The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-26

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as the managing editor of the Santiago
fght.-RaIeigh Times. And he has evil
IDENTIFY forgotten that he was taking a
vacation when it all happened.-Eliza-
beth City Tarheel.
A pessfmistic professor in the Chica-
go university says that the race is de-
generating and that we are all fast be-
coming Indians. Hopelessly and pre-
maturely submitting TO the inevitable,
he has Joined two or three Indian
tribes.-Charlotte Observer.
The candidacy of Henry B. Adams,
ESQ. of the Monroe bar, for h demo-
cratic nomination for judge Of this (the
sixth) judicial district has been def
nitely announced by his friends. Per-
sonally, Mr.. Adams stands at the top
I'm the estimation OF those VINO know
him, and his legal requirements, Judi
cial acumen and-not the least thing
among the accomplishments or a judge
his common sense are beyond ques-
ton. He would make a Judge worthy
of the ermine.-Monroe Journal
A book was published some years ago
by Judge A. w. Tourgee, the title of
which attracted much attention as we'll
as its contents. The title was "A FOOLS
Errand-By One Of the Fools" We
commend this title at least to the pray
erful attention of the Hon. John f.
Fowled who is contesting-or thinks he
is contesting the right of Hon. Charles
Charles r. Thomas to the seat in the
congress soon to assemble as the rep
r~esentative Of the Third district. Mr..
Thomas reply to Mr.. Fowler, published
elsewhere, makes our Suggestion very
pertinent.-Raleigh Post.
There will be a single solitary pop
ulist senator in the NV congress-, which
meets on the first Monday in Deem
Der. It is true there will be some SEN
ators who once were populists but are
no longer. For instance, there is Sen
ator Stewart, of Nevada, who was such
a long-talking advocate of Free Sill
YER, and so prominent a populiSt, but
he has nov returned to the republican
ranks, as the swine to its WalloW, and
is now as blatant and rabid a republf-
can as he had been a populist. popu-
list no longer has a voice or vote in the
senate, and is only remembered as a
thing of the past.-Pittsboro Record.
With all OF Massachusetts, sixty
years of negrophilism, h has within
her borders today only $4,000 colored
people of all shades, and these are
largely huddled up in the black alleys
Of Boston. Why this negro avoidance
of the seat of learning, equality and
philanthropy? With golden apples
dangling across the street; with vigil
liant transportation agents anxious %.
move him; the negro stolidly closes his
eyes and refuses to move! This is a
problem we'll worth the serious atten-
ton of thinking people. 1t would seem
from the above that the negro prefers
his condition here to that awaiting him
up observation-disclosures Gazette.
The sugar and tobacco industries be-
long almost exclusively to the south
and west. The iron maker Of Pennsyl-
vania, Tennessee or Alabama, might be
able to persuade the treaty making
power to enter into reciprocal relations
with the foreign producers of sugar and
tobacco, that they might find a better
market for their iron, and thereby place
the sugar and tobacco producers Of his
country at a disadvantage in the mar
kets of the world. n so the list
might be strung out covering numerous
products of this country. The only
genuine and just reciprocity which will
do no injury to any industry Of his
country is a reciprocity based upon
revenue laws hat discriminate against
no nation and place every section of
this country upon an equal footing
Charlotte News.
1t is a fact we'll known over The
whole country, that a determined ef-
fort is being made in the southern
states to give us a peaceful and safe
system of the elective franchise, and
this work will be the storm center in
every political campaign, until this re-
suit is accomplished and made perma-
nent. Means employed to accomplish
this end is, to so restrict the suffrage
laws as to forever remove the negro
as a factor in politics, so as to make
him an unknown quantity in elections,
instead of allowing him to hold the key
to the situation, and the result to be
dependent upon his vote, which has
made him an article of barter, for the
designing and u~nprincipled white men.
who are as unfit to govern as the ne
gro, and who have fooled him by teach
ing him false doctrine, and leading him
to believe the impossible to-wit: that
he can rise to a level with the white
man, and help to pull the reins Of gov
ernment. The south knows the negro
n is his friend.-Clinton Democrat.