The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-25

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about to sail for a foreign home over
seas it had never beheld before. How
strong h faith, how afrectionate the
tone, how beautiful the manner. The
great, editor was very near the end of
his mortal life:
Il expect within a few hours to glide
of the stays like a launching ship and
be afloat on the wide ocean OF eternity.
and / desire to say to my contempora
ries Of the press. Of whom I am prob
ably the senior, that they have contibu,
ed TO the pleasure OF my long editorial
life. I ave never met one OF the fra
ternity who did not leave me happier
when he retired. There has therefore
grown up in me a more than respectful
even an affectionate, regard for the
members of the religious editorial fra
ternity. and to them I send a cordial
and loving greeting. I expect in a few
hours TO be in the shadows which are
only a brighter life. and from tina,
misty region I call back most cordially
God prosper and bless you all. 1t pleases
me to think that this shall be among
the last Of my coherent thoughts"
The dispatches from the south pour
into Washington filled with indignant
remonstrance and indicating high ex-
element. They are all about Teddy
and Booker. The Washington CORE
| spondent of the Baltimore Sun sent
this:
Many of the men who have talked
with the president on the situation in
the southern states have gone away
from the White house convinced that
he does not appreciate how impossible
it is for the white man of the south 10
place himself on a personal equality
with the negro. Southern men
here tonight, in commenting on the
Washington incident, declare that the
president does not n connot under
stand the bad effect the inviting a ne
gro to dinner will have on the attitude
of the negroes Of he south toward
white men. their wives and families.
"a representative from Louisiana
a il that the dinner wou undo all the
good the president a accomplished in
appointing Ex-Governor J.. G.. Jones a
federal judge. Another declared the
south can never tax to its heart any
man who has had a colored man at the
table with him.
"Still another said: All the demo-
cratic appointments the president can
make would fail to reconcile the south
to the fact that the president Of the
United States ate at the same table
with a 'nigger.'"
1t is very bad, very ugly. very re-
pellant. 1t looks as if Roosevelt has
less PERCEPTION. understanding that he
was credited with.
The bishops of the Episcopal church
in their pastoral dwelt upon the anarchy
of our land, and the great crime at
Buffalo, New FORK. They think the
president was a victim of the spirit of
the age. This is an age of learned scep-
ticism as we'll as ignorant unbelief.
They say hat the denial OF God and
failure to perform the duties of citizen
ship, are the first steps toward the
awful crimes that have thrice shocked
the country within the past forty years.
1t is a fact hat boosted modern civil
ization'' does not impress one as equal
to hat civilization which existed before
the wal between the states. When the
constitution of a great country is de-
nounced. is undermined. is changed and
ignored it is not surprising that grave
crimes follow upon the commission of
that ~stupendous crime.
The Europeans keep their eyes on
South Africa and keep we'll posted as
to British conditions, plans and views.
There is a plan announced in Holland
hat is pronounced ''ludicrous" by the
New York Evening Post, but it may
have in it more than is now apprehend-
ed. If the leading nations of Europe
could combine English would
be seriously restrained and affected
with heavy loss. The plan is to force
the British to great clemency towards
the Beers. The opinion of the New
York pape is that the plan lis to order
a general strike of Belgian, French and
Dutch dock laborers, f~orbidding the
men to load or unload freight for Brit
ish ships. This would seriously inter-
fere with English trade. and merchants
would further be requested not to ship
by British vessels. The idea of termi-
mating a war by means of a boycott is
rather novel, and the ridiculous char
acter Of the proposal is seen when it
is remembered hat over half of the
worlds carrying trade is done by the
use of British ships.