The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-27
STATE PRESS.

The laughter on the republican side
Of the house of representatives when
democrats mention trusts is pretty
sOUd proof that the republicans cannot
be expected to taxi UP in seriousness
the question of trust-control 1t is all
a huge joke to them.-Greensboro
Telegram.
Although a bill has passed both
branches of the Legislature making it
a misdemeanor to operate a bucket
shop in Reidsville, the stock exchange
is still open at that place. The bill is
to be contested. in the courts and it is
not thought that it will stand the test.
Wilson News.
How many of our farmers want good
roads, better roads than we o have?
Let US hear from you. Write US a
postal card. We want to knoW whether
our people want good roads or not.
Let the farmers get together during
court week and organize a good roads
observation-disclosures Enterprise.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate crit
icizes rather harshly the enator who
voted against the bill prohibiting the
sale of cannon crackers and toy pis-
tolls and says that those senators should
have the hundreds of little victims
to stand before them at night. The
Times regarded the bill as a wise one,
but we desire no such punishment in
f1icted OF the senators. They con-
sidered this a proper subject for town
ordinances rather than for state leg
islatiOn.-Raleigh Times.
The prices of wood, meat, lard and
other n~ecessaries of life are too high
considering the average earnings or
Incomes Of our people. But it is easy
to account for much of the trouble.
To begin with and to end with too
few people are engaged in producing
the necessaries of life. Right there is
the seat of the larger proportion Of the
trouble. We do not make enough
meat and bread in Surry and adjoin-
ing counties, and we need not hope to
become happy and prosperous until we
get down to business and go after it.
Mount Airy News.
Recently several Jewish families
from Roumania were landed in New
York. and it was found that nome Of
them could speak any language eX-
cept Spanish. The Interpreter, in eX-
planning their ignorance of the lam
guage of their country, said the ROu-
manians were descendants of Jews
who had been driven out Of Spain in
tie reign of Ferdinand and Isabella,
and, setting first in Turkey, emigrat-
ed later to Bulgaria and Roumania.
For 400 years they have spoken only
the Spanish language. and they have
kept up Spanish customs.-Greenville
Reflector.
Strong opposition has developed here
against the appointment Of w. H.
doom as postmaster of this place. A
petition signed by many of the bust
ness and professional men of the town
has been presented to Senator Pritch-
ard asking that the appointment be
not made. The appointment of Mrs.
doom means in reality, it is alleged,
that Mr.. Odom will be postmaster
and charges of unfitness are made
against him, and not against his wife
We learn from the papers this morn
in that Senator Pritchard will have
an inspector sent to Wadesboro to
make an Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures.
Sam Wick. colored, will be evfcted
from the Wilson pOstoff1ce and DR..
Person ~ex-Populist of recent Lilly
White" tendencies will succeed him.
This is neither a victory for Pritchard
nor Roosevelt. the Lily Whites nor
the negroes, III rather a compromise
in tlat the successful candidate, DR..
Person, though a Lily White now,
in the days Of fusion attempted to
place Wilson under negro government.
1t must be rather humiliatino to Will
sons Lily Whites" to think that it
took so days for the whole republican
party. state and national. to find a
white man in the county of Wilson
more suita bly, for the office than Sam
Nick-Duplin Journal.
The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, pas
tor of Plymouth church, New York. Is
said to have prayed the other night
to the Lord to saw the United States
from the new and damnable heresy
that holds that this is a white mans
country" Mr.. Hills might do we'll to
read the account in Genesis of the I'M
flial conduct of Ham towards his
father Noah, WhereupOn the latter
said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant
of servants shall he be unto his breth-
rem" Whether one believes that the
recinient of that curse was the father
of the African race or not. the stamp
of racial inferiority is indelibly i'm
pressed upon the negro, and even the
written constitution of so mighty a
nation as the republic of the United
States has not been able to rub out the
marks. The Ethiopian cannot change
his skin. nor the prayers of DR.. Hills
make a black man equal to a white
man. \ man asks amiss when he
praYs God to alter His own decrees.-
Charlotte Observer.