The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-20
STATE PRESS.

In another column will be found an
advertisement asking for bids on site
for the new government building. This
looks like business and means that be-
fore long Durham Will AVE her build
ing in course of construction. 1t was
a long wait but congress has at last
decided to put up a building here
Durham Herald.
Did il ever strike you that certain
classes of crime appear 20 come in
fadS just the same as dresses, head
gear and footwear? 1t seems the
sason now for postmasters to be I'M
der fire. Among the numerous others
now nde fire of the %pOstoffice de-
partment have developed cases against
the postmasters at Weldon and New
Bern for neutrality-suspicious. Journal.
On the Philippine question the repub-
licans are split. On the tariff question
they are at sea. On the choice of a
candidate for the next election they are
split. On the subsidy question they are
split. On the canal question they are
uneasy. They o like to enforce the
antitrust laws just for effect, but they
dare not do it. They will soon be be-
tween the devil and the deep blue sea
if they keep on.-Washington On. CD
Gazette.
If the strike in the coal regions of
West Virginia and Pennsylvania o.
tinue, what will become of the indus
tries dependent on coal for motive pow
er? The problem is a serious ones And
it will be only be a few months till fuel
for heating purposes will be IN demand
again. That's serious, too. Has the
general government the right to regu-
late such matters by legislation ?Wheth-
er it has or not, it seems it will be nee
essary for it to take nold of them soon
or Or 1ofnr - C1aon1r
The farmer is happy. From all over
the south for weeks the cry has gOn
UP for rain and at last it has been
needed and in a generous manner A
Saturday report had it that copious
rains within the next few days will
mean one of the greatest crops the
south has ever produced.If the present
rains are general and the weather
man predicted they would be, hen we
can understand why the farmer is
happy.-Charlotte News.
The Birmingham Age-Herald lays
down the proposition that no man
ought to be considered for the demo-
cratic nomination in 1904 who cannot
carry his own state. 1t says if Hill
hopes to be considered: he must carry
New York; if Cleveland has hopes, he
must carry New Jersey;if Olney wants
the plum, he must carry MaSSachu-
sets. 1t says 1.-The man who can de-
feat Governor Odell this fall is enti-
tied to the democratic nomination."
and it asks, Can Hill do it?"-News
and Observer.
The following paragraph was contain
ed in a recent dispatch giving the de-
tails of a collision of passenger trains,
seriously injured: J. W. Barker, mail
clerk; Fred Thatcher, baggage master;
Mail Clerk Miller, r. r. Slower. mail
clerk; A. w. Clark, mail clerk" Toe
often is this proportion of mail clerks
found in casualty columns of the wreck
stories, it being rather the exception
when they escape. Despite their haz-
ardous position they are the most
painstaking of all of Uncle Sans en-
ployes and the slowness of congress in
lions surrounding them is a matter to
be deplored by the public at large
Charlotte Observer.
Few incidents could have proven
more humiliating to southern people
than the arrest of the daughter of
the beloved and revered Robert E.
for violating the Jim Crow law.
We utterly fail to understand how
Miss Lee could nave acted in such
a way. If any southern lady
found herself in the colored depart
ment of a car and the conductor po-
litely informed her of her mistake it
seems that she would a thanked
him and Immediately removed her be-
longings. Why she should have persist
ed in retaining the seat and forced her
arrest, thus bringing the most honor-
ed Of southern names into regretable
~notOriety, we utterly fail to under
stand The conductor could not have
acted Observation-Disclosures News.