The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-18

the hero of the South African war, as
she did over Lord Roberts, who was
Lord ktcheners predecessor in the
hero business In their honors to
Kitchener n Roberts what a SPLEEN
did tribute h British are paying TO
the Boer leader who resisted them so
long with scarcely one-tenth as many
men.-Jacksonville Times-Union.
A cardinal principal Of American
democracy declares in favor of equal
rights Of all, special privileges for
none. This principle controls the DEM
ocratic party in the fight against the
trusts and the high tariff. 1t will also
be the peoples slogan in the approach
ing campaigns. The republican party
itself is working out republican de-
struction- The trusts, the tariff and
the party of the trusts and tariff stand
condemned by the people. A tariff for
revenue only will relieve the people of
the trust burden.-St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Cleveland served two terms in
the White house without being able
to demonstrate ability to build up and
strengthen his party. Mr.. Bryan had
the democratic presidential nomination
two successive times n was not even
able to secur an election TO the high
office. These two gentlemen have mo-
nopolized twenty years of the time of
the democratic party, bringing nothing
but chaos and disaster, n it is not at
all strange hat there should be a ro-
bust sentiment in favor of taking up a
new man without regard to their per-
sonal desires or ambitions.-Washing-
ton Post.
The country mas great respect for
Admiral Dewey and his opinions; new
.ertheless it will be apt to inquire if the
admiral was altogether right in his
Characterization of the capture of Ma
Mia as a sham battle, with details all
arranged beforehand. General Tomas
M. Anderson recalls the fact, possibly
lost sight of by the majority of people,
that in the attack upon the city, and
the preceding skirmishes, the Ameri-
cans lost 122 men in killed and wound
ed. There certainly wasn't any sham
ming on the part of the dead and
wounded, and there could hardly have
been any on the part of those who shot
them.-Savannah News.
While President Roosevelt is girding
up his political LON for n bat
tie against the trusts the atmosphere
of the attorney generals office is dense
with innocuouS complacency. And this
fact has led the irreverent to regard
the Pittsburg storm as stage thunder
anu llSHlllIuSp EdluCT lldH d. an dCCudl
meteorological disturbance. They find
some pardonable difficulty in reconcile
ing the militant declarations of the
general commanding with the mas
terly inactivity of his chief of staff in
this particular administrative army
corps. 1t seems to them either that
Mr.. Knox is guilty of conduct unbe-
coming an officer or else that his SUI
perior has given him orders in the pri-
~ nNv ~ Tho nn+ Dtho, -- 49,
which he has issued for public prose-
cution OF the conflict.-News and
Courier.
1t pleases the republican press to
eXalt the Importance of Mr.. Cleveland
as a factor in the democratic party
for the purposes of magnifying the di-
vision in the ranks Of their opponents
and also to suggest to the democracy
the expediency of following their re-
pudiated leader to a position where
they will find themselves standing
weakly for the capitalism represented
by Cleveland. For if the democratic
party should readopt Cl~evelandism,
which is a sort of modified or diluted
prevail against the strong and milli-
tant republican party, an organization
supremely representing capital and
therefore commanding the first allie
glance of the money power. This
would free the radical reformers now
included in the democratic organiza-
ton to split off into a new party, and,
the democracy, already a minority
party, being thus divided, the republic
"a party would continue indefinitely
to control the government of the coun-
try.-Columbia State.
The ommon sense of the matter in
the liti0n & n rotnrf Do~;o-o;
D. Greene and John F. Gaynor is that
these men are guilty of frauds upon
the United States government by
means of which they secured over q
DOC, 600. Their accomplice, Captain Car
ter, has been repeatedly tried and
found guilty and is % serving a term
of imprisonment. Greene and Gaynor
have fled to Canada, with which coun-
try we have an extradition treaty, and
there they apparently are buying i'm
munity from arrest by means of their
loot and by powerful family and official
influence in the Dominion. . 8 8 The
special assistant of the United States
Attorney General makes what is ap-
parently a very clear exposition of the
matter. The facts he alleges are dis
tinctly of a serious nature against the
Canadian officials. Unless they are able
to explain away these grave charges.
a great international scandal will re-
suit. The reputation of prominent Ca
madam officials for bribery and corrup-
ton has not been good in the past.
The matter is worthy of the most
serious consideration by both the col
onial government and the imperial au-
thorities. The Dominion has no con-
Germ in affording refuge for American
criminals, and it must be personal in
terests tina shield the fugitives from
American justice.-Curier Journal.