The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-13
PUBLIC OPINION.

While it is q common thing to look
upon the odu of lab~Or-saving
machine as the displacement of many
manual tOilerS, the fact remains that
the achievements of the inventive spirit
have not only provided places for more
| W~Orkingmen than would otherwise be
prOftably engaged, but they rendered
every pursuit less arduOus and weari-
some and made it possible for the toll
! er to procure more of life's necessities
and comforts with the rewards of his
labOr.-DetrOit Free Press.
President Mckinley thinks to palliate
the scandal of his appointment of an
unfit man as congressional librarian
by giving out the information that Mr..
SpOffOrd did not wish the position. But
it was not q question between Mr.. Spot
ford and Mr.. Young; it was simply a
question between appointing a boss
owned spokesman and a librarian. Mr..
Mckinley tOok the spokesman, and
thereby showed either appalling igno-
rance of what was required or cynical
contempt for skilled Opinion.-New
York Evening Post.
SO much opposition has sprung up
| against the proposed duty on tea n
the proposed tax on beer hat there is
talk by some senators of taXing bank
checks, deeds, mortgages and other
c~OnVeyances instead. The attitude of
| some republican senators on this mat
ter is rather queer. They seem to be
cropping blindly about in search of rev
| enue, not knowing where to find it.
| Are such senators ready to admit that
a legitimate tariff bill, imposing a duty
on manufactured articles that are
brought in competition with articles of
domestic make, will not raise Sutfi-
cient revenue? Is the republican party
obliged to fall Jack upon war taxes in
order to keep the government running?
Is the republican party obliged to
camp on democratic ground and admit
| at this late day that a protective tariff
can not protect and provide suitable
at the same time?-SyracuSe
On. " Post.
Il is a note of warning to the demo-
Gratis who followed the indianapolis
igniS fatuuS into the swamp of repub-
licanism, and also an invitation to them
to return to the house of their fathers
before it is ~everlastingly too late.
Many of those men were honest in the
belief taat free silver was wrong and
| meant disaster to the party and the
country, and were blinded by the spe-
cious arguments of the vassals of plu-
tocracy that McKinleyism meant re-
stored confidence and an immediate re-
luIl - pIOSptI COIlulllOllS. IC
now see their error. They realize that
they were politically flim-flammed.
They see evidences every day that the
Mckinley wave of prosperity is
swapping hundreds of workmen. They
see them go down into the vortex Of
despair carrying with them their loved
ones. They know that this peculiar
brand of prosperity" is a fraud, a
fake, a political con. game, successful
I- u-orloI on thnno IN their own Dn6O-
ing. They must know that the true
| democracy will never surrender its
principles of tariff and monetary re-
form. They can not stomach the dish
Of hig protection buZzard served up
by the republican caterers. The crow
of a high protection rObber tariff dung
hill rooster oVer its victory has in it no
| music for their ears. If they be pa
triOts and brave men. they must return
| to the old faith and seek shelter under
the guns of its defenders.-HoustOn
Post.