The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11
STATE PRESS.

In adopting the amendment we
thought we were getting rid of the
there is considerable talk of making
HIM a national issue. II seems impOs- |
sible 10 lose Sambo.-Durham Herald.
More sensational reports regarding
the contract of the General Manifold
ing Company with the postoffice de-
partment might be forthcoming were
it not for the fact that it involves the
speaker to-be. Representative Sibley,
personal representative of the Stand
ard Oil Company in the house. and
numerous other influential rep,1bli-
cans.-TarbOrO S~Outherner.
If BoOker Washington. addressing a
meeting Of educated Boston negroes,
doesn't represent the colored brother
at q point where education and cul-
ture have lone most for him., it's hard
to find sue a point. Yet a meeting
Of this very lind in Boston last
Thursday night was nearly broken up
in a row in which razOrs sliced ebon
kin just like at a southern break
Monroe burma
From reports in the papers the east
ern tobacco planters are discouraged
! over the prices of new tobacco at
some of the evening sales. Some of
the weed does not average I'D to what
it did last year this time, it is true.
But in the first breaks the planters
! do not put o. their best grades and
perhaps this has something to do with
prices. There may not be much de-
mand for common stOck.-Durham
Sun
There is no dOubt that German is
one of the shrewdest political advisers
in this He has hardly land
ed here on his trip from Europe be-
fore he says that the race ~'1estion is
a good issue for the democratic party
and that the republicans ought to be
forced to approve or to disapprove OF
the presidents policy. And any one
who has kept u with public opinion
in the "orth knows that h Ohio idea
would be a mighty popular one to run
to earth.-Charlotte News.
The commission of which Gen. Co
mez is chairman has just completed its
duties in making OFT the Day-roll OF
the Cuban revolutionary army. The
pay is the highest in the world Pri-
Yates get 81 a day. the non-comm1S
stoned and commissioned officers al
the way up to $4,000. and Gen. Go
mez $4,000 for the two years and
half of active service. The war pay
Of the private soldier of the United
States is about 90 cents 4 day-hal1
what the Cubans got-and they arr
higher paid than any others. Blu
when it is remembered that these sol
diers had to dodge about in the cane
fields and swamps for nearly three
years, and live as best they could
knowing that if they didn't win on
they would be lucky to escape will
their lives. losing all else, the pay Ii
not high, and then. too they hav
been waiting quite a while for it,
Charlotte Observer.
Already six wills of the late Gen
Cassius Mercellus Clay have been of
fered for probate. n there is motto
of yet more. Dora Richardson. tn
girl wife of the Sage of Whitehall
divorced to marry Wilv Brock, a lust
county lout. now deceased. we believe
has put a touch of romance into tn
legal proceedings by filing the wi
she held. which the general ave hel
telling her to keep it and not to brea
the seal until he was dead, and whic
furthermore, is said to be the yer
last will. The old man seemed t
nave absorbed himself in his las
years of life in writing wills. Thu
, a from Scraptown during h
:, life time. he took the very best metf
, DDS to leave the legacy of scrappin
behind him. for if Just one will ca
, kindle such a big c~Onf1agratiOn of Ii
. igation as it generally does. VIA w
= 'Steen wills, or even more. do? Cas-
\ Clay had fighting in his bones in h
: life and he evidently wanted fightir
. over his bones after his death.-Cha
. lotte Chrinicle.
y There is no room to question II
pertinency of the warning sounded
Judge Jones. in the opening hours
y the Superior u yesterday. a"ain
e the 81. ~ laWleSsness which bege
g lynching. nor is there any doubt
e his statements of a fact. for the r
e sort to 1vnching is universal. ven
S the crime which leads to it is un
g Versal. There will be those. hOWeve
e who will doubt whether the warnir
: sounded by Judge Jones or from ar
= source, will serve as a deterren
f There are very few men, perhaps. WI
f would in usual conversation defer
e the crime OF lynching, and there a
certainly very many who WOul COZ
+. denim the crime OF the part of other
:. Indeed, they would even be very LOT
r in the condemnation. until the erin
@ which causes lynching is brought clio:
home to them. 1t is then that the
y cease to reason and to sermonize {
. the majesty of the law. and of IL
Importance of it's being uphel
Lynching will continue so long as tt
, cause exists. and the frequency wit
which the cause is being repeated
not conducive to a decrease in TIA
method of summary punishment Or
seldom picks u a paper without rea
. of one or more criminal assault case
-Asheville News.
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