The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-18

The recent legislature gave GuilfS!d
| county a ~dispensary. And nuwnmIhe
whiskey men have signed a plefSon
| calling for a prohibition e~lectiSawrsn
tune. They prefer prohibition to a~6isn
| pensary. All Of which oes to shaT thu
men are funny creatures.Nhrp
| Scout
While we firmly believe that munich
pal ownership OF water, lights and
street cars IS wise. feasible and ad-
v~sntageous, and do not doubt It's ulti-
mate triumph, everywhere. 1t viii take
time. All the smaller cities that have
not voted long term franchises for eth
er OF these public necessities ought to
put them in at the expense OF the mu-
nicipaiity, and all other cities ought TO
agitate such ownership and absorption
as Will De Just alike TO the owners and
the tax payers as soon as they can be
obtained.-Raleigh News and Observer.
There are thousands OF things made
Of wood that can be manufactured here
at a profit. The wood is cheap and
abundant. Industries, industries is
what We want. Let the people get to-
gether and pull together on Industrial
lines-Winston Journal.
1t is quite evident tina the amend
ment will be antagonized by the office
holding and office-seeking white re-
publicans, whose only hope OF politi-
cal preferment in the state is based
upon h ignorant and prejudiced ne
gro vote n il will not be surprising
If, in their desperation, they resort TO
every possible reSource in their efforts
TO diStort the true meaning of the
amendment INC to create prejudice in
the minds of the unlettered white vot-
ers. Therefore, the work in informing
this class Of the truth in the premises
no ~ hn A-,, 80 Tn-~-- 4
educational qualification but this does
not apply to white voters-a fact that
should be made very plain TO the un-
educated whites n impressed upon
them before designing politicians have
created a false impression in this re-
gard.-Louisburg Times.
A problem for religious expansion
lists: Which is the more depraved spe-
cimen of humanity-the savage Phil
ippino, goddess and struggling for liber-
ty, or the Christian" soldier who
comes with his profanity and bullets
and shoots religion into the savage"
Greensboro Telegram.
For many years in North Carolina
the negro has constituted the
greater part of the republican party,
Within the past few years, this party
IL Nv ACSlO SuISCCuSu " the pOWtI duu
placed Judge Russell in the chair once
graced by Fowle and Vance. During
this brief reign our state has been con-
fronted with more scandal, corruption
mismanagement than ever before in its
history. For this the negro is respon-
sible, and until this plaything OF I'M
principled politicians is deprived of his
suffrage We may expect a repetition of
@ho Isro,ro anf,1 -,1o 80 Dc
sell. A vote for the amendment is a
protest against his administration and
a rebuke to the demagogues who seize
upon the ignorance of the negro to
mount to power.-Smithfield Herald.
An exchange says, Teach the chill
dren History" Yes, by all means.
History, and geography too if they can
be kept UP with the changes during
their childhood, but above all teach
them the three "R's'-Readin' 'Ritin'
and 'Rithmetic." The next generation
is to be a business one, and, while they
are children and their time is shorten
ing as time rolls, when a child Is a
child-they shuold be correctly taught
those elementary studies which will
form the basis for future usefulness as
we'll as developments development to
be obtained, unfortunately by too many
without the help of others. There are
far too many ologies and sciences and
crank methods being crammed into and
forced upon the children-those that
are children-of the present day.-Ral-
eigh Post.
In the recent exciting election in
Chicago there was fresh circumstantial
evidence that Hanna's corrupt methods
carried that city for Mckinley in 1896.
In twelve wards, the residence portion
Of the we'll to do people, the vote in
1896 was 38,361. In these same wards
last week it was 119,157. This election
was even more absorbing to the people
of Chicago than the Presidential cleo
ton, and Chicago's population has in
creased. 1t was by padding that the
Chicago vote was counted for Xxi
ley.-Raleigh News and Observer.