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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
IMPROVEMENT IN THE GANG.

Beginning with 1868, the black radi-
cal party in North Carolina has shown
itself based upon no real principles be-
You'd the five loaveS and the two
fishes 1t has been for the make, care
less of all results to the state and the
white race, from it's "muling and puk-
ing" infancy until this day of evil
things. 1t is not one whit more re-
spectacle, more honest, more patriotic,
more trustworthy at the very close Of
the year 1899, than in 1869 when it
%plundered the state, piled up a public
debt of more than $50. 600, 900 upon the
whites who had been robbed of their
property, and pillaged by the invading
army of bummers n unworthy law
makers in the northern congress. 1t is
the same old snake in the grass with
out change of color or shedding of kin.
1t is now seeking to consolidate the
negro vote against the needed constitu-
tional amendment, and the sole purpose
is to rule or ruin-tO have their hands
deep in the treasury, deep in the peO-
pies pockets so they may roll in uX-
ury, fare sumptuOuSly every day and
be big TOwser in the barn yard. They
are a very bad set, those white fellows
who are cOnspiring and striving to en-
slave and impoverish the honorable
and Industrious whites of North Caro-
lima. If there were no office. no fees,
no plunderings, no grub-these fellows
would whoop with their race or be as
silent as the grave. Think of a base
conspiracy to make Marion Butler gov
ernor of North Carolina, to follow the
four years of shame of Daniel Russell.
What have the white people of North
Carolina ever done that any gang
should strive to subject them to eight
years of uch a government as is i'm
posed, upon them now by Russell, and
would be visited upon them by that ex-
ponent of lodges and valamities Inc
curses-Marion Butler, if by any shut
fling of the political cards and any
throwing of loaded dice he should be
installed governor. There can be moth
ing more ~disgraceful, more lamentable,
more calamitous a W grim and CHASTITY
war. May a kind and merciful Provi-
dence avert such a terrible calamity.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
OLE Wessenger.


That Mckinley and gang really have
no well defined policy of any kind is
apparent. He did not in an enormous
message nave one word about his once
favorite hobby, a great high robber
tariff. So now, he is really without
any fixed plan as to how to deal with
the Philippines. He would wish for
conquest out and out and for annexa-
ton, but he is afraid Of results and
how it will affect him personally in his
candidacy for reelection. Senator
Lodge is chairman Of the senate COM
mittee having the Philippine Islands in
charge. lie has sent out his views,
n it is altogether probable, with Nc
Kinlo US sanction. The purport of his
talk is that we must await events
that it is too soon yet to formulate a
policy. The New York Evening Post
says
mi. Mckinley stands where he stood
during his western stumping tour,
having no policy to enforce against the
will of the people, What h Will Of
the people may be is equally uncer-
tain"
The resolution of Representative
Williams, of Mississippi. relative to the
inalienable rights of the Fflipinos to
Sel1-SoVernnent, ETC., may not pass.
1t would be very like republicans if
they were to swallow every patriotic
utterance and go pell-mell for conquest.
1t will rather surprise if . there is
enough of consistency and sense of
right and justice in the present con-
gress to adopt the Williams resolution
tina declares ut has always been our
intent and purpose to recognize the
inalienable rights of the Fflipinos to
self-government and national indepen-
dence, and hat in pursuance thereof
we shall make formal recognition of
these rights and withdraw our land and
sea forces upon the establishment of
peace and the inauguration of a con-
stitutionaI government or governments
by the people of the islands or any IF
them, etc"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
BRENITIES.

When thirteen alleged democrats vote
for the gold standard in the house. it
looks as if it was a divided party with
but little showing. The republicans
are having it all their own way, n
little Mckinley is so happy.
Secretary Root preferred to pay 1920
a year to the Sultan of the Sulu Is
lands, with his harem of dozens Of wo-
men, to fighting the bad old man. The
New York World says 1.-The president
| has accepted the agreement-and that,
too, in the face of his highly v%irtuous
assertion on the stump that the United
States has never purchased a peace
and never will" What a fraud Mac is!
The high tariff promises to be some
| thing of a dead issue among republic
cans, who are at the same time striving
| to make it appear that "silver is a dead
issue"
Grace Street Presbyterian church in
Richmond, Va, proposed to increase
Rev. DR.. Witherspoon's salary to $4,000,
but he declined. He is evidently con-
verted and not avaricious.
General J.. 3. Hoods son Duncan is
an officer in the Boer army. Confed-
crates of the right type are apt to fight
with the bottom dog and sstand for
principles.
JOS. Sibley says he is still a bimetal-
list, but favOrs 90 to 1,with information
al consent.
Vote buying in Virginia prevailed no
little according to Governor Tyler in
his message.
OF the A senators who voted against
prohibition in the Georgia senate &c
tipple. That explains.
| A Boston woman got six years in a
court for sixty-three counts of cruelty
to children. Served her right.
Germans rejoice over the British
losses. The Emperor is Queen Victo-
ria's grandson, and Germans and Eng
lish spring from a common stock.
Heigho! Even bowling Pennsylvania
lynches a negro, n not for raping a
pure white woman, but killing a white
man. Human nature is much the same
all around the circle.
It is curious to see how readily news
papers catch on now to the term "em-
pire." The latest is the empire of the
! south" What apes and snobs Ameri-
cans are.
Rev. DR.. Purvis, of Princeton Univer-
sity, accepts the call as successor to
the late DR.. John Halls church in New
York city. Was there ever yet a min
lister in church who declined a $12, 900
salary?
The expenses of the British in the
African wal is $4,000. 900 a week. That
means over $500, 900, 900 a year. A cost
ly luxury as we'll as mistake.
The ancient order of Hibernians is
planning to raise $1,000, 900 for the Boer
war fund, and to send troops to their
help.
The republican silver men in the
congress have issued an address on the
currency bill that passed the house by
eleven democrats voting for it.
The Goebel candidate for congress in
the Seventh Kentucky district was
elected by 1900 majority over the fusion
democratic boilers and republican can
didate.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

U~surpation. arbitrary ruling, a want
Of fidelity to foundation principles. and
ignorance of history and the past are
distinguishing features of our times.
What is going on in North Carolina at
this very hour is enough "to make an
gels weep" if they give attention to the
.cavortings and u~surpations of the
white fusion gang in North Carolina.
The usurpations are amazing. To il
lustrate we take a paragraph from the
Pittsboro Record, edited by a veteran
of the quill:
Thus the fusion legislature of 1897,
in order to secure fusion control of the
public schools, e~ncroached upon the
power of the next legislature. If this
could be done-if the fusion Legislature
of 1897 could elect it's county boards of
education for three ear Gnstead of
for two years as every previous legis-
lature had done)-why could it not
have elected them for a term Of five,
ten or even twenty years?
Indeed it is very probable that the
members Of that fusion legislature now
wish that they had elected their coun-
ty boards of education for a term of at
least twenty years. According to the
recent remarkable decision of our SUI
preme court there was nothing to pro-
hibit it,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
FOOT BALL STATISTICS AND CAS-
UALTIES.

We read in a northern daily last week
that the returns from the field of battle
in which foot ball teams were the con-
testants, showed the actual loss thus far
for the present season footed up eleven
deaths and twenty-three badly injured.
If true it shows that the brutalties are
still actively to the front and that the
casualties are as great as they were
some years 6 when the game was so
mercilessly denounced by the best part
of the press. When the number of
persons engaged in the games is con-
sidered and killed and COM
pared foot ball is more dangerous than
the fights in the Philippines.
Since writing the above days ago we
nave seen some figures as to what sort
of a luxury ball kicking is in some of
the great northern colleges. Harvard
expended more than $50, 900 for a few
weeks fun at kicking. The Philadel-
phia Record says of it's own university:
Athletics at the University of Penn
~Sylvania for the twelvemonth ended
September 1 last involved an outlay of
nearly $50, 000-or about as much as the
entire cost of running an American
college fifty years ago."
The money came out of the people
who paid gate money to see the rough
and tumble games. There is far more
silence now on the part of the press in
opposition to DOT ball than there was
two and three years ago. But there
are ministers and editors in all the
states that give the game a critical
look now and then. Rev. Len. G..
Broughton, M. D., of Atlanta, Ga native
of Wake county, North Carolina) re-
Gently made severe comments on the
game as it is played. He said it was
brutal, and totally unworthy of any
colleg or university" He laid it on
in his usual earnest and bold way.
We give a few extracts:
81 have q contempt for every college
or university that spends its influence
for the perpetuation Of any such a
brutal sport. intercollegiate football of
today is doing more harm to the young
than prize fighting. Hear me
when I say again it is doing more to
corrupt the youth Of this country than
all the prize fighting New York and
her governor is feasting us on today.
It is doing harm because of the insti-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
A Letter from Baby to Santa Claus

little BUREAUS, WASHSTAND at
sc and up; a real large BED, just UP
just up, my ma, Bed for Csc: and a
CRADLE, Is inches long, painted white
with gold knobs, at Csc; and a FINE
TABLE, with extension top, at loo; the
PRETTIEST BOOKS at sc, 10c and
15c each; and ALL SORTS OF GAMES
to suit my big brothers and sisters
from loo to soc. And they have We
LOCIPEDES and TRICICLES from
$1.39 up, and HORNS for boys to make
the Christmas noisy.
! would like to tell you If you should
want 10 make my mamma or big sis
ter a present / saw lots Of pretty
CLOAKS AND APES and more NEW
HATS. NEW IIBBONS. l looked "a
their EMBROIDERY SHOWCASE and
| saw 81 = Of the newes goods and
cheap, nee, i'd from SC up TO CSC:
and little coy CLOAKS are trimmed
witt fur, o can buy them for 75c; all
wool, trimmed in braid, button and fur,
at s1.75.
Do o know they carry the best
line OF MEMS AND BOYS CLOTH
ING, UNDERWEAR, and heavy?
Well. they just got in a big lot of sam
pies that they will sell cheap. Nice
fine Vests. all prices. Union Suits for
the babies and their m for 2sc
each; a all wool Ribbed Vest at soc.
Well, Santa, IL / wasn't so sleepy /
would tell o more about this BIG
STORE ON FRONT STREHT. anoo-
site the ORION HOUSE.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADNAN
TAGES OF THE SOUTH.

A Philadelphia daily, the Record,
what it says upon the Forestry
Division of the United States Ge-
illogical Survey. That report sets
forth some things which makes the
south capable of great things in the
future, and shows what a great union
of confederated states it would have
been but for the defeat Of the south
in the great war. The report states
hat Its soil and climate are adapted
to the cultivation of all the products
and fruits of the temperate n trCpi-
cal zones; it's supply of o "a and iron
is practically inexhaustible arI N ad-
ditiOn to it's abundance of pine ard
other coniferous timber the south on
tains a larger quantity and greater va
riety of hard wood han any region in
the world of the same area. The ca
pacity of the south to supper popU-
lation a scarcely been trenched upon.
Basing an estimate upon conditions eX-
listing in Pennsylvania today, the
southern states are capable of support
ing a population Of SO, 600, 900 and up
ward. Their present population is less
than one-fifth of that number"
Here is a table showing in tabulated
form the difference between 1880 and
1898, in the matter of some products:
Number of farms in 1880, LIPS, 4SO;
in 1898, 1852 72.
Acres under crops in 1880, 81, 679, las;
in 1898, 1851, OH.
Value of products in 1880, s611, 699, AS;
in 1898, 81, COG, 476, 800.
m of live stock in 1890, SO, 44S,-
$50, in 1898, 2,211, 613.
Value in 1880, $3.50, 066, 1888; in 1898 $685.
S72, ia.
1.-The south is the most promising
field not only for the industrial, mining
and commercial entrepreneur, but for
the c%ultivator seeking "a farm of his
own"
All this readsn nicely and there is much
to excite hope and expectation. But
the south needs some important things
that good, wise legislation would give
it. If there were a congress controlled
by q high sense of justice and honesty
prices in the south for it's farm pro-
ducts would be much higher and there
would be better wages, more prosperity,
more contentment, more happiness, and
less ignorance. The south needs a low,
revenue producing tariff tax. 1t needs
more money per capita n more bank
ing facilities. 1t needs more industry,
enterprise and wisdom. If the congress
were filled with wise, broad statesmen
with a high regard for right and fair
dealing the south would blossom as the
rose. 1t is really in men and women,
in variety of products and climate, in
natural resources and advantages the
garden spot" of this vast land.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

Dear Santa: I will write to tell you
where I have been out sightseeing. 1
went down own today and I passed
by the RACKET STORE, and 1 saw
in the window a GENUINE CHRIST:
MAS TEE, just like the one / want
you to make for me, ALL LOADED
WITH PRETTY THINGS. Well, L
would like to tell you what there was
on that tree. 1 saw a big lot of Dolls
LITTLE TINY DRESSED DOLLS at
1 cent each. FINE LONG DOLLS at
sc, n REAL JOINTED DRESSED
DOLLS at 10c. Well. they had KID
DOLLS, with curlie hair, for 15c and
Zoe. l cannot tell how many FINE
DOLLS they did have at 35c, SOC and
up to S1.50 each. 1 saw IRON TRAINS,
large and small GUNS AND PISTOLS,
TOOL CHESTS and TRUNKS, WORK
BOXES, SAW AND HORSE at 1Oc:
nice little DOLL CARRIAGES for 25c
and soc, with PARRISOL at CSC;
WAGON, with painted bodies and
large wheels, for Csc; and ! saw the
prettiest CHINA CUP AND SAUCER
for 10c; PIN TRAYS, fine china, at loo;
fine china decorated BERRY DISHES
at 10c. and all the fine china CUPS
and SAUCERS at 12h up to 25c.. Well,
Santa, I cannot say what they have
at THE RACKET for you, but l know
this, if your money is as scarce as
mine, it WILL PAY YOU TO GO
THERE, for they SELL EVERY
THING CHEAP, and they have lots
of goods All kinds of WOOD TOYS.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

was also attended by five other physi-
clans, doing all that medical science
and skill could do, yet with no effect.
The deadly poison which filled her sys-
tenn was sufficient to have killed half
dozen strong men. There is a side to
this sad picture that is hard to under
stand. There is a question that the
public would like to have answered.
Why was it hat these young ladies.
our sisters and daughters, who were
SO near and dear to our hearts. were
kept huddled in this pest hole, as it
were, until the situation was so alarm
ing, with scarcely no knowledge of the
sad state of affairs scaping the college
domains? 1t is now known that sew
eral weeks previous to the suspension
of this school, girls were falling in sick
ness almost as soldiers in battle. Yet
it seems that the management of this
institution, to whose tenderest care
these girls had been entrusted, all the
while was Indifferent, so far as the
public knows, treating this as a very
slight affair, and is known to have
spoken contemporary in regard to il
even after deaths had occurred in the
college"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

Mckinley has appointed postmasters
in Utah who have as many wives as
Roberts, but not a republican has been
heard to object-Tarboro Southerner.
The farmers VIII have If they have
not already in the hiring their labor for
another year a very serious problem
confronting them. II cotton would re-
main z cents or more the wage Ques-
ton would be much easier OF settlement
for the mex twelve months. but the
probabilities owing TO the increased
acreage which naturally resuits ron
an increased price, are that the crop
next year VIII equal or exceed the one
Of last year n IL It pes what VII be
the price of the Souuh's leading staple?
-Tarboro Southerner.
If the trusts keep gathering millions
viii they not at some time have all the
wealth and all the other people have
none? Now, for instance, If the wealth
of the nation IS about so billions. and
these 600 or more trusts gather in that
amount of wealth, where do the other
fellows come in? Are they not now
gathering at a rate that will not soon
amount 10 THAI sum-? Is there any
thing that You can see that indicates
that the game they are playing will
not continue, gathering forces as it
goes?-Fair Bluff Times.
It is often said by those gold lowing
democrats that the democratic party
went of after tine populists on the sill
yer question. If the lamented Vance
were here he would tell you that the
democratic party was tricked by Gle
veland and a few others and that, see
ing their error, they simply demanded
and o hat which was their own.
Many populistic ideas e only old
democratic doctrines, and the democrats
only claim their own when they reaf-
firm them, as they did at Chicago i n
1896, and as they Will do again in 1900.
Salisbury Index.
The Raleigh Post observes that the
people may understand that the whole
machinery of the revenue department
in this state is run nov actively, ener-
getically and recklessly in behalf OF
the opposition to the constitutions
amendment, resorting to all methods of
~chicanery, deception and Justification
to prejudice the ignorant white vot-
ers." This is o to be doubted The
revenue department in his state I'M
der republican administrations has
ever bee a political gency and all of
its power Will be brought to bear
against h amendment. The danger to
this lies with the ignorant whites, and
nothing will be left undone to persuade
them that in voting for it they will
vote for their own disfranchisement.
To this point the democratic party
| will need to direct its work in the
campaign now upon us.-Charlotte OBJ
server.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

DR.. G. M. vie>appears in the Raleigh
News and Observer advocating the re-
moval of DR.. McIver from the Green's
bore Normal, n perhaps others, and
censuring the state press for silence.
The latter charge is absurdly foolish.
DR.. McIver should be treated with fair
ness and justice. A severe scrutiny
should be held in the interest of health,
truth, science and right, without pas
sion or prejudice or yielding in the
a degree TO unreasoningsclamor and
ignorant criticism. One doctor deliver
ed an opinion without having seen a
patient. What does DIR. Ivie know
about it? He writes, having lost a.
dear sister by the dreadful scourge,
and he is entitled to a hearing as he
saw her. attended her:
Il AVE recently stood by the
Of my beloved sister, who fell a victim
to this deadly poison. 1 was by her
bedside for ten days and nights, she
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

tutions that daddy Think of our uni
versities and so called Christian col
leges drilling a lot of long-haired boys
to ROOT for a pig skin. It is un-
duly encouraging brute force. 1t is de-
veloping the coarse side of life. 1t is
running a high-handed gambling ma
chine upon SO called cultured lines. Pm
opposed to a state university encourag-
ing any such uncivilized sports.
And surely / can have no respect
for the Christian college which enters
such a contest. / van to see u state
university put more premium upon
character and brains and less on feet
and hair in a tussle for mastery In q
sport hat will almost rival the Next
can bull fight"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
To Make Sailors Out of Farmers

New York, December 21.-The con-
verified cruiser Dixie arrived from Phil
adelphia today, having on board 800
landsmen from the Mississippi valley,
who are to be converted into sailors.
The Dixie will remain in drydock un-
til after Christmas, when she will go
to Norfolk, thence to the West Indies,
and later to Europe. probably to
France first of all. As no other gov
eminent ever has tried to make sailors
out of farmers, the experiment will be
watched with interest by the naval
powers Of the world.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

When I say I cure l do not mean merely to
stop them for a time and then have them re-
turn again. Imean radical cure. Ihavemade
the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or -ALLNG
SICKNESS a lifelong study. Warrant my
remedy to cure the worst cases. Because
Others have failed is no reason for not now
receiving a cure. Send at once Tor q treatise
and a Free Bottle of my infaIible remedy.
Give Express and Post Office
Prof W.H.PEEKE F.D., 4cedarSt HI
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

So Rich Pearson does not seek defeat
at the hands of the white mans party
next yea for governor. He is entirely
resigned to the sacrifice of Marion But
Ter. Pearson no doubt thinks his
chances better for election TO the house
than for governor. He can bring his
plans under more ready handling in a
district than in an entire state. Rich is
shrewd.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26
HOME FOLKS

Judge Ewart is confirmed in the Of
flee he holds. Whether he knows law
or is a fair and honorable judge is
what we do not know. but thousands
in the Asheville country would prefer
a jurist of another type.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

According to the Greensboro Record
that fi~ourishing town has 19,1OO inhabi-
tants now. II will not surprise many
if the next census divides that number
claimed. We nave known the censu
to play havoc aforetime with great
boastings in advance. But if it gives
Greensboro next July 10, 100 we will be
glad to lift our hat to it.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-26

The Henderson Gold Leaf is eighteen
years old. 1t is a clean. decent, reput-
able weekly. Success to it always.