The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-16
PUBLIC opINIoN.

sam Jones viii be in Augusta May
sln--Augusta CGa) Chronicle.
The democrats Of Rhode island. will.
Il - SAID, ignore the currency question
IN their coming state The
democrats Of Rhode Island. at the last
election, re~pudiated their party. and
vent over u the republicans. The
democrats of Virginia. all Of whom
but about two thousand, stuck by their
party, VIII not ignore the currency
question in their text state convention.
nor have the consequences Of the result
or last falls election afforded them any
conceivable reaSon for doing otherwise.
Alexandria Gazette.
The largest amount of verse proiuc-
ed both here and in England that is
correct in form and not without a GER
tain grace of expression and business,
or houSht Is a remarkable phenome-
non. The great phrase which has a
life of its own and the musical stanza
which fingers in the memory are as
rare as ever. but a certain level is
reached oftener than il was attained
IN IN other age. Hardly a literary
man that does not possess and exer-
else the talent for Verse writing
Hartford Courant.
As Sam brings with him" blasts
from hell rather than airs from
heaven" and locates Shoel near by
Wherever he pauses for awhile in his
gong to and fro in the earth" he
should time his visits more seasonal
bIy-traversing the north in summer
and The south in winter. There will
be a hot spell in and arOund Augusta
about May 9th with a lurid glare and
ulphurouS smells prevailing, not to
speak of the more noisome doors that
Sam disseminates.-Norfolk Pilot.
1t it rumored III the senate viii
put a duty or hides. Certainly it ought
to, and We heartily nope it will. For
our part, if We are going to have a pro-
tective tariff at all We want one that
is severely logical. Hides on the free
list are as mOnstrOus a lapse from pro-
lection consistency as free wool would
be. Mr.. Dingley'S feeble plea that
there had been a duty on hides in but
three tariffs in our history, and hat it
had been in each instance repealed
will not do; why not make a fourth,
and defy the world to repeal it? Look
at the damning figures of importation
in 1896, as quoted by Mr.. Hepburn n
other good republicans-163, 600, 900 Of
pounds, worth $40, 600, 900! How COM
forting that $40, 600, 900 would be in the
pockets of the American farmers!
Some cringing New England congress-
men allege that most of this impOrta-
ton comes from tropical countries"
To this we reply, in the first place,
that a logical tariff should spare
neither the tropics nor the poles
New York Evening Post.
Official returns Of trade continue to
show the rapid growth of exports of
American manufactures Of nearly eV-
cry description. European trade jour-
nails and their echoes in this country
have repeatedly asserted that the enCr-
nous increase of these exports was
only an abnormal phenomenon, due to
accidental causes, and that a reaction
would soon set iii. But prediction is
the most g%ratuitous of all errors: n
in the present case. as in most Others.
there is no sign of its fulfillment. Those
persons abroad and at home who have
so eagerly prophesied hat the growth
in the volume of manufactured eX-
ports would 500 cease have overlook
ed the continuous progress of his
trade through a series of years. AS
the official returns published in The
Record on Monday last show, the ex-
ports of American manufactures
amounted in value to s151, 023, 11S in
1890; to s15S, 023, 11S in 1898; to 1888. 595. 743
in 1895, and to 1928, 4S9, 1913 in 1896. For
the eight months ended on February
%, 1897, the exports of manufactures
amounted in value to s174, $50, 920-in-
dicating e. total of S260. 600, 600 of these
exports for the present fiscal year, end
ing Jun Both next. These increasing
exports of manufactures largely con-
siSt of locomotives, stationary engines.
machinery, cycles, scientific apparatus
and many other articles requiring the
highest skill in production, n for
which much the best wages going in
the industrial world are paid.-Phila-
delphia Record.