The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-21

1t is respectfully suggested 10 the
secretary of war that. If there are any
more negro immunes on hand, they be
mustered out via Aguinaldo and the
Philippine islands--Wilscn News.
There is q larger percentage of pure
Anglo-Soxon people IN North Carolina
than any other state In the union Her
Intelligent citizenship is as good as
any in the world. but unfortunately
they are in the minority. Still d
can leayen the whole and they will do
IT 20 the credit and glory or the Old
North State.oGreensboro Telegram
The Durham Herald says 1t would
be economy on the part OF the govern
ment TO appoint a regular and perma.
nent whitewashing board at a liked
salary" Certainl il would, and We
would suggest a new department with
a cabinet appointee at its head whose
duty it shall be TO see that no admin
istration / discredited If money an
prevent baskerville Citizen.
Every now and the some apologist
OF the trust, some paper subsidized by
trust money. or some ignorant man or
paper declares that after all the trusts
! IOL 81 Da0s 49, mat A61s NAk
to the the price Of the arti-
Gle they control. II is true that a
trust now and hen does cheaper an
article temporarily, while the trust is
driving out competition, but just as
soon the competition is stiied the price
either goes up or it is kept up TO a
high price when all articles subject TO
competition are falling. The apologists
of the trusts are always saying: Look
at oil. 1t is controlled by a trust anu
yet it is purer and cheaper than ever.
Does that look like trusts rob the peo-
ple?" Let us look at the operations or
that trust for a moment. Mr.. Monnett,
Attorney General of Ohio, is striving
to force this monopoly TO comply with
the law. After he began 10 compel ODE
dience to the law, he was offered by
. the trust a bride Of $4,000 900 If he would
permit continued evasions.-Ralelgh
News and Observer.
Through the last general assembly,
more than through any that has met
for years, the hope and will and aspira-
ton of the people of the state found
free and intelligent voice-what North
Carolina is doing and is to do, in edu-
cation, in sociology, in politics, in char
ity, in business is indicated. In any
and in all the showing is one of which
North C~arolinians have reason to be
proud. The point of view, of course, is
not that law making makes a people
prosperous or intelligent; it is only that
behind all the laws passed there was
a demand among the people concerned
the law is only the index of ii.
Whether it was 10 incorporate a bank
or a railroad, a cotton mill or a school;
to appropriate 500, 900 to the public
schools of the state or to build up it's
, higher institutions Of learning, it was
done by the last assembly only because
there was a legitimate demand for it.
There was a great deal Of legislation
. but there was little making of laws for
' the fun of it. Hence the value and in
StructiveneSs of the work done.-Ral-
eigh NewS-ObserVer.
while those who travel on our "main
lines" of railway are allowed the con-
veniences afforded by such a law,
those white people who live on the
branch lines" are still to be subjected
to being placed on the same footing
with the negro, and are compelled TO
put up with his presence in cars which
should only be for white people. Is
this right? Do not the people who live
along and travel over the branch lines
deserve the same courtesies and privi-
leges that is afforded those who more
frequently travel via the main lines
Because our men and women do not
live along and travel via the direct
system of railways is it right that such
a discrimination shall be made and
they be forced to put up with the ne
gro? We say no, and feel confident
that our people are with us in saying
that some members of the Legislature
lave not shown the proper re-
gard for their constituents. AS far as
thu Hill 1aar ~ SC oil RIGHT h11f ~ doc.
not cover the ground as it should, and
our people are righteously indignant al
the existing circumstances.-Nashville
Graphic.
That was very sharp, shrewd work
on the part of the now Great American
Tobacco Company in being instrumen.
tai in having formed the Union Tobacco
Company which bought out Blackwell
Durham Co. along with several other
big concerns that were in their way
Just as soon as everything was signed
sealed and delivered the Union wa.
merged into the American Tobacco
Company making the largest trust evel
formed in this country as the Ameri'
can controls the Continental Company
the plug combine. The capital behind
this giant combine is one hundred mil.
lions of dollars, and a young NORTH
Carolinian, Mr.. Buck Duke, of Durham
who has developed into one OF tht
shrewdest business men in this coun.
try today. He is a plain, practica
man, and every inch of him is business
from the word go, and has all the nerve
you are looking for. The American
Tobacco Company now have the to-
bacco farmers by the KNAPP Of the NECK
and can pay them just what they please
for tobacco, and will have to take it OIL
stop raising tobacco. This trust is fore
ing thousands of people out Of business
and it's sharp, keen-edge knife cuts go
ing and coming. 1t makes the con
sumner pay their prices for cigarette:
and tobacco and forces the farmer Il
AXE what the trust is willing to give
him for his product.-Oxford Ledger.