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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
A BASELESS CONTENTION.

It's rather a matter OF amusement
than seriousness to read what McKin-
ley organs say about the effects of
Aguinaldo's capture and subsequent &C
ton will have upon the matured judg-
ment of rejecting men as to the true
merits of the foreign var of conquest
waged by the Mckinley gang of Isl
pers. The organs talk as if they really
believed that the crushing of Aguin-
aldo and his submission Ito the DEGREES
$ OF fate" would shut up all possible
e. complaint and criticism ever hereaf-
ter as to the course of Mckinley Il
his allies. The contention of leading
republicans like the late ex-president
Harrison, and senator Hoar and ex-
senator Schurz-the foremost men in
their party-and men like Olney and
, Carlisle and Cleveland and other north
eren politicians of the boiling democ-
racy has been hat the constitution of
the United States followed the flag al
ways and everywhere. No capture or
surrender of one man or a hundred
thousand can ever destroy the safety
n sanity of that contention. 1t is
as undying as truth. The principle so
earnestly defended is eternal and will
live on when politicians who assail it
are as dead as the Pharoahs, or until
this present republic is numbered
among the dead nations"
There is an immense difference be-
tween political subserviency and the
heroic defense of principles. No polit-
ical tradesmen or tricksters or enc
mics of their country will ever fill a
high place in the pantheon of a great
and heroic people. While the monu-
ments of virtue are indeed immortal,
the treachery of bad men is sure to be
perpetuated only when such virtues
as they may have possessed nee are
forgotten, are buried in the deep sea
of forgetfulness. Mr.. Calhoun, one of
the truly historic great men of Ameri-
ca. and of the purest and noblest, said
~of "a degenerate, corrupt, and subser-
Went people, that there fina loom has
been the lowest state of wretchedness
and misery and that finally they are
"obiiterated forever from the list of
nations" A man would better go
down in the strife than to yield to the
allurements of office ana sell his name,
character, even soul, for a paltry 'mess
of pottage-" Principles survive. Treach-
cry brings curse and disgrace.
The Philadelphia Times has some
wise and trappy words in replying te
swift opinion of defenders of McKin'
ley. We copy the following with In
sterest:
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30

Talk about northern love of the
negro. il is all bosh. There are some
negrophilists up there" OF course.
But the masses hold Sambo in no spe-
cial favor. He may be tolerated but
he will not be loved or ~patronized- The
New York Evening Post of asst week
gave this account:
"A crowd of citizens chased Edwari
Randolph. a negro, from Patterson. N
J.. for nine miles across country yes
terday. He was accused of ill-treat-
ing a negro boy. Edward Thomas. only
three years old. so badly that the lad
had to be taken to a hospital for an
operation. The police succeeded In
catching Randolph, and, as the citi-
zens threatened to take him away from
them and lynch him, they hurried him
to Jail. When he was k to court
this morning a jeering mob ollowe1
him."
What would become of a lustful
black in New Jersey who would as
sault some pure. fair young white wo-
mon? Rev. Simon Drew, D. D., the
president of the Lincoln National In
dustrial and employment Bureau, of
New YORK. speaking Oh the heSro eA-
odus from the south, said, that me-
groes would find New York a very
hard place." We quote an %instruc-
tive passage from him:
LAS to the matter of h exodus of
the negro from the SOUTH" he said,
this question is absurd. I am glad
to say that the color line does not ex-
list in New York as it does in the south
but where you will find 1000 negro car
penters, bricklayers, bookkeepers,
clerks. plasterers. painters and decor
ators, postmasters and mistresses, in
the south, you will not find 100 in the
northern states. 1t is not the color,
but the condition of the negro finan-
cially. The last work a colored man
should be barred out Of, and that is
hod-carrying, he can not do in New
York city. The Italians, Swedes n
Germans are given that"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30

We d0 not know just how rich the
Roman nobility and consuls and other
officials Of the Empire were. but great
wealth abounded. 1t is doubtful If any
of them were as rich as some half
dozen American multi-millionaires.
Kings and EmperMs now on the throne
are TOO Door to keep company with
American money lords. There are
more mea in America worth 800, 9O0,-
600 than in any country on the globe.
There are nor who are worth $780,
900, 900 han to be found elsewhere. We
might 90 higher. There are more who
are worth $50. 600, coo, s25, 900, 900, 10000
600 and s., 600, 900 than any country can
show. Mere millionaires are too, thick
to be counted, and a fellow with but
10000 o is a comparative pauper in
the north We see it stated that in the
great city and capital of Germany. Ber-
lin, that there are only twelve per-
sons who have an income of over $780,
600, n the richest man in Berlin is
worth only some 1000. 600, oOO." Poor in
led! And still Berlin. says. the New
York Evening Post, is "a better noticed
town, and a better swept town. and a.
better managed town than that In
which even u billions cannot pre-
vent ash-can and newspaper-uttered
streets. nor Tammany police. nor yell
low press"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
VIEWS AS TO NEGRO EDUCATION.

The papers in both sections devote
of negro education and elevation. 1t
is rarely hat one a find a really
sensible. practical article in a northern
paper or monthly based ON knowledge
and common-sense. They are written
by men of intelligence and education
and often by skilled writer's, but they
neither comprehend the situation nor
understand the negro character. If
these numerous writer's would come
into the south and live five years in
close contact with the negroes so IS to
study the real makeup of Sambo and
Dinah. and then write candidly and
precisely what are the results of the
information gained, itwould do good pos
sibly instead of harm. 1T would from
many a blunder free" the writers in
the north who are always giving the
south the benefit of what they fondly
suppose is wisdom. but more frequent
ly is crash ignorance.
The elevation of the negro has not
yet come. Much politics made him
worse. meaner. lower than ne would
have been. He took to it as pigs dc
the teats of the willing sow, but il
failed to satisfy. much less to uplift
The education thus far impaired as q
general thing is a lamentable failure
as all observant men and women vel
know. Bill ARD saw it years ago.. ant
said it had merely spoiled good feli
hands" The washington Post. an en-,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
Jhe Messrwer.


We publish today a w~ell-wrought
communication signed "Jeffersonian-"
The author, We believe, is OF northern
birth. but he is a democrat The
strength of labor now, that he refers
TO. was not overlooked by the northern
ID we reviewed. 1t is all compact
of strength now. That a great up
heavaI will occur in this country we
have not doubted for several years.
The aggressions and domineerings OF
the money power are such as to make
the vast millions of toilers and bread
winners FESTIVE n to some extent in
famed. The person who has carefully
studied the causes that led to the
tremendous cataclysm that began IN
Paris in 1850. and ramiied France at
last with it's intensified passions and
cruelties, will see like causes Tor re-
sembling them in part) at work
among the American people. The ex-
travagance, the waste. he plumber
ings. cannot continue a half century
longer withou precipitating a revo-
luton of gigantic proportions. His
tory repeats itself, and like causes
produce corresponding effects. We
hope our correspondents view as to
the character of the revolution that
will come will be the correct one. But
we are now unable to see how the own
ership and control of a great country
by a few men of ~stupendous powers
and wealth can fail to bring forth in
the end the bitterest fruit. The old
saying that the mills of the gods grind
slow but awful fine is true now as it
was twenty centuries ago. The at
titude of Mckinley. his advisers. con-
trollers and hackers. is not friendly to
the people, the safety of the republic,
the perpetuity OF free institutions in
on. land, and the mastership of the peo-
pie. Usurpation. invasion of a free peo-
pie, spoliationand oppression of the vast
1aboring class, the debasment of the
national honor, the blurring of the rec
ord of the Americans and the hopeless
ness of reform, will soo or late stir the
people with a mighty tempest of wrath
and indignation and then, the politi-
~cal sirocco,
Will come as winds come, when forests
are rended.
Will come as the winds come when Ia
yies are stranded"
The Messenger is gratified to receive
h Endorsement. of. a cultivated
stranger who is a rJeffersonian" in his
principles. and. therefore, were reason
ably and naturally is for returning
to the old-time democratic principles
which will prove always an anchor
of hope to the noble "ship of state"
that is moving now among shadows and
rocks and that. too, in a tempestuous
sea The people must unite-all lovers
of liberty, independence and the con- |
stitution. They must resolve upon
-electing honest. square, true, capable
men if UGH can be found in these
dark. decadent times. Let them re- |
solve to retain their freedom at any |
cost. Let them lock shields and meet
their enemies. and,
IF we cannot defend our dore from |
the dog,
Let us be worried. and our people
lose |
The name of hardness and policy"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30

Timely Information given Mrs. George
Long, of New Straitsville, Ohio, pre-
vented a dreadful tragedy and saved
two lives. A trightful cough had long
kept her awake every night. She had
tried many remedies and doctors but
steadily grew worse until urged to try
DR.. Kings New Discovery. One bottle
wholly cured her, n she writes this
marvellous medicine cured Mr. Long OF
q severe attack OF Pneumonia. Such
cures are positive proof OF the match
less merit OF this grand remedy for our
ing all throat, chest and lung troubles
Only SOC. and 800. Every bottle guar.
J anteed Trial bottles free at r. R. Bel
1amy,B DRUG Store.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
The q Remedy for Rhenmatism
Quick Relief from Pain

All who use Chamberlain,s Pain Balm
for rheumatism are delighted with the
quick relief from pain which IL affords.
When speaking Of this Mr.. d. N. Sinks
OF Troy. Ohio. says: Some time aeo
l a a severe attack Of rheumatism i'm
my arm and shoulder. I tried numer-
remedies but got no relief until I
was recommended by Messrs. Geo. e,
Parsons & Co.. druggists Of this place,
TO Try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They
recommended 1t SO highly that 1 bough,
a bottle. / was soon relieved of ali
pam I have since recommended this
nnlnent 20 many Of my friends, who
agree with me that IL is the best reme-
dy for muscular rheumatism I'm ths
market" For sale by R r. Beilamy
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30

That the cigarette is hurfuT is be-
yond fair dispute. The cumulating
evidence is conclusive in that direction.
The sale of the deadly enemy has
greatly diminished W. are happy to
record. Legislatures in many states
have dealt with the sale. Some little
while since the New Hampshire house
passed a law f~orbidding any person,
firm Or corporation to make, sell. or
keep for sale "any form of cigarette"
The gift Of a cigarette to minors is a
misdeIueanor quite as much as the sale
to adults. Persons violating the law
may be punished by a fine of ten dol
lars fos the first o~ffense, n fifty
dollars for any subsequent offense
Whether or no it became a law with
the approval of the governor, we are
not informed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
Extensive Plans tor Geological surve,

Plans tor Geological survey
washington, April 3.-The plan of
operations OF the geological survey
LOT tne next fiscal year has been an
sent TO all sections of the country TO
engage In geological, Typographical,
photographic and other lines Of survey
work An important feature win be an
investigation. in cooperation with the
coast geodetic survey OF certain
dary etwee the United States and
Canada The line will be re-run and
temporarily marked by iron posts in
certain localities. Biologists will make
surveys to cooperate I'm Typographical
Turseys with the states Of New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Maine. West yir-
ginia and North Carolina. .Invetiga-
IONS are planned Ct the clays and the
sciayworking industries OF the country
and cement and cemenung industries.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-30
NaxtOu Notes
Correspondence of The Messenger.

CORRESPONDENTS Of The Messenger. }
Maxton, N. c.. April %.
The continued cold weather Is caus-
ing. 4 great deal Of complaint among
the farmers. II they should have to-
rer}ant cotton very little seed can be
ha6. as owing to h high price OF seed
the majority Of the farmers sold an
except just enough to plant once.
The Maxton p~ostofice has recently
been raised to a presidential Office. Dir.
w nan, n postmaster, has recent
IL moved into new quarters and Is Civ
ing good service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
THE RIO JANEIRo DISASTER.

THE FouNDEIG OF JANEIRo terrible
a
long within
TO
'oyful antcpaons
the
for the fog lift Suddenly in the early morning when al but the men on
a
a of the lament
it though
Of TIE aboard
mpd OF the the responsibility the hundreds of lives
his hands ahead before the fog fully risen he undoubtedly
pilot the harbor
{ $ y wa
Weeks Honolulu and other
boat viii got
viii the Hundreds besides those whose
all
and the
o n of position
to remedy
Of vessels
good
o d reat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
WASHINGTON As A BACK NUMBER.


Il Frederick
highest tributes
Mr.
problems coRfrontng
n
100000 100000 outside these whom the republic
n vote
history
o o II
think it would
ng ever TO Washin tom d he
Americans could seek to
inscribed
Declaration Of ndenendnce He could not have
should
a
if Washington today he
goodb
the lie notk
Benevolent Assimilation
discovered should be administered only in
all
and diluted
arg o
nothing
civilization
Mckinley
shell
humber dangerous calling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
Dubois. Ida.
SEAFARERS.

CPeTcival Gibbon in the SPECTATOR
The traders that hail from the CIyIe
AND the WhalerS that sail from EI..;ite
fuC forth IN their season on Ton of The
tide
To gather the grist OF the sea.
To ply in the lanes of the sea.
BY fairway and channel and sounI,
BY shOal and deep water tnsY 20,
Guessing the course by the feel f the
ground,
or chasing the drift Of the lI0a--
NOrWesu IN the track of the flOe
And we steer them to harbors afar.
At hazard we win them abroad,
W here the coral IS furrOwed by he5ls on
the bar,
And the sea-flOor is swept by 1he Lcrd,
The anchorage dredged by the Lord.
To the placid, palm-skirted bayou.
To coasts that are drear and forIo-n,
We follow the courses the admrGls crew
In the days when they ub ed the Hon.
When Drake lost d month Oft the J-Cln.
And what Of the cargo We bring
For the venture We bore over seas2
What of the treasure ye put forth to
From the chances of biIIow and breeze,
In spite of the billow and breeze?
Oh, we carry the keys OF. the earth,
And the password of Empire we pear,
Wherever the beaches held promise Of
worth
We established your sovereignty there,
We planted your flag over there.
And the guerdon for blood We have she'd?
The glory that halOes your name?
Oh, a grave where the dipsy is dim over
head,
And the aftermath tribute. of fame,
A chip from the flOtSdm Of farllG.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
THE BOERS AND THEIR TYPEWRITER.

PRESIDENT
TO
and
S a
Of
Of the
of Lord
writing machine duel This
British
ypewrters OF
in
Philippines General belongs
too
Philippines only
the vaguest sort of
acquitve
with the notable exception of the pubHos money
Pat Grove said to have
wards on the claim Of having captured himself
years grinding an
himself and marrying an heiress
been they they
haven't time
according political faith of Repre-
Of Illinois can do no
Why British parlante Down M
representatives talk Yankee dialect in congress
1Iayhap coming to Utah was started nv
plate-gasa insurance companies
chief Deye politics might try the simple
method Of thFo"ng up his job
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
MORGAN'S SUGGESTION.


Ncaraguan regardless Of Great
ritain
when it The present
be
70
t
Of 10
and
with outa skin
nothing by
the of
nniyht
whic TO
and
ion on Engan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
A Countess, Suicide.

fSau Francisco ChTOniClel
Santa Barbara-Mrs. Frederick Hansen,
formerly Josephine Countess Ritter. age
q years. committed suicide by shooting
herself on Hot Springs road, FL Mon
tecitO. Sh6 died almost instantly. MIS-
Hansen has maintained a home here for
the past three years, coming here directly
from Europe at the time Of an estrange-
ment from her first husband, Count KIT
ter. commodore in the German navy. Two
years ago she returned 10 Europe and OBJ
tanned a divorce from the count \ great
scandal resulted from the airing OF the af-
fairs of the count and countess Return
ing to America when she had obtained
divorce the countess came back to Santa
Barbara Her home IS one Of the most
was fond of horses and, Delng an e&CeIenr
whip. maintained the best stable here.
She had a passion also for outdoor sports
and was a crack shot. she went cur Mt
tie into society, living rather in seciusiOn.
Not long after her return from Europe
the countess was married TO Frederick
Hamsch of New York, a member of the
Wall street brokerage firm of Coley &
Stokes. They have made this their nome
The suicide IS another mystery Soded 20
the many that surrounded the Countess
Ritter during her life here She did not
leave a word in writing or speak word
that offers an explanation of her deed.
She had entertained a few guests at din
ner and spent the evening until nearly 10
o. clock with them. Excusing herself, she
went to her room. and a moment later the
household was aroused BY the report Of q
pistol Her husband and guests ran tc
the countess room.
Entering the room they found the
countess lying on the floor beside her bed,
the pistol near her head, blood flowing
from a wound in her head, and discoIoring
the dainty tea gown in which she was
ROBBED When her husband rushed to her
side the countess lips moved, as if she
would speak. but she could not articulate
a sound and while he clasped her form
she died. She had held the pistol TO her
right temple while she had stood in front
of the bed and across the room from a
large plate mirror, the bullet c0uFsiug
straight and coming out through the left
temple. The bullet was found lying on
TOP Of the bed, before which she had fall
len.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24

pansiOn speeches in the 1898 campaign.
His OratOry is Of the persuasive, con-
vincing kind, and in none of the hun
dreds of speeches that he made in his
state has he ever stopped to the Kan
sas custom of roasting" his Oppo-
nents.
The one stanch friend and supporter
of Mr.. Burton. who is regarded by the
people of his own state as being large
Iy responsible for his success, is his
wife. They have no children, and
since their first married years she has
been his companion in all the multi
fariOus duties that have come to him.
She has Travelled with him on all the
weary speech-making tours through
the western counties, and has stood be
side him in the stuffy halls of the hotel
at the capital, when he was making
a fight for the honor he sought She
gave up her home to further his inter-
ests, and with her CHEEKY smile and
good nature went about making votes
for the party and incidentally for the
man she hoped to see hOnOred by it.
Many legislators said that they voted
more for the wife than for the hus-
band, and when the election was held
in representative hall there were
cheers for her as we'll as for him.
II would be strange II there were no
critics Of a man who has fought so
many battles. There have been bitter
words said, and bitter attacks made
on Senator Burton from many sources
all, however, growing out of political
enmities. But two things remain in
his favor; He has never condescended
to reply to one of them, and his home
town and county, where he has made
his home for twenty-five years, have
always given him a vote of confidence
on every possible occasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
RISE OF FARM BOY TO
UNITED STATES SENATOR
(Chicago Record.)

Chicago Record.)
The value of persistency and the quail
tiles that made out of a farm boy a
United States senator are we'll shown
in the life history of Joseph Ralph
Burton, the choice of Kansas for sem
atOr for the six years commencing
March f. 1901. He won because he had
set his mind on that goal, and he was
prepared for the fight by the training
Of years Of contest with the world,
winning his own livelihood and his own
prosperity unaided. Slight of form,
blessed with more nervous energy than
physical strength, he has nevertheless
been equal to the tests put upon him
and has endured exertiOn5 that would
have WeaTied many men better
equipped, but without his knowledge of
the best means for preserving his
strength.
Senator Burton was born on a farm
near Mitchell. Ind, in 1852. He spent
his boyhood working on the farm for
nine months of the year, and during
the other three he attended the district
school and sat beneath the ministra-
lions of the typical ''Hoosier school
master" Later he attended the acad-
envy at Mitchell and at IS entered
Franklin college, remaining two years.
In addition to the usual studies he took
up the study Of oratOry and later, when
he went TO DePauW and ASbuFy uni
versities it came in good stead. He
went out in the country villages and
Taught the youths elocution and earned
enough to keep himself in school. He
may not have been very profoundly
versed in the art, but it was his de-
light DR.. Wayland. John Clark Rid
path and Bishop Bowman Nvere among
his teachers, and DR.. ]. B. Denote was
his roommate.
Leaving college, he read law in In
dianapolis with the firm of Gordon
Brown & Lamb. In 1875 he opened q
law office in Lafayette, Ind. and al
once took part in politics. He was or
the Republican electoral ticket in 1s7I
and made sixty-t three speeches in thai
campaign It is noteworthy that this
was. with the exception of three terms
in the legislature the only Office he ever
held until he reached the height of his
desire. He was married in Mitchell tC
the niece of sunset" Cox, and in 1871
the young couple started westward anC
sought new fortunes on the wide plains
of Kansas, then receiving the first in
nux of immigration.
Their home was chosen at Abilene
Just theA recovering from a wild perioC
( of eattle-day excitement and Will
wheat-raising speculation giving it an,
other kind of boom that was to MAKE
succeeding years of depression. The