The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-03
STATE PRESS.

! loose from the administration and let
the fact be known.-Durham Herald.
Even if Jim Tfllman is confined in
Jail for some time for the murder OF
/ Gonzales, his uncle will keep UP the
| continuous performance Of the family
rowdyism. South Carolina can con-
tinue to have object lessons in Till
manism until it decides whether or not
| il approves of that kind of thing
Asheville Gazette.
a gentleman remarked the other day
that We didn't elect a legislature to
! spend a whole session in making a
! United States senator, The reply was
that it is beginning to look like we did.
! The people could have made a senator
in a single day and there would have
been a lot less talk of bribery, eau
cusing and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES News
If Mr.. Fuller's bill to prohibit the
/ sale of liquor to lunatics and idiots
becomes a law as it ought to do, and i.
strictly enforced, it would unquestinn-
. ably straighten out and MAKE temper
ate at least a large number. for every
one who INDUCES freely could be easily
classed as an idiot and thus regulated
into sobriety and usefulne5s.-Raleigh
Post.
h legislature has been trying now
for twenty days to elect a senator and
has failed. Why not give the peopie a
! chance? They could vote in a primary
and select a senator in twenty days.
Hereafter the peoplo will attend to this
business for themselves in q primary
so tina the Legislators can attend to
the business of Neutrality-suspicious. and
Observer.
President Roosevelt may think Il the
proper thing to have negroes and their
v-iy-ar Of HE White hnuCa rcnontinnG
but his grossly odious example will he
short-lived. It has not been necess my
in the past. It will not be deemed
wise or decent in the future, for pres
idants thus to make o~stentatiOus dis
play Of their depraved social instincts.
-Gastonia Gazette.
A law to divide the school fund be-
tween the races in proportion to the
taxes paid by each will not only be a
hardship upon the negro but is a start
in a dangerous direction. The present
plan may be unfair but it can also be
said to be unfair for the rich to lay
taxes for the education of the children
OF the poor. Better let the matter stop
where it is.-Durham Herald.
1t is gratifying to observe, from the
dividends declared. that there has come
a better day to most of the cotton mills
in North Carolina. The worst thing
that could happen to this state would
be for most of the cotton mills to go
into the merger. The best thing for
the owners and for the state is that
they shall continue to be conducted by
their native North Carolina owners
News and Observer.
The fellow Dodlin, who first said
former fttongressman Quigg had sLg-
gested q bride for Congressman Less
low with n sspnntin opnt fap'' of 81 600 for
himself, now declares that his former
statement was a lie out of the whole
cloth. The question naturally arises:
If the fellow lied in the first instance
for a contingent fee of s., 800. might
he not be persuaded to lie again for a
larger contingent fee? Evidently the
contingent fee business is being de-
graded to very base uses. The legisla-
lures ough to prohibit them for fear
good men may be tempted.-Raleigh
Post.
The German government has always
taken a stubbornly mysterious stand
in the Venezuelan affair and in the
bombardment of Fort San Carlos
proved that she was going to act in
dependenly in the matter. The fact
that she has appeared to he unwilling
for the matter to be arbitrated and
only when forced partially gave her
CONSENT. was SIOullu JUSTLY liS IIS III
tie republic in being suspicious. When
the German vessel approached the fort
n did not heed the warming Of the
guns fired by it, the Venezuelan forces
had cause to consider her hostile. In
other words Germany alona, is resron-
sible for damages to tn" fort end
should be made to shoulder the respOn-
sibility.-Winston Journal.
The biennial report Of DR.. P. L. Muir
ply, superintendent of the state hos
pitaI at Morganton, for the period
ending November so, 1902, presented to
the board of directors at their last
meeting, transmitted to the governor
and by him to the legislature. ia in
print and abounds in interesting facts.
Many of these have already been made
public through the medium of this pa
per and will not be repeated here. nr.
Murphy speaks in this report with his
accustomed Candor. Discussing the
excellent showing of 49, per cent. of
recoveries and only 3.7S of deaths, he
does not make of the figures an opror-
tunity to glorify himself or his institu-
ton. but. referring to the people of
North Carolina as "a vigorous. native
race" living quiet. healthful lives"
mot depressed by scanty and impIop-
ed food. the bad air and vicious courses
of the urban population" he observes
That n2Cur3LlN- with CnlS heritage,
they readily respond to the efforts
made for their restoration" and with
ali this in their favor. it is plain we
could expect no less thar a few deaths
|: and many ~recoveries." And yet" he
continues. IF the table showing the
causes of death IS examined. We must
confess that all is not done that should
; Re. Twenty-Five per cent. of all the
deaths since the hospital opened was
, caused by tuberculosis. This. I believe,
Is as large. or it may be larger. than
any hospital in the country. This is a
source of great trouble n perplexity
to the medical officers" Naturally so.
for this hospital is located IN a singu-
larIy healthful climate and the atrnos-
pheric and sanitary conditions OF the
\ building are perfect-Charlotte Oh
, server.