The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-01-03
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

Washington and Lee University, Va,
is progressing. Thus far the effort to
raise memorial fund in honor of tho
late President w. L. Wilson, has sue
ceeded to the extent of $90,500. We
read with something of mingled pleasure
and astonishment the following refer
ence to the greatest man of American
birth from the New York Outlook. Re-
ferring to w. and L. university it thus
speaks: 1T has been the good fortune
of the university to be associated first
with the benevolence of Washington,
and then with the genius, both moral
and intellectual. of General Robert z
Lee. a man whose loftiness of nature
and beauty of character fitted him pre-
eminently to touch the imagination and
to shape the ideals of the young men,
1t is pleasant to see the Outlook
mcrding it's ways
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We like to see northern papers speak
out in bold condemnation of the ini-
guilty attempted against Admiral
Schley. There are papers that hit
straight from the shoulder. at Long
and his tool Maclay and the little fell
lows of the navy. including Sampson,
the fraud. catch it and deserve it. a
Washington evening paper says as
quoted in the Washington Post:
THE course recently pursued by Mac
lay. late of the navy'S civil establish
ment. is worthy of consideration apart
from the issues involved in the great
controversy with which he is so init.
mately connected. This man offended
both factions of the people. His unpa.
triotic, unwarranted, unmanly charac-
teriZation of Rear Admiral Schley was
Immediately repudiated even by those
who did not assent to all the claims
made in Schley's behalf. 1t was widely
recognized that Il man of such narrow
preiudices and uncontrollabde temper
could not contribute anything OF gen
uine worth to the history OF the navy
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The outbreak between the races al
Harlem. New York. brings the trouhic
of race conflict nearer to the doors OF
the critics of the south. They find ON
that there is danger in the moon. Thv
New York Evening Post begins COM
ment on the late onpleasantness, "a
quote a saying III the south OF man.
years ago, as follows:
Yesterdays race riot in Harlem
again eXemplifies the growing danger
arising out of the settlement of large
numbers OF negroes in this and other
northern cities. In this case the police
seem as usual to have sided with men
of their own color. and, without waiting
to ascertain the right or the wrong OF
their action. TO have dubbed the ne
groes wherever found. Fortunately,
they did not commit such great eX-
cesses as disgraced the force In the
riots of August Is. 1900, though a ten
dency TO undue violence was certainly
manifested. if the press accounts are To
be trusted"
1t adds:
Since there is no possibility OF ex-
Guiding them, even If it were morally
proper to do so, the northern cities af-
fected must. sooner or later. grapple
vigorously and scientifically with the
problem OF their presence"
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hYou cannot sQuelch such a hero as
Uear Admiral Schley. The great heart
he American people throbs in SYM
b and admiration for him. The
night he went TO a theatre in
Rgton, and the great audience
eheered him to the echo. He
when in New York fast
alton not TO be iis1