The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-30
STATE PRESS.

The Iowa idea" is being vivif-d al
though its funeral has been preached
several times by republican politicians
II is too good democratic doctrine TO
be killed. The opening of the markets
OF the world to our farm products Iy
letting down the tariff walls on manu-
featured products that do not need pro-
lection is a mighty popular idea, ever
in the republican Gest.-Charlottc
News.
Says the Charlotte Observer: 80
long as the south remains solidly DEM
ocrat!c and these northern senator's
and representatives who are expected
to do better by US and our relations
with the negro. continue republican, 1t
* easy to imagine how they Will vote
Will the Observer tell US in a few PLAIN
words whether its remedy for this state
of things is democratiZing the north or
re~publicanizing the sOuth?-Charlotte
News.
Well. we'll. what IS to be n about
it? The north is carrying its feeling
against the negro To a point that de-
mands action. One doesn't finish
~shuddering over the news from Indi-
ana before one IS caleC on to be shock
Cd by what transpires in Delaware
where a negro is burned at the stake
and the charred remnants Of his body
are riddled with bullets. How much
longer shall the south permit the north
to indulge in this sort Of thins?-
Greensboro Telegram.
It is said the occasion always finds
the man. Anyway it would seem that
this is SO in the case of the Wilson af-
fair. We have heard it asserted that
any Judge in the state other than jude
Shaw would have allowed the array Of
legal talent employed by the defend
| ants to brow beat him into continuing
the case. We hardly believe this. Yet
no doubt some of them would. The
feeling prevailed that those at Wilson
charged with the Jones murder would
by diIatory methods and legal tactics
finally escape punishment for their
crime. Judge Shaw has caused an en-
tirely different feeling to exist. His
frmness In dealing with the case has
caused a feeling Of confidence thai
| Justice will be we'll looked after in his
hands. 1t is n pity that we haven't
got more judges lige Shaw.-Rocky
| Mount Motor.
One Of the Inevitable reforms Of the
future will be the abolition of direct
| taxes upon the properties of the peoples
Of the several states as they arrive al
fully settled industrial conditions. New
York has already come to the place
where only the constitutional tax OF -
mills IS levied for the interest and
sinking fund charges IN its canal
bonds. A constitutional amendment
will be adopted in 1906 permitting even
J those charges to be paid from ~-Gen-
eral fund and thGeafter there VIII be
no direct tax leVieS in that state. ONO
IS now virtually in the same condition.
finding it's r]evenues almost entirely in
r DN1LN- FORM nf
indirect taxation. flow is it done?
By carefully listing the values Of all
privileges or the people that are used
for gain. assessing them according To
their ability to divide profits WITH the
state. n thus making incomes-dol
lars and franchiseS-dnd not the LABOR
ing. saving. wealth producing people
pay the states necessary expenses
! GOIdsbOrO Headlight.
Commenting upon tie invitation r
! British authorities to Booker T. Wash
ington to visit South Africa and stud!
the negro problem there with Il view
to suggesting Il remedy. The ChIles
ton Evening Post says: And II ~
should be impOrtuned TO stay IN tina
! section OF the world and TO ndu
thousands and millions of his race Il
the United States to fOlloW MIN I
repartriation in Africa. don't let mir
? think he will be regretted in the south
? On the contrary, he Will then just pS
/ gin to appear as a real benefdctor |
4 the people among whom he mas I'VE
and to whose support n sympathy n
: owes so much" The Chronicle is G
{ opinion that more people in the sout
e than The Post thinks would regret sue
S a departure of Booker Wasnlnstol
Il The negro reached the high "att
e mark in slavery, and at emdncIpatlo
e every one of the race vas a skllle
e or Observation-Disclosures
the trade were blacksmithing, carDer
try arming the care OF horses, cooI
ing care of the house, care OF the chi
S dren etc, etc.-Charlotte Chronicle.