The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-28
STATE PRESS.

A North Carolina editor farmer sold
MS crop OF tobacco at an average ~
22h cents a pound. We venture the
assertion that he made more from his
farm than his newspaper, but IL nay
tie that he understands the farm better.
Durham Herald.
The loveliest country my eyes have
rested upon is Western North Carolina,
said b haSe Hon w. ID. Kelly. OF
P~ennsylvania- It Is TO b interest OF
the Whole country that the mountains
beauty.-Raleigh News and Observer.
There are now 50 many grades OF
democrats that Hon Thomas Settle
can, II he so desires. make his advent
into the party by easy stages. He now
verge on what might be termed a gold
bug protection democra[-Durham
Herald
Colonies John r. Webster, editor OF
the Reidsyille Weekly. has a packet
81 beuters from warehousemen, leaf
dealers and manufacturers. relative TO
the effect OF the trusts upon prices OF
c that would make enterprising and
valuable reading for the coming tobac-
CO growers OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES To-
bacco Journal.
Mr.. Richmond Pearson said in his
speech last Friday night hat Senator
Vance left his seat in the senate TO
go TO Raleigh and defeat a Demo
cratic election law. As Senator Vance
never did anything OF the kind X
would be interesting to know what
Mr.. Pearson thinks he is talkinga bout.
-Asheville Citizen.
Many of our exchanges located in
tobacco sections complain OF prices.
but no one of them has yet advised the
farmers TO quit raising II. which
should be the case if they thought the
crop Improbable. Our position on
this tobacco question is this: II the
farmer can make as great a profit
from che acre OF tobacco as from any
other crop that he may raise. he has
no right TO complain. II tobacco
twenty years ago sold for twice its
value, that was his good fortune
Durham Herald.
There is no place in the world for
the mass of African negroes but the
southern states The negro is safer
here, happier here, and has the best
chances for making a living. He is
debarred from social equality, and the
south has not yet been able to make
an exception to what is so overwhelm-
ingly the rule. But in every other re-
spect the worthy negro finds it 10 his
advantage to live in the south, and
the white man whom he serves is the
truest friend he has.-Charlotte Pres
byterian Standard.
1t is certain that North Carolina Will
hav good roads some day. The agita-
ton hat is going on now so ~incessant-
ly Will create a greater interest in
roads. But the best lesson given any
people is an object lesson. People are
| contented with their present condition
till they have learned of or experienced
a better. Then follows a laudabqe dis
content and a striving after the better.
Here and there in North Carolina real
ly first class roads are being built. Our
people see them, use them. enjoy them,
becom convinced of their practical
value and are henceforth good roads
advocates. in these mountains
graded turnpikes will wind along the
creeks and mountain sides, and beau
tiful homes on we'll kept forms will
greet the traveller along the highway
at every turn. AIN this is coming, and
coming before some of us can dream
that such a thing is possible.-Mar's
Hill Enterprise.
Bishop Walters, Of Jersey City, of the
A. NJ. E. Zion church, sends The OBJ
server a communication in reply to a
recent editorial in this paper upon the
disfranchisement of the negro in the
South, and it is printed in another COL
umn. Its writer thinks that if the ne
gro has been slow in seeing that his in
terests lie with the dominant party in
the south it is because this party has
been slow in enlighte ming him upon this
point and encouraging hin to cooper
ate with it. Therein Bishop Walters
shows himself not well informed. From
h time the negro became a voter until
very recently it was customary to hear
democratic stump speakers urge him,
in the most persuasive tone n lam
guage, to cast in his political fortunes
with his real friends. The speakers
words We're received either sullenly or
with derisive laughter, and straightway
the negro went and voted the republi-
can ticket administrations Observer.