The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-28
CURRENT COM EkT.

Delaware's governor has refused to
sign the law repeating the voters as
sistant statute, which enables bosses
TO see that bought votes are delivered.
Delaware nay not have had much eE-
perience with the Goth. but she is ia
mfliar with the Vandal and knows
what it is to be in the hands of the
shameless Hunn.-Norfolk Landmark.
The democratic party. as il approach
es the campaign year, is in the fortu-
nate and nusua position of having in
It's ranks half a dozen men who are
available for the nomination. Republi-
cans have often made the democracy
unhappy by the derisOry reminder that
it had but one candidate. Now the
names of several candidates worthy Of
the nomination and fit to be trusted
with h great responsibilities Of the
presidency are in the thoughts and upon
the tongues of the peOple.-New York
Times.
Christopher Columbus is one of the
greatest historic examples of tina type
of the creature called man which works,
oyercomes obstacles by working, keeps
on working instead of laying off under
Encouragement and finally through per-
sistent work gets there. Most -Ameri-
cans whose lives are not a continual
holiday are at work to get somewhat
or other. The way to arrive is to keep
hard at it. The best "a to celebrate
the day particularly connected with
the arrival of Mr.. Columbus is for his
beneficiaries to continue it as a legal
workday. not to pretend to honor that
energetic gentleman by loafing in his
name.-NeW York Sun.
We doubt whether it was ever the
happy fortune of any other eX-president
of the United States to do so much for
his country and for the future of two
races in a single public discourse as was
lone by Mr.. Grover Cleveland at the
Tuskegee meeting in New York 1t
seems impossible at the time that such
wise, humane, statesmenlike, and Chris
tan counsels to the white men of the
south could fall on u%nheeding ears: that
they have made an impression, and a
profound one, the evidence already at
hand amply proves. Nothing could be
| more satisfactory and encouraging than
the serious mood, the reasonable temper
in which the responsible public journals
of the south have received Mr.. CleVe-
lands speech and considered it.-Hart-
ford Courant.
| Bishop Satterlee said, in 4 sermon
| delivered at Washington on Sunday:
THE Jews are preserving the home and
family better than we Christians are
doing. I do not know how to account
for this, but 1 do know it to be a fact
Does not this quality on the part of the
Jews owe its origin to the prejudice
which has existed against them? Chill
dren became more attached to parents
whose prosecutions they witnessed thar
they would have been to parents less
heavily burdened. Parents We're more
Solicitous of children who were sent int
the world handicapped because of theil
origin than their neighbors Were of theil
children. The effects of centuries O
affection growing out of the condition
make themselves manifest now, wheI
enlightenment and progress are break,
ing down the barriers reared by preju
dice.-New York Tribune.
The people want and ought TO hav,
the report made by General Miles con
corning conditions in the Philippines.
1lllS 10 ne oplIlbI vi 1T lluldIId pun
News, which properly resents the atti
tude of the Washington administrator
in connection with various document
which are unfavorable to our Philippin
policy. Apparently. Secretary Root re
CARDS the public as if it were a small
and helpless child, to be fed only o.
selected observation-disclosures by him. o
course. If privately asked. we hay,
no doubt that the secretary would sa.
that General Miles's report misrepre
scented facts, and therefore ought to b
suppressed. If that is so. tbs publ
may be relied upon to discriminate. al,
there will quick be proof enough Of tn
generals errors. But that is evidentl
not TO be Secretary Roots way. Ap
p%arently. if he let's the report out a
all, he is going to let it out in piecemea
and attach to each piece the opinions Q
officers or Of governors who Oppos
General Miles views. This has actual
ly been done in regard to the general
recommendations concerning the props
food supply for troops in the archipela
go and concerning the wisdom Of en-
plOying troops TO build roads. "AppaI
entity, in anticipation of his criticism.
says The Washington Star, "ther
eXtant the opposite view of Generf
Davis, commander-in-chief in the Phi
ippines, and this is published with tt
General Miles ton. Sim
larry, the subsistence officers are allow
ed TO say why they disagree with til
lieutenant general But nothing hs
yet been heard OF hat portion of Ger
eral AIiles's report which deals with II
: Howe cruelties. and other horrors pc
petrated by officers in uniform.-Ne
York Post.
A Sweet Breath.
is a never failing sign of a health
D stomach. When the breath is bad tn
stomach is put Of order. There is r