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

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better. That fiction which represents
him as representing the people OF South
Carolina has become grotesQue- Be
sides, h administration no longer
needs the gentleman's vote md can well
afford to put al end to the perform
ance.-Washington Post.
1t Is reported that pom thu entrance
OF a daughter OF President Roosevelt
into a room. all the ladies present rose
and remained standing until she was
seated Respect to the president is
proper but when it comes to extending
IL to all the little presidents and presi-
dentesses we should think IL would be
least bit too imperial for yer h i'm
perialists.-Augusta Chronicle.
Administration organs treat the an
nounced presidential aspirations OF
United States Senator Mason as a joke
why so? The republican party put
Theodore Roosevelt in line for the presi-
dency n some say that Mr.. Odell is
a possibility. Senator Mason, whatev-
er his faults. is ADLER and more level
headed than either.-Albany On. "
Argus.
The beet sugar Republicans have
clearly shown that they are willing to
destroy the republican party ratheI
tina yield any portion OF the tariff sub
sidy which they enjoy through that
party. And the beet sugar interest is
only one Of many similar interests
which enjoy uch subsidies end which
would fight just as desperately against
surrendering any part of them.-Cou-
rier-Journal.
Six barrels of crude oil will make as
much steam as a ton of coal Texas
fuel oil, costing from fifty to sixty
cents per barrel, can be brought to
seaports of the Atlantic coast in
quantity practically unlimited. 1t is
only a question of supplying tank
steamships and receiving tanks. and
presto! the problem of fuel supply
might be speedily worked out without
regard to coal freight rates or coal
miners Observation-Disclosures Record.
that the time is not far distant when
there will not be a thing that we eat,
drink or wear that will not be made
by a trust, and then" he says. sit will
not be long until it will be a financial
impossibility for the average young
man to get married" On know
about the eatables,~ drinhables and wear
ableS, but as to the other is would only
be necessary to pick a girl with the
right sort of father.-Atianta Journal. I
The printers dollars-where are they?
- NOIioi I'LL d OolldT lllSle, SCdI-
tered over numerous small towns, miles
and miles apart. How shall they be
gathered in? Come home, you are
wanted; come in single file that we
may send you forth again to battle for
us n Vindicate our credit. Reader
are you sure you have not one of the
printers dollars sticking to the bottom
of your truserS pockets. Feel down and
see if we are Notwithstanding
(Pa.) Republican.
Senator Bacon, Of Georgia, expressed
an idea that it very generally held,
when he remarked recently that if
permanent dominion of the Philippine
islands was to be held there was bu
one kind Of government which they
should have, and that fact was the real
reason why many senators had opposed
the retention of the stands. 1t was inn
possible that the inhabitants could ever
occupy any other relation to the Unit
ed States han that of c%olonists and
subjects ALBANY Argus.
The democratic party in Georgia held
a state primary election last Thursday
to elect delegates to the state nve
ton, which is to nominate a candidate
for governor. The question of state
prohibition and local option was in
volved in the contest, and local option
won. There are now 100 dry" counties
dlo l"SIlly-HNS wet COuIlltS, dS
they are called, in Georgia, and some of
the latter have adopted the dispensary
system. 1t is doubtful If this condition
can be improved with public senti-
ment as it now is, and the Georgia vot-
ers decided to let we'll enough alone
Philadelphia Record.
New York society was thrown into
ecstacies of delight the other day by
the arrival of Harry Lehr from Eu-
rope. The newspapers admiringly
chronicled the fact hat he wore "a
long brown English ulster, the skirts
of which he clutched in his right hand
to keep them from trailing on the deck
of the steamer; a low turned-down col
lar with a black English tie, n a
brown Fedora hat. Whether his linen
had one frill or two was not reported.
Meanwhile, me cannot help wondering
how King Edward hopes to be crowned
with becoming pompa and ceremony with
Mr.. Lehr on this side Of the ocean.-Sa-
vannah News.
The ice trust has not yet succeeded
in getting a frozen fast monopoly in
New York. 1t still has a swarm of in
dependent, enterprising and energetic
competitors, and the prices for ice have
not yet scared to the heights Of Alpine
glaciers. Our gas trust is heaping UP
profits at the legal rate of 81 a thousand
ltcl " SdS, WHICH 1t COuiu supply Will
a handsome margin of gain at 80 or SO
cents a thousand, but unless the meters
attempt fantastic tricks n try to loop
the loops on their own account the con-
Sumers of gas seek to lead a tranquil
life and pay their bills without violent
reproaches and objurgations. The chief
grievances of existence In these
days are due to the intolerable exacttons
OF the beef trust. New Yorker in most
cases have resigned themselves to the
schedules for ice and for gas, but they
are up in arms agaist the extortionate
figures for meats.-New York World.
We congratulate our southern friends
upon the hilarious prospect unfolded tC
them by the Hon William E. Mason's
projected tour in their section. Mr.. Ma
son now the junior senator from I'LL
nis-his term expires on the 3rd of next
| March, by the way-and one time Z
member of the house Of representatives
has attracted a great deal of attention
at different times in the past by hi.
independence of thought, his originality
OF rhetoric, n by a certain bluff
hearty, whole-souled manner peculiar.