The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-04
STATE PRESS.

1t is pretty generally conceded that |
the delays of the law and the technl- |
c~alities which sometimes permit the
guilty to escape are enthusiastically a |
SPEEDY trials and punishment will
cure the Iynching evil.-Winston Jour
nal.
The recent death Of a certain man
IN a southern state brought forth the
statement that he had killed three men
in cold blood and had never received
the slightest degree of punishment.
And yet some people will persist in
waxing very indignant everything it is
Intimated that there is such a thing as
injustice in the courts.-Winston Sen
tinel.
Recruiting the miscarriages of JUS
tice that have recently occurred in
this and other states, one is inclined
to the belief that law cuts a small
figure where a man has money and
friends and can ecu a shrewd
lawyer who knows how to use both.
One Or two corrupt men on a jury
has been the cause in hundreds of
cases that have brought our laws
into i'll repute by letting scoundrels
go free.-Stanly Enterprise.
President Roosevelt has dealt labor
unions a serious blow by the reinstate-
ment of William a. Miller as assist
ant foreman of the government print
ing office. Miller was expelled from
the b organization of which he
was a member n the government
printer promptly discharged him. @
Mr.. Roosevelt has reinstated him. The
action may be right in its self but for
a professed friend of all organized
labor it is a peculiar actiOn.-TarbOrO
S%Outherner.
One of the names that was pretty
badly smirched by the p%ostoffice inves-
LEGATIONS conducted by Bristow, was
that of Perry S. Heath. The evidence
seemed about as clear in his case as it
could we'll be and his indictment has
been looked for along with hat of the
rest Of the bOOdlers. But Perry is the
secretary Of the republican national
committee and of course it would
never do to nave him indicted. Besides
he is the personal friend of Hanna,
who has the vice of possessing several
rather had friends and the virtue of
sticking pretty close to them in their
difficulties.-CharlOtte News.
North Carolina needs more good
farmers. Many mistakes are being
made in tOlling boys away from the
farms to the towns and cities. No
occupation is nObler than the filling
of the soil. and none more fruitful of
contentment and happiness. When
IL ~ ca CD lit L CIIlu CIAS
more of life than he would hav made
on the farm numbers of others fall
into the tolls of failure and misery.
and want. An equal amount of brains
On the farm, will bring as much sue
cess on the farm as anywhere else.
Away with the idea that in order to
amount to anything in life a boy must
be driven into some professionalism
tOnia News
i Tr IL ,ar4rtnl frnro tNu-rc
IN this state that thousands and
thousands of dollars have been lost
! recently by persons who were specu-
lating in stocks. Much of this mon
ey was doubtless lost by persons of
small means, who could i'll afford it,
but in every case the money was lost
by people who were trying to get
something for nothing, and who
thought they were smart enogh to
win by betting on the other fellows
trick. People of this lind always
have been and always will be in evil
dence. 1t is greed. ure and simple.
The old way of working for what
o get by straight methods may be
a trife ~antiquated and slow. but it is
safe.-Statesville Landmark.
1t seems that the toy pistol-the
, one that shoots blank cartridgeS-is
far more dangerous in the hands of
small boys on Christmas and the
Fourth of July than those that use
real cartridges. Wounds in the hands
and face inflicted by the toy pistol al
most invariably result in tltanus or
l~ockjaw-a very fatal disease. Since
the Fourth there have been reported
over forty deaths in Pennsylvania
and more than an equal number in
New York n Illinois from this cause.
Our dealers in toys should try to find
something less dangerous for the small
boy to use in his celebration.-Ashe-
Vile Citizen.
/ All the scandals in the ~postoffice de-
| partment are not caused by Machen,
Beavers AND the others whose names
are getting such prominence in the
newspapers. Just why the president
of the United States should persist in
keeping Minnie Cox. the negro post
mistress at ~Indianola. Miss. on the
salary list while no office is conducted
at that place. nor has been for several
months, the people sending at their
own expense for several miles for their
mail, might well justify a COMPRESSION
al Investigation" had a republican
congress enough nerve to do right. 1t
is not surprising that the public
monies should be Incorporated by
men in office when the president shows
SO much disregard of their rights in
other ways.-ROcky Mount Motor.