The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-03
CONTENT.

name OF Lord L~ansdowne has beer
mentioned in connection with the sue
censorship, n seems to meet with n
vor.@Savannah News.
A Washington correspondent OF Tbs
New York Tribune has investigated a!
the historical data are to be obtain.
ed, n concludes that our first presi-
dent was not a communicate of any
religious body. He says: The Father
Of His Country died the death of a pa
triot: he died as he had lived, in digni-
ty and peace; but he left behind him
no one word to warrant the belief tina;
he was other han a sincere Deist."-
Augusta Chronicle.
The only adequate way OF dealing
with the general in command OF the
army Is to follow the Chinese plan and
give him an assortment of robes to b.
taken OF by way of disgrace. Then. in
stead Of telling General Miles. "The
office boy will now do your work. and
do 1T better" the president would sim
ply ask the doughty general TO send in
his yellow shirt by return post. Tbs
Chinese nave q fine civiliza ton
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
A Washington dispatch says thai
President Roosevelt fully realizes the
Importance of the fall elections, and is
Xxi arrangements to visit various
parts of the country" In other words,
he is very we'll aware that the republi-
cans have a hard job ahead Of them
and that the democrats stand a fair
chance Of winning the next house,
therefore he is going to take the stump.
He will go first to Maine and Vermont,
and then tour the middle west.-Savan-
nah News
1t is to call a halt upon the break
neck speed of commercialism before *
is too late hat the reunited democrats
Of the United States now take the field
precisely as they too it against the
orgy of carpet-baggery and scalawae-
gerry during the dread era of reconstruct
ton. reminding bad men, ambitious
men, inconsiderate men. that we have
a constitution which even congress cam
not alter and the supreme court must
respect, reminding all men that there
is a God, whose laws nay not be set
at naught.-Lousville Courier Journal.
The reputation for statCsmanlike abil-
ity which attended President Palma
into the presidency of Cuba is justified
by his first message to the senate of the
new republic. The document is an ir-
teresting review of the conditions and
prospects of Cuba and contains soma
Strikingly practical recommendations as
to the proper course of the government.
President Palma lays special stress
upon the necessity for a liberal policy
Of public education. especially as re-
Iates to primary instruction. He cou!6
not have chosen a better cornerstone
for the structure of which he is to be
the chief architect.-Atlanta Journal.
The present generation in the south is
not as fully aware as it should be of
the immense service which was done to
this section in the time of it's sorest
need bv the late E. l.. Godkin. as editor
Of The New York Evening Post and The
nation. No man did more than he to
rouse the conscience of the north to a
sense of the wrong that was being per-
petrated upon the south by the carpet
bag and scalawag governments. Mr..
exposures of the
and outrages that were practiced under
the reconstruction regime had a power
full effect toward the restoration Of hon.
est government in the southern states.
He denounced bayonet rule in the south
with a courage and ~eloQuence which
were unsurpasse by any of the de-
tenders of constitutional government in
those dark davs.-Richmond Times.
1t is now said that the republicans in
the senate will defend the onduc Of
our troops in the Philippines by showing
it's analogy with southern l~ynchingS.
This is an inspiration. They will show
that because frenzied mobs break the
laws of the United States by killing and
%torturing negroes, therefore disciplined
soldiers under educated officers Of the
United States can break the laws OF
their service. their country and their
religion by killing and ~torturing de-
fenseless Filipinos. BY this system of
republican statesmen not only
can acquit our soldiers Of any past
peccadilloS, but can absolve them in ad-
vance of future sins or crimes. For if,
because law-breakers in the United
States murder negroes. our soldiers
outside the constitution" are justified
in numbering Filipinos, then the same
logic applies down the whole list Of
crimes. and u happy islands will soon
become one gorgeous paradox1cal fore
ing-house of innocent iniquity.-New
York World.
The progress through the senate OF
the immigration bill Just passed by the
house will be worth watching. Two
prohibitory amendments have been in
c~orporated in it. One forbids the sale
of alcoholic liquors in n tmmigra'.
station. and the other forbids the sale
of alcoholic liquors in the capitol One
amendment would entirely deprive the
poor immigrants of their accustomed
drinks while detained at Ellis Island:
the other would cut off the cocktails
and champagne of the legislators who
%patroniZe the senate The
congressman, if they really get thirsty.
can step out and see a man" across
the park, and when hey get back TO
their hotels and clubs can make up for
their devotion to temperance principles.
If the senate shuts off it's own drinks at
the same time that it shuts off the i'm
migrants drinks, the act may be ac-
counted to it for righteousness, whether
ii is wise or not. 1t will be interesting
to observe, how the senator's VIII act
about that. There are cynics who ex-
pect to see the capitol amendment
quietly dropped out of the bill. and the
prohibition virtue Of congress vicarious-
iy exercised at the expense of the poor
foreigners.-New York Tribune.
His Life Was Saved.
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