The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-03-23

This Is one Of the phases OF human ma
ture that is impossible to account for.
but Is no reflection on the people of
Nash, as the same thing would occurI
in any county where executions are
conducted publicly.-Durham Herald
We sometimes doubt If our mind has
a clear conception OF what is meant
by christian education II We were
TO take our cue from some OF its lead
Ing advocates we would think that its
first great aim is TO tear down every
school, Of what ever degree. not con-
ducted under the auspices OF some one
OF the many churches--Durham Her
aid
The fertilizer trust has notified the
guano dealers OF another advance in
prices and that no more commercial
Ifertilizers can be bought at prices nam
ed at opening OF the season The trust
Icertainly Is making IL expensive for the
Farmers There is a way out. however,
and that is not to use the stuff the
trust now has a monopoly on.-Monroet
Enquirer.
For some time past many republican,
and populist leaders have undertaken
TO show that the late Senator L. B. |
Vance was very partial TO negro votingt
and rule, and that IL the senator wasl
now living he would not only oppose
the constitutional amendment, but heI
would have so far Influenced the dem
locratic party that the amendment
would not have been submitted 10 the
people. This is nothing less than al
ISLANDER upon Vance. and an attempt
to fool the people by misstating the po-
sition of their beloved leader.-Hender-l
son Gold Leaf
The truth is not always paIatable,
but it is good medicine. Happy the
individual or community that knows
how TO take its medicine. ne.'-Charlotte
lObserver. We take the above from
the Charlotte Observer, and il is an
lexcellent way OF putting this matter.
1T seems that unpalatable truths about
public matters is usually regarded as
la trespass upon forbidden ground, but
Iif a newspaper cannot discuss or criti-
ciSe public matters when they are pre-
ijudiced to the peoples interest, then
what is the use of newspapers any
lway?-Winston Journal
From the number of letters being
written by populists repudiating fur
favoring the amendment, it looks as IL
Iabout all the populists who do not
hold office as a result of fusion are
Iabout to get back home again. While
1.-THE democratic party does not claim
Isinless perfection, yet il has stood the
ltest of time and as the white mans
lparty in the south ii deserves the sup
Iport of all white men.-Clinton Demo-
lcrat.
An impartial consideration of the
lmatter, we believe, will convince any
unbiased man that its enactment will
be for the best interest of the state
lat large. The first and greatest con-
Isideration is that il will do away with
that class of voters which has for the
past thirty-five years been a menace
Ito good and progressive government in
North Carolina. The disfranchising
Iof these voters will go a long ways to-
ward purifying the ballot, for it is
with the ignorant and unthinking that
the corrupt politicians get in their
twork-Greensboro Patriot.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, has writ
ten a letter asking that the masses of
the democratic party be called upon in
the primaries to say whom they want
Ito represent them in the United States
senate. He saysthat he does not want
the place, unless majority wants him.
This is thoroughly democratic and
stamps Bacon incontestably the noble
lpatriot his course in congress has
shown him to be. OF course the dem
Iocrats of Georgia will return him to
the senate.-Saliesbury Index
One of the greatest results of the
adoption Of the constitutional amend
ment will be to incite more interest
in education. The white people-the
rising generation-will make more sac
IrificeS and greater efforts to acquire
knowledge. 1t does not affect the pres
lent generation of white men, except
Ito cause them to be more anxious 10.
and to strive harder TO secure more
school advantages for their children
This will, necessarily, make a more
intelligent and better people in North
lCarolina in the coming years.-kinSIon
Free Press.
The death of Colonel William VI
Walton, of this county, removes a fine
type of a race rapidly diminishing
the old time southern country gentle
man. We believe that the world never
produced a class of men more worthy
Iof general imitation or whose influence
will longer survive for good. Colonel
Walton had all the virtues of the class
upright, patriotic. gallant, gentle with
the gentleness of christianity, a lover
of home, hospitable, patriarchal in
simplicity and dignity.-Morgantor
Herald.
We heard an old time republican say
he would vote for the constitutional
amendment as republican measure
that it's adoption would eliminate
from that party a class of voters and
ignorant partizans who had made the
party in the south a disgrace to mod
ern civilization. That in a few years
after its adoption he expected to see Z
republican party in North Caroline
commanding the respect of not only
it's people-but the nation. Young
men Of character and political aspira
tions would naturally gravitate TO it,
Let us make it's adoption unanimous
Windsor Ledger.
Democrats are not so easily intimat
ed and they are not the kind of people
who go about the country whining tina
they are intimated. The fusionists ar.
on the wrong track when they talk o.
shooting and of hanging democrats Il
the limbs. c. B. Aycock will go u
Yadkin county and he will speak, anC
mark you, he will not be molested. i
that republican who talked so glibly o.
a hanging bee thinks it would be IN.
proper thing to do to hang Charles Ay
Icock, let him try it, and to use rath
er warm expression, used in d cam
paign a number of years ago, he vii
find that it would be better for hin
were he put in mid-ocean in a leader
boat, with iron oars and wrath of Goo
for breeZes and hell for nearest port
than to try to execute his threats
Monroe Enquirer.
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