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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, TUESDAY, - iNOVEfBER 15. 1805: 2 SALARIES VERSUS FEES. COTT02C FR031 ARGENTINA. A l'LKlSANT NTOirAiylENT. re mi mm 'V a jireriaxd. We clip thij following from the edi torial coiurra of La paper published by negroes in L tow; of this state. We are surprised to see such sentiments expresseaby a ?Jan of that race who has education enough to edit a paper and whoprof ees to be a leader of his people hhe sf-respectlng, thoughtful negroesj oKouI suonrpss this man. He and h papfr -will do his race great harm Tbej& is no place in our state for rel Dramas. They should not be toler ted j matter to what party they belo iff . or of what race or color they are To, ur friends of the negro rac?, ancj TJj Messenger claims the prlvl being a friend to every sef ing law-abiding member of that e say repudiate the editor of th9 ice, which publishes such Incendiary ' as the extract we give below fair to you to have a man who to be the exponent of your ts-to give utterance to such Ideas. .cliate him. Refuse him the right .pak for you. You and the white pie have got to live together in this n 1.;' It is much better tftat both races ff-.t along peacibly anfft quietly liv lng; as neighbors' sjjftuld live. Such Janguage as thetrftfowing, published in this negro's &aper will not conduce to the cem&ifting of the friendship and cordial relations between the two race?. .JlVfe editorial of The Laurinburg News above referred to says: Ask your preacher does he read ne gro journals, and trade with colored merchants. If he tells you, "Xo, I tried to patronize them but they wouldn't treat me right," brand him as a race traitor, living on an innocent, trusting public for right guidance. Tell him, "The white man has wronged, beaten ed, kicked, bruised, burned and riddled our black bodies with bullets to scorn, and if he can so trustingly forgive and forget so great a wrong and trade with white merchants, why not forget and bury your prejudice for a fellow man m business and labor for our human salvation, as well as spiritual." THE ELECTIOX. was mere ever an election neia m this country with such astounding re sults? 'No one can account for it. The public men and the leaders in both parties are trying to explain the cause of the land-slide which put Mr. Roose velt in office with the greatest populaf majority of any man who ever ran for the office of president, but none of thera has yet given the true reason. There were in fact only three Issues befort the people in this compaign the tariff, our foreign policy and Mr. Roosevelt's personality. The last named was the chief issue and it won w;ith a whoop IMr. Roosevelt with his strenuosity, hl9 spectacular performances, his daring and bold life on the plains and in the wilds of the west captured the Amerl can people. He was the candidate of the yung men of the nation. He got their votes. They elected him. Instead of his being a burden and a drawback to his party he was its leading spirit In the contest He pulled his party through in many instances. -"Where his party's local candidates were loo much of a drag for h?m to pull through he led them far and away. Look at the election returns in some of the states and you will be Convinced of this fact. Take (Massachusetts. There Mr. Roose velt's majority was way up in the thousands while the democrats elected their candidate for governor. The same condition existed In Minnesota, which state he carried by over one hundred thousand majority, yet' the democrat! candidate for governor was elected. In .Wisconsin' the LaFollette state tick et was elected, though Mr. Roosevelt carried the state by an overwhelming vote. So it was in other states. He was the star performer !n the politica play. He led the party every where The democratic party was never befor w uc-z wnewningiy aeieaiea. it was compete-y snowed under. Never have we known it to meet such defeat. But it is not dead. It will come to the fron four years hence with a ticket and with leaders unterrffled by this defeat. This party may be defeated but it cannot be annihilated. The city affairs of one of our neigh boring towns seem to be run 6omewhat on the Star Chamber order The Times of "Wilson, we think, has just cause of complaint which it makes in the word quoted below. We do not suppose the men who compose the board of alder men of that city ordered that the pres should be denied access to its record o business transacted. . The man who re fused The Times must have been actin; without authority and we believe x h will never again take such arbitrary action. The Times says: Xot being able to attend the meeting cf the board of aldermen Tuesday night we went to Mr. John R. Mooro and requested him to let us see taa minutes of last wc-tVs meeting. He re fused' to do so, saying he had orders not to let U3 see the minutes. The peo ple always are prone, to believe there is "something rotten in Denmark," when public officials endeavor to cover up their official actions. We have seen neariv all the aldermen and all whom - wre have questioned say it was not dene !' their consent. ThA board of trustees of Charlotte towVishlp has taken action on the ques tionNpf paying salaries to all county officer instead of the present plan of fees for county officials. It recom mends tha' the county commissioners request te legislature to pass an act making this change. This action was the resut of the report of a committee appointed several months ago to inves gitate thfs matter. The report was in favorof the change from the fee sys terjto that of salaried county officers. ThcTboard of magistrates for the town ship adopted and endorsed the finding of the committee. The report stated thlt while the facts were very hard to get at, it was found that the combined fees of the offices of clerk of the court and register of deeds exceeded 59,000 annually and it was believed thatlhey would amount to $12,000 - "While we have nothing to say about the perquisites of the two offices In Mecklenburg county above mentioned, we do think that the proper way to make compensation for these and all other offices in the state is by fixed salary. The fee system should be abol ished. There Is too much temptation in It. This inducement to create busi ness should not be put in the hands of any man. The legislature should grade the salaries according to the work of the offices, it should be known of all men what each county office pays. !No man should be elected to an office and be granted the privilege to make a3 much out of it as he can. That is not right in principle nor in morals. It puts too much temptation before the office holder. Every man should be told when he goes into an office what his salary will be. His pay should not depend upon what he can make out of the people, who come before him for the transaction of the legitimate business of his office AS TO EXPLANATIONS. Among the many attempts to account for the results of the recent election we (find the following in the editorial columns of The Raleigh Post! We will say by . way of parenthesis that The Messenger was from the first in favor of the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by the democratic convention and so stat- ed. It did not hesitate to say that it thought he was the strongest man the party could nominate: It will be impossible to explain the defeat of the national democratic ticket to the satisfaction of all the voters There are many things that may be cited as contributing directly and em phatically to the disastrous result. Many foolish things will b alleged, but the former mayor of -New York, Hon. (Robert A. Van Wyck, has come as near to telling the whole truth about it as any man, and he might have made it stronger by saying that the convention was pandering too much to factions in its platform declarations. This is what Mr. Van .Wyck says: "I don't want to put myself in the "I told you so class," he said, ''but everybody who read the interviews with me pub lished just before I went to Europe, knows what I thought then, and that's what I think now. I said then that If democrats nominated Cleveland they would have a cinch. 1 say now that they deliberately threw away that cinch The St. Louis, convention simply preferred Roosevelt to Cleveland. That is all there is to the situation." "Do you remember six years ago to day?" was the remark made to The Messenger man by more than, one cit izen yesterday. It was the anniversary of the Wilmington revolution, "which occurred on the 10th of November, 1S9S. How thankful the people of our city ought to be that that occurrence Is six year3 behind us and not an outcome of the election of the present year. We do -not mean to decry that affair. The men of Wilmington acted nobly on that occasion. They did their duty. But all who were engaged in it will admit that it was a disagreeable affair and none of them cares to go throuhg It agam. The affair was forced upon us. None of us wanted to take the course we did. Duty called and the white men of th city responded. They may regret the necessitv which called forth their ac 'action, but they cannot regret having done their duty. . The citizenship of Wil mington is to be conjratulated upon the different conditions existing at this election from those of six years ago. FLESH BUILDER The liver of the cod fish produces oil that is a won derful flesh builder. No fat or oil can compare with it in that respect. To get the best out of it, it must be emulsified and made like cream. In Scott's Emul sion it is prepared in the best possible form to pro duce the best possible re sults. Thirty years have proven this. : . Well seed yoo a sucpl free. SCOTT & E0VNE, 4oq Pearl Street. The American Cotton Manufacturer, which i closely watching the mora- ment on the part of those Britishers who are trying to make Africa a cempthor of the rouin in cotton; pro duction business, says in Its isuue of the Sth: We have received, by way of London. England, a sample of seed cotton grown in tne Argentine Republic. It resem bles in many characteristics the med ium grades of "Upland American grown in the Carolinas, but Is ox a rather more silky nature. In length the staple varies from three quaittra to a full ir.ch. It apparency contains less than the normal propor tion of the short fibres, which in thr process of manufacture find their way into the wast house, but how It wou!d rompfAre with our own varieties after the tear-ng Of the fibre from the seed ty the caw gin is not certain. It is a matter of common knowledge that the aw g:n has little to rrcemmend it to toe user of cotton, its one redeeming fea ture being it's, large production, low cost of operation and convenience. The other side of the question unfolds many demerits. At this, its- first etage in the many mechanical manipulative pro cesses through which the fibres must pass on their journey to the finished ar ticle, the delicate staple is torn forc: biy from the seed, cut, curled, napped. butchered and its strength and value much deteriorated. This occurs under cviin the most iav..i.le circumstances, but when the gins have been for a f -;w seasons mishandled by the traveling "gin tinker" the maltreatment of the cotton is almost beyond description- This is a common occurrence in our own cotton states, where the machinery for its treatment from the field In the course cf preparing it for transport for use by the factory had its origin, and has grown and er.rl until it woald seam tl at the se.isib: handling of the KarbaiMt'S saw gin wculd be fully un derstood and its clje .lonable features rr.it'giiteC as far 3 possible. What then will happen to the foreign grown cotton, when Its preparation is altogether in the hands of the peop4e without mechanical experience ana un skilled in such work? The only reason able inference is, that although the samples of the iproduct of Argentina when examined in the seed appear t j compare well with our own product as t w"'e after ginning an infenx comparative grade will probably bo shown by the South American product. The plant from which the cotton was gdtnered belongt tiae ' green seed" va riety, but the fibres do not adhere to the seed so tenaciously as does the American variety. The color is very white. The many efforts which are being made to extend th cultivation of cot ton, covering as they do almost the en tire potential cotton belt of the world, will urdoubtedly have some ultimate effect. Should the iprices keep near ten cents a pound many of the new land3 can surely compete with us, but If the price should ever drop to very near the cost of production, or the Amrican cost be materially increased, then the for eign grower will be in a much stronger competitive position. Russia has a population three and a half times as great as that of Japan, still the latter has a million more chil-rHne- school than the othei - XA A. - AM. " I country. That tells the tale. That shows why the Japanese are so far nHari nf thp. Russians in evervi thing which goes to make the true and pa triotic citizen. A Question of Knowledge. Two men in Kansas City were hav ing a heated argument concerning the location of a certain theater In New Tork city, says t he Chicago Record Herald! The one insisted that t he house stood on lower Broadway, while the other was equally confident that it -was up town. X Finally the first man, becoming an gry, exclaimed. "Perhaps you think you know more about New York than I do? How often have you been there?" - "Once," kas the epigrammatic re Ply. "Well." exclaimed the other., in triumph. "I've been there five differ ent times, and I ought to know more about it than you do." The vanquished one was silent for a moment. Presently he spoke with a smile on his face: "How long did you stay in New Tork on each of th five visits you made?" The other scratched his head a mo-' ment before replying, and said "Well, each time I was there for two or three days. How long did you stay on the only visit you made?" "Seventeen years." was the calm re ply. That ended the conversation. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hare Always Bought Bears the Signature of It Was Another Little Boy. The grreat actor, Ermete Novell!, now. In South America, has a son who lives In (Florence, to whom was born ' a bouncing boy, says The Pall" Mall Ga zette. The young Novell I, in haste to let his father know that he had made him a grandfather, telegraphed: "Er mete Novelli, (Buenos Ayres: Boy, En rico." Several hours later he was call ed to the telegraph office, where the following conversation took place: You know we could not let your dispatch pass." Not let it pass! But why, if you please? "You know you said it was a boy "And if I did, what then? Is it not true?"' "Well, tat is what we do not know yet." , :?.$&; 'TWhat! are you crazy? I know it." Well, anyway, public order de mands that it should not be made public." "Made public! Am I making !t pub lic by telegraphing to my father? And In any case, what has the birth of my son got to do with public order? Ex cuse me, have you all taken leave of your senses?"' "Xour son," gasped the other; "we thought you were telegraphing about the Queen." . " A Dinner in Honor, of Mis Elizabeth Elli Coal Burners on the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. . (Special" to The Messenger.) Goldsbor, Of.' C, November 10. Ouc of the mosi enjoyable and unique events of the season was the six course dinner last evening at the Kemxon Cafe The enjoyable affair took place in th private dining room and was siven by Messrs. "Edward N?el and James Hart sell in 'honor of Miss Elizabeth Oils, of Xew Bern, who has been the guest of Miss Daisy Smith. At the plate oT each lady In the party was a dainty souvenir p!n and carnations, while tb tables were handsomely decorated with pink and white carnations. Th invited guests were "Miss Ellis with Mr. James S. Hartsell, M?ss Daisy Smith with Mr. P. L. Merrltt. Miss Annie (Beaman with (Mr. F. L- Rogers. Mlsa Ophelia Howell with IMr. Edward STiel. Miss (Mattie Lee with Mr. F. M. Mil ler, Mr. and Mrs. B- 31. Griffln. During the course' of.- the dinner some very clever toasts were offered to the guests of honor. The Atlantic and North Carolina railroad now has two coal burning lo comotives In use and two others ar& now being overhauled in the shops and being converted into coal burners. The company is erecting a coal shute in thi city and they will have one at New IBern and at Morehead City. "When the passenger engines have all been con verted into coal burners the schedules will be cut down several minutes be tween here and Morehead. The freight engines will continue to burn wood for some time. The CHowland Improvement Company, the lessee of the road has a quantity of wood on hand andr when this is consumed all the engines will be converted into coal burners. Cheap Rates to Tampa, v On occasion of the South Florida Fair and Mid-Winter Exposition, Tam pa. Florida, November 14th to 26th Seaboard Air Line will sell tickets to Tampa and return for $21.75. Tlcket3 on sale November loth, final limit No vember 30th. 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