The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-19
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they all say that he has not spoken just
ly nor truly Of the preachers II what
ne said was not the truth IL was mean
about the meanest thing we have seen
in a decade-and we are not q preacher,
nor writing in heat."-Raleigh News
and Observer.
Some people are unduiy excited over
Inc large numbe of applicants for pen
sions and feel disposed to criticise the
law, and express a fear that the pension
TAX Will become burdensome. Don't let
this vex the righteous soul OF any man.
your pension tax viii not be n cent
greater than il has been on account of
the increase in the list of pensioners
Cleveland Star.
A little strange, wasn't II, that Air.
Page should have struck 1t exactly
right as to the politicians and made a
clean miss as to the preachers? 1t will
always be truer even with the broadcast
OF broad people that a great deal de-
pends on whose OK is gored. Not, how
ever, that We believe that Mr.. Page was
right in either of his statements.-Clin-
ton Democrat.
II Mr.. Walter H. Page has read the
Of numerous N,rth Carroll
mans On his statement tina war, pow
erty. illiteracy, epidemics and t~ornadoes|
nave all done less to hurt the south.
han the politicians and the
preachers" he must have reached the
conclusion that the people of his nativeI
state think he is taking about matters
that he knows nothing about. He has
been we'll and d~eservedly roasted
Lumberton Robesonian.
Under the old system of educationI
this country gave TO the world an ideal
womanhood. We believe in a higher edu-
cation for women as we do for men, but
let it be an education that shall bring
sunshine around the hearthstone; an
education that shall lull a nation into
repose through ~graciousness and gentle
ness. n the strains Of a melodious lul-
laby. This is a woman'S proper sphere,
nd when she takes up the retort and
crucible she ceases, in a measure, to be
the queen of her household; the guiding
star of weak and erring man.-Charlotte
News.
Look yonder is another great bould-
err that is about to fall upon the track.
Put on your airbrakes, reverse your en-
CINE, or else there may be
before us. What is it? 1t is the great
concentration of wealth in the hands of
a few. 1t is the establishment of trusts
and combines that is getting all power
into their hands Inc Gripping the weak
and small. 1t is that policy which does
not want fifteen bank presidents, but
only wants one. 1t does not want fiji
teen bank cashiers, but only wants one.
1t does not want fifteen railroads with
its president and employees and COM
petition but only one. Is it for the up
building Of our nation?-R. B. Glenn in
Bankers Convention.
Here is genuine Irish wit from Judge
Robinson in his charge to the Wake
county grand jury: Il know many
men in my count-men with lots Of
money who go to the springs in sum-
mer. while 1 stay home and sweat; go
to the warmer climates in winter, while
I shiver at home, but When you exam
inc the tax books you'll think they
havn't got enough rags at home to wad
a gun. The only balm of relief about
it is that a little later they will get to
a hot climate where they can't move.
1t is a high privilege to pay taxes and
enjoy the freedom Of such a government
as this, and the man who tries to shirk
them ought not only to be made to pay
but sent to the roads for swearing to
a lie ."-Ra1eign News and Observer.
MI. Walter H. Page, at present edi-
tor of The Wold's Work, and the most
successful mar of letters this state has
produced in recent years, possesses, in a
degree that amounts to ingenuity, the
faculty of abusing his native state in a
manner which, as a mattr of course,
makes his productions more saleable
SAAAStAS 1iS
and which are at the same time meek
ly accepted by some people of his own
state as the rod of correction applied
in all love and loyalty to his own. But
his latest contribution of this charac-
ter is SO utterly devoid of even the
semblance of respect for the very best
classes of his natal brethren-So. stup-
endous a falSehood in fact-that he is
catching hot shot from almost every
quarter If the old state, except from a
few who never cease to inwardly re-
greet that they were not born in Boston.
Rockingham A~nglO-SaXOn.
h people may as we'll learn now
that any party whose end is the foster
dice will ave death for its inevitable
portion. Populism has heard its death
knell and those who in this later day
would make one believe that
is God and thai is it's
prophet; that those who manufacture
are above those who till and he who
is so unfortunate Is to earn by daily
labor his daily bread should and must
be the servant of that power which with
itS iron ships plows the seas and with
it's iron horse traverSeS the land; and
by discriminating tariff laws works in
justice to him so vile below; should take
warning from it's fate, retrace their
steps and do work that will result in
the future solidarity of mankind.
| Though ephemeral success may attend
their movements, yet it will end in polit-
ical chaos as has populism.-Lenoir
Topic.