The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-08

The probabilities are the coal miners
| will have to return to work at the
| old scale while the operators will ger
| a better price for their product. From
certain points OF view a strike Is not
one Of b least things to be desired
| Durham Herald.
1t would be interesting to know
whether Mr.. Roosevelt or the anti
administration republicans are draw
ing comfort from h action Of the
Michigan republican convention which
cordially endorsed both factions
Greensboro Telegram
Greensboro wants to her
record for hospitality when the state
convention comes TO town and to this
end she should chip in and raise that
small fund needed for necessary ex-
penses. 1t will take a little money to
establish a bureau OF information and
other things And it will be money
we'll spent.-Greensboro Record.
We believe the country will accept
Dewey's estimate Of A~guinaldo, that he
Is more loOter than patriot. And as he
Is the chosen representative OF his peo-
pie the country will also be the more
inclined TO believe the whole tribe unfit
to become American citizens. If held
at all 1T must be as subjects for the
- VI CPNSeAoNAhS 1llolAs ava
a very American sentiment we are
sure.-Raleigh Post
The astrologer who has warned Sec
rotary Moody Of impending disaster
to the navy" due tomorrow or some
subsequent day of July, halls from Ho-
boken, ". J. Hoboken Is not a far cry
from Patterson, N. j.. and the latter
place is full Of anarchists. Maybe the
astrologer's telescope took in the cleo
trio lights from Patterson and they
CAV the ominous signs he read in the
"horrorscope."-Asheville Gazette.
We thought Greensboro was to have
the biggest mill in the whole INT
but here comes the statement today
that a whopper is to be built near
Kansas City to cost ten millioni How
ever, we are ahead SO far. The Kansas
City concern has raised only three mil
lions as yet, while the projectors here
have all their money ready for bust
ness Something like $780, 900 in one
lump was raked in here last Saturday.
Greensboro Record.
The educational meeting at Harmony
Friday was the biggest thing OF h
kind ever held in Iredell. 1t argues
well for the future Of the county and
of the state that so many people were
gathered together to hear the subject
of education discussed. The subject is
an old one but it was never SO new nor
so so important as now. The meeting
was p~urposely held in a rural commu
nifty, sixteen miles from a railroad. for
the reason that it is the rural com
munities that need to be awakened in
this misunderstanding Landmark.
There was a postmaster at Richmond
who spoke in uncomplimentary terms
of President Andrew Jackson when
Old Hickory was president. He vas iii
efficient public officer and old Hick-
Dry" didn't turn him out. A lady en-
ploye in Washington, capable and Ell
ficient, wrote a criticism of Mr.. Roose-
veltS Philippine policy. She was be-
headed and her bread and butter taken
from her. 1t is popularity supposed
that Jackson's time was n when love
of spoils ran rampant and when the
manners of great officials were less
polished tina today. And yet Andrew
JackSOn'S course TOWARD the
postmaster tandS in marked contrast
to his credit with the removal from
office by Roosevelt of the accomplished
lady. We haven't improved so much
as We think.-News and Observer.
North Carolina Jared we'll in the ex-
piring hours Of the congress. Repre-
sentative Blackburn secured the "a
sage of his bill for the establishment
of a circuit court at Wilkesboro, by
which m~ountaineers in the nol invest
ern part Of the state will in the future
(f the senate adopts the measure at
the short session of congress) be saved
a trip of so or 100 miles to Statesviile
or Greensboro courts. Mr.. Blackburn's
friendship with Speaker Henderson
has become we'll known, aid this is
doubtless responsible for the advance
ment of the bill over hundreds of 9TH
ers. many of them deemed more i'm
portant. Mr.. w. w. Ktchin also
scored a triumph in skillfully steering
through the house the two bills that
have several times passed the senate,
appropriating $1,000 C for monu-
ments to the North Carolina Revolu-
tionary generals, DevidSon and Nash.
1t is stated by our Washington ccrre-
spondent that the understanding is
that these memorials will grace the
beautiful park at Guilford battle-ground
already dotted with shafts in . of
revolutionary patriots n dedicated to
patriotism through the most praise
worthy efforts of Judge Schenck and
Colonel Morehead. We believe that
some effort a been made to secure
the Davidson monument for the David
son college campus, as this college was
named for the general and is near the
ST OF, Cowan's ford, where he was
killed. Senator Pritchard also played
in great luck in securing the passage
of n of his pet projects, the bill to
give a ~pensionable status to veterans
of the civil war who deserted from the
Confederate to the Union armies The
.ast day o. congress is a sort of legiS-
lative lottery, and North Carolina
drew more prizes than she was looking
for.-Charlotte Observer.
Poisoning the System.
1t is through the bowels thai the body