The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-30

Indications multiply that the consti-
futional amendment will be carried.
| We would advise that every citizen get
a copy and study IL for himself. 1t
means much for us as a state.-Fay-
etteville Baptist.
IL there Is anything certain In this
age Of trusts, Ii Is tht we are march
ing under the banner OF Hamilton TO
a centralism more and more pronounc-
e with the passing years n that
Virginia planters are now at a decided
| discount. This is not "a movement TO
higher FORMS" we regret to say; but
IL Is the real ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
| Herald.
The letter by Mr.. Chas. b. Aycock in
support Of the constitutional amend
ment. published in the Sunday pap
| ers, was strong Il convincing. The
| case Is already made out for the amend
ment and all the argument TO follow
will simply add to the preponderance
| of testimony in its behalf. Mr.. Aycock
| is a good witness for the amendment.
Shelby Star.
. Nothing gets there so surely as
keeping everlastingly at it." This Is
| forcibly shown by the awakening now
| going on with regard TO good road
| building in North Carolina. A few
| years & the situation looked beyond
| arousement. Now almost everybody
| in North Carolina Is awake 10 the need
| Of good roads, and they are coming
| rapidly. This is all the result OF the
| constant hammering Of the faithful
few.-Asheville Citizen.
What is the matter with the Georgia
negro anyway? Not a week. scarcely
a day passes that a negro In Georgia
is not hanged for a criminal assault
upon some white woman Has he so
soon forgotten the awful fate OF sam
Hose? Ii really seems that the Geor-
| gia negroes would learn some sense
sometimes, AT present there seems 10
b. an epidemic OF thee rhine, for which
Sam Hose was burned in Georgia just
now.-Raleigh Blade, (~colored organ.)
Mr.. Aycock shows that even the re-
publican party will gain in. character IL
the amendment is adopted, We quote
with the conclusive establishment or
white supremacy on a permanent con-
| stitutional basis, a larger political free
dom and a greater federation OF opin-
ion will come TO all our people. The
| democratic party will be set free form
the trammels of the race issue. The
democratic party will be set free from
the stigma Of being called the negro
party and interfering itself from the
rules of cliQues and faction Will greatly
gain in character and will have some
what more influence in making n
shaping a wholesome public %opinon.'-
L%aurinburg Exchange.
There is not the shadow of a doubt
that the farmers outlook Is very dis
couraging. Tobacco brings very low
prices, and cotton is hardly worth the
raising. Other products are proper
~tionately low. Farm labor is very
poorly paid for the reason that the
farmer employer doesn't realize enough
from his crops to enable him to recon-
pense his help. The agricultural mans
horizon is not bright, and 1t continues
TO grow gloomier. Where can a rem
edy be found? 1t is very true that the
! farmer himself is, in alarge measure,
to blame for his depleted state. By
diversifying his crops, and endeavoring
t. raise at home those supplies which
he goes abroad and pay cash for, and
by attending closer to his business. and
| putting in more time upon his planta-
ton, ETC., he could better his situation
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Telegram.
We notice that a numebr Of state pa
pers are complaining at the Jim Crow
car law, and some Of them say that &C
| commodations for white passengers are
| not as good as they were before, and
we want to direct their attention to the
fact that il the railroads are not fur
| nishing ample accommodations for
| white passengers, the railroads and not
| the Jim Crow law are to blame, and
the railroad commission ought TO see
| that they do furnish ample accommoda-
| tions. This matter OF comfortable trav-
| ell is one Of greatest importance, and TX
| any of our main line roads are only
| furnishing one car Ga half each for first
and second class) for white passengers,
and giving the same amount OF space
to colored passengers, when the whites
furnish perhaps three-fourths OF the
| travel, 1t looks very much to US as II
! they were playing a little pouting game
and trying to manufacture sentiment
| in opposition to this law passed by the
| last legislature in response to an over
whelming public sentiment. Every
| main line road in the state ought 20
| furnish two whole cars, n OF each
| class for white passengers. The Sea-
| board Air Line has done this from the
start.-Rockingham A~nglo-Saxon.
Trusts may be good things; a pro-
fessor Of political economy prof.
| DOdWd, OF Trinity college mas SAID
they employ labor, buy produce and
reduce prices. Also, they sometimes
become benevolent" and endow COL
leges with insurance policies bought
with their ill-got gains; and there is a
man in our state who has declared that
such endowments are more enduring
han classic piles" These things may
be true. Perhaps our college boys
should be taught to admire the opera
tons OF trusts. But they are unlawful
in North Carolina and as such should
be destroyed, whether they be useful
to needy institutions or instructive TO
college students or not.-May 18th, 1894
1t Is clear that corporate wealth has
debauched the suffrage in this nation,
and that 1t can do so again upon a days
notice. Money has elected bad men
and defeated good ones. Everybody
knows these things. Money has recent