The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-06
STATE 1 sSs IS

Inc ClIlZen ventures 10 preQlct mat
all this kick against the Craig bill by
the insurance companies will soon be
forgotten, II the state stands firm. II
the companies can get along without
the state the state can get along nth
out the companies-Asheville Citizen.
Christian Science Is the most ON
spicuous modern monument 10 the pow
er Of printers ink.-AsheviIle Citizen.
While the south stands solidly for
Bryan, if by any chance some n else
is nominated, the south will still re-
main solid. While of course, the south
has preferences in matters political,
she ever remains loyal to the party
Durham Herald.
The news that many Of the Mormons
are thinking Of emigrating is the best
news that has come from Utah for a
good many days. The proposition is
to go TO the Canadian northwest, where
they will be in more congenial sur
roundings thar they are in any part
OF b American republic. They were
never at home on free soil.-Durham
Sun.
From the schools and colleges Of
Tx Sldlc OlIIS i ing ICpO1s VI II
commencement exercises now in full
sway, and from each comes a message
that is joyful to those who want to see
the Old North State go marching on
in education. 1t is, that the attendance
of ZACH institution is growing, and that
success is with the earnest teachers of
thes tate. They deserve it, for they
are the most important factors in the
/ frrfrva T-alforn ~ Month Ta~11ro-
Washington Messenger.
We have never known a time when
the columns Of the North Carolina pa
pers contained so little politics. They
are full of news about the building of
cotton factories, the starting of new
industries and the improvements in
farming. The attention Of the people
is concentrated in business, and politics
is sent to the background. This is a
good sign. 1t shows that the idea that
has been so industriously inculcated
during the last few years by a certain
party, that good and bad times are de-
pendent or the laws enacted by con-
gress and that perpetual campaigns are
more important han planting and
reaping and keeping the furnace fires
aglOw, is losing it's charm. Next year
will be Don enough for politics.
Newton Enterprise.
Chairman Simmons is an able law
yer. If proof were wanting of this
statement, his article would be surfi-
cient to establish it. 1t reads more
like a deliverance from the bench han
a legal argument, and will carry con-
viction to every unprecedented mind. Mr..
Simmons makes it clear that the
amendment will exclude nobody ION
account of race, color or previous con-
dition of servitude." Understanding
is the touchstone. Two routes lead to
it, experience and education. The law
presumes the requisite intelligence
from either qualification. That is all.
The supreme court cannot forbid
North Carolina from shutting out ig-
norant voters without depriving Mas
sachusetts OF the same protection.
That's the mountain in the way.-Web-
ster's (ReidsvilIe) Weekly.
The valued Wilmington Messenger
of the 18th inst, has a most excellent
editorial on what the United States
records show as to the part of the
NORTH Carolina soldiers played in the
civil war. Our most readable contem-
porary briefly states that in the grand
est charge during that war, (battle of
Gettysburg,) the map of the battlefield
prepared by q. S. engineers dead North
Carolinians were found far in advance
1 of any dead in Pickett's division. 1t is
true that while this is an indisputable
fact, Pettigrew does not get the credit
to which he is entitled. North Caro-
linians have not isisted upon their
share of the glory in that fateful bat
tie. On the contrary North Carolinians
have quietly permitted others to claim
that glory, all because modesty or in
difference held them from raising their
voices. Our silence is not just to the
dead or to the living, but having let the
claim to the honors in that charge go
till now, a goodly portion of the people
are about willing to accept the same as
true. All true Tar Heels should ad-
dress themselves to doing justice to
their brethren and to their state.-Tar-
I h0ro Co1thernar