The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-17
PUBLIC OPINION.

It can be Id Of all men. and not
merely OF laboring men. that most Of
their misfortunes are due ( o their
choosing wrong eaders. They do 50
simply because they will not take the
time to think They follow the men
who promise the most withou stop
ping to investigate whether ii is posi-
Bile for the promisers to keep their
promises or whether Ii is desirable
that those promises should be kept
Chicago Tribune.
The Nashville officers did themselves
credit in eluding the mob that was bent
upon 1ynching the scoundrel arrested ! IN
that city charged with a most infamous
crime. Some may say that they should
have stood their ground. kept the pris-
oner in the Nashville Jail n protected
him. That is way to look at il; but
had they one so. the probability is that
there woul have been a sacrifice Of
life and the shedding of innocent blood.
BY the course pursued this was avert
ed and time mas been given for passion
to COO INC for reason to assert itself.
The wretch will be tried and il guilty
he will be convicted and will pay the
penalty of his awful crime. 1t will be
better in all respects than a l%ynching.
Knoxville Journal.
One of the metropolitan journals
much esteemed and ever ready to do
the right thing-in its issue of yester-
day contained on n page no less than
four denials. as follows: A denial from
Lieutenant Commander Sobral, of the
Spanish legation, that he a been
playing spy upon our forts in Charles
ton harbor; a denial from the John
Hopkins hospital of the story Of death
from toxine tests on PATIENTS; a denial
from Nice that Mascagni, the compos-
er, had attempted suicide; and a de-
NAL from Mary Anderson that she was
about to appea upon a concert stage.
Cypics may say that it would be bet
ter for the progressive journals Of the
gay metropolis not to know so much
than to know SO many things that are
not true; but the denial feature Of the
metropolitan newspaper press is not to
be put down by derision, and it is rap
idly coming to pass that every we'll
regulated newspaper will have to have
a denial department if not a gifted de-
nialist or it's staff.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Almost to a man, they are ignorant
of the English language and Of the
power to read their own. This means
hat they are densely ignorant of the
conditions Of American life, and inca
pable of adjusting themselves to those
cOnOltlOnS. Iney nave maze the VII
lagos in which they live Hungarian viii
lagos, and thus exempted themselves
from American influences. At home
they are accustomed to government by
force, and are also accustomed to pro-
test against what thy do not like by
force. In no country in Europe is the
mob so frequently put down by the
military as in Hungary. Their ignO-
rance their wan of American train
ing, and their character for violence
should be taken into the account when
responsibility is being fixed for such
an affair as that at HazeltOn. What
yer the responsibility for this artic-
ular affair may rest, the fact remains
that the right of citizens of this
try to regulate their own ive within
the limits of our laws, to work when
they wish to work. to be idle when
they wish to be so, must be protected,
or a profound change will be speedily
wrought in our social and political in
situations. Some other remedy for the
evils of the labor system other than
the destruction of personal freedom
must be found. That would be the
worst evil that could befall the cOun-
try. 1t would involve nearly all others.
Jacksonville Times-Union.