The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
COMMENT.

Colonel Bryan claims that Colonel
| Roosevelt is with the trusts. Sure.
He is tangled up with them. People
| hope he won't let go the .-Tangle hold,
! either.-New York Evenin- telegram
| Is it not charming to think that if
| the domestic price OF hard coal does
] not stop soaring, we c. get the arti-
Gle from Wales at eigh- Goll2rs a tor?
| Unless the engineers OF The protective
tariff can get a special session of con-
gress to meet this LANCER the con-
sumner may let escape alive Norfolk
! Landmark.
About $50 pages Of the democratic
campaign handbook is devote to i'm
perialiSm' and trusts" while tariff
reform is given very small, space in
the back Of the book. And yet the only
! times the democratic party has ever
won a national victory since the war
YVES when tariff reform" was given
first place.-Atlanta Journal
Many of the old confederats states
have provided homes for the INDECENT
soldiers h one sustained the con-
federacy. That other states hav not
| yet discharged this Solemn response
bility is a subject that we would like
to dismiss without comment. OF those
commemorative that have failed to
| provide a comfortable hcme for the
confederate. the less sid, the better.
1t is sufficient to state th2t they have
sadly disappointed public expectation.
New Orleans Democr2t.
That the republican party possess
more than it's share Of unrnitigated as
surance is demonstrated by the fact
that it is making M Of the features
of it's congressional campaign III of
the prosperous conditions which exist
at present in most sections of the coun-
%ryy r nc ~ 1rnf a L. rn SIC nrrNn
cry of the full dinner pali." for it
knows that if it did it might be called
on to answer some pertinent QuStions
regarding the whereab outs of the full
coal bin and the full meat box.-Hous-
ton Post.
Victory is claimed by totn the ARM
and the navy, but it = 20 be hoped
there will be no Acrimonious discus
| sions and no need for courts of inquiry.
American officers seem unable to agree
as to where the credit belongs, and tn Q
charges begun with Decatur and Bar
ron, embittered the Iaurels won On
Lake Erie and continued throughout
the civil war to break out with renew
ed heat as soon as We he'd shown our
excessive 'magnanimity' to Spain.
Will it be ever so? Perhaps the record
was begun with the efforts of the cabal
that tried to displace Washington and
must accompany all our history
Florida Times-Union.
Lieutenant Winchell, Of the navy, re-
ports some instructive results in the
use of oil on the steamship Mariposa.
running between San Francisco n Ia
hiti. The vessel, which has " Q
displacement of 800 tons, with engines
Of 2,481 horse power, consumed 21S bar
rels of oil per day in steaming 354 knots.
She used only twelve Of her eighteen
furnaces, burning crude I'll in two burn
erS in each furnace by means of an air
compressor Of a capacity of 900 cubic
feet per minute at thirty pounds pres
sure. The oil was so tyrr cent less in
weight than would be required for coal,
for one and one half pounds Of oil suf-
feed to produce a horse power. An i'm
portant advantage in the oil fuel was
the reduction of the engine room force
from thirty-SiX to twenty men.-NewS
and Courier.
Several years ago when the Southern
railway began to acquire control OF
various lines in the south, The Chroni-
Gle took the position that it must evil
IDENTIFY result in the development of the
country, because this great railway
system must get it's revenues from the
hauling of freights and Passengers and
this ould only be accomplished by
establishing colonies 2nd planting
industries along the railroads. The
Southern railway has already ac-
complished much and e doing a cor
stantly growing work along this line.
Not confined to any locality nor even
to this country, are the efforts that are
being made. Travellers returning from
Europe declare that they see placarded
in hotels and on bulletin boards of Eu-
rope the legenu-when you go to Ameri-
ca buy your tickets over the Southern
railway. In the southern states the
Southern railway has originated an in
dustrial development bureau which is
doing splendid work for th- SOUTH
Augusta Chronicle.
The brilliant editor OF the Louisville
| Courier Journal, always interesting and
forceful, has made the New York Four
| Hundred the subject OF ore Of his re-
cent biting editorials. If The fact be
anything like the picture drawn by
Watterson's caustic pen it is enough to
make the star-eyed Goddess Of Reform
hide her head and weep. We suspect,
however. that the members OF the -Four
hundred are not essentially different
from others in like circumstances and
do not include a relatively larger num-
Der OF fools and cads. With the ready
assistance Of New Yorx's satfon press
they live always in the glare Of public
ty and that this should occasionally re-
veal some Of them in the commission
OF an act Of folly Is not at all surpris-
ing. There are few dwelIers on this
terrestrial ball h get through life
without doing something { condemn
and most Of us can recall incidents in
our own carers at least as foolish as
those OF which this segment of society's
upper crust is guilty. Given an equal
amount OF money and time We will
back any collection Of ordinary Ameri-
cans to illustrate the truth of this con-
clusion by an absurdity equally as
spectacular as the Four Hundreds
most gorgeous effort--Savannah News.
The supreme court OF the United
States may be in some doubts about