The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-14
STATE PRESS.

II the governor was right IN COM
muting the sentence of that Catawba
county man. then the jury hat found
him guilty. the judge that sentenced
him and the supreme court that affirm
| ed the decision were wrong. and you
| can make nothing else out Of it.-Dur-
ham Herald.
1t was inevitable that the militia
should have fired on the insolenc mob
at Evansville. but it seems t. have
been rather reckless shooting the SOL
diers did when they fired repeatedly
into the mob while it was ~re.reating,
| screaming and praying for mercy.
And as usual in such affairs, the limo
cent b~y-stander suffered most, a girl
Il two boys being among the killed.
But it must be admitted that they
should have been at home n in bed
at 1870 o'clock at night.-Charlotte
| Chronicle.
Those who have been reading ida NJ.
| Tarbelrs story of Standard Oil must
| recognize hat the Standrd Oi trust,
| under the nageme of the elder
| Rockefeller, Henry NJ. Flagler, and
| others, started wrong. 1t has a record
of deceit and laWleSsneSS, of d~eVOurlng
widows houses, which no pretence of
| long prayers afterwards can atone for.
That much is certain. And this also IS
sure: Nothing that started wrong ever
4 ellQeu ElSnl. African slavery L
with man-stealing for example Our
trust-makers should be more careful
about violating the principles of light
eousness even than the laws of econo-
MISREPRESENTATION Standard.
Booker Washington, although not
given to displaying much discretion as
to the places where he takes dinner
and lodges. 10Y a vast amOUn- OF
good sense in many things he says to
and about the negro. In one Of his
latest u~tteranceS at Louisville, Ky. he
warns the negroes TO quit idleness and
crime as one of the sure representatives.
of the present wide application Of lynch
law. He cautioned his hearers against
extreme utterances n actions.
This is a piece of advice that those ne
gro orators who OCCASIONALLY get off at
a safe distance and froth at the mouth
as they denOunce southern whites and
southern methods would do Well to
heed.-ROcky MOun Motor.
The state of Texas has sued the
labor unions of San Antonio, for main
aiming a boycott and thus inJurlng Il
business block. Whether damages are
recovered or not, it is getting about
time there is some law enacted along
: this line. If a man cannot conduct MS
: business to suit himsef, of course.
, within the bounds of aw. our boosted
Independence and personal liberty is a
, thing of the past. If men who 10 not
7 have a cent invested in a business can
= dictate how that business must be con-
Quoted, how long will it be before or
household affairs Will also be taken
e charge of? The national constitution
places every man on an equality and
: laws adequate to the situation should
:. be speedily enacted.-Salisbury Truth
Index.
"A Raleigh paper has printed forty
statements about the fall of the
Greensboro Female college, but 1t ma:
s not dared to print the Recorders state
e ment of the true cause. Ihe people
cannot be deceived, however.-Biblica
d Recorder" This Raleigh paper
IL printed Editor Bailey's utterly falIa
IS cious and absurd statement and RICH
q along with it printed Editor Nickel
II way's unanswerable and true refuta
= ton of Editor Bailey's mistaken state
rH ment. The people cannot be decelv
a ed The Raleigh paper has no
10 printed a single aforementioned L
-, -, speak of forty statements-about tn
fall of Greensboro Female college
- It has not fallen. Its owners -hink Q
80 clOsing-that is all. They can sell
- for SIS. 900 and it cost S42, 900. This pa
re per has printed nothing except Spou
how to open it. a glance at the book
as will show hat Greensboro Female 60
rT | lpg2 can ana VIII pay lS SApOihSOS
the owners will forego the chance {
selling at a profit and give the unite
e church a chance to run the college,
III News and Observer.
~ The prevalence of lynch law IS SOM
thing alarming. During the first 81
i'll months of this year there nav" pee
nd forty-nine l~ynchings, over half Of tines
in May and June and nineteen IN Jun
y OF these there were two in Illlnol
m one each in Montana. Wyoming an
Of Delaware, nine in Georgia and eleVe
nd in Mississippi. But the record has Dee
&c added to in July, with one each
OF North Carolina and South Carolina al
X, several in Indiana, where a mob
two thousand men. at Evansville, q
n tempted to lynch a negro who had mu
lu' dered a policeman and being disal
III. pointed by the Spiriting away Oh u
:" criminal wreaked their vengeance ups
" the negro population of the town. W
= shall hear more of these ~lynchings
y the northern states. now that they ha'
begun. because the hOOdlum element
larger in the cities. because the neg
an come more directly in competition WI
the labOrerS of the white race, Al
Il > chiefly because the lynchlng mama
ice contagious. We shall not be SurprlS
4 at general exodus of the negroes fro
m the northern to the southern states
the account of this terrorizing that has o
gur-Charlotte News.