The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-21

in his own way, especially when nus
rites and ceremonies are not violative
Of public decency.-Durham Sun
The sudden scarcity OF news from
the PHILIPPINES means that Mckinney
has scented the general dissatisfaction
at the course OF event at the seat or
war and-well. the blue pencil man
has received his orders.-Greensooro
Telegram.
Notwithstanding the horrible crime
and the equally horrible punishment OF
Sam Hose, such crimes seem on the
increase in Georgia and Alabama and
lynchings do not appear to retard they.
And the question that is bothering the
better class OF both races Is that IL
l~ynching will not stop it, what will
Durham Herald.
People are writing more letters, o r
there are more people TO write, or pos
sibly both these causes have contrib
uted in making the postage stamp sales
throughout the country during the ifs
cal year just closed the largest in the
history OF the government The sales
OF ordinary stamps aggregated $780,
O21 $50, with a total valuation OF $685.
POS, 1913. This is an increase OF o
than 120,O 900, 900 in lumber and $1,000
900 in value owe last year. This
means almost two additional letters for
every ~inhabitant Of the United States
over last year.-Asheville Citizen.
This is the money loving age. Every
thing is subordinated to it. But af-
ter will come an age of love for man
kind, when deceit and hypocrisy will be
done away with, when it will be the
desire of men to speak we'll Of their
neighbors, and love for humanity will
be more general in our country. A
higher and purer literature will then
exist, and men will stop in their mad
race and worship Of money to pay tri-
butte to intrinsic worth and scholarly
attachments. After all, We will be bet
ter and purer for having been tried in
the fire Of destiny, and W. will then
learn that the getting OF money is not
the only thing in life.-Wilson News.
On Monday Mr.. James H. Cory, who
lives about six miles from town brought
a lot Of LOCO pounds Of country bacon
to town and sold it to j. c. Cobb q
Son. This is not the only meat Mr..
Cory has sold recently, either, for he
has been frequently bringing some
along when he comes to own. The
man who lives that way, with plenty
Of meat for his home use and a good
supply to turn into cash, don't have to
bother his head much about what the
trusts and combines are doing. That
is really the way to farm, raise plenty
to eat and have some to spare.-reen-
vile Reflector.
President Furman Of the newly Or
ganized Democratic Press Club, or As
ISOLATION, has appointed a good COM
mittee to draft a constitution for the
government of the permanent body
which it is designed to inaugurate.
There were those who thought there
was nj special reason why a democratic
association should be formed in addi-
ton to the present excellent state as
ISOLATION. That would be eminently
true if the new organization should
fail to adopt, as the first article Of its
faith, the principles of democracy as
authoritively laid down in the nation
al and state democratic platforms
Fayetteville Observer.
Fortunately no federal Judge can in
terfere with or enjoin the taxing power
Of the state. The railroad attorneys.
who have been given life seats on the
federal bench have not hesitated to
usurp great powers, especially in
"%usurping Gas Judge Caldwell of the
United States circuit bench recently
said) the right TO substitute their W
opinion of the reas%onableness OF rates
for that Of the legislature or a COM
mission created by law" But no rail-
} road Judge has so far dared to invade
state sovereignty as to substitute him
self for the taxing power of the state.
Should any dare to do so, We are sure
our commission will take the case to
: the supreme court at Washington who
will sit down upon the would e Sat
rap. The usurpations of the federal
judges have been more mero in
North Carolina than anywhere else in
the union because there has not been
any firmness displayed by our state
authorities in taking the cases UP to
, the United States supreme court.-Ral-
eigh News and Observer.
Wonders never cease. The boldest
imagination can hardly picture what
a day may bring forth in these piping
times of trusts and christian Educa-
tion," with a big E. We dare say
that no reader of the Biblical Recorder
lHOuSUN lOuT Or I'VE years ago ludL Gu
itor Bailey would in the month Of June
1893, throw up his hat for Trinity col
lege and open the food-gates OF his
salivary glands to cover the Dukes with
slobber for giving a small part OF their
ill-gotten wealth to that institution. II
seems but yesterday that he dipped
his pen in vitirol and spread his blister
ing invective all about and demanded
that Dukes robbery of the people
should be stopped. Trust apologists
were divided into two classes, viz,
those who own stock and those who
have received trust favors or hope to.
Today he view with Kilgo and Ivey
in his adulation of the Dukes-in fact
spreads it on thicker than any trust
organ in the state has yet been able to
do. That our readers may see what a
bad case of the slobbers he has devel-
oped, We will copy his remarkable edi-
torial OF last week in full.-Webster'e