The semi-weekly messenger., 1900-06-08
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er and so CONTEMPORARY ignored oy
the conQuerors OF the south. mas oeen
pressed home 10 the people OF the
new south BY their experience OF
negro inspired rule in these later years
and TO the people of the new north oy
the Hawaiian and Philippine problems
Every one now understands that only
the Anglo-Saxon is fit for self govern
ment under any circumstancss.-Fay-
etteEtile Observer.
In a communication 20 the Char
lotte Observer. Trojan who resides
at JoneShoro. makes the startling
statement that his district has not had
one day OF public school for the hun
dreds OF children entitled 20 Il in three
years time. We had no idea the s!tu-
alton was so bad as this in any part
OF the state. Surely Il Is high time
for such a stimulus to the cause of
public education as the adoption OF the
cons nstiiutIonal amendment VIII give
Winston Sentinel.
There exists what is called by fiip-
pant and superficial writers and speak
ers a race prejudice. God in creating
the animal life OF this plant has
given such distinctive properties in
form and quality 20 his creatures that
il is easy for a man OF observation -
see that intended that they should re
main separate and distinct from each
other and that any attempt 10 cross
death The best element OF the white
race. which is large and dominating
factor. feel that this Is a law ot God
with not less validity than a decree
Ciarkton Express.
In this campaign. IL Is true. that the
democrats have the support OF many
populists and some republicans Yet
democrats must do most of the work
both before The election and At the
polls. We gladly accept the aid Of
all patriots, but we you'd better re
member the lessons OF history. anC
relying upon the justice OF our caus,
and the favor of the supreme ruler.
stand together in solid phalanN with
shield locked upon shield. II there
ever can be a time TO divide. surely
this is not that time in North Carolina
II is equally as inopportune In :he re-
public.-Salisbury Truth.
For instance. suppose az some pre-
cinct there are 100 white men and 80
negroes. AS long as the 100 white men
vote together they can outvote and de-
feat the 80 negroes. But IL 2s Of the
whites vote with the negroes their
combined vote will be IS and they viii
outvote and defeat the "A white men
who did not. join the negroes. Thus
26 white men with 80 negroes can. and
oft-time do. outvote and defeat "a
white men. and IN this way the ne
groes, with a small minority OF the
whites, can and do control and gov
ern the great bulk Of the whites. Now.
is this right? How can any respecta-
bic white man say II Is right?-Pitts-
boro Record.
The resignation of Rev. J. b. Shear
er, D. D., from the presidency OF Da-
wilson college, will come as a surprise
| TO the many friends of himself and the
| college. Davidson has prospered un-
| der his administration and IL is a pleas
| ure to know that he is TO remain in
the faculty, occupying the Biblical
| chair, he having made the Bible his
| lifelong study. The trustees have
been wise in their selection OF his sue
| cessor. DR.. Henry Louis Smith, pro-
| fesSor of physics. DIR. Smith is an
alumnus of the college, and has long
been a member of the faculty He is
man of unbounded energy as we'll as
of profound learning and brilliant
career lies before him.-Charlotte OBJ
server.
The keenest spur TO move the masses
of the people in this state toward ed
! ucation ever devised is to be found in
| the constitutional amendment on
! which the people are to vote in August
Every boy in the state nov thirteen
years old has, of course, eight years
until he is twenty-one years OF age.
That year, 1905, the amendment 20 the
constitution, which will then be the
law, VIII say to him unless you have
learned 10 read and write you cannot
vote. The time, eight years. is all
that any reasonable man could ask.
If boy cannot learn TO read and 10
write in eight years he is certainly
wanting in the mental force needed
| TO qualify him 10 be a voter. There
are TO be schools enough for every
| body. In that length OF time there will
be two and two-thirds years OF school
time.-Lumberton Robesonian.
The evolutions of Mr. Spencer B.
Adams, of the fifth district Of North
Carolina, are quite interesting He
was the republican candidate for con-
gress in his district two years ago. de-
feating for the nomination Hon. Thos.
Settle, the ablest republican cam
paigner in the state, and himself being
defeated at the polls by Hon.W w
kitchin. He Is now the republican
candidate for governor, and the fail
ure of the republican convention of
his congressional district at Green's
boro few days ago to nominate a
candidate for congress is said TO be
due to his desire to have the nomina-
ton himself after he Is defeated for
Governor in August. We cannot but
admire the ability of a man, who was
clerk of the superior court Of the out
of-the-way county but a few years
ago TO hold up" a state party for all
and the Observer gives him it's com
pliments and respectful salutations.-
Charlotte Observer.
A late issue of the Daily Hampshire
Gazette, a New England republican
paper, contains this paragraph: THE
iynching OF negro in Colorado shows
that the people there are not much dIr
ferent from the people of the south.
Under similar conditions mankind be-
he
This extract was sent us by a thought
full gentleman, who has spent much
time In the south, from Massachusetts,
He is a wise man and a man whose
views are formed from long knowledge
OF men OF both sections. In a private
letter he says: Il inclose this candid
admission from New England re-
publican paper; showing that even the
yankees are open to conviction. When
L was in Maine last sumner the good
people Of that state taTred and feath-
cred Rev. Mr.. Higgins because he was