The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-25
STATE PEESS

So, Hanna says he will not resign
his craftsmanship. Well, it would be
a funny thing to see a republican re-
sign anything in the shape Of an of
flee, wouldn't it?-Winston Sentinel.
The Edenton editor who suspended
the publication of his paper last week,
IN account of being ashamed to ask
for further credit, ought to be placed
in a museum. He is the only one We
ever heard of:-EliZabeth City Tai
Heel.
Not the least distressing feature con-
nected with President Roosevelt's in
timacy with the negro, Booker Wash
ington, is the joy n comfort it gives
to the southern heller and plug n
busy-body. The real southern man n
democrat grieves over it.-Charlotte
Observer.
We are led to think the opinion is
growing that u courts are too lenient
with convicts. There may be reason
for it. Light penalties are pleasing to
the friends Of the convict and to
sci. In it also is a feeling that appar-
emit blood-thirstness has been avoided.
Our judges are all men of kindly m
pulses. 1t is not agreeable to the dis
position of such men to be imposing
severe penalties. The consequences
thai fines and penalties should be
easier than is wise is not unnatural.
But do not the ends of justice, as well
as the claims of order and the enforce
ment of the law, call for severer fines
and penalties? Courts are called on to
make the law a terror to evil doers.-
Rev P. R Law in Robesonian.
Why should not a republican presi-
dent-mind you, a republican president
dine with a negro? Hav not the re-
publican heelers lockcially in the south,
been the great clamorer for civil rights
for forty years? Has not the republic
can heelers locked arms with the
brother in black and marched In solid
phalanx to every voting precinct in the
South, since the civil war, and patted
him on the back and told him he was
as good as a white man? We feel a
| delicacy in criticising the action OF
gentlemen in their exchange Of social
| courtesies, and especially do we feel a
delicacy in saying anything that might
appear to be a criticaI scrutiny or
Professor Washington's conduct upon
this particular occasion; but 1t seems TO
US that the proper thing for Professor
| Washington to have done would have
been to decline the invitation and with
draw.-Charlotte News.
We are not at all certain that this
| incident will do the president any harm
in the north. Those people dc not
recognize racial differences as we down
here do. For the sake OF scoring a point
southern people frequently allude &c
the fact tina negroes who nave peer
| imported into the north to take the
place of strikers have been subjected tc
violence. Is there any evidence that
white men imported under the same cir
cumstances would not have peer the
objects of the same violence? None a
all. The point is made, too. that ne
groes are lynched in the north for the
same crime that they are lynched FOL
in the south. II the criminals had beer
white men and had committed n
crime under the same circumstances
would hey not have been lynched a:
quickly as the negroes We're Yer,
likely. Throughout the north Amos
generally. white and negro children at
lend the same schools; northern thea
tres and cafes are open to the races
alike; many northern hotels are. ane
the northern white people DO not seen
to, object to the observation-disclosures
D Observer