The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-01
STATE PRESS.

IL the government would leave IL 70
Captain Lucas, the Cape Fear Rive
below Wilmington would get enough
money to do some good. His estimate
for the fiscal year 1904. is 10000
Greensboro Telegram.
No democrat who stays away from
The primaries has any moral or political
right to kick against the nominations
that viii be made in the primaries OF
The county OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TeIe-
gram.
The republicans CLAM to be friends OF
public education and yet they are dis
posed to condemn the democratic party
for making provision ICr carrying out
the constitutional requirements in refer
ence TO public educatiCn-Wiston SEN
tinel
And so the people in and around
Asheville are getting down on Mr.. Van
derbilt because he offers the product of
his farm or the local market. In other
words he has a perfect right TO spend
money but must not make it.-Du- lam
Herald.
Northampton can boas. OF having the
lowest tax rate of any county in the
state. but it is not credItable to have a
low tax rate and at the same time have
1900 90 - " bIAAA al " -
Northampton. We need TO tax our
selves to improve our public roads, and
property should bear p portion of this
tax.-Rich Square Times.
A St. Louis judge has decided that a
doc has a right to bite a boy who at
tempts to tie a a to tie animals tail.
The boys parents a sued the owner of
the dog for damages. The decision is
certainly in accord with justice. Now
1 Cnr1@ ,-lr1 L@,1 --E.
a dog has 10 nowl al, night.-Raleigh
Times.
Broad gauge passenger coaches and
freight cars are arriving by way of the
southern for the Caroilna and North
western road. The broad guage cars
are expected TO be put On the road be-
tween Lenoir and Dallas by August
18th. The Southern track will be used
between Newton n INSTRUMENTATION
Enterprise.
Hon. w. T. Crawford was rendered
the craftsmanship of the state V
ton at Greensboro. but declined the
honor because of the fac that he de-
sired to use his vote and his voice
against the senatorial primary. And he
cid it most effectually. Hon. Locke
Craig in the Asheville Citizen of last
Friday. said: Mr.. Crawford in his
speech against the primary, captured
the convention by his unique style and
his forcible way of putting his argu-
ments. "-Waynesvile Courier
AS the years go by the numbers that
lay down their work and go aside to
resting and refreshing places increase
more and more. The increase is out of
proportion to the increase of population.
EX~planatories of it are at hand. There
is a tension in the life of today of which
our fathers had no taste. The strain
grows with the passing days. Every
thing tends toward i faster life. The
result is that the wear upOn people is
more and more severe. The rapid whirl
of domestic and public business and So
cial life runs down the systematic
R~obesonian.
Uncle Rufus has shown us a much
priced letter, written fifty years 6
last February, from Mexico, by VIM.
w. Lee. who therein %recounts his eX-
%perience from the landing of the Amer
lean troops at Vera Cruz to the occu-
patton of the city of Mexico. Here is
a notable sentence from the letter,
which speaks we'll for the character of
the writer: "I have never so fully seen
the evils of ardent spirits as since L
have been in Mexico, for daily there is
some soldier murdered by getting drunk
and strolling put Of reach of assistance.
Many are killed with their own arms
-Lumberton Argus.
The Statesville Landmark says that
there are expressions OK independence
among democrats, accompanied by the
statement that they have no fear of ne
gro domination. and that it is evident
from the remarks of Mr.. Thompson OF
OnSlow, that some democrats in the
east, as we'll as some in the west, think
they were enf~ranchised by the amend
ment and are therefore free to do a lit
tie kicking without the fear of negro
domination before their eyes. Chairman
Simmons should give to these
counties, for it is certain that II the
democrats Of Craven, OnslOw and other
eastern counties have no fear of negro
domination those in this end Of the
state should not be expected to become
alarmed.-Hickory Press.
The Southern Railway Company has
decided to require all it's employees to
stand an examination every three
months on the rules of the
The new ruling will apply TO all en-
ployes except colored brakemen and
hagmen, who LAY not responsibility
and canno be promoted.
1t is maintained by Southern Railway
officials that many accidents are d.
rectly due to the act that employees are
not familiar with, or misunderstood, |
rules, and the purpose Of the examlna-
tons is to see to it that the men in the
service of the company have a correct
Interpretation Of all rules and regula-
tions.-Charlotte Obser yer.
Some of the democratic Uapers and |
speakers are getting unduly excited
about the '.independeuttsm" freedom
of thought and voting according to
the dictates of your cwn conscience.
Bless YOUR soul, it is just these doc
trines which have wrested the state
from negro rule and low-down white
republicans. The democratic gam
alton has been the agency hrough
which the people of the state worked.
Has the party o anything wrong?
Is the party machine ashamed OF the
past four or five years? No, what we
must continue to insist upon is more
independence, more freedom of thought
and more people who will listen TO the
appeals of conscience and common
sense. Let the white people OF North
Carolina stand together but let US
stand together as an u~nschackled in