The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-25
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asserting its intellectually in new
fields. Its debaters defeated Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore not
long ago. and now 1t defeats Wander
bilt University ut Nashville. 1t also in
another way showsi its inferiority to the
University OF Virginia-its base ball
team was defeated
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II the white electors do not mend
their pace rapidly tens OF thousands
will fail to pay their Doll tax. What
good will the amendment do for the
state il white voters lose their fran
chise by neglect? On the Ist of May
II will be too late to pay or 10 vote. The
deliquents are very numerous and all
around the state. = few days ago
Granville was known to have $50 OF
this class. n Guilford to have 1000.
A man is a very poor help to a state or
community who refuses or neglects to
pay his poll tax, possibly the only con
tribution he would make to keep the
state government in all departments
running. Pay your tax like a man and
then vote like a white man.
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North Carolina has lead its sister
southern states in so many important,
benevolent and useful things in the
past. and is still asserting it's leadership
in other things, there should be q
special table to record past and present
primary success. Think OF it, it leads
the whole Union in sweet potatoes. 1t
beats all other records according to the
census report. On Sunday The Messen-
ger presented the figures. And what
fine potatoes its grows. Toothsome.
sweet in fact as well as in name, and
wholesome and fattening.
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The Raleigh News and Observer dis
stated tina the farmers of Granville, I
Person, Caswell and adjacent sections
sold the best of their crops for from
81 so to 100 per pound in the seventies
and eighties, and it was no uncom-
mon thing for farmers to get twenty
and thirty cents a pound, making from
SIS to 100 net per acre, and crops often
sell from 5000 to $500 per acre" They
did all Of that and more. The Messen-
gen has several times given actual fig
ures to prove this. This writer knows
this: That some farmers sold in 1870
and later tobacco as high as from 70
cents to $1.00 per ~pound-more than one
over $4,000 per hundred.
Others averaged very high. Many farm
ers we can name made from $500 to $500
per acre and from 500 to 81, 200 per
The News and Observer
1T is estimated that the average crop
is about IS, 600, 900 pounds, but there are
no exact statistics and no method has
been adopted to secure correct rs4
ports. The most prosperous agricultu-
raj section of the state is the section'i
where tobacco was made In 1901. Il
costs from $50 to $40 per acre (takins
estimates) to produce tobacco
the average cost being about $3.50"
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Ex-senator Jarvis writes to Colonel
Worthington Of his very interesting
book, THE Broken Sword" on the 4th
Of April INC likes it much. We take
this extract from what he says and it
Is in harmony with the opinion express
ed by The Messenger some months
since: !.
1T describes a period in the history
Of the southern states of which the
coming generation Will know nothing
as they learn it from history;
and no general history will fully de-
scribe. Its trials and horrors can only
be told by one who nved through it
md saw il and felt 1t. You have rem
1ered the southern people upon whom
the curse OF reconstruction fell with a
hand a genuine service in writ
thic hnnlr TT hrin-S n,rt in nhic
language the terrible ordeals through
which they passed. 1t likewise por-
in living, faithful characters the
noble type of manhood and wo-
manhood Of which these sore tried peo-
pie were possessed"
II democrats in North Carolina are
year rs to politics they will find
themselves Inundated with defeat it
be It is known that the republi-
in the western division of the state
are wide-awake, very hungry, and very
active. They are hunting the textbooks
as to poll tax. A friend probably will
on hand to pay the taxes OF delin-
You see? Take warning. Let
every white man pay his tax at once.
1t must be don in nine days.
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M~ecklenburg democrats are against a
primary. judging by a protest heavily
signed sent TO the chairman Of the
county democratic executive committee.
They do not wish a primary and ask
tina the committee rescind its action
favoring it. There now, Next
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North Carolina veterans are now on
their way to Dallas, Texas, to attend
the annual reunion. We notice that a
good many from the Granville-Durham
section vent, with General julie Carr
leading the procession. |
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The Washington Times, the one dem