled, who is conducting a
series Of meetings ait Centenary church.
in this city. 1t ought TO be denounced
by every Methodist preacher in the
land. 1t is a blot on the fair escutche-
on of ~thechurch and all the whitewash
in Christendom will not hid Vt. II
ought not to be covered and no at
tempt should be made to owes IL. 1t
should be removed and the work OF the
church will be hampered until IL Is re-
moved. We am reconcile consis-
tency and the action OF any preacher
who d~enounces the sin OF prevarication
and lodging the truth and all that
sort of thing and yet undertakes TO ex-
onerate the agents of the Publishing
House in his matter. Drive the money
changers from the temple-not so much
to punish them as to remove the defle-
ment they have placed upon Ii. Mil
lions OF dollars would be no r-ecompense
for what has been done, because no
amount Of money is comparable with
a church without Observation-Disclosures
Setinel.
Colonel Julian S. Carr feel. Ike all
good democrat tx, that the paramount
issue just at present is the adoption ~.
the constitutional amendment. iie
thinks personal ambitions should, for
the time, be relegalted to the rear, and
all should use their best efforts to bring
about the adoption of the amendment
This is good doctrine and should be
listened to by all who have the good
of the state at heart--Charlotte News.
Governor Russell may ave treated
no excitement or attracted little atten-
ton at the Dewey reception. but there
is no doubt but that he overshadowed
the man Immediately behind him.
Durham Herald.
OF course we recognize the important
fact that while the corporal's guard
that walked out of the democratic
party are the only true carriers OF the
faith as delivered TO the saints. we sub
nit at the same time that the $500. OOC
men who upheld the democratic ban
ner, democratic principles and popular
rights in 1896 have a title in fee simple
To the name Democratic" re the
WheeIbarrowful of gentlemen who
stood with Cleveland and Palmer insist
on being the legitimate successors 10
the saints. we don't know that IL is
worth while to- make a fuss about II,
Tor the small amount OF faith thai they
can hold at any time is scarcely worth
quarreling about.-Asheville Citizen.