The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-07
LEGISLATIVE.

LAN IL NlaAlS1&lAhS 81 Il
much business it cannot close with the
constitutional time-sixty days-but
will have to sit a few days longer with
a 1t is said that $1,000 were /
saved by razeeing the wages paid by
the combine TO their multitudinous |
henchmen and teat-suckers. Well done.
A penny saved is a penny made, runs |
the old true saw. The consolidating of
the colored normal schools at Green's
boro is proper no doubt. The expendi-
ture Of $4,000 to have a normal school
east of Raleigh for the negroes is
right enough so long as such work is
a part of the White fans burden"
All North Carolinians of the right
stripe" will say we'll done to the ap-
preparation by the state of $1,000 to
help to erect a monument to the late
Zebulon B. Vance, the most popular
North Carolinian we have ver read
of, heard of or seen. That the people
whom Gov. Vance served with so much
of zeal, fidelity, usefulness and distinc-
ton for forty years, alike in peace and
war, nave not erected at Raleigh a
$4,000 monument to the Great Com
moner Is only another convincing evil
dence hat North Ca~rolinians will not
contribute to honor the dead, however
noble and deserving, however much
they may be addicted to hero worship
and snobbery. We would have sup
posed that $4,000 North Carolinians
could have been found to erect a monu-
ment to Vance, each gladly giving 81.
But the poor, beggarly, d~isgraceful
sum of 81, 900 has been contributed.
That is one of the meanes things we
know of the men Of North Carolina.
No gratitude for, no appreciation of
their greatest men. Zeb Vance was a
Man, all through, from head to foot.
The complimentary resolution and the
cordial praise offered to Speaker Con-
nor by the house, and the men in op-
position, were due to the able and ad-
mirably poised and conscientious pre-
siding officer. He richly merits all that
was said and done.
The Jim Crow Car business is
granted a rest until 1st June, 1899.
Then We will all see what we will see.
Alarums!
The criminal court for New Hanover,
M~ecklenburg n six other counties
will continue. This is a necessity. New
Hanover has a right to be glad.
Mr.. H. B. Stevens, elected judge of
the western criminal court, must be
singularly popular as everybody wanted
him.
The house decided that all county
school superintendent must have had
at least two years experience as a
school teacher or in public school work.
Former superintedents who have serv-
ed for two years are not interfered
with.
1t is the pevailing sentiment among
North Carolina democrats that the ne
groes must share equally in h public
school fund. OF course there are thou
sands who do not agree as to this plan
that it is fair and right to tax them
to educate negroes. But a large, over
whelming majority think the old course
is the proper one, and so it is contin-
ued. Northern writer's and newspapers
nave pei dpS III lIlllC AllloChSC ~
shaping this sentiment among the
democrats of this state. Mr.. Craig
thought it would "be grossly wrong in
morals to give only negro money to
negro schools" 1t would take a master
Of casuistry to make that appear. If
men should think that they are not
bound to vote to tax themselves as
much to educate the children of negroes
as TO educate their own children we
do not see where the moral wrong
comes in. If it is urged that a sense
Of duty to h state, or a conviction Of
policy, or feeling of sympathy, or a
movement of ~benevolence, cause white
men to tax themselves for negro edu-
cation it is all right to follow such i'm
pulses, convictions, benevolent move
ment. But We do not believe it is i'm
moral TO fail to see it from this prac-
teal standing point. A great many
sensible liberal people share with Bill
Apps view as to negro education.