The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
STATE PRESS.

1snins tual out Few can
spell their names correctly.
The success of the constitutional
amendment will not only eliminate a
very undesirable element from North
Carolina politics. but will render those
entitled 10 vote more independent.
The party hat remains in power after
its adoption will have TO keep its prom
ises and maintain a clean record
Durham Herald.
New Jersey, the mother OF trusts,
viii This year pocket 5 l,500.00o in the
shape OF a franchise tax levied upon
the various trusts incorporated under
the laws Of that state. 1t is claimed
by The Philadelphia Record that the
first schedule filed by the state board
OF assessors, which list includes al the
big trusts and corporations of large
capitalization, embraces 3,773 compa-
MES as compared with 2,SS5 Of the same
class assessed last year" Whatever
may De said as to New Jerseys policy
in organizing these trusts for gain, the
use 10 which that state puts the
money so secured is above criticism,
Tor II our memory is not at fault, New
Jersey applies the trust money TO the
building Of good roads.-Charlotte OBJ
server
Some Of the amendment
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become OF age must be able TO read
and write, the negro will be elevated
above the white boy, as he is smarter
and can learn to read and write quick
er than the white boy can, thereby be-
coming a voter while the white boy
will be dlsfranchised. This is a vile
and infamous SANDER upon n %
white boy. There is not a white boy
in RODeSon cOunty-no matter how
poor ne may be who is not intellectual
ly superior to the negro and who can
not learn to read and write quicker
than the negro can. Honest white
men should hurl the lie back in the
teeth OF any demagogues who utterS
such a malicious SANDER against their
children.-.Lumberton Robesonian.
Let the negroes remain political fac
tors, and our state-our dear old state
so radiant with the coming Sunbursts
of brilliant promise and magnificent
possibilities, will perhaps pass again
under the control of incompetent and
vicious and corrupt leaders, and then
a blight will fall upon our fair land,
and the hot cirocco breath of a with
ering calamity will kill all the flow
ers OF promise h a have now bud
ded into such rich bloom and a
ty. We can win, we must win
There is too much at stake. The
peace Of society, the hallowednesS of
home, and the sacredness of woman's
virtue speak trumpet tOngued and de-
mand that the amendment shall be
carried, n by the help of God it will.
Henry Blount in Raleigh News and
Observer.
Rev. Mr.. Johnson is exactly right.
1t is as much a violation of religious
liberty to compel, by law, a conscien-
tious believer that Saturday is the
1ho l. ooo- &ho%
day, to observe Sunday as the Sab
bath, as it would he to compel by law
a Friend, Dunkard, or Moravian to
take an oath. There is really more;
because these latter refuse to do mill
itary service as a part of their relig-
ious faith, and may for that reason
pretend to the other, whereas there
is no temptation of a secular nature
to prompt any one to keep Saturday
instead of Sunday. The law provides
for the Friends, ETC., so their con-
sciences may not be interferred with.
1t ought to provide in some way so
that the conscientious Seventh day
observer may not be prosecuted for
his honest religious belief.-Salisbury
Truth.
Mr.. John A. Pritchard, of this city,
the real head of the republican party
in GuilfOrd county ever since the war
between the states, has publicly an
bounced his intention to support the
constitutional amendment. Mr.. Pritch-
EFT has been a justice Of the peace here
for over thirty years. He was elected
to the legislature in 1871 and again
in 1873 when no other man of his party
had n remOsteSt chance of being
elected to the place. When a man of
Squire Pritchett's standing n in
t~elligence contends that the principles
involved in tho "a mQn6m ant are worthy
of support and throws aside for the
moment his p~artisanship to vote for
the supremacy of a race that produces
such men as he, then it is that others
of like political utilization will find
courage to acknowledge what they
know in their hearts is right, viz:
that the adoption Of the amendment
will prove a blessing to North Carroll
ma, and likewise give it their unquali-
fed support.-Greensboro Patriot.
The ignorant negro put the constitu-
ton on the stature books, but the vote
of all the people will decide whether
he shall continue to vote. In the cleo
ton of 1868 under the election held
by this carpet bag and scalaWag crowd
there was fraud n corruption. AS
an instance of unfair elections, in a
contest as to one of the offices in this
county, in one precinct there We're SO
Willie LlCI VI SOOu tlloi SlCi II S"oAN
that they had voted for the democratic
contestant, when under the fraudulent
manipulations of the election machin-
cry only twenty votes were counted
as having been cast. Under the GER
rupt rule of these men who were ele-
waited by the negro to power in this
state in 1868 there was squandered,
wasted and stolen a school fund Of 81
500, 900, left by the democrats wher
white men had ruled thu state before
the negro began to vote to fasten the
shackles on us and elevate bad men
to office. This crowd increased the
state debt s34, 900. 900. They opened
the university of the state at Chape
Hill to negroes n paid a large facul-
ty to eac a handful of negro boys
Asheboro Courier.
Some white men are undertaking tC
create the impression in Sampson
county that the proposed amendment
will disfranchise illiterate white vo.
tiers. There is not a word of truth II
this charge and it is only intended tt
brighten uneducated white men into
voting against their own interests ant
in favor of a continuation of negro
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