The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-29

The charging up Sycamore Hill con-
tinues to be quite lively. but he gen
tiemen VINO are doing h prarcsng are
not bringing much away In S1 shape
of spoils-Wilson Times
independent candidates in North
Carolina are a sort Of political ex-
ciamation point. They merely serve 10
emphasize a protest or reinforce and
prolong a kick No one ever dreamed
of winning-Rock Mount Motor.
The writer heard one OF Surry's most
successful farmers remark last Thurs-
day that: The finest crop OF corn ever
made in Surry will be gathered this
fall. And IL will be a great blessing
to our country IL the farmers viii not
sell IL TO men TO make whiskey.-
Mount Airy News.
That North Carolina is q great state
We admit and are proud OF the admis-
sion, but when Its sons tell US OF rails
ing peaches which measures ten and a
half inches and weigh ten and n half
pounds-well, it's expecting too much
II II is expected that We believe II. But
that is what Colonel Fred Olds tele-
| graphs to the Charlotte Observer. Says
they were raised at Southern Pines
| Roxboro Courier.
There is a hot time ahead for repub-
leans. The revolt is said 10 be state
wide. A mass republican state conven-
ton Is TO be held in Raleigh soon after
the state convention. A direct fight is
to be made on the Pritchard plan Of
running the party. They say they will
hut down on the bosses, the bung
smellers, revenue doodles and stamp
lickers who are TOW running the party
In their own Observation-Disclosures Cou-
rjer.
At the end Of the fourteenth week of
the anthracite coal strike. the loss is
estimated. in round number at forty
six millions of dollars. The loss is
made up in strikers wages SIC, 600. 600,
employees not strikers, 81, 200, 900: loss TO
business men in and outside of the coal
region, ST., 400, 600; damage to mines n
machinery $500. 900. n the cost Of
maintaining soldiers, police and paying
n%on-union workers. In addition TO this
IT is estimated hat the loss in price Of
coal, to the operators is $50, 000, 900 but
this is only a temporary one, which
cannot be regarded as a real one. How
ever accepting all these losses in the
aggregate, making a round sum of $780,
600, 900. the cost of the strike can be
seen in all its enormity.-New Bern
Journal.
A story is now going the rounds 10
the effect that not long ago President
Roosevelt gave an interview to a Ger
man journalist travelling in this coun-
try" at which according to the Au-
guSta Chronicle, in a confidential mo-
ment Mr.. Roosevelt declared that the
economic future belongs to the United
States and Germany. Naturally the
other foreign interests represented at
Washington are uttering angry pro-
tests. The president replies that it was
a private talk, not intended for publ
cation. There he rests the defense of
his indiscretion, now betrayed publicly
at Berlin. Now it is in order for some
one with the authority to give the
president a dose of the same medicine
he has been dishing out. He should be
reprimanded. Such indiscretion would
not have been expected in the president
of a great republic-Charlotte News.
The fact that the white man of the
south is the negro's best friend is be-
ginning to receive acknowledgement at
the north, and is doing more than any
thing else to throw light on the race
problem and secure for the negro that
best place to which he is entitued. So
when a southern white a the repre-
sentative of the NJ. E. Church, south,
and Of one of our best southern insti-
tutions, publishes an article which not
only miSrepreSents the south, but, by
strengthening the mistaken notions of
our northern brethren, cuts under the
foundations OF which rest the fabric
of The negro's welfare. We must as a
religious duty, not only express our
fessor Sledd has made such a g%rievous
mistake, but deny his deductions and
emphasize the truth in the matter
Raleigh Christian Advocate.