The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-30
PUBLIC OPINION.

Here's an old man dying in New
1ork whom Nobody outside of his own
immediate neighborhood ever heard of.
and who is said to be worth about $780,
VVO,O0O. There are not many localities
outside OF New York where such riches
could be covered up. Probably it is
no exaggeration to say that there are
scores Of multi-millionaires living in
that metropolis, whose wealth is I'M
known to anybody but themselves
Boston Herald.
When it was announced last Novem-
Der that Mckinley had received nearly
10000 more votes than Bryan in Penn
the idea that the state might
De doubtful In the election a year later
would have seemed too absurd for con-
Yet one republican newspa-
per after another Is o serving notice
that II the legislature goes on to the
n In the way that it has pursued thus
far-and everybody expects that it will
the party may be beaten in the con-
test over the state treasurership next
fall.-New York Evening Post.
The cause of bimetallism is growing
daily. Governor Pingree, Of Michigan,
says that the republican party will
never win another victory on the single
gold The republicans are leg
lslating to make the people pay more
for everything they consume. without
legislating for a financial system that
Will give the people more dollars with
which to buy. A nation cannot grow
rich by taxing itself, nor can its peo-
pie be prosperous n happy with a
financial system under which dollars
grow scarcer and dearer, and property
cheaper-Virginia Gazette.
The same paper. Boston Herald,
notes that within two years the south's
addition Of spindles had een $50. 746,
and New England's only GIL, 223, the
former being an increase Of 80 per cent.
and The latter of 5 1-3 per cent. And
then our Boston contemporary adds:
There can be no doubt that remark
able as was the southern growth in
manufactures between 1880 and 1890,
the progress of the current d~ecenniaI
term will be very much more remarka-
bic. The products of the mills, facto-
ries and workshops of the south
doubled in value in the ten years COW
cred by the last census, while The
amount of wages and capital invested
was nearly tripled." Next, referring
especially to the period from 1890 to
1895. The Herald says that in some
branches of production, the increase
of invested capital has been very much
above this average, and the output
has correspondingly increased. Also
that this is notably so in the case of
cotton seed oil, Of coal and of pig iron,
Richmond Dispatch.
The American people do not seem to
understand that an ambassador is an
awful end peculiar parsonage. He is
not like a mere minister, or envoy,
simply representing a nation. He
stands for the sovereign personality.
He is, in fact, the sOvereign's alter ego.
We all know how much greater and
more august the king, queen, or en-
perOr is than the millions Of people
over whom he or she may reign. Why,
then, a we not recognize the majesty
of his or her personal representative?
This brings us, naturally and easily, to
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British am
bassadOr, and to those frivolous and
disrespecting persons who make light
of his claims to precedence over vice
presidents, cabinet officers, supreme
court justices, senator's, etc. We
should like to ask them whether they
have seriously turned this question
I'VE in their minds and, if so, what
they NEAR by speaking of it in their Or
binary voices. So far as oncer the
Grant monument ceremonies, which
nave been made the occasion of a
fresh outburst of precedence excite
ment, it seems to us that the mana
gers thereof are in sad need of en-
~lightenment. Not to put too fine a
point On it, they are muddIing the
whole business. In our opinion, so far
from Objecting to Sir Julian's walking
in front of the vice president and the
rest OF the official rabble, they ought
to put him in front of Mr.. Mckinley
himself.-Washington Post.