The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-20
CURE IT CUM MENT.

IS downright eXtOrtlOn, S-nil-y that
and nothing more. 1t is not legitimate
business by any means. bit a case of
| greed and grab.-Scranton T.u.h.
Mr.. F. Augustus Heinze. the youth
! full millionaire owner of Montana cop
per mines, who has aspired to succeed
Senator w. a. Clark, is reported as
engaging in a fist fight in a Butte bar
room a few days ago. Mr.. Hsinza may
know be considered to have all the es-
sential qualifications for membership
in the United states senate-he is r.ch
and u fghter.-Columbia State.
Apparently many paopla il the south
have an unfortunate mi~conception O.
the imposes of the General Educatton
board, represented by a timber of pill
anthropic n public-spilit9d men and
women here and in the east. The pur-
pose Of this board is net TO educate the
negro. 1t is to educate the children OF
the poor people Of the south of both
colors. Our information is hi bv far
the larger share of its fun IS and favors
has gone into the white schools and
that the results Of its work are beauti-
full and useful. The southern states
are not doing as much as they ought t.
% for their public schoo's: but. doing
their best. most of them would be un-
able to meet the reuu'rr ments Of the
conditio7s.-Richmond News.
1t is limited that the last, lingering,
dog-in-the-manSer opposition to reci-
procity with Cuba is to be manifested
by indirection in delaying acton Upon
the treaty. The rumOr would seem in
creditable were it not for the expert
ence of a year ago. At the present
time, it IS said. men who would not
venture to oppose the treaty opan'y
are seeking to take advantage of the
cOngeSted state of the SEnat cale"dar.
They strive on the one hand to keep
the treaty from being ratified by bri"g-
ing forward other measures. and,
on the other hand tn V Gre
ate the impression that soma meas
ura which some senators dis ike cannot
he acted Upon before thu treaty.. and
so if the treaty is indefinitely delayed
these other measures will be kept out
of the wav.-New York Tribune.
Alas. what will be tn use OF an
ocean voyage when they get to furnish
ing all the news from land cal V aboard
ship? The chief benefit hitherto at
tached to a trip abroad has been the
sweet boon of cutting on@'s cables and
hearing no news for a week. 1t has
been the sort of a relief that busy peo-
pie need in order to give them entire
rest, and nowhere could it he found
more complete than at sea. And now
all this is to be changed, and the same
everlasting news that keeps our nerves
taut on land is to follow US at sea. It's
a sorry fate for health and ret seek
ers af1oat. Perhaps some OF the ocean
liners may appreciate its drawbacks
and voyages without the
wireless attachment In which case
they will deserve the patronage Of those
who seek sailed repose and rest.-Bos-
ton Herald.
When q mob of hundreds of promI-
nent citizens of a town, led by bankers
and clergymen. holds UP q coal train
and proceeds to distribute the contents
to the freezing people it is tim for
those in control of the fuel supply 70
pause and consider their mettods care
fully. For such a spectacle. just pre-
scented by the citizens o. Arcola. Ill,
is significant of a rising impatience on
the part of the people. The seizure Of
the coal at Arcola was, according TO
the dispatches, literally an act of ne
! cessity. Fuel could not be had. people
were suffering and drastic measures
were imperative. Fortune favored the
cold town by causing a breakdown Of
the engine at that point. Everything
was done in orderly style. the coal was
carefully weighed and accounts were
kept of he quantities k by the
people, so that payment can later be
made.-Washington Star.
President Roosevelt, not satisfied
with raising a row yer the southern
negro ~officeholder, has now burst into
Utah politics. He has c7used to be
communicated to the republicans of the
legislature of that state his opinion
that the Mormon apostle. Reed Smoot.
should not be, elected to the United
States senatorship. The president says
it would injure the state n be dis
t~ressful to himself. But what in the
dickens has he to do with whom Utah
sends to the senate? 1t is sheer impu-
dence, nothing more nor less for him
to be advising legislators as to Their
duties. 1t is presumable that they are
at least as wise and leve'-headed as he
is. Mr.. Reed Smoot is not a practicing
bigamist: he believes in the doctrine of
his church, but has taken only one
wife. But that's neither here nor there.
II is not for Mr.. RoCse"elt to advise
whether he be sent to Washington or
not. When Smoot gets TO WASHINGTON
with his certificate of elect'on-if ha
ever does-it will be for the United
States senate TO pass upon his qualifi-
Cations.-Richmond Dispatch
The L. s. district attorney of Boston
has two white assistants. President
Roosevelt has now given him a third. A
man who is described as an "octoroor''
and so light in color that he is not
recognized as a negro except by those
who lave been informed of the feet
This appointment. it IS intimated. is in
accordance with the presidents policy
to bestow offices upon negIo-s IN every
I section of the country-in the north as
we'll as in the south. 1t is open to
doubt. however. whether the appoint
: ment of an 'octoroon" TO a position in
Boston Is a recognition of the right and
t fitness of the negro to hold Office.
/ This man, who seems TO have made
creiitable use of his opportunities
while 4 student at Harvard. is not a
negro. In fact, according to all ac-
counts, he has so little of the African
! blood in his veins that he might pass
, for an "An~glo-Saxon'' among those
2 not familiar with his ancestry. How
| can the appointment of such a man be
[ a recognition of the Simon-Pure Afro
American citiZan2 Is II not. in fact a