The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-02

From all over country coheS FS
ports OF lynchings for assaults upon
women. and this but shows that people
are alike the country over, and mai
whether the crime Is committed the
criminal stands a pretty fair chance OF
meeting justice at the hands OF m en-
ragged people.-Durham Herald
The way We spell 'progrum" In this
shop is pro. pro. g-r-a-m-m-e. gram
and the way We pronounce il Is pro-
gram. Commencement announcers,
| please n. 3. Your pronunciation Is I'M
pustifable ever IL You spell 1t pro-
gram" because you don't say ".pi-
grum" or "~diagrum," do you?-Char-
lotte Observer.
In the country school house and in
the grat college lies the hope OF the
state. As teachers We have men and
women Of rare energy, culture and pa
| triotism. under whose instructions
broad-gauged. big-spirlted citizens are
being made. who q day will put the
state in the forefront Of the sisterhood-
Wilson News.
The three chief school virtues are
obedience, silence. punctuality.-Dr. W.
t. Harris. These are virtues necessary
to good citizens through life; children
arc but citizens in the formative or
tutelor age CT existence; n Il Is there
fore, most important that they be
trained into those habits of character
which are necessary TO success in the
perform9 nee OF the duties of cttizen-
s. ip. Self control is first in the cata-
logue Of duties, embracing DIR. Hirris'
trio in one.-Red Springs Record.
/ A lot OF Boston women are going e.
hold a convention soon TO protest
against lynchings in the south. Now
went they fix things? They would be
more womanly IL they were &c protest
against the horrible crimes committed
against their own sex and which have
been the cause CT most OF the lynchings
in the south. The idea Of a lot Of wom-
en-, most of them without homes or
children, calling such a convention.
Bosh! Every decent person deplores
lynchings. But every decent person de-
plcres. still more, the causes which bring
them about.-Winston Sentinel.
Had the administration at that time
~emphatically declared in favor of ex-
p~ansion, it would doubtless have caused
a division in b ranks OF the party; q.
but the policy tacitly adopted by the
administration ouly a year ago has now
become one OF the cardinal principles
Of the party, and IL the party Is sue
cessful at the next general election, the
principles that have been the basis and
foundation Of the country's progress
and prosperity since its birth as a ma
ton will be Laid aside for a policy that
will in the course OF time, IL followered
up, place US at enmity with all the
wOrld-Durham Herald
Today a great public is d~isgracing
itself in the eyes OF nations. Another
Jew, a simple soldier. serving his coun-
try, has been condemned by France and
is held guiltless by the rest Of the
world. The story of his trial is a laby-
rinthine maze Of forgery, perjury and
the suicide or murder OF the witnesses
1t involves international complications
with Germany and Russia. Ii is an
open sore that is draining the very life
of the nation. There is no expedient
; known to law or iawlessness to which
| recourse has been made to prevent
Dreyfus' acQuittal. Involved in his
| persecution is that Of the Jewish nation
and the Protestant religion 1t 10 a
dreary story of a nations moral sick
ness, preceding, as always, national dis
solution. Nor should the lesson be lost
| as regards our own government from
| the highest to the lowest official. Let
the sense of justice be dulled and the
paralysis of the whole body is inevita-
ble.--Charlotte Presbyterian-Standard-
The Charlotte Observer truly s1ys
that the above statement is appalling,
| and adds: I'VE are told from the pull
| pit and in the press that the money re-
| ceived from the sale of liquor Is blood
| money. Then, il Mr.. Terrence and the
| other reformatory managers are right,
| what is the money received from he
| sale OF cigarettes? Yet churches, Or
| phan asylums and educational iustitu-
lions are accepting this money for their
work, and this Is especially true i'm
| North Carolina. What about it," The
Observers point il well taken. One
Of the ablest ministers in the Methodist
church in North Carolina told US not
a grea while & that he belived
Dukes cigarette factory was doing
more harm than any licensed govern
ment distillery In the state. He Is not
given to expressing extreme opinions
upon any question and Is noted for HE
conservatism. The Biblical Recorder.
the organ of the great Baptist denomi-
nation in this state, says cigarettes do
more harm than whiskey; that whis-
key wrecks homes, while cigarettes
destroys the boy ere he can make a
home. Mr.. n. NJ. Lawrence told us
while he was superintendent OF tho
Oxford Asylum that every boy in that
institution was a rurt in comparison
with the girls, and upon investigating
the subject he found the trouble 10 be
cigarette smoking.-Webster's CReids-
ville) Weekly.