The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-19

linn Crow car law IL not q jim
Crow law when IL does not operate On
all roads alike. The operation OF
law as arranged by the corporauun
commission does not fill the bhl-Dur-
ham Herald.
The Raleigh last week crossed the
bar at the mouth OF the Cape Fear md
entered the Southport haroor. This
week in trying TO enter the Charleston
Is CD harbor she ran aground ana
The Messenger wanted to O Charles
ton some OF the surplus water or tho
Cape Fear. The Messenger hits EN-
hard.-Greenville Reflector.
The smaller railroads in the state
have asked that the corporation COM
mission exclude them entirely from he
operations of the Jim Crow car law
claiming that passenger traffic win n0t
Justify the increased accommodations
ThIs NAV all be true. and there h ID
doubt that the law WIN prove a hard
ship on the smaller roads. but this
should have been considered by
legislature before the law was enact
ed. but since II is a law enacted by
the legislature, we doubt that the cor
poration commission has the authori-
~ 20 go back OF Il and give the relief
asked for.-Dunn Herald.
We believe the amendment viii bo
adopted by an overwhelming majority
and that as a result a better state OF
political feeling will be inaugurated In
North Carolina II will clear the atmos-
phere so that every thinking man can
tell where he Ia at. II viii open the way
for men TO seek congental company In
politics as well as in other things. It
will pen the eyes OF the negro TO the
fact that there is nothing In politics for
him and he will cease Ia be n disturb
sn- Fo-s~- Tt xxGIl nakan shn aennAaHl ~
citizenship and supply n long needed
stimulus TO public education-"-Web-
stear's (Reidsville) Weekly.
, A private letter from Elizabeth City
says that the negroes voted almost to
a unit gains the Issue OF $30,0o0 bonds
for street improvements which car
ried on Monday last. He is" writes ~
friend, IAN impeachment to progress and
will ever be until eliminated from pol
itice. He received his whispered orders
and voted as directed" a ~ an in
dictment against the negro as a voter
that outside people do not understand
They get orders about even bond
elections, and vote for or asains- inn
provement just as the boss directs.
Such a vote is a danger in n commu-
nity.-Raleigh News and Observer.
The public of these last days OF the
nineteenth century is very gullibie.
Only a day or two ago IL was
ed under flaming headlines that a son
OF Sam Hose, the negro who was re-
Gently so horribly butchered in Geor-
gia, was on his way north, declaring
that he was forced to leave Georgia,
and that his father had been unjustly
charged with the crimes for which he
paid the penalty with his life. This was
simply a "shifty" negro who knew he
could use such talk for a few days TO
his pecuniary advantage. Sam Hose
was perhaps not over % years of
when lynched, but 40 onc stopped to
think or ask questions, and the dimes
and dollars came INTO the ebony palm
held out to receive the contributions or
those whose sympathy was greater
han their Observation-Disclosures Cit
izen.
1t forces us TO again call the arten-.
ton of the public to the feet hat Zeb
Vance Walser Is the attorney general
of North Carolina. This official n
been ignored and disregarded by the
present state administration to a de-
gree that at last compelled the fssu-
ance of what treasurer that his assump
ton of the independence. And II In
true this very ruling OF State Treasur-
er Worth that caused the attorney gen
eral to manumit himself. AS a matter
OF history, Zeb Vance Walser notified
the state treasurer that his assumption
of the functions of the attorney general
was u~nwarranted, without precedent
and of no effect, and that the dispen-
sary law would work az the Legislature
intended it should until a competent
and capable official should decide 9TH
erwise. Zeb Vance Walser Is alleged
to have been warm.-Ashevflle Citizen.
The Wilmington Messenger has a.
"on good authority that around Chad
bourn good trucking lands are held at
800 an acre. and sales have been made
not far under that sum-" A few years
ago that land sold for almost a song
and nobody wanted to buy II. Now
there are bidders and the price has
increased ten-fold. What did IL? Yam
KEGS and Strawberries. A or
which State Senator Joseph A. Brown
was the active manager, bought up
large bodies of land about Chadbourn
and sold IL TO thrifty farmers in the
northwest, who moved down to grow
Strawberries and truck for northern
markets. They succeeded, others came.
and the result has been beneficial I'm
every way. We need more Intelligent
people in North Carolina to DO else
where what has been lone at Chad
bourn. 1t does not matter whether
they come from the south, north, west
or from Europe. so they have industry
and brains.-Raleigh News a. OBJ
server.