The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-30

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charged in the foreign marEets Tor the
same articles. That IS the point In the
tarif-trust question which cAaEot be
hid by any amount OF sympathy for the
small producer..Columoia state
No wonder the ColombiaEs are en-
ragged. They hin they are engaged in
a civil war. They are entirely serious
about Ii and have numberless generals
with dazzling uniforms. Here comes n
force of United States marines encour-
tering the army OF the Colombian re-
public in process OF transportation.
coolly takes its arms away and hauis
II across the isthmus under guard. his
must be humiliatinC ~ warriors OF all
grades. and especially exasperating TO
generals. We can imagine a hot-blcOd-
ed Colombian brigadier. half smother~d
in gold lace. grinding his teeth when
ordered about by plain Bill Jones OF
the marines, whose chief emblem OF
authority is a business-like rifle. While
we are at IL, however, IL might be n
good idea for our fellows 10 take away
the guns OF government TROOP m
revolutionists alike. and max II m
fight il out with bladders. or s,Ep-
sticks. or something else capable or
making a vast deal OF noise and doiaa
very little harm.-Richmond New.
II may have escaped the attention OF
The Post that the actual leaders of the
democratic party are southern men.
The chairman OF the national demo-
cratic congressional committee is a
Georgian. the leader OF the democrat.
in the house is a congressman from
Tennessee and the democratic leaders
in the senate are southern men and
were such when the senate was wei!
filled with democrats from the eastern
n western states. OF three speak
erS Of the house the democrats have
had since the war two OF them Were
southern men n in the event that he
democrats carry the elections this fall
the speaker of the mex congress will
be a democrat and il should be remem-
bered that the speaker after the presi-
dent is the most powerful and infiuent-
ial officer Of the government. All
things considered the south is far from
being a servitor of the democracy, but
occupies the greater part OF the party
household and is highly respected in
the family circle. This fact. however.
has never prompted the south to force
n of its men on the party as a candl-
date for president. because il knows
that whilst il can nominate the candi-
date it cannot alone elect him and it
will never ask the party to name a
southern man until conditions are far
different from what they are at pres
ent.-New Orleans States.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union convention of Philadelphia has
sent a formal petition that the famous
Liberty bell. owned by that city, shall
not be loaned for exhibition purposes
in the future. The ground for this re-
quest is that the Fort put in charge of
the sacred relic Invariably and unani-
mously gets drunk. We do not oub
the truth of this allegation All who
ave had the honor Of travelling with
the bell know that the libations IN its
honor poured by those who have charge
Of it are as copious as frequent. 1t APP
pears to us, however, nat the petition
does the bell an injustice, inasmuch as
it implies that in the thing itself there
is some indefinite and occult inspira-
ton to %inebriety. We do not hin this
IS right. The bell, so far as we have
been able to discover, Is a very sober
and w~ell-behaved bell. We lave never
heard of it asking anbody to take a
drink or indulging in any unseemly
antics likely to tempt its friends to in
diligence. The w. T.. -. u. seems to
gest that it amend its petition so as to
eques that the liberal allowance
heretofore made by the city for re-
freshments by the waysIde be reduced
to the actual requirement for food on
the trip. 1t would be better yet to
urge that the bodyguard hel eafter be
composed of prohibitionists. Surely
there must be enough Of rhes'- in Phil
adelphia to insure a so3er escort. In
other words the escorts heretofore sent
have become intoxicated h~abitually
not because they were i'll the company
Of the bell. but because they carried
with them a personal and consuming
thirst and the means for the gratifica-
ton of It. The bell viii ring no more.
1t has done it's work Of proclaiming
liberty throughout the earth and to all
the inhabitants thereof. Its chief use
now is to induce people to go TO Phila-
delphia, and whether that is or is not
immoral is a matter which W. respect
fully refer to our esteemed contempt
raries of New York for discussion.
Certainly an occasional holiday and
journey into the busy world is due this
silent relic and in booming expeditions
it may be made distictly and generally
valuable.-Richmond News
One Of the New York papers has ad-
vanced the theory that Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer of New York city, who sud
denly disappeared last Tuesday night
and whose body was found in the Nor
ris canal at Jersey City on last Thurs
day morning, was the victim Of the al
legged Mormon doctrine Of blood atone
ment. There o seem to be come
ground for this theory, but if there are
religious murders in the Mormon church
it is strange thatnothing had been heard
OF them before. The doctrine of blood
atonement is that the soul OF a Mormol.
who sins is saved if the sinner is slain
by one Of the elect OF the Mormon
church. There does not seem to be any
doubt now that Mrs. Pulitzer was muir
dered by William Hooper Young a
grandson Of Brigam Young. The woman
was lured to his fiat on the night OF
her disappearance and there killed. Her
body was placed in a trunk and carried
TO the place where il was found Some
of the Mormons in New York deny that
Young Is a Mormon, or that he affili-
ates with The Mormons. On the other
hand a woman named Elizabeth Dick
inSon, who sometime ago became a con-
Vert to Mormonism, but who recent.
renowned that faith, says that Young
is an enthusiastic Mormon. and that he
is a fanatic on the subject Of blood
atonement. It must be admitted that
If she is quoted correctly and is a
worthy of belief her story
throws considerable light ON the muir