The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-14
CLEANING AND

The London Saturday Review, high
weeklies of London, has a recent article
setting forth that the United Kingdom
cannot live alone but must get much
Of its food supplies from other coun-
tries. 1t is a small country now thick
ly populated and it cannot produce its
own bread stuffs, etc. 1t dependence is
certain and absolute. 1t will be inter-
esting to know where it got its grub"
We know where it gets it's glory, and
what is it's character. The United
States is the great feeder of it's kin be-
yond seas. Here are the figures:
Wheat, Canada, s; Australia, 5; India,
4; United States, 60; other countries. 20.
Meat, Canada, 6; Australia, IA; India.
o; United States, 60; other countries, 20.
Milk, Canada. II; Australia, 10; India,
o; United States, Z; other countries, &c
Grains other than wheat, Canada, 6;
Australia, 0;India. O.5; United States,45;
other countries. 4S.5
In addition this country supplies 80
per cent. of the oil, coke and hay that
Britain imports. In d summary on the
cost of the imported food products the
Review article puts the total at $685.
100000, n it apportions the money to
the sellers as follows: British colonies,
s11O, 600, 900; United States, $780, 600, 900;
European and South American coun-
tries. s265, 900, 900.
4 \ =
A very striking scene lately occurred
in London. Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, the
Nonconformist, is the great preacher
of the greatest city. Preaching in his
own pulpit on the 9th INST, In the City
Temple, as it is called, he referred to
public drinking houses as "trapdoors of
hell" and then raked The new King for
brewing of beer. He is reported as say
ing:
Pray for me-" said the divine, that
l may speak %delicately. If the king
brews beer, what can be wrong in the
subject drinking it? What the king does
is likely to be initiated by others. His
majesty is more than a man and must
regard all questions from a kingly point
of view. If the king goes to a Sunday
concert as he did recently, he deals a
deadly blow to the Englishman's Sun
day. The king cannot attend a noncon-
a vi oot AC O. oo
to a Sunday concert This remark
called forth cries of shame.
After speaking farther he said:
Il would rather give a great sum in
gold thai appear to he disloyal; but /
cannot be disloyal to Christ. n it is
better that those things should be said"
f. DR.. Parker is an eminent scholar, a
very great preacher, and has published
a large number Of volumes, Of common
taries On the Bible, all the work Of his
own hands. He began preaching in 1S4S.
has been in London since 1869, has built
the Temple. it costing $3.50. 600. 1t has
many missions Inc ranch institutions
in the vast metropolis. He speaks ex-
tempore always. but prepares carefully.
He is indeed a power. He Is the great
minister we recently referred to as
praising Rev. DIR. Buckley. of New York
so highly.
The steamship subsidy robbers have
cut down their demands very much. In
the last congress they wanted &c. zoo. 900
a a and for twenty years. we think.
This would have given the sharpers
well nigh 5000, 600. 900, a nice little sum
for a holiday. o they ask for ST.
500. 900 a year or one sixth of the sum
they proposed to gram. Modest and
considerable. They find the people not
anxious to be p%lundered in this repaci-
Gus way. Senator Vest made a very
strong speech against the vile measure.
He had written before a decidedly able
paper against h steal that appeared
in the Philadelphia Record. and some
of it was reproduced In The Messenger.
He told the senate and i'm words OF So
berness and truth that IF the shipping
trusts were to be subsidized. there was
no reason why the farming industry
and the mining industry too, should not
be subsidized.
He said if this subsidy is given 1t viii
be but the beginning Of the end and will
result in a monopoly equal to that Of
the Oil Compauy."