The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-22
~s~sE PRESS

Mormonism is gaining ground in this
state and in the south, but while his
may be alarming, it annot be helped.
This is a country of free speech and
even ar infidel can win converts to his
dOctrine.-Durham Herald.
The gold bug papers which are boast
ing over an increase in six years OF
more than 80 1-3 per cent. in the gold
in the world are practically admitting
that there has not been enough money
in the world. Even with this prenomi-
nal increase, who yet has enough?-
Tarboro Southerner.
AIT one time Pritchard plead for a
lilly white" republican party, but now
he pose The suffrage amendment
which will take the bull of the negro
voters, to all intents and purposes, out
Of his party and all other parties. There
seems to be a big flaw in the senator's
consistency, to say the least.-Winston
Sentinel.
A newspaper printed in Manila
speaking of the situation there says:
The Tagalo is a supplemented saw
age who needs a master firm and just.
Uncle Sam fills the bill; why not let
him complete the task that providence
has placed before him?" And the name
of this paper is Freedom" The idea
of the administration may be disclosed
la HI otSid ~ 4his &lCINllAlIS -
benevolent assimilation" may mean
that he intends making slaves of these
"simple-minded" people. This newspa-
per is no doubt the administration or
gan and the ~mouthpiece of General
Otis, and in this light the above remark
is significant indeed--Asheville Citizen.
That there is need of education and
aggitatiOn of the good roads movement
is evidenced by the actions OF farm
erS living along the line Of the new
macadum road which is being made be-
tween this city and Chapel Hill. For
no valid reason they are opposed TO the
road, and although having sufficient
rocks ON their lands to macadam every
road in the country, they will not dis
pose of it to the road authorities for
love or money. The rock is an encum
brance on the land and cannot be used
for anything else but road building, yet
out Of pure spite they had rather keep
it than sell it for a fair price and see
good roads constructed. Many such
men would make any country poor
Durham Herald
Let us be glad tina We live in Ameri-
ca, and that America is a Protestant
country and that its people # neither
cOwardly nor constituencies. There
was rejoicing Saturday IN Paris and in
hell PLATE has the prospect Of fit as
sOciates, after centuries of waiting.
Liberte, Egalite. Fraternite! Forgery
and pedjury have been deified in France
as liberty nee was, and liberty and
justice have been banished from the re-
public. Fraternity is q forgotten word.
In its stead is a partnership between
the actual scoundrels and those who
have suborned their consciences TO be-
lieve in the honor and truth of the ar
my. And equality has changed to a
fancied superiority OF the Frenchmen
over the Jew, which the rest of the
world is ready to pronounce, today,
pure fancy The German
government officially declared tina. it
had never hal any Communications
with Dreyfus. Saturday, by a vote of
five 20 two, Dreyfus was declared gull
ty. He may have been But there was
no proof Of his guilt that would have
allowed his imprisonment a single day
in America, pending trial, and the case
would have been thrown out of court
here and a wholesale indictment Of the
witnesses for the prosecution begun, for
the crimes Of perjury, forgery and
fraud. In sentencing Dreyfus, France
has declared herself guilty in the eyes
OF b nations and of the nations God
Charlotte Observation-Disclosures.