Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-09
since the day Of emancipa alton winning

since the day of cipatton.- Whining
ton Messenger.
When the purchase OF the Panama
canal shall be closed the work of complet-
ing the canal should proceed without de-.
lay. The idea that this great power
should wait, because such thing as
Colombia bids it stand, is absurd.-Chat-
Etanooga Times.
The Confederate pension system, the
States paying pensions to ex-soldtsrs, IS
subjected to the same abuses tnat are
noticed IN the United States pension sys-
tenn. There is a loud call In all the states
for pension reform. to defeat unworthy
claims and to protect the genuine Tete-
rans.-Houston Post.
we want to bet our last quarter right
now that If Grover c. lives and keeps his
health he will be nominated for President
two years hence if he will have the noni-
ma ion.-Greensboro' Record.
There is virilfty. snap. a tImeliness
in a speech that is generally absent from
the letter to the public. We think this
Is the reason why candidates prefer to use
the platform and why editors regard
speeches as news more acceptable to
their readers than would be the same
amount Of prosy dry-as-dust "communl-
cation to the editor.''-AIobile Register.
Mr.. Hill has always been favor1te
with the Sentinel and up to the time of
the adoption of the New York platform
we thought him the most available Pres1-
Dental nominee for 1904. Undoubtedly,
with respect to that platform, he made
grave error, but what public man hasn't
erred Knoxville Sentinel.
American Tobacco Trust agents were
very active in the fight against the DEM
ocratic legislative candidates in Durham,
Vance and Granville. In all three the
Democratic majority was larger than e1-
pected. North Carolina folks will not &C
cept trust dictation in polltlcs-Ralelsn
N ews and Observer.
Making all allowances for the fnher-
ent inequalities III men, and the nee
essary inequalities in their circumstances
which are as inevitable as the law OF
gravity. it remains to be said that there
is now threatening and growing ten
dency beyond and above the normal inc
quality toward the abnormal. And unless
this tendency toward the abnormal is ar
rested by misunderstanding legislation OF
Socialistic movement in this country is
likely to attain such an impetus in a few
years as will startle every conservative
mind-Macon Telegraph.
There Is need of more friendly ana
franker interchanging between employ
ers and employed in many corporations.
and may be such grievance committee
of organization for arbitrating questions
at issue in each manufacturing commun1-
ty-composed jointly of representative
men from the corporations and the LABOR
unions-would be able to prevent clashes
that occasionally disturb the relations be-
tween capital and labor in our cities
Augusta Chronicle.
The fertile soil and genial climate of
these States are enough to furnish wealth,
as well as subsistence. to large popula-
ton, even if there had been nothing else,
but it now comes to pass that the South
ern States possess such varied and ap-
parently boundIess mineral riches that
they are going to become the seat of enor-
nous mining and manufacturing indus
tries in addition to the bountiful products
of the soil.-New Orleans Picayune.