The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-10
STATE PRESS.

\ w tulcSUdN IlSHI III low erlQS the TAX
rate in kinston is peculiarly crafty
ing to q number of people who worked
SO ~assiduOusly in the recent
for public improvements, because il is
a justification of the argument used by
them during the campaign. in the in
terest Of bonds.-kinston Free Press.
An exchange says tina four of the
jurors in the Jones case did not even
find John Allen guilty, though he ad-
mltted taking hold of Jones foot. OF
course not. 1t only required the JEFF
fersOn jury fifteen minutes to find JEFF
fersOn innocent. even though there was
all the evidence except seeing the deed.
We've got a job lot of jurors in Will
son county who ought to be kept off the
jury. They don't see anything and
they don't want to see lt?-WilsOn
Times.
Under the saloon system the public
bears the burden caused by whiskey
without reaping the profits, whereas
the dlSpenSary carries its antidOte in
the way of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Week
ly. There's reform for you, That's the
way to tackle an evil, Let the govern
ment run the gin mills itself. Revenue
IS the antidOte! Run the rum shops
for revenue only and realize enough to
purchase absOlution with. Meanwhile
let the devil go way back and sit down.
Some temperance refOrmers can give
him points.-ReIdsville Review.
A large delegation will go to Lumber
ton next Monday, praying the county
commissioners to recind their former
order at the last meeting. appropriate
ing So, 900 for repairs to the Jail. Will
the commissioners heal the people? We
believe they will. Thev cannot afford
to be so arbitrary as to take the bit in
hnir- GUN 0n11rh nd rr0,I 49, 80
pies money against such a strong pres
sure to the contrary. Repair the old
jail; make it safe, secure and comfort
able n then wait until the people can
get a vote On the question:. Don't try
TO tie freemens hands; they wont stay
tied.-ScOttiSh Chief.
The way the republicans are able to
h~armOnizze their most bitter differ
enCeS must the admiration
even of heir enemies. ana it is the rea-
son the party has had such a long lease
of life. The fact has had a recent illus
tration in Ohio when the warning Han
ma and Foraker factions got SO beau
tifully together, and it has a newer
illustration in Iowa. And thus it is
that the republicans manage to hold
the reins of power while the democrats
as a rule are kept out by the intermlna-
bic prOlOngatiOn of their political feudS,
DIS DlCCer III CnSlT WAY DIS lnOSe Ol The
Kentucky mOuntaineers.-Charlotte OBJ
server.
The Tarboro Southerner calls atter-
ton to the important n agreeable
fact that Two lawyers in ASheville
have had a scrap, but they only used
their fists, no pistols were in evidence
And they Immediately kissed and made
up and will live to tell the story. The
scrap" also occurred in the presence
of the mayor and board of aldermen
and presumably the chief of police, but
no account is given of an arrest or
incarceration. We still insist that the
use of such Weapons as were here de
pended upon should be encouraged
rather than punished. as a means Of
breaking up the pistol and razor tOting
habit.-Raleigh Post
Counsel for ex-Lieutenant Governor
James H. Tillman of South Carolina,
did their client no good by their attack
on the Columbia State in the argument
for change of venue last week. No
paper could have been fairer and more
exemplary in conduct than the State
has been in regard to the d~eplorable
tragedy. When Editor Gonzales was
sho down, his associates did not trust
themselves to tell the story-much less
to comment on 1t. The called in out
side newspaper men, and closeted
themselves with their grief. Their con-
duct has shown marvellous self-res-
traint and a spirit that has challenged
the admiration of the whole country
ASheyille Citizen.
Many negroes have left North Caro-
lima and some of the other Southern
states during the past few months. 1t
would be interesting to o the cause
of this exodus. 1t cannot be for lack
of employment, for the farmers are
short of farm hands and cannot secure
enough labor to cultivate the crops. In
some places offers of unusually high
wages have been made to them with
out success. A desire for change. no
doubt duc many to go, while others
are tempted by promised high wages
for light employment. Still others have
relatives who have gone before and
done we'll. These are reaSOn that those
assigning them need not be ashamed
of. but the statement made by some
of the negroes who recently left Ten
| neSSee is anything but credltable to
| the race. The Nashville News gives it:
The negroes themselves are respon-
! Sible for the impression that they are
leaving Gallatin with the passing OF
| the saloons. Since they cannot get
whiskey there. large numbers have LEFT
h town, many of them openly assert
ing that they Will not remain where
there is no whiskey for sale."-Asheville
Citizen.
The appearance in Georgia. at a ban
quet in Atlanta and in an address be
fore the State Bar Association, of Chic
Justice Alton b. Parker, of New York
may be SAID TO mark the launching o
the boom of that gentleman for th'
democratic presidential nOminatio
Judge Parker is undoubtedly a nice
, man and a good democrat. and ne car
ried his state. when he was elected
chief justice OF the supreme court, b.
a great majority. Whether he can d
as much as a presidential candidat
i another question: man may be abb
10 carry his state or county for on
office and not for another. II would b
we'll to wait and see If the New IorI
democrats think he Is the stronge
iCandidate. and not be too precipitate i
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