The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-15

-.he financiers advise q bond issue
Of course There IS one thing above
all others that North Carolina wants
to do IL is TO stay out of the hands OF
the Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The Bible teaches that killing e
self is n crime against God and man.
yet the Christian ministers OF Europe
and America are suggesting to the
Chinese mobiles that the best way for
them 90 atone for their sins against
foreigners Is to suiefde--Wilson Times
4 lawyer in n court room may call
q man a liar. scoundrei. william or q
thief. and no one makes n complaint
when court a~odjourns- IL \ newspa-
Per prints such q reflection on q mans
character there IS a libel suit or .
dead editor This is owing to the fact
that people believe what an editor
says and what the blackguard lawyer
cuts no figure.-Mt. Olive Adver-
tiser.
Senator Pritchard, in his political
speech in the senate Friday. said about
North Carolina several things that he
ought not TO have said. Grant
iag that t'e legislature Is doing all
that Senator Pritchard says ii Is to-
ward Gripping he material progress
of the state, Is IL doing IL mere harm
than he Is when he exploits the sup
posed fact from his place in the SEN
atee-Charlotte Observer.
The Asheville Gazette OF Saturday
morning says This Legislature has
gone on voting away the peoples
money for all sorts OF puerile and par
tisan purposes" What is the truth?
Up To Friday night this Legislature had
not appropriated a dollar for any pur-
pose whatever. except for the ex-con-
federate soldiers. Up TO this hour no
other appropriation whatever has been
s-N eAAA nAA TO-
public schools. This is a sample OF the
Gazette's reckless charges.-Raleigh
News and Observer.
The speeches referred to do not make
a political question OF this matter.
They arraign Judges FurChes and
Douglass for wilful violation of the
constitution. II they are not guilty.
the senate should acquit them, If gull
ty, it should not do so. IL justice Is
bad policy. injustice is bad morals.
The trial OF the lmpeached
judges will begin next Monday. 1t
would be funny If their chief coun-
sci. Jarvis, should be
subpoenaed as a witness for the prose
cution in the matter OF Furches' rank
ReidsvflleD
Weekley.
1t may not SO strike the reader. but
The Observer is surprised at the state
ment in it's Raleigh special this morn
ing that the report of the state geolo-
gist shows that the mineral product
of the state for the past two years Is
of the value of a million dollars or
more. These would be very small fig
ures for a gold or silver state. for a
coal or iron state, or for any other
sort of a mining state; but North Car
DINA does not set up for a mining
state al all, and this being so IL is
something that within two years she
4 n aftnr
ais to the wealth of the world.-Char-
lotte Observer.
A very large per cent. of marriages
need no, law to make them OF binding
and lasting effect as well as OF Edenic
happiness TO the parties to the mar
rage, that is. as long as the present
high moral sentiment in regard to IL
is maintained. But the trouble IS that
every slack given the divorce laws
helps to undermine this sound moral
sentiment. But the Christian
people must take UP this important
matter and let it be known that they
are in earnest about il, or the same law
will continue to be brought forward
by each succeeding legislature and
make it the settled policy of the state
to grant divorces for simply leaving
the partner of your joys and sorrows-
Rockingham Anglo-Saxon.
North Carolina is coming along. a
High Point man has discovered per-
petual motion, and now a Stokes coun-
ty man has invented n machine for
aerial navigation which he says will fly
all right. The. Danbury Reporter says
he was in that town the other day So
Letting financial assistance to get his
machine patented and otherwise TO get
off on the right foot. He lis deterrmin-
ed to have assistance. and, We are told
threatens IF the government of the
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help him., he will appeal to England"
It would be a pity to allow England to
seize this opportunity, and hence We
hope that Mr.. j. A. Hill, of Brown
Mountain-for such are the gentle
mans name and habitation-wiiI get
all the assistance he needs at home
Charlotte Observer.
At high noon on Monday, the 4th
day OF March. Mr.. Marion Butler ceas-
ed to represent the state of North Car
olina in the senate of the United
States. With genius as a d~isorganiZer
at a time when the agitator fattened
on discomfort and political preferment
found thrift in hate. he saw his oppor-
tunity and embraced 1t. Grasping
agricultural depression he shook IL
into discomfort and hurried discomfort
into political hatred, until as a trusted
leader he gathered about his
thousands and thousands of honest
and well meaning but misled white
men.At the opportune moment he trad
ed his white followers. like sheep, to
Pritchard for so man negroes. and his
sun mounted to its zenith. But his
sun has been declining ever since
Gastonia Gazette.
What is democracy? The answer to
the above question is perhaps as diff
cult as to the time old one p~ropounded
by PLATE, What is truth" Our de-
fination Of IL Is that democracy is the
formula whereby political problems
are solved in a common sense manner
and on an absolutely just basis How
ever many such problems there may
be, yet all of them can be solved SEN
sibly and justly. and however compli-
Gated they may appear. the democratic
party can solve them by applying TO
them the simple rule of right and
sense. This is The Journals ideas OF
democracy at least Thus all public
expenditures should be lei as a very