The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-12
COMMENT.

been proposed, but few more practical
than that which Mr.. Hewitt suggests.
Publicity, inspection and discussion are
the greatest safeguards which the pub
lie can apply in order to correct abuses
and avoid conflicts and disastrous
losses" II the people nave the excIu-
sive right to create corporations they
have the right to regulate them afte.
they are created, and the regulation
that Mr.. Hewitt suggests should be en-
forced.-Baltimore Sun.
Johann Most, an anarchist, who has
had an international experience OF pris-
on life. says, a contemporary tells US,
that " the freer the country the worse
Is the Jail" He was first imprisoned in
Austria, where he was treated like a
gentleman" I'm Germany" he adds.
they set me to work at bookbinding.
Tina was easy. In London they made
me pick oakum. That was very hard.
The first time / was imprisoned In
America I had to fire a furnace. That
was hades." In other words Most got
here q lasts of what he AMI his gang
would make this country If tney could
have their way.-Richnond Dispatch.
The rioting and mob violence in the
anthracite region have increased to
such an extent as to lead to a fresh
call from the local authorities to Gov
ernor Stone for neip in maintaining Or
der and protecting life, property, and
unalienable right of every man to work
upon terms and conditions satisfactory
to himself. President Mitchell appears
to be doing all he can to keep the min
ers quiet, but lie is plainly unable to
control the turbulent element. History
repeats itself in this. as 1t will in the
stern repression by the government of
murder n rioting. Governor Stone
ought to know that the time to put
down mob violence is in Its beginning
New York World.
Mr.. William c. Whitney says that if
he made any such remark as that in
which the republican papers have re-
Gently taken so much delight-that the
democratic party had mo issue and no
man"-it vas a chance one and III no
respect represents any opinion held by
him. Mr.. Whitney says he mas no re-
collection of having made use Of the
expression. The republican papers,
however, will not be so ready to correct
the reports as they were to give it pub
licity without verifying it. Meanwhile,
If the democratic party really had no
issue OF its own, it could make a fine
campaign merely by taking the negative
side of issues raised by the republican
oarty.-Savannah News.
1t would be interesting to know more
about the foreman in a Chicago lumber
yard who ordered his men not to trow
a board to a drowning man in the river,
fearing, no doubt, that the board would
be lost or damaged. Human life is sup
posed 10 be pretty cheap here, and it is
often sacrificed to save a i:tIie money,
but his will have to be set as an eX-
treme case. 1t is easily conceived that
the board used to save the life of the
unfortunate might have been rescued
also and sold along with others at no
material discount: This foreman should
be turned VI by the authorities for sew
eral reasons. His recklessness of life
n his Worshipful regard for property
would make him a frst-class trust law
yer OF federal judge.-Chicago Chroni-I
Gle.
The Philadelphia Inquirer referring to-
child labor in southern cotton mills
says that nc one familiar with condi-!
tions in the south is apt to believe that
child or man is apt to overWork. This
at the industry of the southern
people Is found in an editorial telling of
the great growth of cotton manufacture
ing in this section, n predicting thar
by 1910 the south will probably manu-
facture half the cotton. 1t is rather
strange that even in Philadelphia a
theory could be invented to explain the
success of the southern factories conn.,
patible with the idea that their opera
tives are not Industrious. The south is
rich in natural endowmentS, but not
rich enough to give success without
hard work.-Florida Times-Union.
War to the knife between the presi-
dent and the Obstructionists of Cuban
reciprocity seems to De certain. The
New York Tribune, one Of the presi-
dents stauncheSt supporters, declares
that the enemies of his Cuban policy
are in a conspiracy to ruin h island
first, and then steal it, This is a very
%ferocious attack upon a large number
of prominent republicans in both houses
Of congress to come from the leading
organ Of their party. senator Burton,
of Kansas, has added fuel to the flames
by asserting that most Of the republi-
can senators who posed as friends of
the Cuban reciprocity bill were hypo-
critics. and that there are not fifteen
republican senators out of the fifty-four
who are honestly in favor OF the present.
bill" President Roosevelt IS said to re-
alize that he has been tricked by some
men upon whom he relied and his wrath
against them burns hot.-Atidnta Jour
nal.
Will President Roosevelt be nomi-
mated to succeed himself?" Is a uueS-
ton which is discussed by many of our
contemporaries on both sides of the
party line. Perhaps there are nc two
papers more widely apart On most of
the living issues thar the Atlanta Con-
stitution and the Philadelphia Press.
In a recent issue each of these papers
we find a leading editorial on this ques-
ton. The Press answers it affirmative
ly. The Constitution negatively. His
tory will repeat ITSELF says our Allan
ia contemporary, n then proceeds to
argue that the fates of Tyler, Fillmore.
Johnson and Arthur will be he fate OF
Roosevelt. Our contemporary attempts
to justify rs conclusion with the asser-
ton tina Mr. Roosevelt lis taking the
identical road hat led his prototypes
in the office to fall" n the declara-
ton that IF like causes produce like
effects almost any political surveyor of
clear vison can ven now run the lines
of Mr.. Roosevelt's purse to the preci-
pice."-Washington Post.
1t turns out that Mr.. Bryan's New
England trip has not been wholly with
out encouragement. What can the man
expect in that quarter" many people
asked themselves when the trip was an