The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21
PUBLIC OPINION.

John ?. Aitgeld demonstrated last
year that he was by far the ablest man
among the silver leaders, and to judge
by his labor day speech at Philadel-
phia, his forces are not on the wane.
Neither the revelations of the irregu-
larities that occurred during his ad-
ministraticn as governor nor the per-
sonal losses that he has sustained have
sufficed to break his spirit. The pas
sionate vigor, the picturesqueness, the
intense sincerity of his language COM
pei a certain admiration, even from
his enemies; and are we'll calculated
to excite the widest enthusiasm among
his friends.-ChicagO Journal.
Not strange, perhaps, but the fact
that there is a growing tendency among
the rising generation to break away
from southern traditions is all the more
reasO why southern youths should not
be sent north to be educated. The
disposition to ignore southern tradi-
tons is due largely to the influence of
southern men who have attended insti-
tutiOns of learning at the north, and
have become inoculated with the doc
trine that everything thai succeeds is
right and everything that fails is
wrong. There never was a greater 81
more dangerous heresy, Or n the
south is under greater obligation to
herself to stamp out. The surest way
to stamp it out is to build up our south
ern institutions Of learning by pat
ronage and Observation-Disclosures
Dispatch.
This extraordinary gravity of our ex-
tempOrized warriors and military crit
les is terribly misleading to foreigners.
They cannot be blamed for not seeing,
as Americans do, the exquisite humOr
Of it all. We put a plain civilian into
the navy department., and instantly he
knows all about naval maneuvers and
gunnery, n sees lurid visions of ar
Armageddon on the deep. The foreigner
cannot understand how the native SIM
ply smiles good-humoredly al this. So
with the blood-curdling articles printed
in our newspapers and magazines. The
last number of The Forum, for exam
pie. was all aflame with war and ru-
mors of war-all the talk was of big
ships and ornaments and annexation
nj getting ready for the worst. Does
this represent a fierce desire of the
American people to go to fighting with
somebody? Not at all: it simply means
that a tired editor was trying to get
a little spice into a dog days number
of his magazine.-New York Evening
Post.
w $1,000 - SoSNo Ia LhAS " WAN
a community in this country owes ODE
dience to the law and constituted au-
thorities till these have been changed
by lawful methods. Every man has a
just claim that his rights be respected
he is equally bound to respect those
of others. The Mormons claimed the
authority of divine inspiration for their
conclusion that our law was wrong;
they were given the option of obedience
OF removal, and the whole country ap-
plauded. Debs n Bellamy declare
that our law is oppressive. unreasona-
BILE, n unjust, and they point US tc
a heaven Of their conception, which
they invite us to enter. They must
obey u law Or take themselves be-
yond it's jurisdiction. The truth Is sc
clear, the conclusion is so well founded
on logic and law, that we must enforce
it or surrender alike the rights of the
individual and those of the community
U-JackSOnville (F1a.l TimeS.IInion