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THE WLLMTGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAX 18, 1903 Entered at the Postoffice at Wilmiag ton, N. O., as Second-Class Matter, April 13, 1679. JACKSON & BEDL COMPANY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION THE DAILY MESSENGER by mail, one year, ?6.00; six months, $3.00; three months, $1.50; one month, 50 cents. THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSEN GER (two eight page papers), by mail, one year $1.00; six months, 50 cents In advance. WILMINGTON, N. C. FRIDAY. MAY 18. 1506. NEED OF A REFORMATORY. What more forcible argument in fa vor of a reformatory for youthful criminals eo'uld be made than the' spe cial dispatch, given below, from Con cord to the Charlotte Observer? The idea of the criminal law of the state feeing such that a judge Is compelled to sentence a girl of twelve years of ae to a term of five years in the pen itentiary is most repulsive. No white rirl of that age can be so abandoned, -so dbeasea or o steeped in crime and immorality that there is no hope for "her reformation if the proper steps are taken to accomplish it. For a girl of that age, no matter what have been, her raising and her social envi ronment, she is not en-tirely lost. There lis nJwaj-s a chance of reformation and the producing of a good and vir tuous woman from a child of that age if proper methods are pursued. There may be found now and then an excep tion. Once in a -while some child of tender years may be found who is so degenerate that there is no chance of reformation, but because this may be so is it any reason for allowing crim inals and brutes to be made of the hoet of others who are amenable to the influence of proper treatment and raising? When this Concord girl comes out of tie penitentiary at the age of seven teen years after having spent five years in that prison in the compan ionship of vicious and debased women what will her moral character be, and who will be responsible for that con dition? You say her parents? Per haps so. They were responsible for what she was the day she entered the doors of that prison, but how about her worse moral condition when she comes out and is told by the state she has atoned for her crime, and is now a free woman to go where she pleases and lead what life she pleases, so she -dos not violate any of the laws of civil government? Who but the state is responsible here the state which refuses, because it would cost a few .thousand dollars, to recognize its re sponsibility and to assume it toward this unfortunate class of its citizens? Id this refusal the state is aiding in the raising up of a larger criminal class. It is putting dollars and cents against Ood citizenship, and in the end it will find that supposed economy has cost it more in the prosecuting and punishing of these crimnals than would have been the expense of pro viding the reform schools for their ref ormation and the making of gcod citi zens out of them. The Concord dispatch in reference to the sentencing of the twelve-year-old girl to the penitentiary follows: When the second week's term of Cabarrus superior court convened this morning at 10 o'clock, Susie Hannon, the 12 -year-old white girl who was found guilty of manslaughter last week, was presented and Judge Bryan sentenced her to five years in the state penitentiary. The girl stood before trie court without a quiver and receiv ed the sentence without signs of much concern. She was accompanied by the father. In his talk to the girl in pass ing sentence, Judge Bryan referred to the conditions under which she had been reared and to the influences, ex pressing a hope that she might be able to reform at the state's prison, or that from there she might be able to get into a reformatory and be given a chance to grow into a useful and vir tuous woman. If, according to , federal supreme court decision, handed down on Mon day, the state of Kentucky can pro hibit any insurance company doing business in that state, what is to pre vent any state, by legislation, closing her doors to any company engaged in any other kind of business just so in terstate commerce is not interfered with? This pcpular remedy never f&is to eJitctuaiJy cure Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Kcatfeche, Biliousness And ALL 15 EASES arising frr a: a Torpid Livvi end Bad Digestion The nstcrn! result fs jced : rrtii e ttsd sii;4f f;e&!:. Dose cms!!: cant ?y f rr-prrcRted i?d sesj- tc ;. Tele utSUtute- Tiffs F ils 3IUXICIPAL OWNERSHIP. In the May number of The Journal of Political Economy there is an' artic1 t by Everett W. . Burdett, of Boston, on "Municipal Ownership : in Great Qri. tain." He discusses the, subject trader the sub-heads of "Ha3 Munidr Own ership and Operation of Pub1 jc Service Utilities in Great Britain B' fn success ful?" "If so, to What Extent?" "If Not, in What Respect ' hZ5 jt Failed?" The writer discusses ' the which have led up to, and are responsible for, existing conditior whatever they are, and inquiries vhether it would be de eirable, if pr? ticable, to reproduce the same condiions in the United States.' After rj0ing extensively into details his con fusions can be summed up in the 3 .eclaration that, on the whole, he dor-s not ' find the system a success '?hen considered in reference to the whole public. He says that "the oper ation by British municipalities of pub lic utilities of the kind under consider ation has been successful, if at all, In the single particular of furnishing the service or supply at a fair price to a comparatively few persons"; that "aside from gas supply, it has not re sulted in any considerable profit to the municipalities, the losses in electric lighting, traction and telephone enter prises being frequent, while the profits, when realized, are generally not more than two or three per cent on the in vestment the result to date being an average loss." Some of the other results Mr. Bur dett sees and his general conclusions on his study of the system in Great Britain are: The accommodation of the few the consumers at the ex pense of the many the tax payers; the discouragement of private enterprise and the creation of a large and increas ing body of office holding voters; a most serious enlargement of municipal indebtedness (which has to be borne by nonusers as well as users) and the crea tion of a class of voters who can be re lied on to support extravagant expendi tures. Mr. Burdett argues that should it be assumed that the results of municipal ownership in Great Britain are, on the whole, favorable to the consumer and the public at large and it would be deemed advisable, if practicable, to duplicate the "financial and technical results" of British ownership in the United States it would be impossible to do so because of the totally different "political" conditions obtaining in the municipalities of the two countries. Mr. Burdett's article is a very inter esting one on this subject which is now attracting so much attention in this country. So worthy of the greatest consideration are the opening para graphs, which touch upon the rapid growth of socialism in this country, that we will give space to reproduce them here: The subject of municipal ownership has of late assumed a new importance in this country. In view of recent events, no one interested in either the safety of private capital or the effi ciency of municipal administration can close his eyes to the fact that a great socialistic agitation is upon us, which may result in far-reaching eco nomic changes. A spirit of unrest and largely a spirit of destructiveness is abroad in the land. The money power and the bosses' power are alike ob jects of popular aversion and attack. Capital looks aghast at the possibilities of destruction which lie in its path, while the professional manipulator of votes and of parties trembles lest his occupation be gone. Socialistic doc trines are finding new adherets and the professional agitator is winning new recruits. Witness, in this connection, the growth of the combined socialistic and socialistic-labor votes in the three last presidential elections; In-1896 it was 36,274 a negligible quantity; in 1900 it was 127,553 an increase of over 250 per cent, in four years; in 1904 it was 426,376 an increase of 234 per cent, in four years, and of over 1,000 per cent, in eight years an av erage increase of more than 133 per cent, a year. To these forces, professedly and violently socialistic, have now been added vast numbers of other persons, many well-intentioned, who, without consciously adopting the doctrines of socialism, are giving public affairs a decided impetus in that direction. Mr. Roosevelt must have been in a stew on last Monday. Several differ ent announcements were made at the White House as to the course he in tended to pursue in reference to Sen ator Tillman's statement on Saturday. One was that he would make no re ply. The Monday afternoon papers contained Washington City dispatcher saying the president would give out no statement that day and it was not likely one would be made on the floor of the senate, but his' letter to Senator Allison saw the light that afternoon all the same. It is said there were some lively discussions between the president and his Mends during the day. over the course he should pursue, some being opposed to his making any statement to the public. The people of Kinston have begun a crusade against the cigarette. We wish them success but can't say we have much idea that they will run the pest out of their town. Those com mittees appointed at a mass, meeting, of citizens to devise plans for driving cigarettes out of the town have a dif ficult proposition before them. They may "devise plans," bait the trouble will be to devise any that will do the work- j It looks like Wilkes county will get the next congressman for the eighth district, whether he be a democrat or a republican; that is, if Mr. Blackburn has moved his citizenship back to his old county since he Induced Mr. Roos evelt to let him name the postmaster for Greensboro, "his hxne town 4 There are eleven counties in the dis trict and the democrats of Rowan and Stanly , have declared for Mr. R. N. Hackett, of Wilkss. He will get his own county and this will give him such a lead over the several other can didates as to almost surely secure the nomination for him. Mr. Blackburn's J majority two years ago was only two hundred and forty-five. Green county, aoocrding to the Snow Hill Enterprise, stands at the head of the list in the matter of vot- ! ers paying their poll tax. It says not a white man in that county will be de prived of his right to vote next fall through failure to pay his poll tax by May 1st- We doubt if the same can be said of another county in the stare, though we woi ! 1 like to know that there are a goor. many of which it can be said. ' Kansas repu1:'.' ans in convention pass a resolution ommending her sen ators and representatives in congress for the 'support of republican poli cies. Senator Ev.rton is a republican and is still a senator, though the only policy of that party he has supported since his conviction of high crimes has been the regular drawing of his sal ary. WTe suppose the resolution in cludes him also. As evidence of public opinion in Washington on the president's action regarding the railway rate bill it is stated that the representative in that city of The Courier Journal, when tbe Roosevelt-democratic combine was first formed, made the prediction that Mr. Roosevelt would fly the track and he was taken up by the correspondent of a Roosevelt paper. A bet of "the finest hat in the city" was made. On Tuesday Mr. Roosevelt's newspaper friend paid the bet. If Senator Carmack is right there must be a great many "scalla wags and traveling men" in the democratic party in Tennessee. In a speech made just before the senatorial primary he said nobody but "seal la wags and traveling men" were going to vote for Taylor. He probably thinks differently now. Mr. Roosevelt seemed to have for gotten all about Grant and Frazier. Mr. Blackburn had to go to the White j house to jog his memory last week, but it'does not seem to have done their cause much good. 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The negro arrested at a brick yard near Blews Creek and in jail here was re-identified yesterday as Ed Davis, the man who shot and killed Conductor Wiggins at Salisbury, Sunday, April 29. Mr. Carl Ring, a son of Dr. J. W. Ring,, of Elkin, who was on the street car at the time Mr. Wiggins was killed, and who w.as shot in the left arm by a stray ball fired by Davis, arrived here Sunday morning and in company with officers went to the jail, where he point ed out the negro (who was in the cell with a number of other colored prison ers), identified Saturday by J. E. Pain ter as the guilty man. Mr. Ring said he was confident that the negro he quickly pointed out was the right man, because when the shooting took place he had ample time to gather in his mind a good description of Davis. Mr. Ring, who is clerk in a hotel at Salisbury, returned home Sunday af ternoon. The wound -on his arm is still giving him considerable pain. Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Whitney, arrived here at 10:40 this morning and went direct to the jail in company with two officers. After caretully viewing every negro in the prison, the officer stated that Ed. Davis, who worked for him and who, it was alleged, was the slayer of Conductor Wiggins, was not in that crowd. The man identified by Messrs. Painter and Ring was then pointed cut to Deputy Moore, who stat ed that this negro was too. black for Ed Davis. However, the deputy sheriff, whowas sent here by Sheriff Julian, of Rowan, admits that he does not know, except from reports that Ed Davis was the negro that committed the crime. Sheriff Alspaugh has been notified by Sheriff Julian and Solicitor Hammer, who is in Salisbury, to hold the negro in custody here for further investiga tion. . , Sheriff Alspaugh in response to an inquiry, received a ' letter today from Sheriff Pinnix, of Rockingham, stat ing that the father (John or Henry Whitt) of the man arrested for Ed Davis was seed and his story was to the effect that his boy, Chas. Whitt, left home, near Reidsville, two or three weeks ago to work at a saw mill. The father also told Sheriff Pinnix that his boy's mind was unbalanced and that he was released in January from the Vir ginia penitentiary, having served a sentence for some crime. The" boy told some of the officers here since his arest that he got into a shooting scrape in Virginia something over a year ago and that while he d:d not know whether he killed the man that was shot, he did remember being tried and sentenced to the pen for 12 months.Winston Sentinel. 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