The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-20
An UNM1srAKABLE TREND.

Intelligent newspaper readers and
affairs on these hores have seen with
alarm a steady, aggressive movement
in the direction u GENERALIZATION We
are not about to write again and so
Dol about Ii, but to note h drift and
to say hat IN every state now there
are Thoughtful, studious, faithful peo-
pie OF all political parties IN are
| watching the signs, and deploring the
| departures and expressing their grave
ap~prehensfons as TO he future There
Is no saner, more conservative. wiser
| newspape in New England than the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican 1t has
had an excellent reputation for thirty
or forty years for ability. for fairness,
for a high sense of justice. 1t support
ed Mr.. Bryan and writing Of results, ii
says: THE drift throughout the CIV
ilized world at present is away from
popular to centralized forms OF gov
| m on the basis of an aggressive,
| militant co-mmercialiSm-" That is alb
solutely true. We see evidence of this
IN a4Io
The danger in our own country that
are in~fatuation shall so seize upon
both parties Git holds the republican
already in its clutches) that the re-
publican-democratic form Of govern
ment shall completely disappear, il be-
ing swallowed up in this commercial
mailstrom. The trend towards pattern
alism began quite thirty or more years
ago.. 1t early developed after the wa
under the incompetent republican gov
eminent at Washington that the fed
eral government a to be the Great
Father and 1.-The forty acres and the
mule" for Samboo, followed by
the Freedman's bureau and its promi-
ses and rascalities. and all the other
palmalistic plans and efforts, including
the Blain bill to educate the negroes by
the federal government, dig canals.
straighten rivers, doctor the people,
manage guarantees, &c, are all in
evidence to establish the fact of the
trend. Beginning with Sambo il has
spread over all nationalities. The Sa-
vannah News says:
When there is a great iood in any
state or a great epidemic the first
thought is to ask aid Of the general
government. The chief railroads Of
the country, those which cross state
lines, are virtually under the control
of the general government. The In
terstate Commerce Commission has ST.
perviSiOn of them. 1t is now proposed
to place interior quarantine matters in
the hands of national officials, and it
is probable that it will not be very
long before the Marine Hospital Ser
vice will be in charge of quarantine
at all of the ports"
1t matters not who may propose d
new departure or have a new project
or cure all or what 10 it must be
watched, scrutiniZed and probably
Summed as you would a 1eper. If
this palimalistic continues to work it
will aid no little in the work of dis
integration and destruction Watch
Capitalization as you would the evil
one. What the News says is probably
true, but it is powerful and woeful.
Hear it:
"And it looks as if his GENERALIZATION
will continue until but little of the au-
thority the states once possessed will
be left to them While it is true that
the republican party is the party of
Capitalization, both of the great parties
have consented to most of the changes
which have AXE place."