The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-03
STATE PRESS.

The Ohio democrats have not repu-
dated Bryan's democracy, as the
Commercial Democrats" have done.
He has been invited to make speeches
in the Ohio democratic campaign
Winston Sentinel
1t seems hat the sentiment in favor
Of compulsory education is growing. In
towns like Durham such a law would
be a blessing for the children but would
be a hardship on some of the parents
in that they would be forced to go to
work.-Durham Herald.
Teachers for all the public schools Of
the county are soon to be employed,
and it is the plain duty Of COMMITTEE
men to secure the very best talent
available. Do not employ a teacher be-
cause he, or she, will teach for a small
salary, and do not be afraid to employ
an efficient teacher because good pay
is asked. A man or woman who is Mt
to teach school is worth a good salary,
and it is the falsest of false economy
to look at it in any other light. Let
US all. authorities, parents and the
public generally, do what We can to
make better the public schools Of the
county.-WadeSboro Messenger.
The Salisbury Sun says: 1T is no
secret that some of North Carolina's
leading citizens are firm believers in
and devoted followers of Mrs. Eddy.
Only a few months ago the wife of one
of the states most distinguished men,
herself a woman of culture and refine
ment. declared that no church in the
state was gaining so rapidly in point Of
membership as this sect" And we will
add that it is no secret hat as a rule
the American people like to be hum
plugged. Barnum, the great circusman,
once paid the American people this
compliment. 1t is a deplorable fact
that In hereSy that may be taught
will find followers, and a multitude Of
them.-New Bern News.
The Courier has always opposed mob
law. MobS have no conscience. Still
we cannot as men are constituted, see
any way of Graduating it except by
graduating the crime for which it is
the usual, if not the legitimate, punish
ment. Mems families are sacred to
them, if they are worthy the name Of
men, and, when one m of the
family has suffered at the hands of a
heartless. abominable fiend and devil
incarnate, every moment the brute
lives, after committing the hellish
crime. is a moment too many. Let the
law, by all means, take it's course; but
we angelic editors Of the North, if the
outraged n were your child, what
would you do?-Belgrade Courier.
Hanging would have been too good
for the negro fiend who outraged O
young white woman last week in An
son county. But we still believe in
upholding the law. The logic Of the
situation to our mind therefore is that
a more terrible death than hanging
should be legaliZed as a punishment
for rape. e there should be a spe-
cial court with abundant means and
to ascertain the guilt of an
alleged crimina and speedily conSign
him to his fate. There is something in
the constitution f~orbidding cruel and
unusual punishment, but in the light
of last weeks occurrence that provis-
ion is radically wrong.-Clinton Demo-
crat.
The fact, however. remains that the
gas goes off and people get killed, and
by a multiplicity of terms the loophole
is left for those responsible to get out.
In h healing case people do without
physicians and medicines and die and
the responsibility is divided out among
the different sects who promote this
form of treatment, which are, so far
as people in general are concerned, one
and the same. There is, however, no
rubbing u the fact that in both in
stances the people die and somebody
is to a certain extent responsible for
the death. A general term for these
deaths from religious fanaticiSm is
needed by the newspapers, as they are
continually being called down for
tramping on the toes of one OF the 9TH
er of the various sectS who profess to
deSpise Notwithstanding Observer.
The man who seeks money does so
because he believes that eventually as
a result of it, Of connected with it, he
may find happiness. A man purSueS
knowledge for the pleasure that it i'm
medlately gives or for the pleasures
which it may give either in satisfying
his ambition or a means toward an end,
the end Of which is happiness. Ambi-
ton though satisfied until the
of the world are exhausted, will not
bring happiness. Ask the president Of
the United States if happiness is found
in h presidential chair ask the
tor of n United States if absolute
happiness is found in the senatorial
toga, ask the supreme court Judges If
happiness is found in the judicial err
mine, ask the seeker after knowledge
who sits as president of some college
If happiness is found there, and finally
ask the great magnates, who have
sought money in order that it might
being happiness Of some kind, ask him
if happiness is to be found there. Ask
the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the
greatest of u financial successes If
happiness is to be found In extreme
wealth. and they all will tell you that
happiness is found in none Of these
Greensboro Telegram.