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IBE WILMINGTON MESSEN (xBK. SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1UU3 2 i i - En ered at the -rostoffice; at WilmiHg ton, N. C., as Secoid-Class Matter, April 13, 1879. Aj ""cb'a JACKSON & BET. MPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION THE DAILY MESSENGER Is mail, one year, -$6.00; six months, $3.00; three months, $1.50; one month, 50 cents. ;- .v-Y . ' V'i THE SEMI-WEEKLf MESSEN GER (two eight page papers), by mail, one year $1.00; six months, 50 cents Id advance. WILMINGTON,; N C SATURDAY. . . . .. . AUGtJST 11, 1906. AFTERMATH OF THE S AL.ISBURY LYNCHING. Since the people have begun to cool down somewhat from 'the fever heat caused by. the violent ana lawless con duct of the mob in Salisbury last Mon day night some things are being brought out which at first were entirely overlooked or were considered as sensa tional rumors. One statement which had caused a great deal of comment was that the Salisbury company was called out to protect the prisoners in jail and were supplied with only blank cartridges and were afterward requested to leave the jail because their presence acted as an irritant to the mob that was then surg ing about the building and trying to get hold of the negroes for the 'known purpose of lynching them. The captain of that company says his men had ball cartridges, but were "never authorized by any one to use them. He will de mand a court-martial and investigation of the conduct of himself and his men on that occasion.. On this subject a Salisbury special to the Raleigh Times says:.. . Captain Max Barker feels that the Rowan Rifles called out ior protection Monday night have 'been put by the papers of the state in a very bad light. He says his men were simply ordered ri Vint tVipv were eriven no orders at all. But they were not supplied with blank cartridges, and naa tne reai goods there if they had been com missioned to shoot. , One of the men was in the very act of pulling down upon a lyncher when restrained by an officer. Neither did they retreat at double quick time when Vipv left the. 1ail. It was thought there hat their nresence was harmful and they were advised to go away for pacific reasons. , It Is as The Raleigh; Times says, "The mob was too powerful." But si1 ps. it seemed certain that dynamite would have been used, as a stick was found at the building and a slow fuse attached to it. The Rowan Rifles have stood well in the state and a reflection upon them when they were given no chance to show what they would have done, is hardly justice. Captain Barker will ovt Ai-eoif at the Morehead encamp ment ask for a court martial to in vestigate his conduct, and Captain Flannlgan will c6nduct the Examina tion. On the other hand, the Charlotte News prints a dispatch from Salisbury quoting Senator Overman, who was on the ground at the time of the at tack on the jail arid who did all he could to prevent the crime, as saying that "the, truth may as well be told now as hereafter. The reason the militia' did not shoot on the mob was because the men did not wish to kill white men while protecting negro prisoners charged witn such a hein ous offense." The question is who is i correct, Senator Overman or Captain Barker? We hope Jthis matter will be thoroughly investigated and the re sponsibility for the soldiers not doing their duty placed where it belongs. There should be no whitewashing in this case. Those at fault should come up and take their medicine like men, whether it be the sheriff and other county officers or the captain and 'his men of the military company. If it was because of the latter being un willing to do their duty in such an emergency, no matter how disagree able that duty, then the sooner that company is mustered out of service the better it will be for the state. , While this affair was a disgrace to our state the following comment on it and approval of the action of the mob HEALTH YYY-' INSURANCE The man who insures his life Is wise for his family. Y . Y The man who insures his health is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guard ing it. It is worth uardin. At the first ettack of disease, w h i c h generally cpjlraich??. through the LIVliR and tnsi i fests itself in innumerable v&ys TAKE CT"3 Y B 3 And savo your health- n m by. the Atlanta News is as great a dis grace to the state of Georgia: Y. - Aroused to a frenzy of fury and vengeance, 3,000 men, representing the patriotic citizenship of Salisbury and surrounding country, assembled at the county jail and took therefrom three brutal negro murderers, who had shamefully assassinated the Lyerly family, on July 13th, and promptly dispatched them to their doom. Xothing short of the stake would have meted proper punishment to them for their awful crime, but the North Carolina patriots who handled that ;ase had mercy -upon them, and simply took them out and hanged them to trees and shot them to death. One by onefthe southern commun ities are falling in line in the deter mination to ,mete out swift justice and proper punishment to murderers, assassins, and to the heinous crimi nals who assault and kill the helpless women and young girls of the south, j What can the law abiding class of people do in the way of preventing such kind of lawlessness by peaceful means when leading papers of the country ut ter such sentiments? They only has ten the inevitable day when the mob and the military shall clash with bloody results. Y There is some talk of an attempt to storm the Salisbury jail tonight for the purpose of rescuing the six prisoners ,beld on charge of participation in the lynching. If it is attempted we hope the sheriff and the soldiers will be more determined in their efforts to preserve law and order without regard to what the results may be as to casu alties suffered: on either side. The burning of the barn on the Lyerly farm Thursday night was done, we fully believe, by some person or per sons in sympathy with the men who are being held, on charge of participa tion in the lynching. We do not be lieve a negro in Rowan county would have dared to do such a deed at this time. It was done by white men to create greater hostile feeling against the negroes and to work ud additional sentiment in favor of thyVllow con spirators so as to offset J result of the pending trial of tms-fix men in jail and such others as may be arrest- ed on similar charge. ONLY REMEDY FOR LYNCH LAW. We are glad to see that the Char lotte Observer agrees with The Mes senger In the latter's opinion editori ally expressed yesterday as to the only remedy for lawlessness of the kind re cently exhibited in Wadesboro and Salisbury. We should say that the two papers hold to the same opinion on this subject, rather than that the one agrees with the other, for the two editorials, the one in The Messenger of yesterday and the one in The Ob server, which we give below, were both published without the writer of either having any knowledge of the ex istence of the other or of the views of the editor of the other paper on the subject. When we take, a stand on a public matter and find that The Ob server occupies the same position it gives us the Reeling that we must be right. It is, therefore, with much' pleasure that we find ' the following editorial in that paper under the head ing. "The Remedy, The Only One": We would gladly take leave of the subject of all thought, the theme of all conversation in North Carolina at present. It is far from an agreeable one; but this further would as well, would better, be said while we are yet on it; Lynch law is on the increase in North Carolina. There is ho negro vote, no negro legislation now; but there is a growing disrespect, not to say con tempt, on the part of the white people for the laws whichn they themselves make. The mob hoots and jeers sen ators, judges and other officers, whom it helped to elect, when they get up before it to expostulate with it and pray of it to observe the laws -which it helped to frame. There must be an end to this, or worse days will come. We are not addressing the lawless but the law-abiding; not the vagabon'ds and the pariahs of society but its solid element the men who have a stake in this state and " perhaps childrento live after them. To these we saywith deliberation and in all seriousness that the period of argument has passecL Tuf ts - of grass have been" thrown at lynchers to no effect arid volleys have been fired over their heads without result. , We areYsaying now, In the hope that themessage will carry to the governor, the judges, all sheriffs and all other officers charged 'with en forcement of the laws, that there is nonope oi cuong inis aisease. wmcn As spreading rapidly, except by the shedding of blood. When a North Carolina mob is fired into by deputies or the military, and a dozen or fifteen of the lawbreakers are killed, there will be an instant end to mob law in the state. The longer the apprecia tion of the remedy is delayed the fast er the disease will spread. It should be applied to the next mob that thun ders at the gates of a jail. But the execution should not be entrusted to the local militia; the chances are that It would fall. The militia of another county should be ordered where it is practicable, as it generally is, for there are nearly always premonitory mur murings which indicate the coming of the mob and give time for prepara tion for It. And power should be given the governor to remove the sheriff who fails to give the command to-' shoot when to shoot Is necessary. We are fully conscious that this i an awful alternative; that this is a dreadful policy to advise; that to take human life is a solemn thing; but bet ter this than that our system of Iawa should be overthrown; that every man should hold his life subject to'the cap rice of the mob; that the very founda ti6ns of society should be undermined. To talk about, educating public senti ment on this subject is idle. There Is no education in morality for those con genitally degenerate. There Is no ap peal to the virtue or humanity of these, i As well appeal for mercy to Radamanthus, the judge of death. r " Lynching will not end in North'Car oluina until the killing of lynchers be gins. Then it will end. ' j The remedy suggested is a fearful one and we depIore the existence of conditions which makes it appear to be the only one but it is our firm conviction that such' is the fact and the sooner the remedy is applied the better it will be for our state. CONVICTION OIY GEORGE THE LYNCHER. HAUL, The county of Rowan and the state of North Carolina are to be congratu lated on the conviction and sentenc ing to the penitentiary . of the man George Hall for participating in the lynching; last Monday night. It shows what the better class of people think of the action of the mob, and that jurors can be secured who will do their duty. We hope the good, exaflaple set by this jury will be followed by others drawn to try similar cases. The Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg thinks the United States in for war with Japan; that the killing of the Japanese seal poachers in the Aleu tian islands will give that country the opportunity she is so anxious for as an excuse to begin hostilities, and the New York Times adds that if such be the case "we are in for a sure and speedy beating after which the Jap anese will seize the Philippines and Hawaii and occupy California just as some Spanish officials threatened in 1898 to land an army in Florida and March to Washington.", It was reported yesterday that a negro had been arrested who was suspected of having burned the Lyer ly barn Thursday night "We hopo this will not cause any undue . ex citement in that section or lead men to attempt to take the law into their own hands. We do not believe any negro to be guilty of that crime and if there are grounds for charging any with it they should have fair and im partial trial. i ii Some folks say it will be Bryan and Roosevelt and some say it will be Roosevelt, republican, against Roos ve.lt, democratic nominee. Well, some mighty strange things happen in pol itics at times. No doubt two years hence there will be some democrats who will prefer Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Bryan for president, believing the former to be a better democrat than the latter. We see from the Horry Herald of Conway, S. C. that the local boards j of tax assessors in Horry and Colleton counties have put the valuation on real estate eo high that the state board has decided that the increase shah not exceed fifty per cent in the first named county and twenty-five in the other It is something: unusual for local assessors to err on that side in fixing the value of lands for taxation. (The sheriff Of Guilford county says he knows talk is cheap, but that if a mob had attempted to take Bohan non and the two other negroes from his jail somebody would . have been hurt We believe him. and are glad to feel that he would have main tained the law at all hazard. Captain Hobson also thinks that Japan would have greatly the advan tage of this country if she sought to bring about war from the shooting of the Japanese seal poachers. Maybe so, now thfe captain is no longer a member ofvour navy. Yy Jf Mr. Bryan doesnot seem to be in such a ibig hurrjf'to demand Chairman Taggart's, resignation. He was learn ed a lesson in the Sullivan affair. YPope Pius has had another serious attack of the . heart. It came on just after attending the celebration of the third anniversary of his consecration as pope. The Durham Herald says that of the two crimes in Rowan the last was worse than the first. Don't think that piles can't be cur- ed. 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A proper medicine like Dr. Pierce's Fa vor te Prescription, directed to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, thefeby dispelling all those disttessing symptoms, and: instituting. comfort in stead of prolonged misery. It has been well said, that' a disease known Is half cured." ' Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate system. It Is made of native medicinal roots and is perfectly harmless in its effects in any condition of the system. As a powerful invigorating tonic "Fa vorite Prescription " imparts strength to the Jwhole system and to the organs dis tinctly feminine in particular. For over worked, "worn-out." 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