The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-28

Bears the The Kind You Have Arways Bought
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CLEANING AND COMMENT.

The London Chronicle, a very hot
African daily. 1t writes as follows OF
that awful war waging against a hand.
full of Beers:
I'm the house of in Febru
airy last the war minister said: a re-
cent estimate placed the number OF
Beers and others in the field at about
5000 or 10000 Since that statement
vas made to the end of last month,
that number has been reduced by is, 1920,
approximately. 1t is possible to give
the losses of the enemy only approx
mately."
lei follow certain complicated
statistics 70: the year. of which we
need give only the totals. as thus:
Beers killed LII
Beers wounded 1,244
BOer prisoners J. 100
Beers surrendered ................ PISS
"Tn addition to this the table gives
2,S44 further casualties, making the
grand total of Boer losses during the
| yea 1901 1890"
How is that A year ago next month
the Beers had $4,000 say. They have
lost according TO British accounts, 49,
$50. And yet the little handful-six or
SiSAt IL ~ - ~ ~ . u
ish figures-are still at it giving trouble
to Kitchener and his 200, 900. 1t isvery
funny business even if tragical. What
is the matter with Kitchener any how?
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The New York Tribune, very able re-
publican organ, very high tariff-tax
advocate, very much devoted to poll
tics, in it's issue of the Goth inst, gay
this as an example of Americans
standing in their w light"
1.-THE demand is not only for an open
ing of our markets to Cuban sugar, but
also for an opening of Cuban markets
to our cotton and wool and vegetables
n wines and leather goods and ami
mails and animaiprOducts and oils n
drugs and chemicals and other products
of our farms and mines n factories,
which, to the value of $50, 000, 900 OF
more a year, Cuba now purchases in
Europe, but under reciprocity would
purchase of us. If we cannot afford to
forego the $40, 900, 600 a year-at most
which the halvins Of the Cuban sugar
duties might cost us for the sake of
gaining the $50, 0O0,0 600, how in the
world can We afford to lose the $50, 000,-
600 for the sake of saving a fraction of
the $40, 900, 000."
In the growth of numerous southern
industries there are man of import
ance and that deserves to be noted.
When all Of the miscellaneous ar
ticles are named you will see what a
field for production and profit. They
are medicine factories, syrup mills,
crearIeries, packing plants, wood alco-
hol plants, cement factories, laundries,
bott1ing works, irrigation companies,
trunk factories; paint and varnis
factories, refrigerator plants. broom
factories. creosoting plants, harness n
mattress factories, canal companies.
shoe factories, paving companies, dyna-
mo factories, marble works, paper box
factories, aggregating 126 new insect
laneous enterprises.
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The United States have indeed be-
coroe both vast In extent, population
and wealth. The statistics make it the
richest in the world among nations. II
foots up $50, eco, 600, 900. while Great
Britain is only SIS. 600. 900, GOO. France
comes next with s4S, 00o. 200. 900. and then
Germany with $40. zoe. 300. 3C0. Russia
has Only 1872. oea, coo. 900.
Not only with regard to wealth does
the United States lead the world, but
also with regafd to the smallness of it's
debt. The ratio of the national debt to
the national wealth of the United
States is Ia Der cent; in Great Britain
it is 6 per cent; it is 81 per cent in Ger
many, Ill Der rent in Russia and 12-S
| per cent in France"
These figures come from the London
Daily Mails Year Rock for 1892. The
u. S. census, in final figures, puts the
value of property at $50. 600. 00e. 900.