The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-03
STATE PRESS.

What's the use of mincing matters?
We are glad that Delaware fiend met
the death he deserved. and that is all
there is to it.-Greenvile Reflector.
The Augean stables were befou,ed NV
three thousand oxen when Hercules
DETECTED Niagara Falls through than.
President Roosevelt has a bigger job
before him in the pOstoffice department
and this department is only n of
eight that need strenuous Herculean
treatment.-Durham sun.
What a blessed thing it is to live in
wilson, according to swearing done in
the court house. Every drunken man
IS of good character when he is not
drunk, every thief IS of good character
When he is not stealing, every ras al is
OF good character when he is not IN
tne oVeract Of practicing rescality.-
Wilson News.
The democrats will have no cause
for regret if Senator Hanna is fired
from the craftsmanship of the republi-
can national executive committee. The
substitution of the literary Senator
Lodge for the intensely practical and
resourceful Senator Hanna ENCOURAGES
the democratic party to be more hope.
fuI OF the outcome of the struggle next
year.-Winston Sentinel.
The trouble with the postoffce de-
partment seems to be that it was put
into the hands of political mana
gers instead of men of business and
ability. These in turn put
In rats and rascals. Is it therefore to
be at that there has been
stealing and ~piundering without end?
President Mckinley made a mistake
10 give high office in the department
70 rrnlf+T1-l
Heath. and President Roosevelt made
the same error when he gave an even
higher office to a Wisconsin manag ger.
one Henry G. Payne.-Asheville Citizen.
Our dispatches this morning show an
anomalous situation so far as cotton
and cotton manufacturing are concern
ed. Not only are the bulls and bears
tearing each other and the great army
of Spectators struggling to throw the
New Orleans wonder who has bought
up the market, but the mills througl
out this country and England are clos
ing down or running on short time for
actual lack OF cotton. It is not because
OF a corner" by spectators tina. the
mills must close, but because the cot
ton is not in existence. There may and
then again there may not be a crash
among the spectators. That depends
upon the promise of the new crop. But
our farmer friends can bank or very
good prices text fall certainly.-Raleigh
Post.
The Watts bill goes into effec. on
July 1st, and with it out goes five hum
dred revenue doodlers. 1t may De stat
ed with some considerable degree of
conservatism that the administration of
the revenue department of the federal
government in this state has been little
short of u 6JcOr~aaa TO T'hr5-+Ia ~ .ix-i1iDn
ton. The whiskey distiller has abound
ed under a system that permitted the
most ardent n confidential friendship
with that species of human Oiped
known in common parlance in this state
as 'red-leged grasshOpper." The dood-
Ter himself. constantly cavorting around
the country in connection with the. dis
tillers and their friends, has been a
power in politics 1t is a great cause of
cOngratulatiOn hat we are to ~ five
hundred less of these gentry in North
Carolina. THE world do move any
| way think of it: the negro as a pO-
litical power an iridescent Dream; the
last populist popped out and iasx. but
not least, the knight of the swill tub
tub and olfactories trained in the bung
hole, no m~ore!-Rocky Mount Motor.
Judge Neal has done the state a
; great service by collecting divorce sta
tiSticS, showing the number Of divorces
granted during the past year and the
| number of suits for divorce now pend
ing. 1t will surprise many to know
| that in So of the 90 counties SIS divorces
! have been granted and that GOT are o
| pending. Mecklenburg leads the list
with 33 granted and % pending; Wake
comes next with % granted and 2:
pending; and GuilfOrd is there with y
| granted and 10 pending. In 3evera
| counties-all honor 10 them-no Iii
vOrce has been granted n no applica-
tions are pending. The people III those
counties seem to be living by the ole
Bible and preserving the holy VOWS 81
matrimony. These facts gathered b!
Judge Neal should speak trump pet
tongued for legislation in North Caro-,
lima that Will stop the easy divorce:
that are a reproach to our civilization
New and Observer.