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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
PRESIDENT ALDERMAN,S AD-
DRESS.

The farewell address at the univer-
sity commencement last week of Pres
ident Alderman who soon retires, was
a very choice, elegant production and
contains impressive thought and rhe-
torical felicities. In 1860, people are
saying and writing of DR.. Alderman
as the Messenger wrote OF him three
and six or more years ago We long
ago emphasized and lauded his superb
platform gifts, and especially COM
mended him as a lecturer. We have
also several times claimed for him
high and noble gifts as a writer of
speeches. He well understands the
signal Importance Of a regulated
and graduated system of state educa-
ton. In this particular he is not at
the tail-end of the educational process
sion but rides in the band wagon. We
make one inspiring and impressive ex-
tract now:
THE construction OF a true educa-
tional system is a fine piece of work
as difficult as it is essential to demo-
cracies. Let is make no patchwork
job of this great subject. We have
DetH Will 1t LOT Sixty years.
but intelligent study of the hole sub
ject has not been made since Archibald
D. Murphey submitted his celebrated
report in 1916. A good public school
system is our supremest need and I
may say with Jefferson that as my
first plea in life was for public schools,
my latest plea here shall be for them
also, but the university is as much a
part of this system as the log school
house. The point for the coming edu-
cational statesman, (and that whole
some variety of statesmen has indeed
arisen among u.s. to see and to act
upon is the intimate relation between
higher and lower schools, and to af-
ford them coordinate growth. The
university is the dynamo, the public
school the incandescent light. To
spend all the money on the dynamo
and neglect to provide for any lamps
would be a crime for any community
but to spend it all on the lamps and
neglect to provide for the dynamo
would be a farce. I believe the new
governor and the general assembly
would act wisely to appoint a commits
sion to study and report in great de-
tail on this great question before our
educational policy hardens into law
and becomes fixed for generations"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

such persons shall have paid their poll
tax as required by law"
There is not a word said looking to
depriving any man Of any color or
previous condition who could vote
prior to 1861 or on January 1 Of thai
year. All these voters must register
prior to 1st December, 1908, and thus
they can vote unchallenged
and unawed. In other words, there Is
no restraint upon their right to vote
save only the poll tax law The ques-
ton of whether they a read or write
is not in it at all. 1t is a pity to see
human nature 50 fallen and mean as
to trump up a lie like that now pa
raded al about in order to scare. de-
ceive and capture trusting ignorance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

Atlanta has many Cinnamon. Some
Of them are intelligent and can be in
terviewed!. The Atlanta Journal has
been trying it's hand with them relative
to the Boxers" the secret society now
troubling China. They are said to
number 1000. 900 and have been in ex-
istence for 200 years. So they are no
new thing under the sun The Celes-
tials tell the Journal that the China
men object to foreign missionaries and
that the society has the approval of the
dowager empress, who wants old laws
to remain in force. We learn from
them h a the term Boxers is deriv-
ed from the Chinese words "yee-ho-
chuan.' That is the. local term by
which the "BoHers' are known in
China.
"Yee" means righteousness: no.
means harmony. and "chuan" means
fists in plain English.
n yee-ho-ctuan. or Boxers, is a Sa-
ciety:. They stand for old things" in
China. and are dead against the Bow
Wun Wut, or reform party. which
stands for new things"
The Boxers" then, stand behind the
empress dowager, who represents the
old regime of the Celestials, n II is
believed that she secretly sympattiizes
| with their atrocious methods"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
TO BE NJ

Remember that it is q republican lie,
pure and simple, that the proposed
suffrage amendment to be voted upon
in August-less than two months
hence-does deprive white men of the
right to vote. 1t does not and cannot
~disfranchise a solitary white voter In
North Carolina. Sections fourth and
fifth settle that question: clearly n
completely. So do not allow yourself
to be deceived by black radical lies.
Be a white man and know better
Remember that the poll tax is a law,
and you must pay it whether you vote
or not. Remember farther that it is
due on list September in one year and
payable the next year by the 1st of
March. There are six months betWeen
the time it is due and the time when
it must be paid, and v neither you ever
vote or not.
Remember that the poll tax law dses
not reach any man who is passed his
fftieth year. There is go poll tax law
for him. So his voting has nothing to
do whatever with the poll tax law
His voting or not voting is not in the
least degree dependent on the poll tax
for the law is not intended to lie
him in the least degree So when the
ignorant or designing liar tells :
otherwise say to him-'Get thee be
hind me, Satan!"
Remember farther that a man d
fifty is reached by the poll tax law but
he is not compelled to pay it If he Is
not able to pay whether by reason of
physical infirmity or poverty; and the
commissioners of the county can ex-
.cuse him. In this way he has no poll
tax to embarrass him in n a and
he can vote irrespective OF the law. SO
let no liar deceive you for the law is
plain and direct. Who then must pay
and who can vote? The man und
fifty. who is neither too infirm nor too
Door to pay, is to a the poll tax as
above set forth, and by LIST March
preceding the election day
All men of sense and character will
recognize the wisdom, the necessity
and the mercy of the law No man
who can pay should be allowed to live
under a civil government that protects
him in life, liberty and property who
does not pay a taxa poll tax The
people of North Carolina who are bur-
den-bearers will indorse that law
whether he is a rich man or a poor
man. 1t a wise provision that readily
commends itself.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
A B FOR LOVE.

The Opelika- (AIa) Post of the sth
contains the following:
General James H. Lame has just
sent to the University Publishing COM
o the last of his lage collection of
likeneSses of officers and men taken
during the war in Confederate uni
form. to illustrate his sketch" OF the
Twentieth North Carolina. which was
his old regiment. The Sketch was
written and the collection undertaken
at the request Of Judge Walter Clark
of the supreme court of North Caro-
lima, who has been authorized to sol
cit sketches of all the regiments fu
niShed by North Carolina to the COM
federacy and have them published at
the states expense in two large hand
Somely- bound volumes. !
North Carolina is justly proud
her brave sons who were First
Bethel and last at A~ppomattox." Du-
ring the war she had her own block
ade runne the steamer Advance" 10
bring in supplies for them while they
We're battling for the rights OF the
whole south. She also had her Rolls
Of HOnor-records of those brave sons
which were verified twice a year by
an officer sent to the front. Since the
war-she has had these rolls published
in four bound volumes and they are
now known as Moore Roster OF
North Carolina Troops" Other south
ern states might profit by her exam
ple""
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
ANOTHER RADICAL SCARE CROW

One of the favorite fa~lsehoods of the
active, pertinacious lars is hat the
~proposed amendment DISTINGUISHES all
whites who can not read and write
any section of the constitution after
the wear of 1908. OF course the liars
know better h this. They state this
with the law before them They are
not all fools as we'll as liars who hatch
ont this deliberate, wicked falsehood
with which to bamboozle ignorance
and make votes against the white race
and to the injury of the state People
who can read and are not stark fools
know that the amendment makes no
such exaction. If it does it will De
speedily amended. But there is really
no warrant or justification for such a
monstrous fabrication. That part OF
section five that the liars pretend to
rely upon for htsi gross misstatement
reads:
Provided ne shall LAY registered
in accordance with n terms of this
section prior to December 1 1908. The
general assembly shall provide for a
Permanent record of all persons who
register under this section OF or be-
fore November /, 1908. and all such per
sons shall be entitled to register n
vote in all elections by the people in
this state unless disqualified under
2 of this article: PROVIDED,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

renee. An in the News and
Observer sent from Burlington. says:
Mr.. Crowson, editor of the News Is
a cripple, and goes on crutcheS He
says he went to the boarding house
to get his dinner, and sat down and
soon Spencer B. Adams republican
candidate for governor came in and
recognized him as a newspaper
who had unearthed some Of his ras-
cality while editor-of the Milton Her
aid, took occasion to insult him know
ing that he was unable to defend him
self against the insults. He knew
Crowson personally n without any
a1lusion to the parade, said the little
scoundrel editors Of the c.
would now no doubt lie and swear
that there were only two or three
white men In the parade"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
DEMOCRATS MUST WORK.
lard Work Necessary for Victory in
AuguSt-Good Work OF White Su-
premacy Clubs-Spfendid Wheat
Crops on State FarrK-Annual Re
port of Insurance Commissioner
Young.
Messenger Bureau,

TSdlelSu, ~. -, June ..
| francis D. Winston, who is in charge
INF the organization Of white suprem-
iacy clubs, says that up to date these
lltave been organized IN Is of the 81
tcounties. He said: There is deep in
i~terest in these clubs. In every county
where there are clubs the situation is
more satisfactory. They are the most
potent factor. People in the country
Eare busy and often n attend the
tspeakings, but the clubs reach them"
1t is the opinion that the democrats
have harder work tol do to win in this
campaign than in that of 1898, but that
this knowledge will only nerve them
20 greater effort.
The agricultural department. officials
were delighted today at receiving no
itice that by act Of congress the postage
lon their monthly bulletin is now at
newspaper rates. Fourteen thousand
rate of postage the size Of the Bulletin
has been small. It will now be in
lcreaSeI.
Some more members of the legisla-
ture arrived today. The almost lmiver-
sal opinion among them is that the
session, which begins at noon next
TUESDAY, will 20 continue more than
0AySr LII Nhol lAACll lLiCIe l. &c
a recess until the last week in July.
The wheat arves at the peniten-
tiary farms on the Roanoke river will
begin next week. 1t will be the best
crop eve grow there, it is claimed.
There is even talk Of forty bushels to
the acre.
The state charters the Asheboro
Machine Company, at Asheboro, cap
lital 5 5000.
The Wake county democratic con-
ivention was held here today. The pri-
mary a week ago settled the question
las to most Of the candidates, but did
not as to the state a
Judge H b. Stevens will hold a
Especial term of New Hanover criminal
court next week.
The first annual report of J. r
Young, insurance commissioner, was
issued last evening. 1t is in the shape
OF sheets. Up to April 1. 1899,
there were 129 companies doing bust
ness IN the state. On account of the
craig Investigation" act fourteen
Withdrew. Some others entered. The
number now is 149. The receipts to the
state for h twelve months aggregate
ss5,514, or more than 81, 600 in excess
or n year previous.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
/ PRACTICAL LESSON FROM
WARREN.

The suffrage amendment is needed.
is wise, is just, for the betterment of
the human race. It will clean up a
vast amount of wrong, restore order
and confidence and bring peace TO the
races. Warren county is a badly az
ficted county, for it is negro ridden.
The negroes nearly double the whites
in numbers. Mr.. Marion Newsom. a
highly respectable and intelligent cit
izen living in the LfttIeton section,
some months ago wrote to the Raleigh
News and Observer as to the condi-
ions prevailing. At the last election
there was a populist, a republican n
a democratic registrar in his town.
ship. He was the last named. He gives
what he saw. He says:
ION election day every popufist voted
the democratic ticket, and every re-
publican voted the republican ticket
After all had voted and before the sun
had gone down, / told the crowd pres
ent that I was neither a populist nor
! a son Of a populist, but that / saw that
day the negro cut his own throat po-
Iitically)- They voted solidly for ne
following:
White (negro) for congress.
Williamson ,negro) for solicitor.
Henderson (negro) for senate.
Wright (negro) for the house.
Thornton (negro) for register.
Williams (negro) for treasurer.
Boyd (negro) for commissioner.
Nicholson (negro) for magistrate.
Hudgins (negro) for magistrate.
Ransom (negro) for magistrate.
Palmer (negro) for coroner.
Ali of the above were elected ave
solicitor and treasurer"
That is the way it was down in the
fine old county of Warren, in whose
soil the remains of the distinguished
old Senator Nathaniel Macon are in
TERED. Negro officials everywhere, in
all offices, thick Like the locusts of
Egypt, %devouring and destroying, and
as Mr.. Newsom says, cutting their
own throats." Look at that list of bar
barians who were placed over the
white people Of a county that for six
generations had been distinguished for
their wealth, intelligence and fidelity
to pur democratic principles and insti-
tutions. Was it mot time for the whites
to move out, in 1898 i'm a determined
fight for white government and honest
officials? Of the serviErY and general
prostratfsn of the negroes to their
bosses, Mr.. Newsom gives this as how
it has been all along i'm Warren:
They attended every political meet
ing, night and day; they fill the court
room at every court; they are afraid
to vote any other ticket except what
their bosses offer them. The negro, if
allowed to! vote, will want more and
more offices, more and more power.
They thought of a negro as be-
ing the person to, hold the taxes paid
in by the white people, and pay the
white ladies' of our county their school
orders; and this county is mo exception
to the counties east Of US"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

In the New York Journal Walter
Howard writes at length of Stephen
Crane, the young journalist OF New
Jersey who recently died. We confess
that his writings. such as we read, did
not engage our admiration, although
he was brilliant, dashing, out of the
common. He was disappointing to his
friends. His Red Badge of Courage
gave him a inc send off. Mr.. Howard
gives one view of him that is both
touching and heroic. He writes:
In Cuba and Porto Rico Crane was
always on the firing line. He was
brave h pretense. He was Their
a sufferer from physical ills that would
nave kept any other man at home.
But, with all this, / have known him.
quiet and accomplishing, to trudge
twelve miles in a s%corching sun over
marsh and mountain, forgetting the
report of the battle he had witnessed
TO bring succor to a wounded comrade
of the PEN"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
BIG SUIT.

Norfolk. Va, June 9-Through his
attorneys T. Frank Bownell. af New
York, trustee for the creditors Of
Henry Hofff1eimer. petitioner In bank
ruptcy proceedings now pending In the
United States court for the southern
district OF New York, to-day brought
suit in equity against Alexander HoN-
heimer N the city circuit court o.
100000. the same representing os
claims Of the bankrupt's credTt1rz
The SUR is brought for the purpose "
gaining possession Of valuable proQk
erty in the city OF Norfolk and in ~
folk and Princess Anne counties whissh
n HoYhefmer Is alleged 10 have
conveyed to his brother. Alexander
Honheimer, for the purpose Of de-
frauding his creditors.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
A GEORGIA LYNCHING.
A Negro Hanged for Assaulting Two
White Girls in Their Bed Room

Columbus, Ga. June 9.-Simon
Adams, a negro 20 years of age, was
lynched just outside the city limits
this morning. He was strung up by a
chain and his body. after being rid
died with bullets, was hrown intoa the
river. Adams last night forced an en-
erance into a room in the residence of
E.. H. Almond, wht ives ten miles
from Columbus, and attempted 10 as
saalt his two daughters Their creams
aroused Nj. Almond, who found the
nagro hiding IN a closet. Adams was
started for Columbus, but before
reaching there was captured by a
mob.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

We can but shHre in a view pre-
scented by the Atlanta Journal relative
to certain conditions. in the south. Re
northern manufacturers have
been advertising i'll southern newsTR-
pers for factory hands to 60 to New
England. There is a far reaching de-
sign in this perhaps They may be
to make southern working
people dissatisfied with their wages.
New Englanders were telling the world
that the south had no good cotton ac-
tory labor. Now they would like to
pay them higher wages and take them.
But we are not concerned with that.
Mr.. c. c. Houston writes as to"When
the South will be Prosperous" We
make an intelligent and not untimely
extract:
"Wage-earners are the great circu-
llating medium Of this country, and in
exact ratio al they receive in wages
and pay out to merchants, landlords,
Ietc., is the volume of business in
lcreased. If the actual workers are not
we'll paid, there can be no prosperity,
for they are consumers as well as pro-
lducers, and the greater their purchas-
ling power, the greater the prosperity
of. the community. Therefore, DIT is not
|cheap labor that will make the south
more prosperous, but labor paid for at
a rate that will enable them to become
jpatrons of the mercantile institutions
lof our cities-something more than
what is necessary to a mere existence.
sInstRad Of proclaiming that the south
is a. country Of cheap labor, long hours
jof toll and destitute Of obnoxious" la
Dor laws, which is to advertise that we
jare. not progressive, rather let US say
THAT we have expert workmen, that
wages ought to be equitable, Inc that
There should be laws guaranteeing pro
lection to labor"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

AlfsTS Foot-Ease. a powder. 1t cures
painful, smartinC, swollen feet and in
growing nails, and instantly takes the
stingeout Of corns and bunions. It's the
greatest comfort discovery Of the age.
Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight or new
Shoes feel asy 1t Is a certain cure
for sweating, calious an hot, tired.
aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all
druggists and shoe stores. By mail 25c
in stamps. Trial package FREE Ad-
dress, Allen 8. Olmsted. lie Roy. \. Y
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

Col. Burgwyn in his excellent ad-
dress at the university in presenting
the Carr Building" said that moi a
building, not an erdowment-with one
exception and that in reality attribu-
table to a North Carolinian-has been
given to this institution by any but a
son of North Carolina; and the great
est progress made by the university
has been made under the presidency of
her own sons Ito the manor born"
When he spoke he did not know what
would happen as to electing a sue
cessor to Dr. Alderman, and hence
he said that there was a time
when we sought elsewhere than
in North Carolina for men on
progressive ideas. The first preSi-
dent of this institution was a
northern man. To-day u sister
states ook to us when they want
president for their university -Four
out of six leading Institutions are
manned by men from other states. W.
| hope the Colonel is correct in saying
| Of North Carolin's independence thai
it has ceased to fight under the ban
ner Of other states. Her golden leafed
tobacco is no longer stamped as sVir
| ginia Bright She no longer charge:
Cemetery Heights under Virginia gen
erals. We have learned o to rely
pom the foreign population but to cal
upon our own people, the present En-
gliSh stock ON the continent. Not tC
wait for outside capital to come to US
but to bring it to US in exchange fol
our manufactured products"
Spencer Adams, the foul-moutheo
judge that slandered the best men in
North Carolina, has just added to his
sort of laurels by insulting with wan
ton cruelty a crippled young man al
Burlington. There is great indigna-
ton there over the disgraceful occur
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
WILL BE LYNcHED IP CAUGHT.

New Orleans, June "a large posse
OF citizens Is reported to have located
Noah Pritchard, the negro murderer
OF Ralph Marler, al East F~elEcfana.
Prtchard. IL Is reported. led hs pug
s7ers a bloody chase, having shot and
fatally wounded Forest Vile Reit one
Of the posse. The sheriff of West Fee
fciana, was also wounded Fritchard
probably will be lynched.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
ANTI-JEw DISTURBANCES /.

Graudenz. West Prussia, June ia
battalion Of infantry has been serh to
Koritz. about fifty miles northwest of
this place. where. owing TO the AEnys-
ferrous murder Of a school boy. nre
ave been for several weeks pas
semitic disturbances. which culmId
yesterday in serious xcesses and THE
destruction Of a synagogue.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

HANNA TO RUN THE CAMPAIGN
Washington, June Sit is stated on
high authority hat Senator Hanna
will succeed himself chairman Of
the republican national comraittee and
will conduct the coming campaign
The only thing which car change this
programme, it is said, is some change
for the worse in the senator's health.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

Capt. Claude B.. benson whu Is a
native of Virginia, We think, and a
speech-buiIder of gifts, is much
praised for his excellent and elrsuent
address. delivered before thousands of
people at the unveiling of the monu-
ment erected To the North Carolina
dead at Winchester Va 1t was aagreat
patriotic gathering, Inc the orator
was we'll chosen. The Winchester two
dailies, the Star and the News.4tsm,
Iaud his performance.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15

We suppose the organizing of clubs
is being pushed. 1t must be done.
There is the strongest possible Eason
for making a most thorough nva
in every county and N every township.
The white radical gang aided by the
Butler faction are initiating the Nor
mons now, and are treading around
the townhIps visiting all h Ignorant,
unlettered whites spreading their lies
as they SO. You must this year fight
the devil with fire.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
HOME FOLKS.

DR.. Veirable has been c~onnectef with
the university for eighteen years.
North Carolina schools of Importance
are manned by natives of other states.
What is the matter with education in
North Carolina that it cannot fl men
for preSidencieS?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-15
B~ATTLEsHIPs AT NORFOLK

Norfolk. June s.-The United States
battleships Massachusetts, and Indiana
arrived in Hampton Roads this morn
ing from League Island navy ward.
They were taking on coal to-day. pre-
paratory 70 sailing for Newport. to
join Admiral Farquhar's feet for ma
neuver al sea