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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

Washington, June 19.-The situation
as to the ~retaliatory tariff war between
the United States and Russia is such
that b next move must be made by
the former. if this contest is to be pur-
sued.
Secretary Gage. in his letter. raises
the question whether the Russian gov
eminent has not infringed upon the
rights Of the United States under
treaty. Article VI Of the treaty of
commerce with Russia of 1892, reads:
mo higher or other duties shall be
imposed on the importation into the
United States of any article, the pro-
luce or manufacture of Russia; and no
higher or other duties shall be imposed
On the importation into the empire of
Russia Of any article, the produce
or manufacture of the United States
r are, or shall be, payable on the
like article being the produce or manu-
facture of any foreign country. " 80.
By levying maximum duties on Unit
ed States. bicycles, resins, and ma
chinery and especially designating them
as United States products, the Russian
government has, it is not doubted,
made just such a discrimination as is
provided against in thi article of the
treaty. The question is raised, howev-
er. whether by u action in levying a
duty on Russian petroleum specially
describing it as such the United States
government has not also violated this
article.
There is no penalty article in the
treaty, but under the common practice
of international law, a country may de-
nounce the whole of a treaty where it
is satisfied that one of it's provisions
has been %purposely broken. If such ex-
IRENE action is taken in his s. there
would be no trade treaty between Rus
sian and the United States and, as far
as Russia is concerned, the maximum
tariffs which are practically prohibi-
tive, would apply to all imports from
the United States.
On the other hand, If such action by
Russia is regarded as a discrimination,
the United States government may by
existing law, exclude any or all inn
ports from Russia.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, in discussing the latest phases of
the tariff issue which has arisen be-
tween Russia and the United States,
today said that the issues do not seem
to him to be very grave and he is hope
full that they will be satisfactorily ad-
justed. He said hat the action of
Russia is an economic move and SIM
pie, and he is quite certain that it is
due to no ~antagonism against the
United States.
Count Cassini said that no political
significance could attach to a matter of
a purely commercial nature. He said he
knew nothing of any European move
ment against American products.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

special from London to the Chicago
|Record-Herald Of 18th inst. says of
him:
M. Dewftte ten years ago was bat
IAN unimportant parsonage compared
with the then r~edoubtable procurator.
Fifteen years ago, when he was an un-
known man in st. Petersburg, he be-
to the narrowest school of the
lorthodox Greek church. He was bit
lterly anti Semitic. He Loyalty support
led the policy of the all-powerful pro-
l~curator. who found him a most useful
lco-adjutor."
lance eight years ago, and has since
steadily 5roadened and liberalized. He
lights the cause of the procurator. 1t
lis telegraphed that h did not hesitate
Ito challenge the policy Of NJ. Pobiedo-
.lnostzeff in the troubles with the stu
dents. While the trouble in no way
laffected mis- own department Of the
lgovernment. NJ. Dewltte characterized
1.-THE treatment TO which The Kieh stu
Idents were subjected as stupid and
brutal"
1t is said his next blow was Gin con-
Injection with the accommodation OF
lTolstoi. This he declared to be not
Ionly infinitely discreditable to Russia.
ibut a grave danger"
That is interesting reading. Think of
a bold, progressive, wise official in hide
bound Russia. 1t appears that Minis
tier DeWitte has a supreme ambition
THAT is most commendable and wise
lit is ito make Russia a great indus
trial power. on a par with the United
Estates and Great Britain, and this OBJ
Iject can only be attained by the social
Improvement of the working classes OF
Russia"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
BREvTTIES.

Now that the able and pure William
J. Bryan states that he has no iden-
LITIGATION with that new party in
Missouri, it is to be hoped that his
slanderers will retract thir accusation
and beg pardon humbly and honestly.
Captain Reichman. Of the Seventeenth
U. S. Infantry slikes the Beers and
among them in South Africa He makes
their army larger than other recent re-
porters.
A drunken preacher shoots DR.. j. G..
Jessup in California. 1t is observable
that within a yea several preachers
four or five or a half a dozen-have ex-
pressed their pugilistic tern by shooting
pistols at people. The amusement
should stop.
In Greenville, s.. c.. in a $50, 900 fire,
to the thieves. We did not see that the
hooters were shot.
The Minnesota Prison Mirror, states
that no editor has ever been in the
Sldlc pIloOus ~ says.
"Other professions have beer well
represented. OF preachers we have nae
enough to furnish subsistence to an
African chief for a year; doctors in suf-
fcient numbers to depopulate a state,
and enough lawyers to establish a good
sized colony in Hades. But editors-not
one"
Senator Tillman made an off-hand
address at Newberry College, S. c. and
he did not kick the traitor McLaurin
once. He gave good advice. He urged
upon the graduates not to imagine
hat they knew it all, but to continue
their studies. cultivate the moral as
we'll as intellectual side of their nature
and above all to have common sense.
A Memphis paper says that Admiral
Sampson fired away several thousand
dollars worth of ammunition against
the ramparts Of Matanzas, but he was
SO far away that he only succeeded in
killing a mule" Hurrah! for Samp-
son any how, if he did kill that mule!
If any one thinks that the we'll worn
American trick of watering stock heav-
lily, is not understood in England, he
is mistaken. 1t is dc over there. In
1873, the roads were capitalized at $751;
800 a mile but by 1900 they had been
watered up to s291,O00 a mile.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

The destruction of the trees continues
all around the country. The penalty
is paid constantly in denuding the
lands. AS the virgin forests disappear
climatic changes follow. and drought
cold, ~barrenness. hard living follow.
In the north many states are now pay
ing the heavy penalty of sacrificing
the forests, stripping the lands, impov-
erishing in the end. What has been
there will come elsewhere. 1t is said
that the states of Wisconsin and Mich
igan, once the greatest lumber produc-
ers in this country. Except in a few
localities the work of the saw mill has
been finished there. Europe furnishes
many object lessons Of the dangers
that follow sweeping away the forests.
The wholesale destruction of the for
ests should cease everywhere. There
should be in every state a law enforc-
ing a tree planting day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
Carneyle's Monument 10 blaine

P~ittsburg. June 19.-Andrew Carnegie
will erect a monument to James G..
Blaine. A personal friendship of many
years and a warm admiration for the
great champion of American industries
inspire the philanthropist in his latest
undertaking. A site for the monument,
it is believed, will be chosen in Schen-
ley park, near h Carnegie institute.
1t was learned from an authoritative
source today that Mr.. Carnegie has
had the erection of the memorial in
mind for some time, but as yet definite
plans have not been formulated. The
friendship between Carnegie and Blaine
covered many years.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

The British Secretary of War, Brod-
rick, stated in the House of Commons
that 40,2 29 Beers were in the "concen-
~tration camps" in Africa. They are
of women, children and men.
The Beers are p%erishing in these British
pens Of death. The mortality is great
i'm these Internal 'Weyler" camps, and
it is admitted in the House of Commons
that women and babes are victims by
hundreds. In May last, over 300 chill
|dren died. The announcement of the
mortality was received with groans
from the Irish members and cries of
'Scandalous." Mr.. Brodrick added that
the authorities were arranging for the
release of the women and children who
had friends to receive them, but the
government could not undertake to
feed them in isolated positions. And
that is wal in 1901. 1t reads like a
lchapter from antiquity when brutali-
ties ragged and men were brutes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
Rraye Men Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as well as women, n all feel
he results in loss OF appetite, poisons
in the blood, backache, nervousness,
headache and tired, l~istless. rundown
feeling. But there's no need to feel
like that. Listen to J. w. Gardner,
Idaville, Ind. He says: Electric Bit
tiers are just the thing for a man when
he is all run down, n don't care
whether he lives or dies. It did more
to give me new strength n good ap-
petite than anything / could take. I
can now eat anything and have a new
lease on life." Only so cents, at r. R.
Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
HOME FOLKS.

The state officials will set an excel
lent and righteous example in paying
their taxes like any other honest and
patriotic North Carolinians. The sala-
iries of officials are as much income as
the poor mans fifty or n hundred
are his income. 1t is very we'll
to disregard an unfortunate legal
opinion particularly when it shocks the
honest sensibilities and provokes well
nigh universal condemnation. We do
not understand hat it is limited to
state officials to pay upon salary. Let
all march up and do the square, reput-
able, honest thing. Strikers may be
rejected if the taxpayers generally
find it out.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
Two of the shreveport Negroes
Lyuched

Shreveport, La. June 19.-Frank, bet
ter known as Prophet" Smith and F.
d. McLand, held at Benton for compile
ity in the murder of job Gray Foster,
were taken out by a mob tonight and
strung up to a tree. They were left
dangling side by side. The lynching
occurred on the Arkansas road about
one mile and a half from the Jail. Both
negroes made statements before death,
denying that they had anything to do
with the killing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

The world o requires several mill
ions of bales Of cotton above what has
been grown in the United States. Such
is the estimate of a German Off
.cial. He told the recent meeting of
German npinners at Leipzig that a.
600. 600 bales were consumed. This shows
how much of this cotton is grown in
other lands. The spindles employed
were given n the number Of bales
consumed in the various countries was
stated. The United States led with
|3.6OO.O0 Great Britain next, with 81
100000; Germany third with 1,4OO, 900;
Russia fourth, with 100, 900; Austria
fifth. with 7Eo. O00: France sixth, with
$50, 900; Spain seventh, with 45O. 900.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

co-education in tha well known insti-
tuition. but the trustees again refused,
and most wisely. 1t had been tried.
mind you. in that college for fifteen
years. and then abandoned. 1t will be
a bad day for it if it is ever restored
under the pressure of advocates. 1t is
not the thing it is cracked UP to be.
Send the girls to heir own schools and
make the schools the best.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
RUSSIAN TARIFF WAR
QUESTION As TO VIOLATION OF OUR
COMMERCIAL TREATY
WHICH NATION AT FAULT

Our Government That Rms
sia's Action Imposing Maximum
DUTY on Certain Articles IL a Treaty
Violation-The Point Raised That Our
Action as To Russian Petroleum
First Infringed Treaty Rights of Rus
Treaty.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
Working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coat-
ed globule of health, that changes
weakness into strength ,listlessness in
TO energy, brain-fag into mental pow
er. They're wonderful in building up
the health. Only % cents per box. r
r. Bethany.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25
Red Hot From the Gun

Was the ball hat hit G.. B. Steadman,
of Neward, Mich, in the Civil War. It
caused horrible Ulcers that no treat
ment helped for 20 years. Then Buck
lens Arrica Salve cured him. Cures
Cuts. Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure
on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure guaran-
teed. Sold by R. R. Bellamy. Druggist.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

Here is another sign of reaction and
a return to the long tried methods in
A petition signed by many
young women in Newark, Delaware,
was sent to the trustees of Delaware
college, second appeal-to introduce
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

Spencer Adams, who anticipated the
McLaurin kicking-out movement by
some year or so, is now in Washing
ton in search of a fresh teat, the one
he has been hanging to having '.gone
dry" and the juice does not flow.
Spencer was for awhile a sorry sort of
superior court judge, and then he was
stuck UP as a republican sacrifice and
trotted out as a candidate for governor
against Charles B. Aycock, and now
he has interviewed the president and
is just dying for office and such is
his spirit of sacrifice he is ever anxious
to go out to the Philippines as a judge.
He is endorsed by the brotherhood of
North Carolina of-fce-seekers," but
whether he is favored by embryonic
democratic kickers OF not. does not yet
Bark is willing and sympa-
|thetic Mckinley will bear him tenderly
in mind when he goes into the appoint
ing business for the remote section of
the kingdom. Adams will be rewarded
and then he will be happy, and better
yet he will leave his country for his
country's good.' Speed h propitious
day. He ought to take George White
along with him. George has expert
ence as a republican solicitor.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

There were q applicants before the
state board of pharmacy. AS we write
we do not know results.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-06-25

A dispatch from Raleigh to the Bal
timore Sun, gives this of one of our for
mer highly esteemed citizens:
chairman Franklin Mcneil, of the
State Corporation Commission, has re-
turned from San Francisco. Mr.. Me-
Neill says he likes the Atlantic Coast
much better than the Pacific and far
prefers North Carolina to California"
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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-08-07
PURIFYING ELECTIONS

Delegate William A. Anderson, OF
Rockridge, presented the following,
which was referred to the Committee
on Suffrage, 10 the constitution con-
vention July 81
Resolved. That the following pro-
vision, or provisions to like effect, be
incorporated in the Constitution OF this
State:
Section. Any person who shall
make, or sid in making, any false
registration of any person as voter
OF who shalt make, or aid in making,
any false poll of voters at any election;
or who shall make, or aid in making,
any false count of the votes cast at any
election for any officer elected by the
people, or at any primary, or political
convention, or meeting for the nomi-
nation of any candidate for any Office;
or who shall destroy or aid IN destroy
ing any poll-book, certificate or return
of any election, or fra ID ulentlo aler or
aid in fraudulently altering same; or
who shall sell his own vote or who shall
buy or barter the vote of another in
any legal election or in any party
primary, caucus or convention held to
nominate candidates for office or to
elect delegates to any party convention,
shall be guilty Of high misdemeanor.
and upon conviction shall be punished
fer each offence by confinement in jail
not less than six nor more than twelve
months and by fine Of not less than
five hundred de lars; and each vic.
lation Of any provision Of this section
shall be distirc- crime
In addition to the punishment and
penalties above described, any person
convicted under this section shall
thereupon forfeit the right to vote;
nor shall any pardon restore him to
such right until after the expiration OF
six years from the date OF such con-
viction.
Upon prosecutions against person
who buys or barriers the vote OF another,
the person whose vote has been so
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to testify; but he shall not upon 90
testifying be ever thereafter liable to
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to sell or b lrtering or agreeing to bar
ter his vote IN such case.
The provisions Of this section shall
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Assembly may enact such laws as
may oe ound to be necessary to make
the same more effective as provided in
tho next reCtion. H>
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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-08-07
Il DIVIDED STATE

II a shameful fact that upper
Virginia and lower v rainia are unable
40 agree on suffrage provisi' n.
Rumors come that the black belt viii!
consent 10 nothing which does not
hermit iia1d in elections, while The
great ahite counties oppose ary whole.
sale Acknowledgement Of the negro.
We are all Virginia. Look at the
men on the monument in the Capitol
Square. They are Tidewater and
Piedmont, white section and black
bet, mountain and coast, all Viz
ginis.
Do we want to split and dismember
the old State again, or do we want to
get together and pull and work to-
gether to put her 10 her old place in
the van of the States, q leader III
thought and progress, in craftsmanship
and ps,ri 'isme
This eonveatio gathe ed here w
is supposed to be the very cream OF
the-State's manhood, the essence Of
her nobility and high purpose and
patriotism. 1t is one of line OF Vir-
GINA conventions. The others have
been illu trio l. and mem ra lie, and
have made history II this on lis :
will be abjectely ri lieu Gus os con
trast, and he people OF the future W !
wish to have it bl ,tted from their
books. The body must follow and
emulate high example or iall absurd
iusigniuca"ce.
The first Virginia Goa vention threw
precedent broadcast to the winds, and
in the fear OF Gcd and the love I
liberty and allegiance to the best aid
purest principles, strobe boldly into
new ways aud gave voice to sentiments
and purposes wr,cA have inspired tue
people of the world aud given new
hope and light to mandind. Suppose
this last Virginia convention is gov.
erned by small county an sectional
politics and personal interests, and
grovels vilely in the muck heap of little
things, How will the two as whole,
aud the men in them Look when put in
the future side by side in the thoughts
of the Yirginians and of students
THO .ghout civilization!
Board, bold and earnest thought for
the present aud the future; patient and
warm affection for tue whole State,
and ardent ambition for the welfare
and glory of the whole Stste; devotion
to principle and purpose strong enough
to efface temporary interest and
narrow prejudices, are demanded OF
this consention. The duty of every
man in the convention is to open bis
mind, to humble his heart. to forget
everything exceps that he is Vlr-
ginian acting for Virginia and vir
ginians; that he is treading in the
footsteps Of giants and must take wide
strides; that he is following after the
ma tiers and leaders of mankind and
must strike to make bis work measure
to tue RS richmond News.