The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-01
COMMENT.

The striking dyers of Paterson are
learning to their cost hat they have
succeeded in injurying their employers
as well as themselves, and that as a
consequence orders for their products
nave been transferred to other silk
manufacturing localities. Such is the
experience with nearly all labor strikes.
and especially with those in which the
movement is local and partial.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The wisdom of the Pennsylvania re-
publicans in putting their best foot
foremost is shown in the action of
their opponents at Erie yesterday. Mr..
Pattison is a man Of high personal
character and demonstrated ability. He
has the respect not only of the state
but of the country. He has twice been
governor. His election on both occa-
sions emphasized the protest of the
people against bad government. The
republicans had abused their trust. n
were d~eservedly defeated at the polls.
Going upon the theory that there was
no hereafter they put up ring can-
didates with ring objects undisguisedly
in view, and thus invited, and received.
"a sound drubbing. They were wiser
this year. They read the signs of the
times Alright. A ring tool at the head
Of the ticket meant certain defeat
Washington Star.
The New York Mail and Express
(Rep.) views with alarm the drawing
of the color line in Cuba as was man
ifested in Havana the other day by
certain demands made by the blacks.
This action on the part OF the Cuban
blacks, indeed, is calculated to dis
concert many of the northern republi-
can newspapers. for have they not
pointed to Cuba as illutrating h fact
that blacks and whites might live to-
gether in amity and equality? Have
they not pointed out as sustaining
their theories. that white soldiers in
Cuba fought under negro commanders.
and that one of the idols of the
Cuban revolutionists, Antonio, Maceo,
was a mulatto? And yet here it is,
as soon as peace and independence
have come, we see a drawing of the
color line. It means. OF course, that
the race feeling has merely been latent
all these years, smothered possibly by
the tyranny of Spain and the desire
for observation-disclosures News.
President Roosevelt seems to be con-
stitutionally incapable of opening his
mouth on any public occasion without
making a demagogic political speech.
at once untimely and undignified. His
speech at Arlington on memorial day
was a fair sample of what he can do
in this line and his Harvard address
was pretty much on the same order
Selling the occasion of the comforting
of a degree upon himself. he launched
out into a TRADE against those who
have not approved of everything Gov
ernor Wood did in Cuba and of what
Taft and Hell Roaring" Jake Smith
did in the Philippines. Listen TO this:
When in England they get a man to
do what Lord Cromer did in Egypt;
when a man returns as Lord Kitchener
will Ieturn from South Africa, they
give him a peerage and a great sum
of money. He receives tangible reward
and our Cromers, our men OF that
stamp, come back to the country and
il they are fortunate they go back to
private life with the privilege of talk
ing up what they can find of the string
left loose when they sundered their old
connections: and lie they are unfortun
ate, they are accused of m~aladversion
In office" Are we to infer that Roose-
Welt feels that "a peerage and a great
sum of money should be given 'our
Kitchener" Hell Roaring Jake" for
making a bowling wilderness of Samar,
as Kitchener made of South Africa?
In his reference to Kitchener, Roose-
Welt was hardly more fortunate than
in his thinly yelled regret that he has
no peerages to bestow.-virginian-
Pilot.