The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-10

Bryan in 1895, and helped to put in the
high office MCKINLEY so unworthily
fills, that now see the wisdom of the
course of the North Carolina democrats
in the mastery effort to recover the
state and saw it from farther spolia-
ton, ruin, degradation and outrage.
The Sun recognizes the importance Of
the recent splendid victory and says:
THE elimination OF the ignorant and
vicious clemens among the negroes as
a factor in politics is regarded, after
long and painful experience. as a vital
necessity in the south. The negro was
given the right Of suffrage almost i'm
mediately upon his emancipation from
slavery n when he was totally un-
fitted to exercise it with intelligence.
North Carolina has suffered in many
ways from a political coalition of ne
groes and white republicans and popu-
lists"
1t correctly describes the detestabie
negro domination and says that even
il the negro administration had been
honest and efficient it would scarcely
have been endurable. AS in many
cases 1T was corrupt and inefficient, 1t
C1oAA aux. Nd1 lCClll6 oil
high and there was constant danger Of
collision between whites and blacks"
Ii says. as the Messenger for mIGths
promised and prophesied. that The {. m
inatior OF the illitera.e negro voter
will prove a blessing to 10Th races. II
will insure honest and efficient govern
ment by those best fitted to control the
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between the races and will lead in the
end to improved relations between
whites and blacks. There is nc dispo-
sition in North Carolina to treat the ne
gro unkindly."
Here in Wilmington where The Rev
Olution' occurred in 1898, the white
people are friendly and kind TO the we'll
disposed and deserving negroes. Many
hundreds of the men are being daily
employed by the very whites who help
ed to swell the great majority for the
amendment, and cooks are N great de-
mand and readily employed when they
condescend to serve.
The south is moving out on lines of
progress and national development, not
losing sight of educational interests. It
u have stable, equitable, wise, econ
omical government in all the states.
North C~arolinians of the true kind are
proud of heir state and it's superb re-
cord. The state has been greatly in
jured by bad political combinations
beginning in 1866. Writing of South
Carolina and Mississippi and Louisiana,
the Houston (TeXas) Post says this,
and it is pertinent to our discussions:
"Where once it vas a struggle to keep
political interests of the solid property
holding class intact from the Sault
Of ignorance and corruption as typified
in the big black vote, now the fight is
for factories and public improvements
and new population and added pros
perity. Freed from the apprehension
of a constantly impending danger the
people breathe easier and are ready for
progress.
And the change has been equally ben
efcial to the negro. His work in the
south for a Id years yet is not
that of a politician. His true line Of
effort lies along material and educa-
tional paths until he becomes a thor
oughly intelligent citizen, with large
property and business interests. To de-
tAiHS iAAA1A III III So ~ -
discussion and activity now, is a bless
ing to him"
1t will be SO with the negroes in
North Carolina. The amendment will
prove to be their friend and benefactor.
1t will stimulate education in both
races. 1t will cause many a negro to
become a property owner. 1t will urge
the unlettered negro to learn to read
n write. Let the negroes generally
give themselves to industry, and "
bad whiskey and wicked politicians
and bosses as they would perdition it
self.
We must give one more citation from
the Post. 1t has been stupidity said by
Representative G%rosvener, of Ohio, Nc
Kinley henchman, that the negroes
have been great contributors to the
progress in the south-have indeed been
about the only ones if We interpret
Alright his contention. The Houston
Post with proper discernment says:
IF the legislation which North Car
DINA now proposes to enact had been
adopted by the whole south twenty
five years ago, the whites and blacks
would today both be better off and the
A,,t . Co.,