The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-08
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in the south l~ynchings. The cause back
of that is ignored. The dreadful rapes
are either forgotten or hidden from
sight. This class Of newspapers wher-
ever found see in American polltlcs
much to bring forth anarchy. The
they call yellow
are held up as responsible for anarchlc
devilishness. They contend that II Is
The criticism of high officials that invite
the anarchists to open demonstrations.
But as anarchy is imported, has
for decades been offensive n violent
in its manifestations all over Europe,
il is hardly fair to charge American
as being really thec creators
of the Internal spirit OF lawlessness ana
~structi Even the late admirable
Queen Victoria was in danger from the
assassin and within a few years an EN-
press, a king and a president in Europe
have fallen before the assassin or an
archists. There are other breeders OF
anarchy tina nthose cited by the black
Journals. AS old and influential a re-
publican as the North American pre-
sehts a view that such journals might
study with benefit and enlightenment.
Tee North American say and it is a
caution for swift censures of others:
1T needs to be borne upon many
minds that any form of lawlessness
tends to promote lawleSSness in gener-
al, including anarchy. Among those,
therefore, who have a right to give ad-
vice as to how anarchy shall be dealt
with, law-breakers and ~law-evaders are
not numbered. The rich corporation,
however respectable, that corrupts law
at its source by bribing legislatures, is
a breeder of anarchy. The man who
buys a senatorship that would not come
to him otherwise is a breeder Of an
archy. The newspaper that looks for
its support not to the public, but to the
subsidies Of private interests, and de-
tends the privileges of its employers as
against the rights Of the community, IS
a breeder of anarchy. Every enemy OF
that freedom of speech and freedom or
the press guaranteed by the constitu-
ton is a breeder of anarchy. Every n
who helps toward class distinction.
whether prompted by the arrogance OF
good fortune or the envy of embittered
poverty, feed class hatred and is a
breeder of anarchy"
We copy but a part of it's discussion.
The opinion of the able Philadelphia
daily is worthy of attention. 1t hits
a greedy, unfair. blinded class of pa
pers that will damn the south as bar
barous and beyond hope, while defend
ing and advocating huge subsidy
schemes of plumber, a grinding uncon-
stitutional protective tariff, n the
most absurdly omniverous and blasting
trusts. The organs of monopoly that de-
nounce the south and the alleged causes
OF anarchic displays forget the past.
That able Texas daily. h Houston
Post lately said and it appears to us as
judicious and in good time:
The constitution will not be tamper-
ed with to suit those hypocritical how
lers for retribution; neither Will the
statutes be altered to meet their sug-
gestions OF the surrender Of sacred
rights to cope with a peril which ex-
listing avs are broad enough to reach.
A healthy public sentiment Of society,
IN whatever guise they present them
selves, must cease will rule instead,
.and for n time at least we will be spared
from further outbreaks on anarchy
breeders of high and low degree
Take h press of the country, with
exceptions here and there in both sec
tioas. its conduct has been ~judicious
and f~orbearing and seemly. 1t has not
attempted to make political capital out
of the sad misfortunes of the country,
and turn a great horror and most devil
ish crime into an instrument Of parti-
sanship or sec~tionalalism. The Boston
Advertiser, an able exponent OF that
section. sees the folly and of
those papers that have sought to i'm
prove the occasion by b~ushwhacking
rivals. ard by manufacturing a false
standard and bringing railing ecu
tionS. That considerable if not always
wise daily of New England, says:
"Tc some few sporadic instances, to
be sure, there are signs of . wish to eX-
cite bitter feelings by pretending that
this Jsoadfui thing would not have oc-
CURED f differences of view on matters
of puLl.c policy had not been expressed.
But these petty outbreaks OF partisan
bigotry bear so small a proportion to
the general. justice and calmness OF the
nations attitude that they car not
bring reproach upon the republic as a
whole"
Because of the hellish output of i'm
ported anarchists the blessing of free
thought and free speech will neither
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trary and sinful legislation. No infu-
entail paper will justify anarchy. and
no thoughtful,ju paper will V law
1essness, only as it expresses the re-
sort OF outraged people to reach a most
Gamning crime.
There is a prejudice and SANDER
of the south hat has been p~recipitated
upon b country by Roosevelt's curious
course in the Booker Washington event.
The northern press without exception
approves Of this social hobnobbing and
racial fellowship, and are quite willing
that it shall work out miscegnation and
social equality in the south. In the
mean time in the north hotels exclude
prominent negroes, the different kinds
or occupation are not open to them, and
the churches Of h highest classes are
shut to Sambo and Dinah. while the