The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-05
COMMENT.

The word strenuous is being sadly
o~verworked. h adjective has been
applied almost to every subject but the
very latest is a wedding
II Virginia. The groom tanked up
with some friends at the appointed
hour so he had to be chased down,
sobered up and praCed for the cere-
mony. The marriage could hardly be
called beautiful and lovely so the blush
ing bride called ii ''strenuous."-Ra-
leigh Times.
President Roosevelt insists Oh a big
navy. When We shall, as a nation, have
spent hundreds of millions CT dollars
on expensive warships, the probability
is that some scientific genius will make
them virtually worthless by destructive
agencies. What we most need is not q
great army and navy. but a return to
fundamental principles that are the
tru bulwarkS of a constitutional repub-
lic.-Augusta Chronicle.
The establishment of a Buddhist tenn
pie in San Francisco is a rather re-
markable manifestation IF the spirit OF
the far east in the extreme west. There
is something almost comically paradox
ical in the idea of a congregation OF
Buddhist devotees, striving after the
negation of all that makes life, in a
city like San Francisco, where western
hustle and climatic conditions combine
to make the lievliest city in the world.
Nashville News.
Idaho has joined most of the other
states Of he west and some in the east
in giving the support of it's republican
state convention to the president, and
specifically urging "a revision of the
tariff without unreasonable delay which
will place Upon the free list every arti-
Gle and product controlled by any mo-
nopoly, and such other articles and
products as are beyond the need of
protectiona.'-New York Journal Of
Commerce.
Teddy is a hustler. He sticks his
panties in his boots, rolls up MS sleeves,
splits on his hands and goes to work
like a common, spoils politician. Where
be his jibes now about the Offensive
partisan?" Where oh, where, the song
of civil service reform? Today he is at
Newport smuggling with the four hun
hundred. Tomorrow he'll be out in Col
Orado, whooping things with the cow-
boys. Meanwhile, old Beef Trust
laughs. and say to himself, "Teddy's
all right.'-Louisville Courier Journal.
There is to be no politics III General
Miles trip to the Philippines. it is an
nounced. He is to leave in September
and return in January. That will take
him out of the way pending the Novem-
Der elections; put him where he cannot
do much talking and what little he may
do will not reach the of
the United states. Meantime, there
will be some compensation in the trip
for the general. He will be able to give
the Fflipinos their first view OF the new
olive-green uniform as it appears on an
officer of very high rank Savannah
News.
The verdict of the jury in North Car
DINA that approved the lyncEing of a
negro by a white mob is certainly
unique and it is also startling. To en-
dorse such an unlawful deed that clear
jy violates all law and order is a new
thing n introduces interesting points.
1t was not so long since Governor Ay-
cock offered a large reward for lynchers
n We will await with interest the dis
pcsitin of the present case. If the work
of mobs is commended for what pur-
pose does the legislature enact statutes?
Charleston Post.
Public Printer Palmer, of Washing
ton, D. c., is face to face with a serious
trouble. He will be CON- PEELED to decide
soon whether n Of hls foremen did
right or wrong in dismissins a girl
preSSman because of the way she wore
her hair. The Partisan name for the
style of Embarrassing IN QUESTION we do
not know. but the foreman complained
to the lady that some Of the numberlesS
hairs of her head were constantly drop
ping upon the press and getting mixed
up with the rollers and ink, thus ruin
ing valuable work. He most earnestly
beSought her to change her style of hair
dressing, but she would not. She fatty
refused. and couldn't have treated his
wishes with more contempt had he been
her Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
In his Providence speech the preSi-
dent reaches the question of the trusts.
He starts out with the statement that
there are discontents of prosperity as
we'll as of adversely, a paradox Of which
the time gives no proof. The outcry Of
the people against the trusts IS not
due to envy n jealousy. During the
recent beef trust squeeze we cried
out not because OF envy or jealosy, but
because the beef trust Squeezed us
and squeezed" us hard and We had to
pay more for meat Many people have
had to do without meat altogether.
The cry of the poor comes before the
president and he tells them they are en-
vious NJ jealous Of the rich. eff when
people wax fat they kick" saws the
president, las they have been prone TO
do since the days of Jesiurun they
will speedily destroy their own pros
perity." So the president proceeds to
give the people a stone whea they ask
for bread.-HouSton Post