The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-30


The administration evidently regards
Admiral Deweyis fighting qualities as
superior 10 his diplomatic a~ttainments.
hence he is NOT given a free hand in the
West Indian waters.@Torboro South
erner.
Denial Is explicitly made by Mr.. Jas.
II. Pou, who represents the cotton mil
ling interests, of the statement that 10
will antagonize the bill to regulate child
labor in mills. That bill will be intro
duced and will pass, IL Is said, easily.
Concord Times.
Every time a North Carolina republic
can lands in Washington people begin
To wonder just what office ne wants.,
saws The Greenville Reflector. And IT
can be put down as a dead certainty
that an Office of some kind Is the object
of such Observation-Disclosures Gold Leaf.
One Of the significant evidences OF our
prosperity is TO be found in h graft
flying fact that there are less poverty
stricken persons in Winston-Salem this
Christmas n yer before. So say
those charitably inclined folks who have
been searching out the needy.-Winston
Sentinel.
The E. H. Hartman combination Of
am " u
they will soon make connection between
New York and San Francisco in three
and one-half days. And many passen-
gers thereon will be making connection
with the other world in less time. This
craze for rapid transit is fast reachinU
the danger poinG-Raleigh Post.
The Mooresville Enterprise discusses
the proposed bill to prohibit the manu-
facture of liquor except in incorporated
towns and opposes the measure. The
Enterprise contends that the distilling
business is bad enough in the country.
but thinks that it would be worse in
towns n does not seem probable,
because, as the advocates OF the meas
ure contend. police regulation can be af-
forded in the towns.-Raleigh Times.
When Senator Butler was looking up
donations for educational institutions,
representing this state at the time,
how came it that he forgot his "
home educa tional institutions, to which
he was bound by ties of nativity md
sworn 10 protect by an oath of allegi-
ance, and put his energies in work COZ
South Dakota educational institutions,
when he knew that the deal with South
Dakota was intended to injure his own
state and people.-Wilkesboro Chroni-
Gle.
The town commissioners won in the
bar room fight last week. So there is
nc prospect for the saloons being re-
opened here right soon, if ever in the
future. Now if the Illegal sale of liquor
is stopped it will not be long until nine
enths of the drinking men will be glad
of the radiance Of the whole business.
We have talked with a number of men
and they everyone tell US that they
would be glad if the temptation was -
rirely removed-and these men drink
right often, too.-Mt. Airy News.
As soon as the holiday festivities are
over, if not before, all eyes will be
turned upon the senatorial situation
and interest will c~entraliZe in Raleigh.
One of the aspirants for the toga has
already opened headquarters at the
state capital and it is probable that the
others will not be slow to follow. All
of the candidates appear to be in earn
est, but the contest is being made on all
sides in the best feeling. 1t is a fair
field, a fair fight, with noble foes and
honor bright, and it is not to be anticl-
pated that any heart-burningS will en-
sue, let the result be what 1t may
Charlotte News
The New York Evening Post turns a
phrase very neatly when it observes
LILO u AARA1A ~
nicely pitched to his favorite note of
hate" His latest poem. THE Alliance
is a protest against the understanding
arrived at between Englind and Ger
many. Wrath n p~artiality.' says
The Evening Post, were the leading
virtues Of the historian Milford, accord
ing to Lord Byron, and they have GER
tainly come to a new birth in Kipling."
Indeed, he has abou reached the level
of a common scold. And it is a pity
that the man who was capable of the
"Recessional' should latterly allow so
much vitriol to run from his PEN
Charlotte Observer.
President Roosevelt is likely getting
his fill of the negro question. There's
the DR.. Crum case from South Carolina
and the Sam Wick case from North Car
DINA, to say nothing of the Alabama
tangle and the Booker Washington din
ner. Now, on top of ell his comes Will
liam McGin (colored), editor of Hot
Shot, a weekly newspaper, issued at
Chattanooga and at Birmingham for
the negroes. McGill is a candidate for
the position of chaplain of the Fifty
eighth congress-, and is said to be one of
the leading negroes in his section. He
has been one Of the leaders against the
Lily White movement and believes
that, inasmuch as President. Roosevelt
has shown that he favors t&recogni-
ton of the negroes, he can Ncure the
influence of the administration for this
appointment. He is understood to have
strong Observation-Disclosures Citizen.
QUESTION ANSWERED.