The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-21
STATE PRESS.

SeDdlOT ben 1llllIldH SuSldlIleu ulS
reputation as an adept with the pitch
fork by using it on tie people of Char
lesion who gave him a banquet last
week. The general opinion is that they
might have expected it when they in
vited him.-Clarkton Express.
a local minister stated on Sunday
| night that William Jennings Bryan
| quoted more from the Bible than any
preacher in the state. Bryan would
make a rafting good evangelist, and it
| is a pity he does not give up his high
political aspirations and enter the pull
pit.-Reidsville Review.
The new Virginia child labor law per-
mits no child under twelve years to
work in any manufacturing,
cal or mining operations; children be-
tween twelve and fourteen cannot work
more than ten hours and cannot work
! at all at night. This last provision
ought to have been in operation in the
North Carolina law.-News and Obser-
| yer.
The News and Observer lifted it's vir-
tue to the top Of it's highest g%ate-post
recently when it announced that it de-
! clined to publish a letter relating to an
| unfortunate affair in another town be-
cause it involved a lady. But it smash
ed it's bill-poster exhibit to smithereens
yesterday when it spared not the hum
BILE girl, nor omitted the details of an
| affair the indecency of which would
| nave precluded its descriptive article
| from even a police gazette. We have
seen no more despicable exhibition of
| slum journalism in this state.-Raleigh
Post.
In the supreme court yesterday the
suit of the state of South Dakota
| against North Carolina was begun. The
l fan&JIra 0f tho nraCanf nhaCn nf this
| hearing was the briefs filed by eX-
| Governor Russell and ex-senator But
| Ter. in which this precious pair of I'M
worthless denounce the state in strong
terms. b a sorry spectacle-the
| pompous, oVer-fed Russell, n~egrophO-
bian, and the lank and hungry Butler,
Re~p-pOp-lican, denouncing the COM
monwealth that has raised them from
absolute oblivion and that is response
BILE for all the material benefits of life
they ever obtained. Upon one was be-
slowed the highest office in the gift of
the people of the state n upon the
other the mex highest, and it is a mat
ter of history as to how they abused
these gifts while they possessed them.
Now they enact the Benedict Arnold
role.-Charlotte News.
The appointment of a committee to
visit certain institutions in this state
to examine into the methods of teach
ing, to say the least, a suggestion
that the ~now-a-day teaching IS not en-
tirely free from objections. We shall
! await with some interest the coming
of this report of the committee. There
is no doubt but the methods of teach
ing have radically changed within the
last quarter of a century. Those of us
who were in college at that period
never heard the word lecture" or
quiz" but the student was called on
by the professor to tell what he knew
about the text, and was graded accord
ingly. Now, for the most part, the
teacher does the reciting and the stu
dent is expected to remember and re
produce the lecture on the day of his
examination.-Raleigh Times.
We have long maintained that Mr.
Grover Cleveland has more sense than
anybody, and every time he opens his
mouth or takes u his pen he j%uStifies
this judgment. His speech in New
York last night demonstrated an acute
ness of perception with regard to the
negro question in the south which was
not to have been expected of any man
not southern born and reared. He ook
exactly the position of the best white
men n best negroes of the south
the only difference being that he has
stated the case better than it has ever
been stated before. He wants to help
the negro, but recognizes the fact that
the race problem is for solution by the
south alone and SOUNDS the clear note
q! of charit- for and sympathy with it as
it staggers under " the white mans
BURDEN" In thought and language this
speech is entirely great: in the breadth
of vision it betrav~ it is marvellous; ir
its spirit of forgiveness. superb. What
must those southern white men who
have aspersed this man and who con-
tinued to malign him as long as it was
popular. the only friend their section
has had in the presidential office ir
fifty years-what must they think OF
themselves when they come to read this
speech?-Charlotte Observer.