The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
COMMENT.

AS we understand the proposal of the
mine operators to a~rbitrate, it comes
with il an eventual recognition of the
Mine Workers Union. After all the
questions in dispute shall have been
disposed of by the commission, the OPP
orators will then ave to make a con-
tract with the union. In this view of
the question we do not see how Mr..
Mitchell and his association can fairly
reject the proposal. The operators pro-
pose to recognize men, also,
but that is entirely reasonable and just.
We sincerely hope that the proposal to
arbitrate will be accepted in good faith,
and that mining operations will be re-
newed in short Order.-Richmond
Times.
What's the matter with the big guns
of the republican party that they can't
keep the pace in his campaign? The
president started out to conquer the
west and couldn't mak his way b.
yond Indianapolis, where he was taken
to a hospital, operated upon and ship
ped back to Washington to see the G.
a. r., receive the crown prince Of Siam
and settle the strike by appealing to
Mr.. Morgan. Mark Hanna started out
blithely to root out Tom Johnson from
Ohio, but scarcel" has he been a week
on the stump VIII / the physicians cor
raj him and ser him to bed. where
lney purpose h DlnS MIN LOT SOlut
time, maybe up /. the day Of election.
The situation seer to be decidedly I'M
wholesome for e republicans this
season.-Charlesto Post
Secretary Mood in a speech in Wis
consin said that the duty of g. cents
a ton on coal was 'Smuggled into the
tariff act in a sneaking and cowardly
manner Coming from so high a source,
this charge should be investigated, SO
that the blame can be clearly placed.
h duty is only one example of how
the Dingley law works, and i've bet
ter than any argument that there is a
need CT revision. "-Fredericksbu1 Free
Lance. Senator Spooner, too, say that
he has no idea how the duty got in
to the bill. h case no, doubt, re-
sembles 1.-The crime of 49," which has
been violently denounced by distin-
guished senators who not only voted for
it, but whose arguments in its favor
are preserved in the Congressional Re-
cord. 1t has taken these republican
members of congress a long time to file
their protest against the coal tariff.
They must have known of it's existence
if they read the Dingley bill at the
time of its passage OIL afterwards
Norfolk Landmark.
The announcement, by way of Homo
lulu, that the Commercial Pacific Cable
Company and the British Colonial
Cable Association have entered into an
agreement to establish a line between
Tanning Island and Honolulu has
created a stir in Washington. Army
and navy officers, according to a dis
patch to the New York Tribune, re-
gard the agreement as ~"discourteous
to the United States government and as
menacing American interests not only
in Hawaii, the Philippines and China,
but --1 = -, &I.t 80
country should enjoy Geographic COM
munication in the commercial and mill
itary theatre of the Pacific" 1t seems
that American strategists consider
Hawaii the military key" to the Pa
cifc. For this reason they are un-
willing even for our good friend and
kinsman, John Bull, to have a cable
connection with the island through a
business arrangement with an Ameri-
can company. Hence, it is minated,
the United States government may in
tervene and interdict the proposed ar
rangement between the Commercial
Pacific Company and the British Colo
NAL Cable Association. Baltimore
un.
The present campaign of the con-
gresSional democratic committee has
been one of the most ACKNOWLEDGING
and promising that the party has ex-
~ iiiA yOdlS. al hIol, Illc
republican experts were disposed to
be facetiOuS over the election to the
Craftsmanship of the committee of the
Georgia cracker congressman who had
not previously won his spurs as a
national political leader. For the mo-
ment they forgot that Georgia has al
ways been n of the f. temost schools
OF statesr anship in the south and that
the cracker always plays politics for
the keeps. Congressman Griggs took up
his work with an understanding and an
aggression that could not be mistaken
or underestimate. The republican
committee opposing him have found
that whichever way it turns Griggs has
anticipated them. They find them
selves pat everywhere on the defen-
sive and already they begin to feel the
rocking Of the earth beneath their feet.
At this sage of the campaign it really
seems iE.evitable that the democrats
will win 4 majority of the members of
the next house of representatives and
will thus be enabled, not to complete
legislation, but to defeat such as NAV