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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

Education surely is no disadvantage
to an ambitious nan or active worker
or man of affairs, and it will o keep
him from a fortune or from being a
great lawyer, or a learned minister of
the gospel, or a skillful and we'll read
physician, OF from being an upright and
broad-guaged banker, OF from succeed
ing in journalism, helping him to write
better English and preventing him from
admiring rhetorical tinsel and gushing
over commonplace. No manufacturer
or merchant was ever rendered less capa
Bile, less successful because he was lib
orally educated. We do not think he
would have done as we'll if his
handwriting were of the pot-book style,
grammar loose-jointed and out-at-the-
elbows, and his speech that of the hind
or the boor. Education never made a
fool as wise men are made a statesman
out of a demagogue. 1t imparts no
moral qualities but informs the mind.
Educate your sons and daughters.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

Other nations may talk IL they please
OF disarmament and reducing tax bur-
dens. but John Bull will not hear to IL.
So far from cutting down ornaments
he is increasing "the white mans bur-
den" and making a great programme
for the future. The plan is outlined
by Mr.. Goschen, the first lord Of the
Treasury. is the conversion OF Wei
Hai-Wai. the war port on the shan
tung peninsula, into a secondary naval
base at an outlay OF about $l4. 000. 900:
an increase of the navy personnel by
4,250 men, thereby adding So. $50, 900 to
the 5 OF maintenance: the disburse-
ment of ss4, 0s5, 900 for new ships. and
an appropriation Of sS05, 900 for arma-
ment. This is the largest proposed in
crease in many years. Great Britain
by conquest and expansion so covers
the globe that she is in danger of a war
any day. She is trying TO persuade
the American people to cut loose from
the past n initiate her example, and
thus help to tax up some part OF her
own white mans burden"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

this century as is Mr.. Ruskin, and that
he il one Of the noblest of men In his
aspirations and in his daily life no one
dreams of denying"
We recall that we had our first intro
duction to him as a great writer
when we were about twenty-one years
of age We bought three of his works
The Stones of Venice" Seven
Lamps OF Architecture" and Modern
Painters" and read them with some
interest and no little admiration. We
have loved the man and his writings,
and have kept up, partly in his subse-
quent productions.
New York Saturday Review holds
that Maurice Hewlett is one of the
modern masters of English" 1t lauds
his last book-"Earthwork Out of Tus-
cany." 1t says:
"Mr. Hewlett is driving a furrow, up
turning the soil Of the past, with a
pillow Of his w special devising. We
know Of but one man, and he Theo-
phile Gautier, who was the equal of
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett in word painting"
The New York Bookman says of Miss
Mary Johnston's novel, Prisoners Of
Hope" that in all the mass Of fiction
coming to the reviewers desk, there is
very, very rarely a story of which he
can say in hearty old-fashioned praise
that he could MT lay it down till he had
read it through, but he says it Of this
production Of a southern woman who
| lives in Alabama. The scene is laid in
Virginia in colonial times.
Judah P. Benjamin's famous work
/ on SALES" is iii its seventh American
| edition.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

fore a month ended if such a condition
were to be brought about by bad fed
eral laws and the power of a political
conspiracy.
The colored teacher says, and all the
men Of brains, and perspicacity and
candor see it and admit it, that the
great mistake Of his race in this country
is that we began our free life in the
political rather than in the labor field,
in the convention hall rather than in
the workshop" Just there lies the
blunder and the northern people are the
cause OF it all. When 1,000,O 600 of ne
groes were made voters without any
training, any knowledge, any under
standing of the duties and responsible
tiles Of citizenship, any qualifications
whatever for the important role in
which they were to appear, the greatest
crime of the centuries was perpetrated,
and in the mad spirit of revenge and
persecution of the whites. A great
many Of the truest, best, ablest whites
were at the same time DISTINGUISHED.
The negro who had never even so much
as seen a little river boat was put in
charge of a great ocean steamer freight
ed richly with 500 lives, men, women
and children, of the A~nglo-Saxon
lineage.
Browne finds leading white men help
ing the negroes in the south. 1t is
Many such can be found to-
day in this city where the revolution
in November wrought such a mighty
change even for the betterment of all.
The colored man and brother must
be heard from Once more. He writes:
If we will but rid ourselves of the false
notions and ignorant pride which fol-
low as the results of the %harangues of
INSCRIPTIONS white and colored pro-
fessional politicians, we will honestly
confess that the best white blood in the
south cherishes for us a friendship
which is nearer and warmer than it is
possible for any other class of white
pCOplC " uuOCl SIdllO, LluCu 1883 u
cherish" There is not a doubt as to
the correctness of all this. The thing
is patent. 1t is to be confirmed in
every community. Go to the north and
ascertain precisely the status of the ne
gro, and see just how little privileges
be has and how intense his limitations
and then, by way of contrast, visit the
south and see him engaging in all the
callings in life freely and without re-
straint of any kind, even working side
by side with the white man.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

Chicago, March ga special dis
patch to The Tribune from Omaha
credits J. Sterling Morton with the
intention Of forming a new political
party, which. he declares, will be the
greatest political organization since
the formation Of the republican party.
Discussing the proposed new party
and the side lights likely to develop
therefrom, Mr.. Morton says:
Il v the utmost faith in the plan.
A party will be organized July attn
hat will stand for conservatism pre-
eminently. No doubt the platform viii
contain some elements common to all
parties, but the key note will be con-
servatism. There is a vast field for
the new party's operations. The late
war and its momentous issues. the
struggle Of the two great parties over
bimetallism, the rise, decline and alb
solute decay OF populism; all these ele-
e contribute 10 a situation as preg-
nant az those which gave birth TO the
republican party on the approach Of
our civil war"
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tons fail OF passage then the work Of
last year will have TO be done again
and perhaps with more threatening
surred fact that the 80 IS per cent. OF
the tax payers (all whitesl will not
have their business interests and the
peace and prosperity OF the state fur
Their compromised or seriously lam
aged by the } Is tax payers. h ne
groes. The very suggestion or such an
idea Is too preposterous for serious at
tentlon. Only bad whites could dare
10 c%onspire 10 cause such results. The
white men Of character. whether re-
publicans or populists or democrats.
u unite heartily for the triumph OF
good and honest government and the
prosperity of the noble Anglo-Saxon
civilization.
There is confidence among men OF n
certain type in radical ranks h "A the
entire negro vote will ali be polled
against the amendment. While We
confess TO no great confidence in many
colored men voting for IL. We expect
that some Will unless bulldOZed by their
own race. In that event "A race onfiic
would be sure To come for the white
men will stand by all allies who may
come up to their aid in the struggle, TO
save the state from anarchy and ruin.
No men not blinded by passion or a
stark fool can deny the outrages and
wrongs perpetrated during the last four
years to the cost OF the burden-bear-
ers Of all sorts and conditions OF men.
There must be harmony. unity, deter
mination to win. All colored voters
who may be pleased to help in the
adoption Of the amendment should be
welcomed, for it is a most necessary
work TO be done, upon the success OF
which really depends the prosperity
and glory and safety Of the state.
The Messenger believes that the
amendment will win. 1t believes this
because there are enough white men in
the republican and populist parties
who see that negro rule is a constant
menace, and means outbreaks OF vio-
lence and bad government to induce
them to support the amendment that
will to a great extent, as is the case
in South Carolina. remove the negroes
from politics, as disturbers and factors,
and yet not interfere with white voters.
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Why should there be a great Amer
lean army? Because there are great
expectations and great interests in
volved in foreign conquests. But what
is the actual reason for the much urged
and favored big army? Senator Haw-
ley, Of Connecticut, is chairman of the
military committe in the south" He
no doubt knows what is the real pur-
pose Of the large increase of the army
so popular with his party, the repub-
lican. Addressing the Connecticut leg
islature lately he said this:
"And then among the things that
great countries must think OF are the
wild, unreasoning Instructions and
mobs. 1t was a wise thing for the
merchants Of Chicago to give a fine
rae OF land to the National govern
ment, who fortified it, and it is o
Fort Sheridan. We have heard of dis
turbances in Chicago. We hope, how
ever, we e shall have any again,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
The Cuban Commissioner. Arrive

Washington, March 2S.-Senors Jose
r. Villalon and A. Hevia, who were
appointed by the Cuban assembly to
present to the Washington authorities
the resolutions OF that body, hav ar
rived in this city. Their mission. in ad-
dition TO the presentation Of the reso-
%lutions. is TO explain in detail the stu
alton with reference to the insurgent
army. While the assembly did not re-
ject the 5000 900 which General Gomez
arranged with Mr.. Robert T.. Porter
to receive and pay off the Cuban
troops. they believe ii TO be entirely
inadequate to meet the situation. They
desire at least $40, 600, 900 and as much
more as can be obtained.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
Ex.Secretary OIney for Presidential
Candidate

Milwaukee, Wis, March 2S.-The
Journal today says: That a movement
is underway to make ex-Secretary of
State Richard Olney the democratic
candidate for president next year Is re-
vealed in a letter from Boston to the
Journal.
General Olney's campaign Is based
on the theory that he is in favor OF i'm
perialism, while opposed to annexation.
The writer of the letter referred 70
is very prominent in democratic poll
tics and he says the movement in Mr..
Olney's favor is well under way. II
is urged in his behalf, that he, though,
a gold democrat in 1896, did not make
himself obnoxious to the free silver ele-
ment and that OF the expansion ques-
ton he would be an available candi-
date, being opposed TO the annexation
of distant islands TO the territory Of
the United States. Mr.. Olney's views
on the acquisition Of foreign territory
are very pronounced. He believes in
tn United States striving with the other
nations of the world for commercial
greatness, but not for political extern
sion.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
AN EDUCATED NEGRO WRITING OF
HIS RACE AND SOUTHLAND

A gentleman of our city left a copy
of the Boston "Cougregationalist' with
us. 1t is an able and large weekly. 1t
has an editorial that arrested our at
tention. 1t is headed "The Negroes
View of His Race" 1t is a very fair
and conservative discussion. 1t sees
that the negroes are now listening to
the wiser and better equipped men Of
were prone to listen to only the white
men, and they misled and deceived them
to their hearts content, we add. 1t re-
-ers to Booker Washington and other
co-laborers in the work of instruction
among the colored men. 1t says that
the new leaders of their own race are
telling them how to help themselves"
Several we'll informed and we'll fur
nished colored men have spoken wisely,
earnestly, sincerely, frankly to the peo-
pie, giving them wise counsel based on
wide observation and an enlightened
experience. 1t says, but it can only ap-
ply at present to the better informed
among them, that negroes are coming
to realize themselves the power to Gre
ate value for the community and be-
ginning to feel ashamed of asking and
demanding in the same breath social
and political favors, and complaining as
though these were rights withheld
through prejudice" 1t adds, and so far
as it can apply to certain numbers, it
is true, that this is the dawn of real
freedom to the race"
But the main point Of interest is the
reference to an intelligent, educated ne
gro named Hugh M. Browne, who has
visited North Carolina since the revo-
luton in Wilmington. He is now a
teacher in the Hampton Institute in
Virginia. His report of observations is
said to be interesting. We have not
seen it. The Congregationalist thinks
"the practical wisdom of his own words
On the Negro problem would be in
dorsement enough of his character.
Referring to the Wilmington troubles
in November last, he says: "The sit
uation is simply this-the professional
colored politician has lost his job" He
shows due appreciation surely of what
is right and just when he says that lit
is quite natural hat citizens, both
white and colored, who pay the taxes,
should overthrow those who pay no
taxes but insist On collecting and using
them"
He is right. In what New England
community would it be allowed for a
year, or a month, that 81 of the negro
taxpayers. aided by those of their own
ace which pay no taxes, should control
taxation and avs and offices over the
96a who pay the taxes? 1t is too mon
strous, too absurd to be pressed. A
New England town would go into rev
olution'' and have another Concord be-
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but we know the best way not to have
them Is to be prepared for them So I
say we shall need a large army TO
stand back Of municipal authority"
So IL Hawley knows just why he and
others r backing the imperial ad-
ministration 1t is not really TO expand
or whip h~arbarians. but 20 awe the
free American people. A fine business
that That Chicago affair was high
call for help by the governor or the
mayor. but ii was lone in the a OF
their protests.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
LITERARY GOSSIP.

The New York Tribune'S critic
thinks poorly of the much praised nov
elist Benjamin Swift. It's judgment
may be rightful.
Kipling's father is said to have been
the foremost Oriental scholar in all
India. So writes a returned English
nan from the remote land. He says of
him:
HE had a marvellous knowledge of
the religious creeds and of the language
and dialects of the country. Added to
that, he was one of the greatest author
tiles on antiquarian matters there, and
would be sent for from all parts of In
dia in case of there being discovered
anything of interesting but doubtful
origin"
He gives also an interesting glimpse
of the very gifted son, as he appeared
in his early manhood. He writes:
'1Mr. Ruyard Kipling was quite a
young man when 1 first knew him
about twenty-one or twenty-five. He
was a man of slight frame, but very
active. He did not impress one as be-
ing of a reflective, studious urn of
mind. On the contrary, he was brim-
full of the most boisterous spirits, and
laughed and joked his way through the
day. 1T is said that he is cold, reserved
and distant in his manner now. If that
is so, the Ruyard Kipling Of today is
the very antithesis of the blithesome,
high-sprited lad 1 knew fifteen years
ago in the Punjab."
1t seems that in his famous and uni
que "Plain Tales from the Hills" he
was painting people most accurately.
They were fresh studies from nature.
The Englishman tells us that people
in India today can tell you every man,
woman, child and place he describes in
his Plain Tales and other Indian
stories. Mulvaney, Oriheis, and Lear
royd are living men, as surely as you
or l."
Robern Browning had a high appre-
citation of his remarkably gifted and
gracious wife. He even held her to be
more royalty endowed than himself.
This may be excessive, but she was
really of extraordinary endowment and
was beyond fair question the greatest
poet of modern times among women.
The attempt of Mr.. w. L. Alden, and
perhaps others, to greatly detract from
her fine gifts and to even ridicule her
claims as a poet at all, will hardly pass
current with any sympathetic readers
of Mrs. Browning's exquisite Casa
Guidi." Sonnets and her"Aurora Leigh"
and other poems we may write of O
Joh. Ruskin has passed his eightieth
year. With some eccentricities of gen.
ius, n with highest ideals, he is one
of the half dozen greatest masters of
style in this century among writer's in
English. He is much lauded and de-
servedly so among his countrymen.
Mr.. Alden in a recent letter to New
York Saturday Review from London
says of him:
Some of Mr.. Ruskin's admirers have
presented him with formal c~ongratula-
lions on his attainment of his eightieth
birthday, and all the have
spoken in terms Of admiration of the
beauty of his works. Mr.. Ruskin's
authority as an art critic has vanished.
= Still, the fact remains that We
have had no such master of English in
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
FACTS AS TO COLLEGE MEN In
CALLINGS

We called attention lately to an as
sertion that the small colleges furnish
ed the great men. We questioned what
was said. Harvard, Yale, University
OF Virginia, University of North Caro-
lima, Princeton University and others
have done their duty and had large re-
turns in the prominent, even very able
men they have given to the country.
MIR. Carnegie, the Scotch multi-million-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

Charleston, S. c., March 29.-The aux
iliary cruiser Wasp, differed and
manned by the Jacksonville division
of the Florida naval reserves, went to
sea from here this afternoon under
sealed orders from the governor Of
Florida 1t is thought that the Wasp
Is bound for Fernandina, as she steer
ed south after reaching the lightship.
The cruiser was the first ship Of her
class that has ever entered this port
flying a state flag.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31

aire of Pennsylvania has been searching
in vain for the successful "college-made
man. He is reported as saying that he
had inquired and searched everywhere,
but find scarcely a trace of him" He
must have gone about blind-folded and
without an ~ear-trumpet. Mr.. H. E.
Kratz is superintendent OF public
schools at Sioux City, Iowa. He has
been helping Mr.. Carnegie in his search,
and he has been far more successful
than to Scotch steel-rail manufactur-
er. who was evidently blinded by the
fires of his furnaces and the glitter of
his gold. Mr.. Kratz found "the college
made man" and found him busy, sue
cessful aad to the front in many avo-
cations. In the Educational Review for
March he gives the results of his search
in Western states mainly. He sought
information as to the many callings-
ministry, teaching, law, medicine, bank
in >, Journalism, merchandise and man
~ufacturing, the last two TO be consid-
cred as one class. He was in search
of "leadino men" of all kinds, college
men and others. The question he put
was for those who had pursued a college
course for not less than two years, but
he sought all successful men in the re-
spective callings whether college men
or not.
The following table shows the facts
gathered:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
THE COMING

The Messenger early realized the i'm
portance of a very earnest. active cam
paign in behalf Of White Mans Gov
and the amendment to the con-
stitution of North Carolina 10 secure
it. 1t claims that every white man
should be awake. resolved, and peril
nacious in behalf Of the amendment.
If it should by any hostile combina-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-31
LATE

A monster giant is naked in the
arena. 1t is The Trust" 1t has an
ordinary mortal by the hair and leg,
head hanging downwards, labelled
THE People," and he is about dashing
it to destruction. From a royal seat
Mckinley, Hanna and Alger are look
ing down on the wretched scene and
are in broad grins over the destruction.
They are exclaiming-'Bravo! E%ncore!'
It is a New York Journal Illustration:
Another cartoon represents McKin-
ley and Hanna in a private room sit
ting face to face, Hanna holding Nc
and Nc and Hanna shaking hands,
and both splitting their sides" with
joy. There is a newspaper pasted on
the wall and Uncle Sam is reading it.
1t NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Brib-
cry Case Overlooked-No Time to Dis
cuss It." Underneath is printed--"God
Reigns and the Republican Party Still
Lives" Hanna appears in his old
rig of 1896. 1t is from the New York
Journal.
Another picture is headed, "A Merry
Joke on Your Uncle Sam" Lower down
is a sign over a counter-"U. S. Treas
ury Bar Room" A jug appears marked
Trust Whiskey." Uncle Sam is in his
shirt sleeves and three huge men are
firing at his feet saying-'Dance, You
Hayseed, Dance! We Want Real
Sport" BEEF Trust" is near him, pis-
toll in hand and shooting. In his rear
is "R. R.. Trust" a big old gray head.
pistol in hand. In rear of Uncle Sam
and they are Sugar Trust" and Goal
Trust" Uncle Sam is hopping and
jumping at a very lively rate. From
New York Journal.
Still another is headed "Jekyll Is
land" There are three big faces in
big glee with keen eyes. Reed is on
one side of Hanna and Mckinley is on
the other. Hanna has his big paw or
the shoulders of each. The motto be-
low is-"They Met by Chance The
usual way. New York Herald's car
toon.
Many northern republican organs are
beginning to discuss and urge the shut
| ting of southern delegations from the
republican national convention that
is based on the negro vote. 1t is also
proposed to cut down southern repre-
| s%entatives in the federal based
now upon the negro vote. The latter
they will do if they can but there is a
lion or two in the way. One northern
rabid, radical sheet, the n. Y. Press.
| writes Of the degenerate character" of
the men from the south in the congress.
| We wonder if it is not so with the rep
resentatives and senators from the
north? There is decadence right there
and the Press must know it. The AT
lanta Constitution answers the Press
| effectively in saying:
TT seems to US that the Press fur
| nisheS a full answer to its charge in
the declaration which it makes, upon
which it asks the exclusion Of southern
delegates from the republican conven-
ton. These delegates, the Press de-
clares to be "a body 8 8 > who repre-
sent nothing but lively sense of favors
received n an even livelier anticipa-
ton of favors to come" If these men,
the flower of republicanism in the
south, are so corrupt as to be unworthy
of membership in a convention, are
they not equally unworthy of trust in
actual government? Does the Press
ask the people Of the south to permit
government by men who are stigma
tized by itself?''
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TERMS Of aOBSC. i1,uh.