The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-08

them up this time they wall have 10
acknowledge that the negroes Is out %
politics for good-Durham Herald
We are told that the republican cam
paign handbook. Just put. makes liberal
quotations from the speeches and mes
& OF both Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Wonder II IL tells what Roosevelt said
about Cuban reciprocity Charlotte
Observer.
Mcdowell superior court will convene
Monday. Judge ". y Hok. presiding.
The judge IL an exemplary man. and an
able. model jurist. He is Il modest can
didate for United States senate. and In
that august body. would reflect honor
on North Carolina--MaFion News.
The people Of the south have recoS-
nized the evils attendant upon child
labor In factories and public sentiment
is gradually but surely setting against
IL, but We do not like to be told our
duty by outsiders and all such advice
and criticism will hinder rather than
advance the reform.-Durham Herald.
In his opening speech Of the cam
paign Yates Webb told the CASTOR peo-
pie that IL Adam had received a salary
OF $4,000 per year and saved every
cent OF IL. he would not now be worth
as much as the steel trust has made In
one a That was rather 4 neat way
OF showing how the trust is getting
over-rich through fits III tariff pull
News and Observer.
This thing of suing railroads and
corporations when there is lictle or no
cause for complaint is making the peo-
pie tried in some communities and the
time may yet com, when the man who
is really entitled to damages cannot
get them. There is such a thing IA
nrrGhinO n CnnR fhEnU 80 81 TE-xgs
Durham Herald.
There seems to be a fear among the
advocates OF the trust that William J..
Bryan will gan be a candidate for
the presidency, Notwithstanding that
great statesman has declared he Is a
candidate for no office. The great
combinations OF wealth know they can
no control Bryan and want him re-
moved from the list OF possibilities
Rich Square Times.
\ Special dispatch from Washington
TO the New York Evening Post states
that Justice Robert NJ. Douglas on our
present supreme court is urged by his
friends for the tudgeship in the District
Of umb recently said 10 have been
rendered Senator McLauri OF South
Carolina and declined by that gentle
nan Judge Douglas friends In North
will be glad to see him receive the ap-
Observation-Disclosures Post.
There are few more interesting spe-
tacles at present han hat OF the de-
feated Boer generals on their way to
Edwards court. II is the plan OF the
government to make them witnesses OF
the great naval review in the Soient
doubtless for the purpose OF making
them feel that ii is no disgrace TO have
been defeated by a nation able TO make
such q display Of naval power as this.
Everything to prevent these Boer lead
ers from becoming confirmed England
haters is the program with the govern
Neutrality-suspicious. Telegram.
Senator Pritchard's views have mate
rally changed since the last campaign
when he declared with emphasis that
the mendme would ~disfranchise more
white men than negroes. and would
therefore increase opportunity for negro
rule. The senator now says that since
the adoption OF the amendment there is
absolutely no danger Of negro suprema-
cy. The big majority OF fifty thousand
has had a wonderful effect OIL the sena-
tor.-Asheboro Courier.
A Baltimore health officer has rec
commended screens in houses as a pre-
ventive Of disease. This Is based on the
theory that flies convey the germs. He
believes that flies carry the typhoid
fever germs just as mosquitoes carry
yellow fever and malaria. In this con-
nection it may be noted that q Ports
mouth, Va, doctor declares that a. lady
contracted smallpox from germs con-
veyed by flies from the body OF 4 negro
who died with the disease across the
street from her home. We never liked
flies and now we are still more heartily
in favor OF their annihilation.-Raleigh
Times.
The Times fully agrees with the
Sampson Democrat when IL says hat IL
is to be hoped that democrats will put
on thinking caps and work as they have
never worked before, allowing no differ
| ences upon any score to divide their
forces. IL things are not always in ac-
cord with our notions. let us not have
division in the democratic ranks. for
we cannot afford it,too much Is at stake
let a recollection of the degraded scenes
| enacted by the republican Tor rather
the fusion combine during their recent
| reign, solidify all who owe a decent
government. administered by white men
only. to the democratic party Of North
Carolina--Franklin Times.
The time Is quickly drawing near
when the question must be decided as
to which is the greatest power. the
trusts or governments. the LITTER being
the people. And this issue IL seems can
only be determined by a conflict I'm
"AAeh ~ PCosfft hioot pIOse AneIiI-
selves the superior and controlling
force. The trust danger Is no longer
confined In this country. for, as h
worlds great business interests are be-
coming more closely allied. so must
commercial combines extend over the
world wherever the interest OF each Ii
found. The presE is now telling Of the
worlds greatest trust" IL being the
combination OF the three monster oil
/ interests of Rockefeller Rothschild and
Nobel. which propose to control the
worlds product having given notice TO
the Russian oil people that they must
join or fight II Is a very live ques-
ton, this. as to which shall prevail, the
trusts. a few men feeding upon the
needs OF the masses. or the people
whose interests are being absolutely
governed by a few rndividuals.-New
Bern Journal.
President Roosevelt. with his usual
near-sightedness and disregard Of con-
sequences. a established a dangerous
precedent A negro trooper by the name
Of Guy Stevenson. a pri2ass IN the