The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

It proves too much to say that che
tariff should not be revised because -
vision disturbs business. By that token
revision day would never come. Bus
iness can stand being disturbed to the
very moderate extent that a revision of
the schedules by the friends of protec-
ton, along the line of protection, ani
for the purpos of equaliZing benefits,
would bring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post.
Mr.. Carnegie wants the countries of
Europe to form a combination to re-
pei the American industrial invasion.
Let their rulers beware lest, when the
combination is formed, the canny Mas
ter of Skibo should jump in, 'reor-
game" the consolidation, issue bonds
to himself and stock to the former
owners and go on founding libraries
and endowing Scottish universities with
the comfortable income thus assured
Savannah News.
Mr.. President Roosevelt has perhaps
builded wiser than he knew in bringing
about the arbitration commission which
now begins it's sittings. The conflict be-
tween capital labor has taken on
alarming features and proportions. 1t
has developed qualities which battle the
ordinary agencies of law and order.
Thoughtful men have at last been
brought to believe that the modern
strike was not adequately provided for
in our original scheme Of government,
n that an entirely new agency nus
be provided. Without entering upon
a discussion of the respective merits
of the contending propositions, we may
say with safety that they are irrecon-
cilable and that some authority, rot
hitherto suggested by u institutions,
must be invOked.-Washington Post.
The Acknowledgement of the illiterate
oo,0n i-0 ,,1ahA of -+af1r Sc - ~
complished fact, and the republican
party in those states must adjust itse .
to the new conditions thus created.
They are not of its making, but it car
not unmak them. OF course, the il
literate whites should have been dis
franchised, too but hat also is a mat
ter as to which the republican party is
at present without power and witho,,I
responsibility. 1t must deal with things
as they are. The One-Sided and unfair
purging of the electorate has oDpor-
tunity to recruit their ranks with many
thousand of white voters who have
been voting the democratic ticket I'M
willingly and under moral duress. II
will be a notable instance of political
folly and i%ncapacity if the chance IS
lost.-Hartford Courant.
1t is said that the great bacteriolog.st
Pasteur was an o%utspoken opponent of
the "materialiStic explanation Of the
origin of things, known as the gener-
alto a~equivoca, or the development of
organic beings out of inorganic in the
Darwinian philosophy. -. The mora l
study nature the more l stand amazed
at the works of the Creator. 1 pray
while I am engaged in my work in tle
laboratory" DR.. Virchow at the las
convention of Anthropologists N
Vienna, said: The attempt to find the
transition from animal to man has
ended in a total allure. The middle
link has not been found and will no.
be found. Man is not descended from
the ape. 1t has been proved beyond a
doubt that during the past five thou
sand years there has been no noticeable
change in mankind. News and Cou--
Ter:
Conditions now are not entirely unr
like those which led TO the defeat OF
the republican party in 1890. Then a
high tariff bill a been passed, higher
than had ever before beer enacted;
prices had gone up and high prices
were declared by the republican ora
tors to mean prosperity. One of the
chief of them went so far as to say
that "a cheap coat made a cheap man"
| The theory seemed very fine, but peU-
| pie who found that their income fell FAR
| short, as the result of such prosperity,
of providing their families with the
necessaries of life, did not ooh at -ae
matter that way, and they voted tn,
democratic ticket, hoping that at least
| prices would be reduced to some ex-
| tent by a reduction of those taxes i'm
| posed for the benefit of big corpora
ions The same arguments are heard
on both sides now under condi .Da9
which those of 1890. Prices are
far high : now that then, and there is
increH5e4 distress in conseuuen- =
1 Thar &c - 4a-s1 - T4-- -
ever IAN the Mckinley bill, and peu-
pie { both parties are clamoring for its
mod -.cation. Mr.. Cleveland is, the-r-
fore, making an exceedingly conserva-
tive statement when he says that If
the democracy is really in earnest ii
cannot fail largely TO increase its rep
reSentatiOn in the next congress" II
1t IS not in earnest, i; Will not only fail.
but it will deserve to fail.-Baltimore
Sun.