The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-07

foreign element which makes up a
large proportion Of the mining class,
as we'll as the desperate stralghts to
which the miners in many cases, with
the mere pittance Of 1.o0 Per week
union allowance. are icing reduced
Winston Sentinel:
The coal strike does some odd things.
Last week the price of coal to the
Southern railway was advanced 5 cents
per ton, while to the poor people in
Washington City it was advanced 20
cents OIL the bushel.-Winston Senti-
mel.
A gentleman, who keeps up with
state and national. as well as Rham-
katie politics, said 10 a friend yester-
day: "Pritchard's independent annex
has gone to pieces. They seem dazed."
His friend, who seemed in perfect
agreement with him., replied: Its
worse than that. They have been Bill
Day-sed."-News and Observer:
Senator Beverage has added to the
gayety of scattering fire by declaring
that free trade is the mother &C trusts.
enator Beverage is a great man but
still we don't expect to Gee this partic-
ular view generally adopted by repub-
lican campaignerS. An Indiana re-
publican will believe most anything
Beveridge will tell him, but this dec
laration will probably require a good
deal Of Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The first socialist ticket ever named
in North Carolina was put out Monday
at Winston. The socialists OILY made
nominations for the legislature aid en-
dorSed NJ. /. Stewart, forme" republi-
can state printer for the United States
senate. North Carolina mas thus far
been free from these wild political par
ties, other than populism, but the noii:i-
nation of a socialist ticket only shows
what We are coming to in the course Of
time.-Raleigh Times.
Wonders never cease, and one of the
strangeSt things Of today is how any
white man in North Carolina. any con-
ate soldier can vote to return a man
to congress who voted against pension
ing confederate soldiers. but got a bill
through congress to pension deserters
who went to the northern army. But
there are white men in Bladen county
who are going to vote for a republican
to represent them in the legislature,
which is the very same thing as if they.
were voting directly For Pri:chard.-
Clarkton Express.
AS was anticipated by 4 great num-
Der of people. the amalgamation of the
Imperial and American tobacco COM
tNNAA~S AAoS oSNH "NOA4i AAN ~
feet this will have on on raw product,
belongs to the future, and any state
ment will be more or less Il hazard. and
cannot be made with a great degree of
certainty; but to use the familiar
phrase of one of Americas greatest
statesmen, we can only be guided by
the lamp Of experience, and to use this
standard with which 70 measure by,
our forecast would naturally be gloomy.
Kingston Free Press.
Considering the near view OF the coal
trust he has had as chairman of the
Civic Federation. it is astonishing that
Senator Hanna should I've the audaci-
ty to make himself respo lsibla for this
statement: when you talk about Or
ganized capital in this country form
ing monopolies you talk nonsense.
There are no monopolies in this country
except such as are protected by pat
ents." In the presidential campaign Of
1900 Mr.. Hanna announced ,hat there
were no trusts. Now, in the same spirit
of quibbling, he tells us that there are
no monopolies except these for which
the patent office is responsible.-Char-
lotte News.
We have been expecting President
Roosevelt'S strenuous horSemanship and
sportishness generally would get him
into trouble. Now comes the London.
Chronicle n deposes and says that
King Edwards government Is conSid-
ering the propriety of making Theo-
dore Roosevelt a colonel Of a British
regiment-of the Horse Marines per-
haps.' Now wouldn't our president cut
a dash Looping down Rotten Row bedeck-
de in a red coat and other trappingSI
not on speaking terms with our regula-
lions. However, We must think Tom
Platt and others who do not X
Mr.. R~ooSevelt's insistence that the tar
lift needs revision are more responsible
for this Chronicle story than King Ed
wards government. At least the latter
cannot be discussing the "~propriety" OF
such an act, for there is no propriety
even in such a suggestio7.-Raleigh
Post.
The Detroit Free Press, in comment
ing upon Secretary Hays appeal to the
for the protection OF the perse-
cuted Jews of Roumania, says: ITO
be sure the lot Of the Roumania Jew
is not a happy one, yet they do not
suspected Of having committed n crime
against society. He has lew political
privileges, u they do not assassinats
him when he undertakes to exercise
those few. He has a melancholy social
standing, but they do not compel him
to ride in Jim Crow cars; they do MT
refuse to serve him in hotels and res
taurants, and they do not lynch him il
he grows insistent and undertakes to
assert his lawful privileges" Regard
ing this deliverance The Atlanta Jour
has the following to say: The
Free Press pretended to be a
democratic paper, but we have never
seen from the most reckless bloody
shirt journal a viler SANDER OF the
southern people than is embodied in the
positive terms and palpable limitations
Of the editorial from which we have
quoted. There is not a professional re-
publican campaign liar, now I'm service,
or gone to the reward which is in store
for all his kind. who ever dis. or ever
which this pretended friend Of The south
has embodied in the words we have
quoted" The Journal should not get
so worked up over the fac hat the