The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-09

The president sounds the keynote OF
his argument on the subjects OF trusts
and tariffs in his Introductory para
graph. in which he says it would be
easy to destroy prosperity by unwise
legislation affecting laws which are in
strumentaI in creating this condition.
baltimore Sun
What the president of the United
States has TO say is worthy Of careful
reading and deliberate thought. More
over. without consideration for the
wisdom OF personality Of Theodore
Roosevelt. the people should have this
message given to them as he wrote IL
and as congress heard il, not a rspor
of what another man understood the
president to mean. These have already
been published in several metropol-
tan papers, now the journals II
give the news VIII print what ne said.
Look in another column for the pres
ident's message TO the Fifty-seventh
congress. second session. Florida
.Times-Union.
Il may be understood very clearly
that there is a wide difference between
social n political recognition. Every
instinct OF the white race is against
acknowledgment of the social equality
of any other race. We cannot, how
ever. expect any president. whether
democratic or republican, southern or
northern. to eliminate the negro en-
Itirely and to lay the heavy hand Of
Iostracism on the whole race. Many of
us might like to see that done, but, as
Ia matter of fact, it is contrary to the
spirit of our institutions and to the
presidential oath of office. Richmond
News.
Much is being said in the English
papers about the probability of Eng
.lish cotton manufactures becoming less
dependent upon the United States for
their cotton supply. There is no doubt
that the British Cotton Growers AS
isOciation is making great efforts to
grow cotton in some of the British de-
Tendencies. The experiment in East
Africa has proven q failure and it is
far from certain that the experiment
in West Africa VIII be a success. The
first crop seems to be pretty fair. bur
subsequent crops are likely to be far
from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
The HaIes and Fryes of Maine. may
be able to keep the tariff bulwarkS of
the trusts intact during another ses-
sion of congress-. possibly longer, but
the forces of revision Will go on stead
lily gathering strength. The cOnsum
,ers of the United States are learning
to distinguish between protection
which safeguards the American mar
ket and that other bastard policy which
encourages monopoly to sell its pro-
ducts cheaper abroad than at home.
In refusing to make this distinction
the Observation-Disclosures are playing ,di-
!rectly into the hands of their most
dangerous enemies.-Philadelphia North
American.
George Dewey. admiral of the navy,
has gone down to the Caribbean once
more to take command of an American
fleet, the greatest he has ever COM
manded. and probably the last he will
ever command, unless an unkind chance
shall shortly thrust war pom the
Icountry. The Virginian-Pilot is frank
lily glad 10 see George Dewey emerge
from a we'll earned retirement and
take command of an American fleet.
1t may at times have INDUCED in good
lnatured badinage at his expense
when he played babe in the woods in
politics, but it has cherished for him
always a profound admiration and es-
teem and i has always deplored the
harsh, not II say brutal, criticisms Of
him indulg, in by certain contem-
Iporaries. --.Orfolk Nirginian-Pilot.
1t is to be noted thai Colombia hasn't
IgiVen our congress any opportunity to
I~recant on the Parma canal route and
Igo after tn. Nicaragua route again.
ION the day that OngreS assembled in
Washington the Colombian govern
ment withdrew it's recalcitrant minis
tier at Washington and put the canal
MS III In 1IciilNto III NlS SN-N-
rotary of the legation with instruc-
lions to press them in the most friend
ly spirit. But it is quite evident that
the responsibility for the deadlock III
1.-THE negotiations rests with the COlom-
Ibian government rather than With the
minister. else the government WoulC
Hong agO have recalled the minister.
Now that the government of thu 18TH
lmian republic has taken a sensible a.
ttitudt We may expect an early agree
Iment " the vital points of the concrs-
sion which is the sine qua nol. to the
iCanal across the isthmus.-Cha-lestcn
Post.
Burke wrote that he did not wholly
lCOHdenln the little arts and devices OF
public men. since they ''diffusa occa-
Isional gaiet over the severe brow Of
moral freedom" 1t would be a severe
brow indeed which refused to relax ar
the sight If Mr.. Roosevelt hurting
hunks of his now somewhat familiar
gospel at the head of congress-. With
fresh zest he falls upon hat old enemy
lof his. "th w~eakling"; for the thou
lsandth tin he notifies us that the
I"creed of Grspair" is not for him n
good thing Swo or three times. was tn
Greek rule or repetition. but President
Roosevelt l,Il evidently never let up
Imains. W have iron in our blood
lhe aSseverates. Agreed! Agreed, But,
lpray, ont max the iron enter our
soul by h~aranguing us about it on
tevery occasion. The president is to
Ibe praised for cutting down his mes
sage below the usual portentous
length: but he could easily have sub
lstituted for the first column q simple.
i"See my speeches and books, passim."
1T is we'll to be strenuous. but there is
such Il thing also as being mo]notonous.
New York Evening Post.
Jumped on "a Ten Penny Nail.
The little of Mr.. J. y. Pow