The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-18
STATE PRESS.

Senator Tillman. who has vaged &c
cIferOUs war against free railroad
passes since Hector was a pup, had
his Burlington pass stolen from his
pocket while on his recent tour with
Senator Burton. Of Kansas. He p1oba-
bly, had his hands on a half dozen o.
THOSE passes al the very he
was preaching against them.-Green-
willie Reflector.
The farmers and almost everybody
else are abusing the tobacco trust now
for the low price of tobacco. vet every
n OF them who uses the wed will be
found smoking trust made cigars or
" trust manufactured tobacco.
Had you ever given that a thought?
You abuse the octopus yet continue to
feed it. There would be nothing easier
than breaking the power of the trust
If the would just refuse to
use its gOOdS.'-GreenVille Reflector.
We don't understand why rural mail
routes are being established right
along in other towns IN the state, 4
good many of them being in this con-
~gressiOnal district, while the town of
Laurinburg hasn't been able to secure
as much as one. As far back az two
and a half years ago petitions for four
routes were sent in to the department
from this place. and about fOur or five
months ago four other petitions were
forwarded. but as yet nothing definitely
has been heard from any u them.
The fact is we have been completely
ignored from the beginning, n some
body ought to be held to account for
it.-Laurinburg Exchange.
We desire information as 20 why the
warrant against Jin King for bringing
Thiskey from Hamlet was not present.
ed to the grand jury. We desire to
4 a few things on this subject right
now, but as II is possible tina Solicitor
Lyon did not get it from the clerk of
the court, We will refrain. This much
We'll say now that the case Of n ne
gro under q huadre dollars bond was
suffered to pass unnOticed. Evidently
some explaining is needed. We await
It. 1t also might be explained why
witnesses who were summoned 70: APP
pear before the grand jury in other
cases were never called. Possibly if
such matters as these had been at
tended Tn, the grad jury would nave
remained in sess or long nOugh ~
pass on The McRGe case,-LuLnherton
49,
The recent e~pidesdc of lawLessmess
in this counJry-if il IS eVen yet ended
has resulted in a more earnest on
sideration OF the causes that have led
up 10 II. MOI Il lew JI the prom liIIe'll
men of the country. as we'll as the
press, have spoken OTs on the su bject,
and all of the discussion only enlpha-
sizes the d~eey-Seate12 nature Of this
fostering cancer on The body polite.
The president Of the Unfted States. he,
representatives of so. 600, 900 of the most
civilized people on the earth,
felt impelled to give Itterance to n
and a aarninS and to plead
for the use of restraint under p,ecu-
iarIy provoking circumstances IN order
that the law may be y1udicated. HI.
points out in his letter to Governor
of Indiana. thar lynching Is
anarchy and that anarchy leads to
tyranny. He urges that the laws be
amended so that 4 quicS trial may be
had in cases where those crimes have
m ed which most deeply
lrOuse the wra tn Of men The head OF
freeSt natl on on the face of the
earth protests against the unrestrain-
ID license whic. / as been manifest in
various sections OF the country in late
nOnthS. The ut ter ance Is n significant
1ne. The directi on of the letter to the
of Ind lana. as none knows
better than that Individual himself, Is
| mere incident. Having done much To
restrain the mo 10 spirit in his OWL
he is mao e the channel of the
presidents meSsS Ige to the nation 1t
: we'll enough in his matter to rise.
any party feeling. and above any
prejudice against tie president as ar
Individual. and Sc aeing in him only the
spokesman for I he American people,
pay earnest het "a to his Warming
Charlotte Chror lic:e..