The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-24
CURRENT

The beef trust people are still talk
ing about the scarcity OF cattle, when
as a matter of fact, the cattle are COM
ing in such droves from the western
pasture fields that sufficient Transport
tation cannot be found for them
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
The Manchester cloth market is dull
and will remain so until an estimate of
the present cotton crop which will be
accepted as reliable can be made.
Dealers will not buy beyond their
pressing needs while they hope for
cheaper goods in the near future from
lower cotton. Certainty about the cot
ton crop will cause lIVelier trade no
matter whether the certainty is of a
large or small crop. If the crop prove
a large n the price Of cotton will fall.
the price of cotton goods will decline
and the volume of trade will be in
creased. If, on the other hand the crop
prove 50 small as to threaten a short
g of cotton, trade will become active,
due to the haste Of dealers to buy
goods before the price TiSes,-F1orida
TimeS-Union.
At the national peace congress in
rance a day o two ago the name of
President Roosevelt was coupled with
thath of the car of Russia as 1.-The
great p~acificator of the age" This was
a compliment of which the president
may we'll feel proud. The successful
"pacificator" must excel in construc-
tive craftsmanship. He must be a man
of lofty ideas and a sincere humanita-
rian. Europe attaches great Importance
to the action of the United States o
eminent in being the first to utilize
The Hague tribunal of arbitration for
the settlement of International differ
enceS. The statesmen on the other side
Of the Atlantic possibly e~xaggerate the
significance of the Pious Fund arbitra-
ton. h American appeai to The
Hague court does nOt mean that the
millennium is to be usnered in at once
and that the dawn of universal peace
is in sight. The real lest Of the utility
of the international tribunal at The
Hague is yet to be made. If thai tribu-
nal succeeds in preventing a collision
between two nations which have work.
ed themselves up almost to the fighting
point over a serious conflict Of inter-
ests, the value of the International
court of arbitration will be established
beyond observation-disclosures Sun.
We note with interest the frequent
occurrence, in Alabama and North
Carolina, of so-called negro mass
meetings and conventions. We exa-
mine. moreover, the various utterances
of alleged leaders in connec ion with the
white republican movement OF the
south. A few days ago, for example,
The Post printed an account Of a con-
ference at Montgomery, Ala, telling
how the leading negroes there assem-
bled had issued an address calling on
all republicans not to vote the state
ticket. and mentioning the TACT that
"Ad Winds had just returned from
Washington and was quoting Gen."
Clarkson fluently. Not long before
that, there was a very similar gather
ing in North Carolina where the negroes
who have been holding federal offices
for some years past expressed a like
Indignation with the lilly whites and
indicated an equal confidence in the
General" Nevertheless the truth is
as we have stated and reiterated it in
these columns for the past ten years:
The republican party can never make
any Roadway in the southern states
until it shall have r~eoreanized itself
upon a basis hat will invite Self-re-
speeding white men to enter into the
organization 1t has been On trial for
tnlrty-nVe years n has never risen
0 the level of a machinery for the
delivery OF votes in 4 national nom
mating convention and the receipt Of
official plumber for distribution among
the workers. Although there are thou