The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-25

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Many editors viii be surprised upon
their return from the press association
to see how well their papers got along
without them.-Durham Herald.
Farmers have no right to abuse trusts
when they raise tobacco to sell to one
trust and with the money TO buy pro-
visions that should be raised On the
farm from another.-Durham Herald.
The governor Is not TO review the
Second regiment now in camp at More
head and thus the soldier boys viii
miss more than half the show.-Dur-
ham Herald.
1t is estimated that General Wheel
er's going to the Philippines is nothing
more or less than the Manifestation OF
a desperate determination to end what
| he regards as a blasted life. And this
is all because of the rejection by Mrs.
| Geo. w. Childs of his offers Of mar
| rage. The game old sport!-Asheville
! Citizen.
] We must satisfy the people that We
| deserve success before We can achieve
it. We can suffer defeat and still rise
| again, if we are conscientious Of an
honest purpose in a just cause; but 1t
is ruinous to suffer defeat and to know
that we have invited it by an attempt
| to trife with and deceive the voters.
With a free silver platform, any other
than Bryan as the leader will be to
invite defeat from start to finish.-Ral-
eigh Post.
The best way to do il you have a
\ Oripuonop RI rooLa &c - 10 ~ n,,hlipIv
If a newspaper attempts a reform that
you know is right, and will result in
benefit to the town, give him your sup
port publicly. Don't sit back and say a
newspaper man hasn't the moral cour-
age to say what's right and what's
| wrong, until you yourself can rise above
the almighty dollar and take your stand
for truth and honesty. Newspapers re-
fleet the wishes of the people, and are
the result of existing conditions which
| must be changed, if at all, by indivi-
dual effort.-Durham Sun.
When The Citizen declared a few
weeks ago that the Morning Gazette
had sold out to the republican leaders
it was not simply announcing a phoph-
ecy, but simply stating a fact. There
was no change of convictions, but a
sale of them. This is co%nclusively
shown by the fact that The Gazette
made no announcement to the public
before which it had posed for years as
a democratic paper that it had changed
its political views. The sale it had
concluded stipulated that duplicity was
to follow apostacy. 1t is o remark
able that such a paper should now be
talking of political freedom" and de-
claring that in North Carolina a NAH
cannot utter his views on a political
issue, if these views conflict with those
of a class of citizens about him, nor
cast his vote contrary to theirs, with
out suffering ostra misunderstanding
Citizen.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is one
of the ablest men in America. He and
Joe Wheeler are the only leading dem
ocrats in the country who put their ad-
| vocacy of expansion and m7s-ialism
on all tours with the republican ad-
ministratiOn. Mr.. Morgan stood fore
most in the annexation of Hawaii, a
bad policy, though not to be compared
with the plan of criminal aggression"
in the Philippines. He is understood
to be in sympathy with the subjugation
of the Philippines, and the career Of
conquest which has been marked out
for the republic by the trusts and m
dicates which are now in control of
the government. In fact, Mr.. Morgan
and Mr.. Wheeler out-McKinley ever
Mckinley in the imperialistic pro-
gramme which involves the destruction
of the republic as a republic.-Raleigh
News and Observer.
If the only purpose of this conspi-
racy vas to keep up or w to further
put up the price of cigarettes we
would have no word to utter against
it, but while doing this with one hand
it presses down with the other the
price of the leaf tobacco which goes
into the cigarettes, until what was
formerly the best paying grade of to-
bacco grown is now raised at a price
but a shade above the cost of pro-
duction. The cigarette trust dominates
the cutter market, and the tobacco
raiser, deprived of competition, must
take for his cutters whatever this in
fernal monopoly is willing to give. It
is not as generous to him as it is to the
schools and churches which it enriches
with the money coined out of his sweat
and blood. 1t has reduced the price of
his tobacco an average of about 40 per
cent, and the grower must submit to
it's terms or go out of the business
a business to which his land is adapted
and in which, perhaps his life has been
spent.-Charlota Observer.
There has never been a trust formed
in the history Of these Ubiquitous COM
binations that was justiiable either in
law or morals. Co-partnerships and
corporations are useful and justifiable,
in that they enable their members to
do what they could not do as individu-
ais in serving a public end. The trust
is the expression Of a totallo different
principle-the principle Of greed, the
love of money for its own sake. Look
abroad and see who it is that has or
ganiZed trusts. Show us a single firm
or corporation that was not prospecting
in open competition before they got
together in a combination to increase
their profits by brute force. If there
be one such, this writer has no knowl-
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