The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-11
STATE PRESS.

Brother Webster talks ike ne Is sui
in the ring. though a little disabled.
He is able 10 sit up n talk back at
the antf-dispensary in Reidsville and
give EN- some hot stuff.-Greensboro
Record.
The educational spirit is growing in
| Johnston county. There are now in the
county four districts that have voted a
| special tax for schools. Our people are
beginning to realize that the only way
TO have a school term long enough 10
meet the needs OF the times Is by local
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Governor Aycock is being criticised
for some of his appointments. There Is
| just this about it. He is not supposed
to appoint his enemies 10 office. A
man who will not provide for his own
! household and political friends and
workers is worse than an infidel.-Dur-
ham Sun.
Mr.. Bryan himself has referred to
free silver as 'One phase of one Ques-
ton" and has declared that to oppose
the nominee Of the Ohio convention,
Clarke, on the ground that ne is wrong
on this 'One phase of one question,
would be unreasonable and unjust.
Let us have peace. We are getting to-
gether.-Charlotte News.
The Dispatch cannot be intimidated
or prevented from publishing court pro-
ceedings by the threats Of withdraw
ing patronage or fighting the editor IN
political conventions If the Dispatch
must thrive on the protection Of Crimi-
nails. or go down in upholding the rights
of the people, let it be crushed-LeX-
ingtOn Dispatch.
The independent tobacco movement
is all right provided the farmers do not
allow it to drift into politics. Already
at Halifax last week we heard one OF
two tobacco farmers talking politics IL
connection with the farmers great
meeting at Rocky Mount. Look out fol
the man who is going to try TO ride int
office on u tobacco stick.-Roanokt
News.
Is the theory true that there is (
mental unsoundness in the air will
! reference to the fifteenth amendment
! First the Booker Washington inciden
and the Mississippi postmaster affai
indicated mental alteration in tn
1 White house. Then the Hamlet hOte
prOprietors seemed to have had a tenn
. pOrary attack of lunacy. 1t next brok
Y out in a Raleigh pulpit where Il preach
er predicted that the streets would f1oJ
= in blood. Next it seems to- have got i
! its work on an editor who says negroa
t are Disseminated against in the cour
n of justice in North Carolina. Wher
h will the virus get in it's work next
D News and Observer.
II Mr.. George B. Winton, editor of tn
{ Nashville Christian Advocate, contrib
Il utes a sensible article to Harper
, Weekly on the subject of the neg
criminal, and brings out some fac
which we have time and again state
l. in this connection. Mr.. Winton sa!
ar that the criminal negro is the fruit
to the lack of discipline; that in SLAYER
w negroes learned how to obey, and oh
In dience means s~elf-control. The neg
I'd learned more than this; he learned
Mt be polite; he learned that it was erin
n nal to steal and to lie. In short. he h;
IN splendid lessons in manners n mo
ais, and he had the advantage of ma
! ual training.-Wilson News.
O. Would you have thought that here
IL North Carolina any private citizen,
any local proprietor, could have be
persuaded to entertain a party of n
a groes, or even one negro in an apal
ge ment used by white people? We
nj such a thing has been lone right /
Gently here in our own state, or at lea
of they say it has" to the diSmay a
disgust of all decent and self-respecti
G white people, who are trying to fro1
ial down every tendency to social and
on litical equality between the races, a
Il all who prize the rudy drops of Ang
tn saxon oIood that visit our hearts. WIN
in we first saw an account of this soc
900 - &C., -. - $500
3er ed and read the press accounts cage
ht in a fruitless endeavOr to see a succe,
full contradiction or denial of the in
dent.-Sampson Democrat.
:, 1t is stated, but we hope it is not trr
in that some farmers in u eastern cot
vt ties have left their crops of toba(
no in the field to ruin under the impr
"a sion tina the trusts would not Z
them enough to justify their saw
,,,s the product of their hard toll. If t
is true a very cruel thing has been dc
these people by the miserable den
as gogueS who have jumped in to infla
and deceive that they themselves n
profit in some way or other; and ev,
one who thus suffers should h
a. those who have so deceived them
h. spOnSible therefor. These people
serve better at the hands of those v
lIlS
are better informed or have the me;
of obtaining correct information. +
ara the truth been given them at the st
instead of the false pleas of The mis-
sra able d~emagOgue n the more II
be HeiH"lloHdl H"LldhSueS VI the Se4
% journal dependent upon sensation.
ceptiOn and falsehood for its Iivi
nv those who have been misled to lie
7is- their crops to ruin in the field VIC
n realize before the season is over,
riza are sure. more than sufficient to CO
ous the cost of prOductiOn.-Raleigh Pos
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eral ~