The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-19
STATE PRESS.

ltions with the party or the uusS. -
lis Of those inconsistencies foE Wn WIZ
the senator is noted.-Durnam HSa
The resolution OF thanks to SenauoI
Morgan, adopted by the democratic
Executive cmmittee OF this county al
Its meeting yesterday, was a UeaI
graceful and proper recognition OF nus
great speech in defense Of the proposed
amendment to the constitution or North
observation-disclosures Observer
In Baltimore the death rate for the
!colored population is double that lot
the white race, while the birth rate u
less. Consumption, long n intesunaa
diseases are playing mischief with the
lcolored folks. A higher standard OF
living and a different standard OF
drinking would improve their condl-
ltion-Winston Sentinel.
A correspondent asks: If the SEN
ate should pass Mr.. Pritchards reSolu>
ton, what effect would IL have" No
more tha a dog baying at h moon.
Ii would be nothing but buncombe for
political effect, or as Senator Morgan
said: If we should adopt h resolu-
ton it would be q brutum fulmen that
this would follow or reject
lat will."-Raleigh News and Observer
The FsIipinos are fighting us for the
same reason that they fought Spain.
and thus far they have found that
Americans are not more trustworthy
than Spaniards. 1t has cost Us about
Sis. 900, 900 in money, over a thousand
lives lost and several thousand mel
Ii~ncapacitated by disease to mt up u
lfag-garnished he'll in the Philippines.
and it isn't in applepie order yet-Ashe-
willie Citizen.
As the Charlotte News very timely
observes the newspapers OF
TRY ought to give their unanimous sup
port of Congressman Bellamy'S u to
remove the tariff on white paper. The
paper trust is one of the most rapaci-
Ious and exacting of monopoies, and
one whose OppreSSiveneSS Is already
Ikeenly felt by the publisher. The price
of every grade of paper has been raised
during the past year, some of it al
most double, n the price. Is. still ris-
ling.-Durham Sun.
Senator Butler is out in an open let
tier to a constituent whom we do not
know, taking ground against the
amendment. For a long time he re-
Trained from making any declaration
ON the subject tnd it was thought that
the break in SO between him and his
colleague was too wide to be bridged
and that he would naturally fall, how
ever. reluctantly, in to line with the
mass of his party, who most assuredly
will vote as they did in 1898 for white
supremacy.-Morganton Herald.
Senator Phitchard has already taken
water on his resolution offered in the
upper house of ngres pertaining to
1.-THE amendment now under conSidera-
Ition in this state, and has added a sub
Istitute in a milder form. Pritchard
certainly does not know the people he
represents or he would have p~rofited
by the error he made in 1898 in asking
for troops to be mi to Wilmington.
See If he don't see the effects of his
folly.-Mockville Times.
The white people of North Carolina
are fortunate in having such an dvo
cate in the United States enate as the
liable Morgan, of Alabama. 1t is unfort-
lunate that they have to go toanother
iState for some one TO speak for them,
but as both Butler and Pritchard have
cast their lot with the negroes it was
necessary. The mastery argument of
this great constitutional lawyer, against
|Pritchard's resolution declaring the
proposed amendment to be unconsti-
I~tut1onal, Will have great weight in h
and at the poles.-Wadesbo-
70 Messenger.
An exchange states that a single wal
nut tree in Watauga county recently
brought S1,109. North Carolina has
wealth in her forests. Our
hard woods are especially adapted to
the manufacture of furniture, and
though we make a good deal at present
the industry is only in its infancy.
High Point Hickory, Lenoir and Mari
on manufacture a great deal of furni-
ture now and ship their products all
over the country. The furniture fac
tories are becoming more numerous
year by year, n it is believed that
in the near future North Carolina will
manufacture all the furniture she
needs and be able to supply a consid-
cradle quantity to other states.-Char-
lotte News.
The fac is that the attending and
consulting physicians did not pro-
the trouble to be typhoid fever
till the 18th of November, when DR..
McIver, president of the college, an
the fact to the student body
in the college chapel and gave them
to return to their homes. |
Three lays previous to that he had |
asked the state board of health to visit
the college and investigate the cause |!
of the malarial epidemic. On the 23rd
of October only four students were alb |
from recitation. That was the
week the malarial trouble commenced. |
the 3rd of November the two college |
gave a big reception in honor
of their new members. which was a
Z N0o II
a caterer from Raleigh, while the
dispensed fruits, CONNECTIONS, |
cream, etc, under the direction of a
dealer in Greensboro. 1t is evident
10 epidemic was expected then.
We sincerely hope that the Normal
will have all the students it can ac-
at the approaching session. !
is being put in first class
order n no institution in the state |
will have q better sanitary arrange
ment.-Reidsville (Webster's) Weekly.
The address (of the negroes at Raj
Will fall still born, as have fallen
the many made to the negroes by the
in the long years since the civil
war. No one of them was ever re-
cefved except with reviling and yet
and hospitals and o~rphanages
were voted by the whites for the col
ored, as if We were all of ONE family.
In the fullness OF time the patient,
burden bearing white man becomes
and cries quits on voters. who
after thirty years are more than ever
a n 10 his peace and progress.