The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-31
CURRENT COMMENT.

Announcing the death Of Gen. Cas-
sius NJ. Clay. Of Kentucky. in his nine
ty-third year the Associated Press
Thursday morning Informed the public
that the arduOus and exciting expert
enceS of the generals career had be
gun to tell on him in late years" This
is Iaughable. considering the fact that
the subject of the dispatch has been
in late years a nOnOgenarian. The
explanation of his decline reminds US of
the man out west who died last week
at the age of S. from excessive use Of
tobacco during the closing three score
and ten years of his life.-Norfolk
Landmark.
If the southern people will keep on
discussing the negro question earnest
ly enough they will, eventually evolve
a better solution than any they have
yet Outlined-and yet il is a problem to
be worked out, not talked out. Con
gresham briggs, of Georgia, having
declared in a speech that the educated
negro is a menac as a competitor in
the labor fields. the Atlanta COnSti-
tuition goes on to remark. altogether
wisely: The negro will be educated,
whether the southern states and people
do the work or not. For us to declare
against his education is but to stimu-
late others to the dutv. Our new con-
situations in the south offer the ballot
to him as a premium for his zeal 70
educate himself. and to separte the
school funds according To race pay
mentS Of taxes would set on fire the
enthusiasm of every thoughtful negro
in the south to sacrifice for the educa-
ton of his chi!dren-Mail and Express.
Whenever and wherever trade unions
offer opposition to the employment of
the citizen soldiery to suppress moi
violence, such union make the most
serious mistake that IS chargeable TO
their account Acting within Its 1ghtS
organized labor has the indispensable
support of a healthy public sentiment.
All of its many victories have been u
TO such support. All OF its failures
have resulted from. the absence of such
support. In arraying itself against the
militia. as it has done in repeated in
stances and as it is now doing in
Evansville. organized labor arrays it
self against law n order, become an
aggressor upon one of the fundamental
rights of society. and an opponent of
the state government in the discharge
of one of it's highest and most impera-
tive duties. The Post has no appre-
henSion that organized labor, as a
whole. needs any dmonitiOn on this
subject. Most of its unions are domi-
mated by intelligence INC patriotism.
They are, therefore. confidently expect
ed to frown down and keep down this
reprehensible and dangerous tendency
that has shown up in various localities.
Washington Post.
A Kansas exchange destroys a hope
We had for the solution of the problem:
What shall be done with the college
graduate? The earlier reports from
Kansas indicated that the problem
might be settled through employment
of the young men on the farms, for it
was stated that twelve athletes lately
ora dina ta1 frprl II "a rI-a rI and annlial fn
the Kansas bureau of industry for jobs
in the wheat fields and had been en-
gagged by very promptly. But
the latest report from Kansas shows
hat the college athlete is not to be
the farm hand our first impression
pictured him.. Here is what our Kan
saS exchange says Of him in that ca
pacity: In Pawnee county yesterday
six young fellows We're aid out by the
heat, while four maidenS. performing
the same service, sang merrily from
morning to night. Similer stories came
from the other counties. The eastern
erS appear to be rugged and strong, but
the change Of water and altitude, with
the intense heat and burned atmOS-
phere put them out in short order,
while the girls who are acclimated are
not disturbed" We shall not dwell
upon the disturbing Information that
the Kansas girls al do more work
lldII IIe NpullS IleIl WHO IldNe Deell
trained in the college gymnasium. Such
information must speak for itself. But
we are constrained to ask again, in the
face of Re other facts set forth in the
statement where are the college grad
yates. our sturdy athletes. to go now
for employment?-Atlanta Journal.
One of the half-battle words of Gov
ernOr Durbin of Indiana was treason
as applied to the action of labor unions
who forced their members to resign
from the militia for having fired on a
mob. The thing is spreading. In Tex
as and in Pennsylvania organized labor
is showing its teeth in the same way.
The idea is growing among trades un-
ions that the power of the state to sup
| press domestic violence is a power in
imical to their plans Il and
accordingly they are laying down the
doctrine that a man canno be both a
unioniSt and a militiaman. There could
no well be a franker admission that
the union programme. say what the
leaders will in public, is founded upon
force. AS = is not possible to win by
violence when there is an arm of the
executive power expressly designed to
put down violence the unions make
their attack UPON the militia-indirect'
ly, for the present. What they will do
later, if unchecked. may be inferred
from their constantly BETRAYED ASSUME
ton hat they are above the law and
above The state itself. They have set
up a sovereignty within a sovereignety,
and hope in the end to make labor SUI
preme over government. OF course,
they will not succeed. and of course,
the b movement WILL in time be
compelled to diSavoW the rebelliouS and
reasonable elements now so strong
within it: but the present duty of good
citizens is hone the less obvious. That
is to resist at all costs a tyrannous
power which would erect itself above
the state.-New York Post.