The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-04
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Well, well, the noted negro lover for
pie, Charles Cooke, of W%arrenton, is to
leave the state and locate beyond the
Mississippi. Would to God that he
could induce negro pardoner Dan Rus
sell to go with him. Every true white
man in North Carolina will offer a
prayer of thanksgiving for such a deliv-
erance:-Oxford Ledger.
1t is stated that the school chart agents
have f1eeced the school districts ofSouth
Carolina out Of about $50, 900. They
have not permitted this state to escape,
either, but they and the globe-sellers
have done a land office business in
North Carolina. We see that there is
litigation in Cleveland county, growing
out of their operations there, school
committeeman having given orders to
the chartmen on the county treasurer,
and these put in bank and afterward
disputed. The safe thing is for school
committeeman and all other people to
buy nothing from strolling venders.-
Charlotte Observer.
We were lately informed that there
were no trusts in North Carolina and
therefore state legislation against them
was useless. We are now informed by
those who speak for the republican ad-
ministration that trusts cannot be
reached through the Federal machin-
cry, but must be attacked in the states.
The trusts are the last expression of
the money power, which was begotten
by the protective tariff, nursed to man
hood by the demonetization' of silver,
and bestialiZed by the trusts. The
truth appears to be that there is no leg
islative or administrative virtue left
in the land strong enough TO withstand
the temptations of one sort and anoth-
| er which these huge a~ggregations are
able to offer.-Fayetteville Observer.
The trusts treat the people and their
criticisms and fears after the fashion
of the Vanderbilt, and the people are
wondering whether there is any virtue
left in the laws or in the men chosen
to execute them. The trusts have been
| SO successful in buying or terrorizine
those who ought to stand between the
| people and extortion by monopolies
| that they have put their dishonest and
~dishonoring hands upon the courts and
| the legislatures, and even fiaunt their
successful violation of law in the faces
Of the people they rob and destroy. and
! ask, What are you going to do about
it? And the people, lacking organi=a.
ton and equipment, are troubled tc
know whether after all there is any
hope Of winning in a contest againsI
) these outlaws of who stoI
at nothing to accomplish their purposes
In the great conflict that is coming
there are but two things necessary
for the people TO win against the trusts
Faith and Zeal.-Raleigh News and
; Observer.
F: There is an opinion widely prevalent
! that the Philippines are a barbarous
half-clad people who wear rings II
their noses. 1t may be so. But ever
il it is, they are entitled to certain
rights at the hands OF the civilized
world. among these being life. libert!
and the pursuit Of happiness-these in
cluding qeaceable possession Of tn
lands in which their fathers sleep ana
which they ~bequeathed Il them. Blu
there is another side TO the story. AID
miral Dewey, who knows both peoples
has said that the Philippines are far su
perior 10 the Cubans; and vet we ar,
going to give the Cubans self-govern
ment and are shooting the Philippine
to death because they want 1t .
But We can either accept this view O
them or the other-thatt they are makes
barbarians-and all just reasoning viii
lead TO the same conclusion, viz: tina
this war upon these people is a Grim
against God and humanity, which can
not be successfully defended at tn
tribunal of conscience nor In the forum
1of public opinion.-Cha1lotte Observer