The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-10
STATE PRESS.

The Asheville Citizen thinks it might
be a good idea to legalize lynching for
the crfsme of rape. And why not? "A
TO o lynching is the recognized pen
atty for the crime, and we have never
heard of a case where the Tynchers
We're punished, and ITO Iegalize the
practice would make matters no worse
if 1T made them no better.-Durham
Herald. /,
1T must be mortify ing to 1.-THE pro-
greSsive and cultured citizens of the
Second District to be represented in
congress by the only negro in that
body, but they cam console themselves
with the knowledge THAT White win
be the last negro representative from
North Carolina or any other Southern
ate."-Jacksonville HeaEd
The Southern Tobacco Journal calls
attention to the fact that in the testi-
mony Of Mr.. E. G. Evans, of Louisville,
KY, founder of the Tobacco Workers
International Union, before the Indus
trial Commission, he said that about 80
per cent. of the tobacco manufactured
in tie United States was produced by
the two companies known as the AmIeri-
can and the C~ontinentag companies, and
he expressed the opinion that such COM
bines was not beneficial to labor. He
cited ar instance in which three manu-
factories had been absorbed by the
American company, resulting in throw
ing 500 or 600 employees out OF work.
In another case wages had been re-
duced from $3.50 to $1.25 per day after
the ocnsoIfdation.-Raleigh News and
Observer.
Marion Butler lis hungry again. He
is always hungry. His appetite for
pie is absolutely Unsuitable. Some
folks might have Thought he had set
tied down to the tranquil career of
law, but the fact that he is again be-
ginning to tamper with the political
pot in North Carolina; betrays the
why schemer's w~eakness-the gastric
juices are again flowing in all their
wOnted intensity. " = He has no
faith in the amendment as a solution
of the race problem. OF course he
hasn't. He has no faith in anything
but himself. Any measure nCt woven
by his own selfish brain, any man that
doesn't believe as himself, lis gaIl and
wlormWOod TO Mary Ann. He spews
them from his mouth. He judges hu-
manity and the world by the standard
of his own snaky life. Mary Ann cares
nothing for the kind Of men that con-
troll the affairs of North Carolina, only
that he be aAlowIed Ito be one in their
midst. He would as quickly make the
race with Jim Young ais his running
mate, as with Charley ReynOldS. 80
he begins ito tamper with the pot, and
! is at the point EVEN now of taking up
the burden Of the ignorant and vicious
negro voter. AM he needs is a little
encouragement from the bosses of the
republican NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tele-
gram.
Jeter G.. Prltchard says it's unconstt-
tutjonlal, he also said There was no
negro dominaltin in Wilmington before
the last election and before the revOlu-
tiOn hurled them from power and drove
their white allies into forced exile. If
Pritdhlard amid the res Of the repubQi-
cans think the amendment is Uncosdi-
~tutioal, why do they ftrouble themselves
about it, for everybody knows an I'M
constitutional law is nc LAW at all, and
cam neither hunt or help nyOne They
are merely playing politics., and nope
by MISREPRESENTATION to fool the people
and get back into power. Tho amend
ment viii be adopted by an overwhel-
ming majority. The white people are
determined to make white supremacy
permanent in North CarClina.-Fair
Bluff Times.
In either words, Those who do not
wish to give UP their stock in trade are
going to vote to give it UP, while But
Ter, who wishes to deprive the democ-
racy of it's stock in TRADE VIII Vote to
continue Them in possession thereof.
Upon this argument his legal opinion
is that the amendment lis unconsititu
-tional. And his law lis about as iMOg-
lead as his argument. But Pritchard
and Butler are stiIl together .-Raleigh
Post.