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

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point a negro as receiver OF public
moneys at New Orleans. IL the black
and tans' rather han the lilly whites"
are recognized as he regular republi-
can faction in Louisiana. this appoint
ment may initiate somewhat against
Mr.. Hanna's claims TO the delegation
Albany Argus.
The foreman OF a Chicago lumber
yard recently refused 20 allow 4 board
tn be thrown to a drowning man. The
board belonged to his employers. The
man did not A man 50 strongly faith
tut to those for whom he vas working
ought to be sent to the ~peitsntiary
where he could work for the whole
state.-F1orida Times-Union.
AS We have said before. we are not
enthusiastic over the of a
democratic majority in the next house
unless the party develops some capable
leadership. To lave a majority and
not be able to handle il is ike having
from home. You know the thing is VAL
uabl and would carry you somewhere
IL IL would work.-Richmond News.
One of the leading ship builders in the
n Mr.. Charles H. Crdmp. has re-
peatedly declared that the way TO help
the ship building industry in this coun-
try is to take the tariff off steel. We
have not the slightest doubt that he is
right. The enactment of a ship subsidy
bill would be in effect the of
a double subsidy to the already subsi-
died monopoly which controls the out
put and price of steel in The United
States-Norfoik Landmark.
The gold democrats are coming TO the
front in the democratic party, witt
every assurance that they will stay
there to the regeneration CT the party
n its restoration TO its former inf
ence n power and to the confidence OF
the business public, now more thar ever
before a potent factor in politics. Judge
Durand. the nominee of the democrats
of Michigan for governor, was "A gold
democrat, and gold democrats are being
nominated al over the country for con-
gress. That way lies future democratic
MISUNDERSTANDING IndeX-Appeal.
The administration is constantly pratt
Ing of what it has done for Cuba. and
Of how generously it has treated the
new republic, all Of which is can't and
hypocrisy. At the present time this
government is trying 70 rob Cuba OF the
Isle of Pines, which island has belonged
to Cuba since the discovery of the west
ern hemisphere. In addition to this the
United States government is trying &c
force Cuba to allow this ountry to es-
tablish a ava station at the most
available site in HaVana harbor-a
proposition which would be rejected b.
any other nation in the wCrId.-Alex-
andria Gazette.
If the friars must leave the Philip
pines, who will tai . their places? Pref
erably the places would be filled with
American priests; but Father Wynne
of New York. editor of a Catholic pa
per, points that there ere not
American nriasTS aOn1Oh unattached tn
fill the vacancies. And If Chere We're
priests to spare il this country, it
would take them j. considerable time to
learn the dialects ct The island and
thus fit themselves TO take up the
church woTk.-Savanuail News.
Spencer Eddy of Chicago, first sec
rotary of the American Legation at
~ConStantinople, is about to reverse the
order Of international marriages. He
is a sutton for the hand of the Countess
Elizabeth de Nuremberg, SiSter-!D-law of
the Grand Duke Michael, who is the
son of the Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle
of the Car of Russia. Mr.. Eddy is
rich and the young woman IS not, but
being connected ~0istatly with the royal
family of Russia she is regarded as a
phenomenal catch for the Chicago man.
Savannah News.
The republican papers continue to
ring the changes on the presidents
Crusade aginst the trusts, and are
working for all it is worth the prom
Use" of antitrust legislation in his re
ported intention to engage actively in
the congressional campaign and his re-
quest to members Of lis cabinet to do
likewise. Our contemporaries are
kicking up a tremendous dust over this
matter in order to blind the people, but
it is the same sort Of dust they raised
over the several antitrust measures
that have been introduced in congress
by republicans but allowed to die as
soon as they a served campaign pur-
poses.-Richmond Dispatch.
Everywhere the silver question is re-
garded as dead,' says The Worlds
Washington correspondent, and what
Mr.. Bryan expects to accomplish by
trying to revive it is a mystery to the
democratic leaders," There is not much
mystery about j.. Fer Mr.. Bryan 20
drop his financial panacea would be to
admit that he is was wong in 1896, and
still more blindly and foollshly wrong
in 1900. And for a man who evidently
regards himself as wiser h the
American people, Chosen One, as it
were; a sort Of combination Of Moses
and the prophets-to admit even by ST.
lence that he was ever wrong or car
by any possibility be mistaken. is sim
ply unthinking.-New York World.
Dealers in the provision trade of Lon
don say that feed is doarer there thar
it has been in twenty-five years Bacon
and meats generally have risen a third
in price for the same reasor as in the
United States, which supplies Great
Britain with much of its provisions,
and many other aatables are similarly
affected. The head of n OF the largest
concerns in n d is quoted as say
ing that a man now earning SO shillings
e week is not as we'll paid in real wages
as one who earned IS shi;:ings two
years ago. This is quite as true of the
United States as Of England. And we
have to face the necessity of laying ex-
traordinary prices -or fuel IS we'll. Ina
coming winter promises to be hard and
costly for the people in this part of the
world.-Springfield Republican.
The true idea Of democracy is tina,
\ ayarv o;f;I1an should have the right and