The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-17
STATE PRESS.

Colonel Henri Watterson says Mr..
Clevelands return to political activity
is something against which the Cour-
i~er-Journal protests, and VIII continue
to protest till the COWS come home.' If
the doughty Colonel mad said TT the
chickens come HON to rOOSt,' there
would have been smiles in several
newspaper offices that have kept their
brother-editor's secret mighty WE'LL
Charlotte News.
Now Secretary of War Root oppose
to give a little prayerful attention to
h shortcomings of prominent states
men in his own department. The cOun
try VIII be ~agreeably surprised if the
flood of fraud which overrun the post
office department did not slop over and
do considerable damage in other de-
partments. Discover the rascals and
let no guilty man escape.-Raleigh
Post.
The numerous ~lynchings occurring in
other parts of the country seems to
have acted as {. sort of Quletus on the
ran of the north against the south
along this line. Well, We have always
heard it said. that chickens will come
home to roost."-Robersonville News.
If the negroes would cease to look
at it as an attack upon the race every
time onei s lynched for crime the pub
lie would perhaps cease to hold the
race TeSpOISlDle lOT ll.-DuTlldm Her
aid.
Nothing less than the thrice familiar
tale of the pot and the kettle will serve
to illustrate the situation in which
either section of this country is placed
when 1t undertakes to lecture the other
on lynching, peonage, child labor and
the like.-The vents of late show the
sweep of lawleSsneSS is no respecter of
persons, that human nature is the
same everywhere and we are all tarred
with the same stick.-Asheville Citizen.
The republican politicians are deter
mined that First Assistant Postmaster
General Robert J. Wynne shall be dis
missed. Naturally; it vas Wynne who
the ~rOttenneSS in the post
office department. to the serious dis
comfiture of Charles Emory Smith,
Marcus AlOnZO Hanna. Perry S. Heath
and other republican politicians.-Dur-
ham Sun.
What an extraordinary man is the
head of the Roman Catholic church!
Death stares him in the face and he
knows il. Yet, in this awful presence,
he walks arOund his room. looks out
of his windows and remarks upon the
scenes beneath, reads poetry and gem
orally conducts himself as if all his life
were before him. 1t cannot be but that
his peace of mind rests upon his relig-
1OAl+ ollu DlOSA 10 NAA1 1AAS1h II iAAS (1Alo
soulful trust.-Charlotte Observer.
Two men SO years OF age each are
Pope Leo XIII and old Genera Cas-
sius Clay. of Kentucky. The one is pos
sessed Of the clearest brain, and the
other is as crazy as a loon, barricaded
in his house and fearing that his rela-
tives are plotting to kill him. The
GastOnia Gazette is specializing as to
What causes the difference. We al
MI hn " n r1 n I1nCc Tlnn'f -n1 CrIn-
pose old man Clay has lived a much
less exemplary life than the pope?-
Charlotte Chronicle.
day the article from the Washington
paper on Shepard and Aycock. The OBJ
server is obliged to know hat The
Charlotte News was the first to pro
pose the combination of names that is
now being SO favorably received. The
News recognizes that there can no
more be a debate over a question of
good manners than over a question of
taste, and that the silence of The OBJ
server, concerning The News m
under both of these ceagories. The
News contents itself with just being
, glad that it is not built that way
| Charlotte News.
The agricultural department at
Washington has acted wisely in refus-
Ing 10 appoint a mere pOllIlcldn as crop
statistlcian for North Carolina. 1t is
an important position that ought to be
| filled by a man engaged in agricultural
! pursuit or instruction. If it is a mere
job, to give a salary to a henchman,
1t should be abolished. The appoint
ment of Prof. Charles w. Burkett,
| professor of agriculture at the A. and
| NJ. college as crop StatiStician, over
the political faVorite of Chairman RoI-
Inns. is additional guarantee that the
agricultural department is determined
to make their crop reports accurate
and valuable.-News and Observer.
hat story from Wisconsin in yester-
days Post, hat the mob who assaulted
a negro who was ~promenading with a
white woman at a ''feStibul' in that
state was COMPOSED of southerners.
members of a carnival company" is
| very, very fisney. The idea hat 'fif-
| teen or twenty" sCuthernerS away up
IN that YER northern town could so
endanger the life of n negro, as re-
ported, in a large crowd of people OPP
posed to such assault is prepoSterouS.
The Delaware folk undertook to ex-
cuse their recent mob Of several thou
sands of the best citizens" by charg-
ing that the leader was q gentle
man from Virginia." Now Wisconsin
~endeavors to place the responsibility
of it's mob spirit upon a dozen or so Of
southern show folks 1t IS all very
thin. The northern people can not ex-
cuse themselves by any such ~cowardly
shifting of responsibility. 1t is a dOu-
BILE cowa~7:~o to indulge in mob def
ance of law and then plead the baby
act by charging it upon other people
Raleigh Post.