The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-22

Houston Post.
One thing is clear with reference &c
William Jennings Bryan; that is that the
republican press of the country is work
ing him for all he is worth as a means
OF attracting attention away from the
delinquencies Of their own party and OF
tanning anew the embers of strife
among Observation-Disclosures Rec.
ord.
A dog belonging to the wife of a
New York banker swallowed articles
worth $1,000 more than himself. That
is pretty good for a dog, but it is moth
ing to what Congressman Babcock.
chairman of the republican congress
siona campaign committee, can do in
the way Of swallowing political prin-
ciples.-Norfolk Landmark.
Spain has determined to make the
best of the tudIi and negotiate a
commercial treaty with Cuba, a diplo-
mat having left Madrid for Havana
with that object In view. Spain is act
ing sensibly, and she will 10 doubt get
much Of the Cuban trade which our
prOtectionists refuse to let the United
States have.-LOuisviile Courier Jour
nal.
! People in the north, says the Provi-
dence Journal, must bring some judg-
ment TO their consideration of the evils
of lynching nan is often displayed
here. They must put themselves in the
places of their southern countrymen,
SO far as imagination will help them,
and not indulge IN passionate attacks
upon men, who after all. are not vastly
different in intelligence and impulses
from themselves.
General Woods report shows that,
though he handled $50, 0OO, 900 during his
a minicf - afi4p -, Cub H.
turned over a balance of $50, 900 for the
insular government to start in business
with. 1t might not be d bad idea, after
all, to make him the cashier of the 18TH
milan anal fund, with the understand
ing of course, that no part of it was
to be employed in printing argumenta-
tive literature for any corporate cause.
News and Courier.
Our American officials should go very
slow in criticislng Franc for the ex-
pulsion of the religious orders, as we
ourselves propose 10 do something very
similar in the Philippines and for less
plausible reason. a alleges that
the orders haVe constantly c~onspired
against the republic. We have no OBJ
jectiOnS, from an American standpoint,
to the orders n the Philippines, but
desire to eXpel them to placate the
F~ilipinOs, whom we lave freely charac-
terized as little better than savages.-
New Orleans Picayune.
War upon the trust, war upon monop-
oily, war upOn government by money
without conscience or sense CT patriot
ic o-ligation-that is democracy. And
that IS the antithesis of present day re-
publicanism, which has become but the
political lackey of a piutocTacy that
has no respect for property until prop
erty has passed into its own possession
and out of the hands of is rightful
owners. 1t has no purpose save to fill
its own pockets. No aim in politics
save to get from the people through
the tariff and other class legislation a
continuing license to pillage the people.
New York Journal.
General Grosvenor had q spasm of
candOr in his last C~hautauqua address.
when he referred to the Teller resolu-
ton. under which the United States
went to war with Spain. This resolu-
pose in the war was not aggrandiZe-
ment, and hat we did not want any
territory. l did, and 1 had Cuba in
mind. The regret of many of u states
men regarding that resolution is some
thing like the bitterness felt by the
convalescent who had weakly forgiven
his enemies when he thought he was
dying.-Sprhgfield Republican.
The agitation in the south against
the employment of child labor in mills
has made a promising and encouraging
start. a humber of southern newspa-
perS having aiken up the question: while
individuals here and there are making
themselves heard. The Connecticut
cotton duck company that intends to
move its plan to some southern state
will find itself IN a very few years
lobbying at the doris of the southern
legislatures to prevent the passage of
an anti-child labor Law This is a form
of slavery that the new south will not
stand by. Opinion in Connecticut con
corning the course is not hattering to
that concern. Il business must feed
n fatten on children under fourteen
years of age, then modern industry is
on a very insecure foundation-Spring-
field Republican.
Sharp wars are brief. An era is now
foreshadowed when both brief and long
wars will be bloodleSS By an arrange
ment of small mirrors in a vertical tube
attached to the rifle. the soldier can
conceal himself behind a fence or wall
and fire with deadly aim without eX-
posing his head 10 view his rife sights.
Equipped with his device two ppos-
ing forces without artillery could cause
no bloodshed. The maximum damage
done o be the breaking of a few
mirrors above zach others heads. The
enemy first deprived of his apparatus
would be ''hors de combat With the
hyposcope war becomes only a test of
craftsmanship. the coward is as good
as the brave man, and soldering be-
comes popular, promoting its true pur-
poSNpeace.-New York Press.
Justice Shiras of the supreme court
bench celebrated his SEVENTEEN birth
day last January. 1t is believed that
he Will be the next member of that
bench to retire Mr.. Justice ShiraS is
a Pennsylvaniaian, and the PennSyl-
vanians seem to think that a man from
their state must, of course. be his sue
cessor. They look upon the seat as
being one OF the prequisities of their
state. And in this situation it is re-
ported that Senators Quay and Pen
rose have already selected their man,
in the person Of j. Hay Brown Of Ian
caster, Pa. Mr.. Brown of Lancaster
may be an exceptionally able jurist,
but the country would look with dis