The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-04-09
PUBLIC OPINION.

As the facts surrounding Mr.. Cleye-
lands raid upon the civil service are
becoming better known, the indIgna-
ton Of the Republican Congressnnen
is growing. There have been several
IN the house against the civil
service laws, while the senate Is just
about angry enough to repeal the
whole batch OF them. For his state
Of things Mr.. Cleveland is responsible.
He ~ntroduce a spells system under
the guise of reform, and there IS an
ardent desire 10 overthrow what he
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Enquirer
We see that a numJe of cur weekly
exchanges are actually using plate" or
patent editorials. Great Cod. what
a monstrous degradation OF the press
is this, Reform this: reform it.-reform
it at once and altogether. Better have
no editorials han these canned pro-
ducts. 1t not only degrades journal
ism, but the man who engages in US
ing it, OF who allows or countenanceS
it; and whenever we see a sheet with
these frauds usurping the place-the
sanctum SsnctOrum-of free thought,
free speech = a free press, we are
forced 10 believe that man responsible
for this oesecartion must be an ex-
junk-dealer, or a huckster of rotten
fsh.-E-TfoIk Pilot.
The E-assachusettts House Of Rep
r~esentatives has done a surprising
thing n refusing by a vote of 66 tool,
TO pass q resolution asking congress to
take action in behalf of the Cubans.
1t is surprising, because it is the first
of its kind. No other legislative body
in any state has voted down such a
resolution. But this vote does not i'm
ply any lack of sympathy on the part
of the men who cast it, or the people
ehind them. with the cause of the
Cuban insurgents. In Massachusetts,
as in every other state in the Union,
the people, without distinction of
party, give their sympathy and good
wishes to the oppressed in every land.
There, as in every other m
wealth, the desire of the masses, in
Guiding all the classes, is that the Gu
bans may gain their Independence
| Washington Post.
The controversies and chickering's
among the Republican representatives
in Congress over the DrepOsterously
| high rates of duty proposed in the wool
schedule Of the Dingley Tariff bill
show hat the war between the wool
growers and the wooden manufacturers
| still continues. The Ways and Means
| Committee has not been able to COM
pose the quarrel by the practical re-
adoption of the Mckinley rates, with
a few vicious changes for the worse.
Robbers can seldom agree on the di-
vision of the spoils either before hand
or after the robbery. How the republic
can leaders can expect a feature of
the tariff to stand which has twice
been overwhelmingly condemned by
the popular vote, and which fails to
satisfy the special interests in whose
behalf it has been arranged, is more
han the OnluOkers can understand
solomon declared that there We're our
things too wonderful for him to eX-
plain: % The way of an eagle in air:
CD the way of a serpent upon a rock;
90 the way of a ship upon the sea; and
() the way Of a man with a maid" Had
solomon been a witness of the methods
of constructing protective tariffs in the
United States he would have enlarged
his list of things MISUNDERSTANDING
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