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

tHuS Interest OF the country or the EIOW-
Ter OF beet sugar" As for rlie beet-sug-l
AZ industry. he speaks Of IL with no lit-
tie contempt. But he comes nearerl
nome to the Speaker. He writes him.
a. We gather from the New York Eve-l
IinE Post that a storm is brewing inl
;he minds OF manv OF US republicans:
that is failing to appreciated
the situation. not SO much pon theI
Jingle item or sugar. t being Oily one
II the articles needing revision: ther6I
IRE other lusty infants hat have beenI
81 prosperous IN the asst ten years asI
% have become arrogant ana dorPlnee.I
ng. and who own the earth. especially
he American and who say
o HIM. What are you going to do
bout it, He specifies the Tin Plate
Trust as particularly arrogant
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The late Lord Dunerin was an heroicI
Gnglisman. as So many OF his countrv-l
men are. When some years ago an at
empt a made upon the hen reign
ng Tsar. the news camc 10 Lord Dur
;erin that the attempt to blow up the
ralace had been made. He AMI others
we're sitting together, but no man
moved. He at once resolved to go to
he palace and when there found all
he lights blown our. The LondoL
IA%thenacum gives an interesting account
# the English Lords movements. II
says in spite Of darkness he "penetra-
ed the palace. and passing through
empty suits, at last found the Car In
! room with a single light. with a single
ompanion. in a state of intense ex-
itement. To Lord Dufferin's warm
congratulations for his safe he re-
rlied with = torrent OF statements
which no man will ever know. but
which urged Lord Dufferin to take his
cave with all his wonteG courtesy
from that evening no one from with
out saw the Car for three weeks. But
lext dav it went abroad through Ras-
'ia that in the first panic OF the crime
the British Ambassador. alone Of al
men, had faced all risks. had despistI
Ill precautions. and had dared to one
lis homage OF loyalty and friendship
10 the Emperor in his trouble"
S- e e
Some months ago The Messenger gave
some instructive fac,s concerning tho
manufacture Of shoddy in this country
md the impositions placed UPON the
laboring class and ~especiall" the poore!
lcIass. The statistics We're from an able
Ierman expert for some forty years 3
,esident Of this country. representa-
i've Grosvenor mas a bill looklro TO the
sale Of counterfeit cloth-sold as wool
when nearly or all cotton. The news
loapers Of both parties are iHGcrsine
The bill as it should be don by every
newspaper. In the cold climate this
sale Of shoddy or bogus goods is par
|ticularly hard on the laboring people.
The New York Journal attacks this
~zcoundrelly fraud upon the poor-upon
all in fact but The rich. It says:
The Grosvenor bill is a measure
which provides simply that the poor
shall no longer be cheated when they
ISuv clothes for themselves and their
children. 1t requires the men who
make and sell shoddy to label their
wares for what they are-to sell shodd5
is shoddy. and not as wool
How can IN decent man, or any de-
cent oppose a measure sc
ransparently just? What right has q
manufacturer Of deaier in Shoddy to
complain Of the bill? Just the same
right precisely that the crook has wher
a policeman interferes 20 stop him from
telling a plated brass watch for a gold
one to some rural Innocent on the
Bowerv.'
50 !. j.
It has been paraded by Senator TILL
mans enemies that he had taken the
lie once and would not fight. We have
seen an account Of the affair and any
have lone just as he Gid. a student of
divinity named Shirley Houghson told
him to his face. at Marion, S. c., that
he was an Internal llar." There were
two crowds there-one for Tillman and
one deadly against. The Columbia
rs. Co. correspondent Of the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat, republican, gives this
as what occurred after the lie direct:
The men closed. Men tore at each
Inther 10 get to Houghson. Tlllman did
not move or speak. Perhaps he felt the
deadly peril. There Were a handful OF
his opponents there, but they were de-
Itermined men, who were on the stanC|
or directly in front OF him.. 1t seemeo|
THAT if the Infatuated countrymen laid
hands on Houghson they would tear
him to pieces. They would surely have
idone so, but for the act that their
leaders were quickly warned that III
lHoughson was touched Tillman would
Instantly become the target for fifty
lpistols. They might kill Houghson and
la dozen or more others. but the great
"reform" leader would go with them
$50 Tillman leaders from all sections
lof the country yelled to their followers
Ito stand back and put up their pistols
land so Tillman was saved for the Unit
led States senate and Mr.. Houghson fol
1.-THE church."
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The awful condition of the conceu-l
~ltration camps of the British in South
Africa where they hold Boer old men
women and children. has been known
for months. A distinguished EnglisnI
woman made this apparent with e-eatI
ldn DIR. Heinrich Mueller. a dip1