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SEMI WEEKLY MESSENGER, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1898.
PUTTING ON WAR PAINT.
It really looks as If the fierce dogs
m V..n... tn ha unloa 0V1 Of?
The heavens are now deeply wan as If
already "wrapped in drifts of lurid
smoke." The American people are in
leed profoundly moved. And from all
garta of the country, unless New Eng
land goes as it did in 1812-'14, "war,
srar Is still the cry, war even to the
Smile." While millions of Americans
to not desire war but greatly prefer
peace on honorable terms, they do not
favor a surrender, a backdown now
io3t as the Insolence of Spain becomes
more intense and its braggadocio
more virulent Probably McKinley's
'backbone has been sufficiently plaster
ed and strengthened by the voice of
the country and the demands of half
- of his party in the house, to do what
is proper and patriotic and brave now.
If he Indeed favors Cuban indepen
dence and Intervention at last, and
even goes so far as to hold Spain re
sponsible for the Maine disaster, a
position we do not now believe he will
assume without some provision, some
loophole of escape, it will cure the sus
pense and then the fight for peace, in
dependence and liberty will have be
gun. Once begun it will be pushed
with intense vigor and immense activ
ity and pluck.
The report as to the readiness of the
fiueen regent and the little heir to the
throne to flee from Madrid means
probably that a home in France will
be safer for them in view of a pos
sible revolution in Spain and over
throw of the present government. The
other report, several times repeated
last week, that Spain had sought and
still seeks mediation is a sign of an
xiety and even weakness in spite of
newspaper bluster and "fool talk" by
individual Spaniards.
The calling out of the state guard in
all the states will occur at once if war
2s declared. That body numbers over
100,000. The United States have over
130,000 infantry nnd artillery to begin
the racket with.' If volunteers were
called for from all the states, and the
number fixed at half a million it would
very soon be met. Once arouse the
- American war spirit fully and let this
country realize that the eyes of the i
world are upon it, and great deeds and
magnificent display of patriotic en
thusiasm and devotion is expected
and its soldiers will pour forth from
every city and town and village and
hamlet, and from tens of thousands
of homes in the country. They will
come from the mountains and glens,
-.from the hills and the vales
They will come as the winds come
when forests are rended;
They will come as the waves come
when navies are stranded."
Anil yet millions of these patriots
Moving peace and hating war, will sigh
: for peace, and tens of thousands of
Sprayers ascend daily to God, the Al
mighty Ruler of the armies of Heaven
aikl the armies of earth, that the
dreadful, most stern arbitrament may
&e mercifully averted. These are the
men who will do the best fighting
when the fiery trial visits this coun
try. The lie sent out about Spanish cru
elty to American seamen was a cruel,
senseless joke for the 1st of April.
The "fool" in that instance was the
stupid fellow who fabulates the false
1botL HOME FOLKS.
Asheville may well expect two very
tine addresses at the unveiling of the
monument erected in memory of the
great senator, Zebulon Baird Vance,
Che most popular man ever born with
in the boundaries of North Carolina
.and certainly one of the. truest, most
Beany-sided and ablest. Senator John
W. Daniel, of Virginia, and Colonel
.Alfred M. Waddell, of Wilmington,
..are to be the orators.
Mr. Edward Gilliam, the really gift-ex-North
Carolina journalist, gave
-oar readers in Sunday's Messenger
zsocae appropriate and patriotic verses.
The lines rebuking the indemnity idea
-in frtinATit. and the two counlets as
Co the office of gratitude are awaken
ing ""Upon their blood we set no prije,
Vffco made supreme their sacrifice.
'. ILet Gratitude their names still trace,
And hallow their last resting place,
"Who gave all that they had to give
..And died that Liberty might live."
The University of North Carolina by
last reports, shows up with 520 stu-
2enis on its roll. What will be the
sjstei of the enrollment of the teachers
'omen and men) at the coming sum-
sner school we cannot anticipate;
.probably between 150 and 200. The
- report says:
"The attendance, not counting the
v .summer school, exceeds the highest
number ever reached (in 1857-58) by
-47. and includes for the first time wo
men among the list of students. A
new department, that of pharmacy,
has been added, which enrolls 17 stu
dents the first year."
It is to be hoped that the United
States government will take immedi
ate steps to afford protection to Beau
fort and Morehead in this Stste. Prior
to the war Fort Macon, of the old style,
stood ready to be used if dangers
threatened. The war department
should at once put defences at the en
trance to these towns that will give
the Spanish ships trouble if they do
not keep them away entirely. It will
be very neglectful and unmerciful in
deed to leave the inhabitants of those
towns and the people living on water
courses adjacent, without the best
available protection. While North Car
olina militia are to be called out at the
sound of the first tocksin, and her
steamers are to be used for war pur
poses, let the federal authorities not
overlook the present defenselessness
of the towns indicated.
BREVITIES
Late Condon papers are of the opin
ion that Spain has waited long for
peace has lost her opportunity to set
tle the dispute with the United States
amicably.
Diplomacy is at an end; will media
tion of the European powers come? If
so it must come quickly or it will
come in vain.
Senator McMillan merely voices
what everybody understands, that Mc
Kinley's delay from time to time as a
dodge to get the country ready for
the final appeal. He says:
"The president is flat-footed on the
proposition that Spain must move out
bodily.
"He also knows absolutely that
Spain cannot or at least will not con
cent to this complete abandonment.
That means war."
The state guard of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey is reported ready for ac
tion. Miles says the United States
army is ready. Of course. Is Miles
ready also? Is his new uniform of Eu
ropean cut ready and are his mus
tachios waxed and twisted?
Northern Methodists now have dea
conesses and they are licensed like the
preachers are. Next.
The able New York Times in its is
sue of Saturday says that the "testi
mony against Spain" as to the destruc
tion of the Maine "is simply over
wheming." Of course it is, and Spain
knows it, but plays a set-off, a sort of
bluff game.
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Rec
ord dared to censure the course of the
New York Evening Post in its in
tense opposition to war with Spain.
One John M. Grath, of New York, in
sympathy with the Post, writes to The
Record that "it ought to be burned."
That fate ought to be reserve for
traitors. Grath thinks this country is
as bad as Spain and has an antodafe
ready for those who dare to think for
themselves and are faithful to home
and country.
It is now President McKinley's cri
sis as well as Spain's. What will he
do with it?
Boss Hanna with infintile innocency
cries in the night for peace, and says
there must be no war. It is understood
that the Boss is in the mighty meshes
of Wall street peace-makers. What
will Major Mc. do with Hanna?
It is admitted by many republicans
of the Dingley following that even if
no war comes there will be a curren
cy defici-ncy of full $25,000,000. It will
no doubt be even larger than that
sum. With 996,000 blood suckers on
the pension roll thirty-three years af
ter peace a deficiency may be long ex
pected. It takes nearly $150,000,000 to
fill the prodigious pension maw.
EDITORIAL ENTRIES
It is a fact that although times have
not been favorable to large profits in
cotton for some time as they were
some years ago, that most southern
mills have realized profits, and in
some instances very satisfactory prof
its. In the South Carolina cotton mills
in the upper or piedmont section, the
rewards of industry have been good.
Mr. Hammond, of Greenville, has pub
lished some statistical information. He
writes that one mill near his town
cost $100,000, plant and working capi
tal included. It now has a plant cost
ing $1,250,000, has paid out dividends
amounting to more than the capital
stock, and is continuing them as the
rate of 10 per cent, per annum. An
other started with 3,000 spindles and
now has 12,000, and all increase and
expenditures came from the earnings.
At Danville, Va., there is a mill which
OSoloous&ies:
Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges
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the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache.
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semi-annually, and $1,000,000 is in
common stock, which pays 4 per cent,
semi-annually.
One of the abuses in our country is
the senseless hostility displayed by
demagogues and unreflecting people
to corporations generally. These
"institutions" are assailed mercilessly
as if a cotton factory, or a bank, or a
railroad, were necessarily a public en
emy, and should be warred upon as
a sacred duty by every patriot, and
particularly by all who never expect
to have money enough to invest In any
enterprise requiring capital and of
public utility. There are 2,400,000 per
sons who live off the railroads in the
United States, and are to a very great
extent dependent upon them for daily
bread and comforts. The actual em
ployes are put at 800,000. Mr. St. John,
vice president of the Seaboard Air
Line, in opposing a reduction of pas
senger rates lately, said:
"Let us deal fairly with this great
interest and see to it that it is not only
permitted to exist, but to earn from
just and reasonable rates sufficient to
meet not only its operating expenses
and taxes, but to have something over
to meet its physical necessities and to
pay that debt which it justly owes to
its bond and stockholders, viz., the in
terest upon its bonds, coupled with a
reasonable dividend upon its stock;
and right here let me say that the
railroads comprising this line have no
bonds or stock which does not repre
sent actual cash expenditures."
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GRANDJURIES AND WORTHY
CANDIDATES.
The Messenger many times has es
sayed to expose the insufficiency of
jury trials in the south as now con
ducted. There is too much of race
prejudice and antagonism in it, as
well as race ignorance and incompe
tency, to obtain uniform justice and
vindication. The grand juries also
need overhauling. Not all, for some
are good, faithful and efficient. But
in the newspapers we meet with com
plaints and exposures of the ineffi
ciency of these juries, and that it is
simply impossible for some forms of
viciousness and depravity to be
brought to justice. The Richmond
(Va.) Central Presbyterian lately had
a timely editorial upon "Grand Juries"
in which were discussed properly as
"the fountain head of our govern
ment." Let this fountain be impure,
corrupt, and let its stream of duty
and fidelity become turbid and weak,
and cease at last to flow, and a great
evil befalls a state. A gentleman liv
ing at Darien, Georgia, Mr. Joseph A.
Walker, writes to the Central Presby
terian in hearty approval, and from
his communication we take this:
"A pure fountain must send pure
water. There is no source to which
a community looks for the vindication
of the law with as perfect right as to
its grand jury yet how many grand
juries 'even under oath' go back on
first principles? Surely, 'Politics with
out religion are fatal to society' nev
ertheless, how many of our chief offi
cials, professing godliness, publicly
disregard the commandments of God
and live irreligious, and consider the
sanctity of the Sabbath of no impor
tance? Is it not time for God's people
to cry out against these things?"
The nominating conventions in
North Carolina are soon to be held.
North Carolina has had a most unfor
tunate and sad experience for some
years in the bad character and gen
eral venality of some of its officials. It
is a sore affliction to a commonwealth
to fall under the baleful control of
bad, unprincipled men. There is too
much indifference "shown as to who
are appointed delegates. How can men
of low principles and easy virtue be
relied upon to elect upright, consci
entious, faithful, tried men for oiace.:
MS is
They will not rise above themselves
above their own standard in selec
tion in all probability. Only really
worthy men, who can be trusted to do
right and be honest and faithful,
should be named for any office. When
ever venal, vicious men are forced
upon the party it Is the duty of the
upright, self-respecting democrats to
refuse to vote for such fellows "of
the baser sort. No good and true
man cught to vote knowingly for a
rascal or for a man of doubtful record.
Dare to do right when you vote. Think
of North Carolina's fate and your own
welfare and conscience.
THE COUNTRY EDITOR."
A competent ' editor of a country
newspaper is able to render important
service to his patrons and the com
munity in which he labors and In the
section in which his papercirculates. If
he is a man of intelligence, a man of
personal integrity, of good morals and
a friend to truth, he can be an educa
tor, a benefactor, a true friend of the
people. He can aid in all deserving en
terprises, expose all crying abuses, up
hold morality and religion, stand
forth as the champion of education,
in a score of ways help on good gov
ernment, justice between man and
man, and help to develop a better sys
tem of farming. In fact a faithful, well
equipped country editor is a public
blessing. He is to be relied upon al
ways to favor and defend the rule of
virtue, the conservation of the public
peace, the maintenance of upright
government, the purity and fidelity of
the courts, and the great, fundamental
invincible principles of civil and reli
gious liberty, the freedom of the press,
the right to think and to print. We
have been led to indulge this brief
train of reflection by a simple head
line in the Annapolis (Mo.) Gazette
"The Country Editor." Now we turn
to read what followed, and will copy
the main part if not all, if it strikes us
as good, as impressive, as supplemental
in any way of our own short screed
above. We find it very good and as
true as good. Thank us for the fol
lowing concerning the much neglected
"Country Editor," one of the most
useful of men and best of citizens:
"He is the packhorse of every com
munity, the promoter of every lauda
ble enterprise, the worst underpaid
laborer in the vineyard. Counting his
space as his capital, he gives more to
charity, his means considered, than
any other member of society. He is a
power in politics, a pillar of the
church, a leader in the crusade for
better morals. He is pre-eminently
the friend of humanity. Line upon line,,
paragraph by paragraph, he is em
balming in cold type the facts from
which the Herodotus, Tacitus, Sis
mondi or Macaulay of the future will
write the history of our time. He fully
chronicles our ad van t into the world,
briefly notes our uprisings and our
downsittings, and sorrowfully records
our exit.
We are all more or less generally
more his handiwork, and the creature
should not be ungrateful to his crea
tor. Without his generous and enthu
siastic labors most of us would never
have been here; and when he tires of
us, most of us will return to private
life, amid rural scenes propitious for
secret meditation and silent prayer,
Working night and day during the
campaign, when the election is over
and the time comes for the distribu
tion of the loaves and fishes now vul
garly called 'pie' by some strange
lapse of memory, he is generally for
gotten." Excitement Down Fouth
A gentleman arriving in Richmond
from the southern pant of Florida yes
terday aT.d t'hat the excitement in the
"land of owers" at tinis time by reason
of the 'threatening- condition of -affairs
between -Vtie United States government
and .that of Spain was gTor.ving more
intense dally. "The inhabitants of St.
Augustine, Ormond, IMai'mi and otrtuer
coast towns of Fkxriida.," eaiid ttie, "are
greatly aroused over tJhe situation amid
are afrlaid that the Spianisth. warships
will "blow them off the face of the earth
hi case of war. Down at Key West
there is a general feeling of alarm. iA.t
Tampa -and Clearwater harlxr on the
west coast one hears 'notMng but war
talk and expressions of uneasiness. You
see, line 'basis o "opera tioru .will be
shown in t!he vi imity, more than any
where else- should war 'be declared.
You people up here are feeling secure
enough, "because you won't see muoh of
the conflict if they g-et to fighting, ibut
it will tie a 'hot time for t!he seaport
towns of Florida iwhcn the Vizcaya, the
Maria Theresa, Alpfaonsa XII. and that
fleet of torpedo boats get to work d-ewn
in Florida. don't wonder the folks
down there teei scared up. Why, think
of the (havoc the Spianisih warships
would do whesi they once turned loose
on Flagler's palatial hotels strung
along the east coast, and Plants 'beau
tiful Tampa bay, Bel Air, and other
handsome structures on the west coast.
"Many tourists fha-ve Ibaen running
out of Florida of late by reason of the
war scare. I know of a Whole party
wtoo were going1 to Key "West and B-ls-cayne
bay. "but got scared, they might
get down there atiout the time the toom-
bardmwt commenced so gave up th-e
trip. It's no laughing matter, -with
those folks, I tell you it isn't. Rich
mond Times.
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