The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-10

will not be established by this session
OF the legislature. 1t u come, how
ever, IL fairness and harmony are TO be
preserved The demand for it grows
so strong that the next legislature will
not ignore it-Winston Sentinel.
The legislature should not adjourn
without placing a strong antitrust bill
upon the statute books The people
demand ii and the rapid encroach-
ments OF the combines upon the liber-
ties of the people make it necessary.
1t appears strange that the legislature
has not reached a conclusion in refer
ence to this matter.-Winston Sentinel.
To have said to S. Ohio Wilson we
are not called upon TO take cognizance
of your case because you are a popu-
list would have been equivalent TO say
ing that his character, though all the
capital he may have had, was unworthy
of consideration because of his politics.
The action of the legislature was wise
as well as Misunderstanding Citizen.
We have TOO many Cheap Johns who
unfortunately, are selected to make
laws for the government of a great
and noble citizenship, and who are
never able to rise above petit dema-
gogery for the sake of a little cheap
popularity. Homespun honesty does
not approve or condone such attempts
at false economy.-Rutherford Vindi-
Gator.
The antitrust bill has not passed
both houses of the legislature and the
chances are that if it does, it will be
in ct,oh f0rpo thof tho noan uha irtrn-
duced it will not be able to recognize
it. While some democrats are not
! very enthusiastic over the bill they
cannot antagonize it and be in harmo-
ny with the platform of their party.
To 'cusS" the trusts and make no at
tempt to "bust" the trusts SAVIOR of
hypocrisy.-Durham Herald.
The people of this state have put up
with Governor Russell and his antics
for two years too much already, and
the representatives Of the democratic
| party now in the legislative halls at
| the capital, can confer no greaer favor
upon the people thin by removing
| from power this man. With the knowl-
edge that for two years more he can
| controvert the wishes of the better
| element in the State, no true North
Carolinan is satisfied. Better ten
| years of Reynolds as governor than
| two more years of Russel1ism.-Wil-
| son News.
Prichard relies mainly upon the as
sumption that, Governor Russell's has
been an able and economical admins
tratiOn; that there was no negro dom
inatiOn in this state. These assertions
and they are only assertions, consti-
| tute the gist of his paper, upon both of
which the people passed last Novem-
Der, and determined in direct OppOsi-
tion to the views of the senator. The
other point suggested by the senator
is the unconstitutionality of the pro-
posed act. This is a matter which must
be decided by the Supreme court of the
United States. Gentlemen learned in
the law, of national as we'll as of state
reputation, haven concluded that the
provisions of the act applying to the
qualifications for suffrage are not OBJ
noxious to the Federal constitution
There is one thing certain, the expe-
rience of this people with the unlimited
negro suffrage, whether the senator
calls it negro domination OR what not,
cannot be continued. The law as pass
ed is a conservative measure intended
not to Cypress the negro, but, to pro-
tee him, by denying him the power to
control the destinies of this state to
his own ruin as well as the ruin of all
other interest.-Raleigh Post.