The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-13
COMMENT.

Ieven TO the simple faith or Dom Paui,
THAT God is on the side Of the heaviest
Observation-Disclosures News
They had a republican convention up
lin Kansas recently which failed to de-
%nounce lynching in h south Such In
complete work is astonishing.-Mont-
Igomery Advertiser.
It will probably be no greater sur
1prise TO the public than TO Us that the
Isolusion OF the Clemson college troubles
detected by Senator Tillman and the
majority Of the oar Of trustees leaves
Those roubles still unsolved- II was
late in the day to be harsh: a lons
lcourse Of laxity and yielding is not a
good preparation for the sudden exer-
Icise Of arbitrary power.-Columbia
IState.
The platform of the Indiana demo-
lcrats Is one which ought to bring the
democrats together, but in all iikeli-
hood they iced another overwhelming
defeat before they al learn the differ
lence between the principles upon which
the democratic party is founded, and
1.-THE policy OF narrow and ambitious
Headers. Let US hope that they have al
ready learned this.-New Orleans
lPicayupe.
When ii comes TO originality in shirt
designs n colors, Senator Lodge, OF
Massachusetts,, always takes a LONG
Head over his colleagues. but in his
--latest effort he has outdone even him
self. He appeared IN a waistcoat and
shirt of identical material, a delicate
purple, which is said to have been
Especially woven for him. Nothing APP
proaching il has been seen at the CAPT.
Ital before.-Washington Post.
Booth Harrington, the author, is TO
become a Benedict on Jun 18th and a
farmer some three months later. He
Isays he is heartily sick and tired OF
Isociety; that society is hollow and in
Isincere, and that New York society is
the very worst of all in sham and hol-
llowness. The gentleman from Indiana
must nave in course of preparation a
Isociety novel, for which his press agent
is doing some discreet advertising.-Co-
Ilumbia State.
Infinite riches In a little room"-the
Igores and ellis, the odds and end of
land corners II margin OF real es-
tate on Manhattan Island just large
Ienough to furnish sites for "fiatirOn'
buildings an dlhe like. Old Archimedes
wanted only a fulcrum and a long lever
to set the globe ajar. Present day
buildings are content with a few feet
for the foundations of a modern bust
HESS lONeI VI Ddbtl.-A>CN lolh III
bune.
Politicians have filled both the Pan
anna and the Nicaragua routes so full of
seismic rumblinSs, extinct and instinct
volcanoes, and earthquakes, that 1t
gives the man who does not understand
ipolitics and Hanna the blind staggers
to even try to spell Nicaragua or buy a
Panama hat. By the time our politi-
clans for revenue only have filed a few
Imore distractions on the iSthmuS the
canal will, as a mere matter of econo-
my, have to De dug through Texas in
order to avoid seismic jigglings.-Hous-
ton Post.
Spencer Blackburn, representative in
congress from North Carolina, and a
republican, enjoys the distinction Of be-
ing the only mar holding a seat in
Ieither branch who smokes cigarettes.
Mr.. Blackburn likes his cigarette and
may frequently be seen in his seat in
the house with an unlighted bit of pa
lper and weed in his mouth. Seated
lnear Mr.. Blackburn is Representative
Ernest F. Acheson, of Washington, Pa,
who glories in has great record of never
Having taken q drink or smoked in his
life.-Baltimora Sum-.
The mission of United States Labor
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright is evil
Identity intended TO secure for President
Roosevelt direct information from the
coal operators and the strikers as to the
points of controversy between them at
the hands of a trusted interrogation who
has expert knowledge of b ques-
tions. The president has no interme-
diary authority, but he can undoubt-
eddy bring great moral weight to bear.
He is in a position to touch the finan-
cial and political susceptibilities of a
lgreat many influential personages and
corporations, and indirectly to help on
AN earlier settlement without directly
siding with either NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Record.
The democrats of Arkansas defeated
James K. Jones for the senate, but it is
said that their state convention will en-
dorse the Kansas City platform, free
silver, initiative and referendum and
all. Where is the sense of this? What
kind of leadership car the Arkansas
democrats have? Members of their
party throughout the country are re-
pudiating and abandoning these errors,
land why should any southern state per-
isist in them? Are we utterly besotted
with the idea Of lSolating the south en-
tirely, not only from the rest of the
union but from the rest Of the world,
land leaving ourselves as friendleSs as
we were while we chung to the inStitu-
ition of Slavery2-Richmond News.
President Roosevelt's intimation that
he is DESTROYS Of exerting his informal
Influence to bring the coal strike to an
end shows quick appreciation of public
as distinguished from party opinion.
The president is more han justified, in
view of the enormous public interests
Involved, in his expressed purpose to
take such unofficial action as he prop
ierly may to restore peace in the min
ing regions and confidence in business
l~circles. The min operators may, IL
they choose, treat peace suggestions
from the president of the United States
with as little respect as they have
shown to those of Senator Hanna and
the civic federation. But to use one of
lGladstone's famous phrases, they had
lbetter think twice or thrice" before do
ing so.
The congressional elections this year
lare likely to be largely affected by the
latitude of the dinner paid voter in
leastern and northern districts. In the
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