The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-05
STATE PRESS.

Educate the child for citizenship.
Spare neither money nor pains to ac-
complish the end Give the children
growing up o you the very best
advantages possible. Build up your
schools educate your children for q
noble and useful iife.-ReidsviIle Re
view.
The eastern section OF the state.
that Is the cotton belt. reports enor-
NOUS sales OF fertilizer. This can have
but one meaning and that is there win
be q greater acreage OF cotton planted.
The farmers may know what they are
about. but IL looks TO US that an IN
1 creased acreage will not have a ten
dency TO keep I'd prices-Durham
| Herald.
And in his particular we might say
much weakness was manifested, par
ticularly 50 when the judges acknowi-
edged In their statement IL was HUI
man TO err" etc-. or more directly.
they may have made a mistake
through ignorance Of the law or con-
sttution. or unwittingiy did 50. which
also Is very yea for Judges of our
nigher court to plead--Saltsbury
Truth.
II IL stated that Mr.. Francis u. Win
ston will be appointed q fudge OF one
OF the new superior court districts. We
take this TO be only a partial f~ulnllnent
OF Mr.. Winston's ambition. IL viii be
Na@e N@&S - a.
as expressed in . famous letter, was
TO be a judge and ride the district with
Solicitor George H. White. colored. ff
he Is 10 be a judge. IL Is 4 pity that he
will be deprived OF c~o1geniai associa-
ton In making his rounds OF the courts.
Greensboro Telegram.
AS is usual on great questions public
opinion has been divided as to whether
the judges were really guilty of the
charges preferred. \ large number OF
people thought them guilty. but did not
think their guilt had been proven. Many
thought them not guilty. Those who
took the lead in the prosecution acted
co"nscientiously. as we fully believe.
and the fact OF guilt not being proved
in the opinion OF enough senators TO
convict. does not reflect upon the
leaders in the prosecution. who were
only doing their duty as they saw it,
kinston Free Press.
We are firmly convinced that Judge
Walter Clark, Of our Supreme court.
Is a very able lawyer and a most up
right judge. He is more feared by the
trusts, 1t seems. than any other man
In North Carolina, and. through their
newspapers the men at the head OF
the big trusts are constantly nagging
at his heels. They paw more attention
TO Judge Clark than to any other man
in the state. and seem to have n per
feet hatred for him. The big trusts do
Hol waste so Hucn time over STnan
game. They fear Judge Clark's big
brain and his sterling honesty-Roan-
oke Times.
But apart from indicating our COM
mercial growth. the sun OF s., 600 paid
annually by the patrons OF the post
office for box rent and hostage has
a significance of its own. Deducting
$500 for box rent. we have the sum OF
s.. 800 left for stamps and postal cards.
| SuDDOSlnR tina the S2l0 Ia ananf for
postal cards. the amount invested In
stamps could be represented by the
$4,000 which would pay for postage on
2500. 600 letters at two cents each. Add
to this the 10000 postal cards and We
have a total OF 1000 messages by
mail sent from Gastonia p~ostofffce
every year, or 1900 a month and near
1y 500 a day. G~astonia Gazette.
While the legislature may be CEN
sured by some persons for these very
proper appropriations. there are also
other persons censuring the legisla-
ture for not making other appropria-
lions. For instance. a reformatory Is
needed for youthful criminals, but It's
establishment would have cost about
80, 600. A code commission is needed
for codifying our laws. but its cost
would have amounted to probabiy$4o,-
600. A freproof building is needed for
our state records and SIS. 900 were ask
ed for its construction. But while an
appropriation was urged for each n
OF these three worthy purposes. yet the
legislature refused to make 1t because
our finances would not now iustifq it.
Pittsboro Record.
We know that there has beer a great
deal of clamor and denunciation when
the supreme judiciary has been called
into question. in the last decade, but
the inviolable truth still remains that
the people are supreme and when there
is any question arising between the
people and the judiciary the people
propose to have a hearing. There has
been a great t~endency-too great a ten
dency in the past years. of the judi
ciary ruling the country. The intunc-
tons granted by Fereral Judges and
the tendency of the judiciary to usurp
the Legislative power of the state has
naturally ~engendered n jealousy that
has made our li~berty-loving North
Carolina quick to take cognizance OF
any move that had n tendency to usurp
the will of the people.-Charlotte News
Cyrus 3. Watson has been regarded
for twenty years as one Of the greatest
men in North Carolina. Today he
stands, not among but at the head
Of the great democratic leaders Of
Western North Carolina. and among
the first half dozen men the state has
knokEp since the days Of Graham and
Bragg and Vance. His speech closing
IOE the prosecution was m9Rul0Cent.
1t was trenchent and powerful and I'M
answerable. Made in any impartial
forum in the United States IL would
have secured conviction. With eleven
, jurors deaf 10 reason and to argument,
twenty-seven OF the thirty-nine men
who went into the trial unbiased voted
for conviction. OF the twenty-seyen
thirteen We're lawyers including the
chairman Of the judiciary committee
> Raleigh News and Observer.