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2 THE MESSENGER, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1904 mtcred at tJt Poa offlee at WI1 ttxurton If. C, as Secend-Clasa Matter. April IS, 1879. 4CKSON & DELL COMPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. THE DAILY MESSENGER by mell, a year, f 0.OOJ six month, $3.00 three monthi,, l.SO on month, SO tents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER (two elffht page papers), by mail ne year, f l.OOj six months, 50 ents, In advance. WILEnHGTON. N. C. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1904 A TWO-EDGED SWORD. A twQ-edged sword has this Watts law become and it behooves the con servative, patriotic people of the state to see xo it that its slaughter of the hopes of continuance of good govern merit and democratic rule in our dear old state shall cease. A two-edged sword it is, and both edges are being used to dismember the democratic party. Between the advocates and the opponents of his measure there is crimination and recrimination. Neith er side can lay the blame on the other, for both seem to be determined on the wreck and ruin of the only party which can save the state from return to ihe extravagance, debauch ery and disgrace of the days of fusion ism and carpetbagism. Each side to what is called this srreat moral issue, which, while it is called a moraUissue, is brought directly into politics, seems to be trying to secure i'he political ad vantage of the other. In the fight between the two, what is going to become of the democratic party, on which depends so much of the prosperity and advancement of our people in wealth, education and moral Improvement? Both sides seem to have lost sight of everything but whether there shall be liquor sold in certain localities at all or not, or whether from private or munici pal saloons. In some counties, because the men nominated by the democratic convention are noi' prohibition-J ists, the ticket is considered no good by a minority element, and it meets and launches into the already disturbed ranks of that party a full county ticket composed of men of its own views on the liquor question. Oait anything be more absurd? Can men who do this call themselves demo crats? In other counties men who opposed the Watts law declare they .will not vote the county ticket because some of the party's nominees favor that law. Do you call such men dem ocrats? A democrat is a man who stands by his party platform .and .votes for the candidates his party men in convention nominate by a majority vote. ... . There is plenty of time after the political issues have been settled and the party candidates have been elected to settle the question as to local option dispensary or open saloons. Keep these out of the political contest. No thing can be gained by bringing them into it and a great) deal can be lost. Let's all unite as we have done here tofore in electing the democratic can didates and save the state from return to republican rule, then take up this moral question. For heaven's sake do not bring it into politics. You men who stood by the democratic party in those days when it was rn a life and death struggle and who have stood by it from the day ithurled the republi can party from power, with its fraud, corruption and rascality, pause and consider before you now bring upon it1 defeat and submission to the dark forces which once humiliated you and ground you in the dust. Pause before 3'ou take the fatal step, and consider .whither you are drifting. Don't let your opinions on a mere moral ques tion, which, if you must taint with politics, can be settled within the par ty, lead you to desert that party which has made our glorious old state what she is. In this fight over the liquor ques tion, if brought' into politics at the ap proaching election, the democrats have ' everything to lose and nothing to gain the republicans everything to gain and; nothing to lose. The republicans A FACT ABOUT THE "BLUES" What Is known as the "Blues" is seldom occasioned by actual exist ing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a dis ordered LIVER - i THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra ted by trying a course of n They controland regulate the LIVER. They bring hope and bouy ancy to the mind. They bring health and elastic ity to the body. f TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. era n nr 1 if if n know that in a fair tight on the politi cal issues they have ao chance of win ning, and therefore at Is to their inter est to stir up strife in the democratic ranks. They wish to divide the party against itself, and every move toward independentism because of difference of opinion on this ioquor question Is fostered and, encouraged by them. Every move of thisfsrt plays into their hands. If we are to be defeated in this election, let it be by the enemy and not by men within our own ranks. Stand by your party until after the election; then, if yos must, divide on the .questions of the Watts law. 3iR. BECKwrrirs statement. We take the statement of Mr. B. C. Beckwith, given below, from the Morn ing Post of Sunday. Now that th. question' of lease of Oae Atlantic and North Carolina railroafi has toeen. set tled and the contract made, we think it is time to stop discussing the merits of thf question. Two members of the board of internal improvements, nine out of ten of the directors, and a large majority of the private stockholders favored acceptance of Mr. How land's proposition, and thev have the aPpro vai in their action "of a. large major ity of the people of the state. The 'matter is settled and let it drop. We think, though, we should in justice. to The Messenger, publish Mr. Beckwith's statement and make rePly to one or two of the assertions contained there in. The Post savs: Mr. B. C Beckwith of the state board of internal improvments, who return ed yesterday morning from. MoreheaI City was asked by The Morning Post if he had anything to say about the lease of the Atlantic and North Car olina railroad. He sat down and wrote: No, not now; but I must congratu late The Post. You and the Charlotte Observer and the Wilmington Messen ger have accomplished that which you undertook. Tou've forced a lease of the road. You are IT no doubt of that. Your guns have silenced the others or captured them, and knocked me out. T see that my colleague, Mr. B. W. Ballard, has received the formal thanks of the Charlotte Observer for standing with Governor Aycock, without which the lease could not have been affected It took his vote and the governor's to authorize the state's proxy to vote for a lease. Without his vote it could not have been done T opposing. Well, 1 am glad to see The Observer has sq completely changed its opinion of ray friend Ballard, and now thinks so highly of 'him. for it held him and the board of Internal improvements in mighty low contempt in April last, dur ing the investigation of the affairs of the road and so did the Messenger. You knew, better, or at least your man ners were finer. "Well, you've been (persistent, insis tent and consistent in youx efforts to force a lease, and you've won. I like a fighter. I despise a quitter." This Paper has not taken part with any other in attempting to fore a lease of the road. It has thought all along .that it wrould be better for the road and also for the state that it should be 'leased, and we have per sistently urged that the state authori ties should take this course. W, have not attempted to force any one to this course, because, in the first place, we knew that should we desire to "force" any line of action on the men whs had this matter in hand we "would ut terly fall, for they are not the kind cf men to ibe forced by newspapers; in the second place, there was no occa sion to attempt to force. What we un dertook to do and we are glad to see that Mr. Beckwith gives us credit for having succeeded in our endeavor, was to convince those in control of this matter, and the peoiple of the state, that the property should be leased. We acted for what we thought the best interests of the state and the railroad, fit our efforts have been ef fective, as Mr. Beckwith says they have, we rejoice in the knowledge that we have been of some benefit to the state. In reference to Mir. Beckwith's state ment that-The Messenger "held tha board of internal improvements' in mighty low contempt in April last, during the investigation of the affairs of thfx road," we make positive denial and assert that not a line can be found in the columns of this jpaper during the month of April last, or at any oth er time in which The Messenger used any language contemptuous of the board of internal improvements, or of any member thereof. During the whole time of conten tion over this road. The Messenger has done what it conceived to be its duty to the People of North Carolina, and it has no apologies to make for the course pursued. If our efforts have been in the leat degree instrumental in convincing those whose duty it was to pass upon the question of lease of this property, that such course should be taken then, we feel repaid for our labor and cheerfully submit to ad- verse criticism from those who refus to yield to the verdict in this matter of the overwhelming majority against them. If the Messenger has been partly in strumental in bringing about this lease, as Mr. Beckwith says it. has, we feel well repaid for our labors in knowing that we have brought about a condition which Will bring into the state treasury thousands of dollars yearly, where heretofore there was an annual drain to keep this property 'afloat to say nothing of the dividends which will for the first time in the his tory of the -road annually drop into the pockets of the private stockhold ers. Twenty-five years or more ago the statft had an opportunity to lease this road to entirely responsible par ties at a rental which" would have placed in its treasury about ninety thousand dollars a year, but refused. Had this lease been made the private stockholders since then would have- re ceived in dividends more than the face value of their stock and still own the stock, which would today be worth 71 Ghest that Game in the Mayflower Is stcre to attract the attention of every New England woman and with pride in her heart she marvels that it is so strong and -wrcll preserved. This is due to the fact that it has received prompt attention when any signs of weakening were shown. So the" woman of to-day may keep her strength and preserve her good looks if she gives immediate attention to the first symptoms of any womanly weakness. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription prompt ly cures disease and restores strength to all women who are weakened by any . womanly disease and are ran down by maternal and household cares. 5 2 "'tor womet? WHO CANNOT BB CURED. Backed up by over a third of a century of remarkable and uniform cures, a record such as no other remedy for the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to women ever attained, th proprietors and makers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States, for any case of Leucorrfaea, Female Weakness, Pro lapsus, or Falling of Womb which they cannot cure. All they ask is a fair and reasonable trial of their means of cure. World's Dispensary Medical Asso ciation, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Stella Johnson, of 28 Brady St., Dayton. Ohio, writes : " I was troubled with severe pains every month when I wrote to you for advice. After following- your directions, I am happy to say that after five years of untold suffering I have not had any pains since first using your Favorite Prescription. I thank God and Dr. R. V. Pierce fcr the health I now enjoy. I shall urge other women who suffer as I aid to use your medicine." Take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets instead of any other laxative. far above its present value, but the road was a" good political , lever, and that it might be kept in politics there was opposition, and still is from some quarters to its lease on terms advan tageous to all concerned except those politicians who object to its going out of their hands. It was to put an end. to such condi tions that The 'Messenger advocated the lease of the road. The lease has been made. Now why not let the mat ter drop. Nothing can be gained by further discussion. We would not have again alluded to the subject ex cept for Mr. Beckwith's statement. THE CIiAJIKTON TRAGEDY. Up to this writing the two men who are accused of the horrible crime at CTarkton last Saturday are safe in the county jail in Elizabethtown. There was a crowd of fearfully wrought-up men at the scene of the tragedy Satur day night and Sunday, and as . the evi dence against the men is so conclusive it is remarkable that the county officers were, able to prevent a lynching and to get their prisoners away. That they did so shows great coolness and deter mination on their part and they deserve all praise for their conduct. When we consider the nature of the crime and all the surrounding circumstances, had the friends of the dead and the living who have so suffered at the hands of these brutes svisited summary furnished on them, who is there who would have the heart to say that they should be, punished? Lynching, we "-now, is. a criminal offence. It is technical mur der. Mob law is a dangerous thing be cause of the precedent it sets for vio lence and defiance of law and order, but then we are all human, with a large mixture of brute nature in us and when such crimes as this are brought home to us are committed against friends or perhaps relatives we have little thought of any but the one law of quick and just punishment. Had the friends and relatives of the poor dead mutilat ed woman taken these .fiends from the hands of the officers and riddled their bodies with bullets or hanged them to the nearest tree their conduct could not have received severe condemnation from public opinion. It is true that-if these men are guilty they will suffer death by the judgment of law. Noth ing can save them. This is the right and proper course for the case to take, but what we want to say is that under the cricumstances no one could severe ly censure the people of iBladen county if they took the law into their own hands and executed the guilty parties. Sunday's dispatches 'brought no news of consequence from the seat of war in Manchuria. The first Russian corps which was in danger of capture has succeeded in joining the main body of troops. The authorities at St. Petersburg seem to be in the dark a & to General Kuropatkin's movements. There is great disappointment that af ter making the stand that he did at Liao Yang he should have been com pelled to retreat before the Japaness forces, after destroying and abandon ing his immense army stores at that point. 3 . The Charlotte Chronicle does not" seem to have been much impressed with Hon. F. D. "Winston's speech at Concord last Friday. Judge Brown will secure a well de served rest from October 7th, to . the first of next year when he will take his seat on the Supreme Court bench. He will go to this court with a reputa tion earned uPon the -Superior Court bench, wrhich any member of the court of last resort might envy. QIaine, Vermont and 'Arkansas vote for state officers todar. Of course everybody knows how they will result, still there Is some interest in the vole in the two New England states, be cause the democrats are trying to re duce -the- usual republican majorities- in these two. , . ... The officials - of the agricultural de partment dismiss in- a very cavalier manner th charge that there was in formation secretly given out before thf official report was made public. They seem to think that all that is neces sary is for them to deny the positive statement that the figures were in the hands of certain persons in Savannah before thf department report was pub lished. This may satisfy the depat ment men. but hardlv those who have made thP charge. The gathering and marketing of crops seem to he mere important to the North .CaoIIna farmers than poli tics these days. Our people should not lose sight entirely of the great stake issue in the November fictions. Did you have a good time yesterday andVrvjoy the Labor Day exercises, or are you glad that the next celebration is twelve months off? A Labor Saving Idea. (Eva 'Ryland-Jaillard in National Magazine.) i Realizing the fact that the ! cutting out" of round cookies was the main part of the work because it necessi tated handling and rolling part of the dough over again, as well as making hundred's of other useless motions, I decided that an easier way was good enough for me and abandoned th "cookie cutter" at once, and forever. Nowadays 1 roll the dough into a thin sheet and with a thin knife cut it Into bars or squares. The cookies are cer tainly as pleasing to the eye; as easy to bite or break and in every way as desirable as the round ones, while they have the advantage of requiring less space when put away. The change from round to square cookies proved the biggest "little help" toward saving time, strength and patience that I have found in a long time. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In the Garden of Eden. Among the stories told by Dr. Em mons, a well known clergyman of a former day and generation, there are many which show his keen wit. In the Iowa town where3 he was pas tor there lived,according to the Youth's Companion, a physician who was a pantheist, and took pains to let every one know it. He had made frequent boasts that he could easily conquer Dr. Emmons. He and the doctor met at the house of a sick man. 'iHow old are you, sir?" asked the physician, brusquely. "Sixty-two," replied Dr. 'Emmons, quietly, although his eyes showed his surprise, '"May I ask your age in turn?" "I've been, alive since the creation in one form or another, said the phys ician, curtly. "Ah, then, I suppose you were with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden?" inquired the doctor. "Certainly," came the reply. 'Um " said Dr. Emmons, placidly, meditating on the other's face. 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