The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24
STATE PRESS.

President Roosevelt's opposition to
the wicked trusts took flight as soon
as it became known hat they could
not be reached without a revision of
the tariff-Alleghany Star.
The temperance people should know
that il they go into politics they will
not be in a position to ask anything
of either of the old parties and that
it will be a long time before they have
the strength that will put them in
pOwer.-Durham Herald.
Whatever the politicians may say
the people will not agree tina. the
cleaning out of. the p~ostoffice rascals
ought to be suspended because it may
injure the administration. The admin
istration cannot do better than probe
the evil to the bottom.-Durham Sun.
Senator Bacon strikes the keynote of
the democratic campaign policy when
he says: Let the dead bury their
dead; the democratic party must es-
pouse live issues and make a progress
sive fight against republican politics."
But the dead" won't keep his mouth
shut long enough to be given a decent
buriaI.-Raleigh Post.
A report has it that President Ronse-
Welt has an ambition to succeed Presi-
dent Eliot, of Harvard university.
If the rumor be true then we may AT
least be spared a discussion on hat
old question of What to do with OK
presidents when Mr.. Roosevelt gets
through his present job.-Concord
Tribune
Daniel J. SullY is a bull after the
heart of the cotton raising states, and
should he retire from the manipulatiop
of the market these states will regret
it almost as much as to see their ures-
dental candidate defeated. The cot
ton producer is as naturally a bull
as a New Highlander is a "bear."-Win-
ston Journal
We do not see the reason i'll the
great outcry of the state press against
the proposition that our supreme court
justices should wear gowns d the
bench.-Wilmington Messenger. There
is no reason for such opposition. The
idea is a good one. We insist that the
judges be respected whether the law IS
or not.-Henderson Gold Leaf.
Marion Butler says that he was
present at Greensboro only in the ca
pacity of an adviser" If We remem-
Der correctly he was once the great
adviser of quite a large number or
farmers of this good old common
wealth.. But very few of them. We
hope, will allow themselves t. be
''duped" a second time by the same
kind of cattle-Franklin Times
The bureau of statistics of the
treasury department of the United
States contains some surprising state
ments. 1t is stated that he United
States is and has been since the year
1892, the leading export nation OF the
-. 10 rnf r. ola
tive standing from it's financial rating.
then the United States must be put at
the head of the column. There is only
one nation on earth that has more
money per capita than the United
States, France, and her national debt
is more than twelve times per capita
that of of the United States-Raleigh
Times.
The editor of the Wilkesboro Chroni-
Gle, whom we regard as authority On
! the subject. thus send forth the COM
ponent parts of Wilkes county "mou1-
tain dew" "a general mixture of corr
Stop, malt. ~Strychnine and branch huio
tempered to the proper bead by some
| storekeeper and gauger's merry moon
| shine" In making public this formula
| the Chronicle has done a great service
! to science and incidentally satisfied the
I curiosity of many inquiring MINDS
We have often wondered what makes
! imbibers of the dew" act SO funny
and look so oueer-and now we know
and are disposed to agree with tn
Winston Republican that 'as a temper
ance measure it should rival the Watts
bill if the constitutional results t.
, those who imbibe are as effective a
the terms Of its composition."-Ashe
vile Citizen.
The labor question has been thor
oughly aired in New Orleans this year
Some time ago the Federation of Labo
held it's convention in that city, and tn
National Association of Manufactured
has just adjourned its annual session
there. These meetings show that tn
labor PROBLEMS is an acute one. Bot
OF the gatherings devoted their atten
ton almost solely to this matter. Bot
agreed that upon the settlement OF tn
labor problem depended the prosperlr
of the United States. but this was tn
{ only common ground. The labor pee
: pie commended hat industry reste
5 wholly upon organized labor, while tn
manufacturers maintained that organ
., lied labor is the greatest menace
the industrial advancement of tt
country. David NJ. Parry, president
the association made a very bittE
speech, finging out the black flag
many of his mind in the conVentlo
n although Golden Rule Jones, may
5 of Toledo, O., put in a word for Il
working-people. and Hon. Carroll
Wright, commissioner of labor, mae
a great speech, taking a middle groun
and contending for the rights Of organ
ization by both capital and labor. t
enthusiastically held out the hope tn
the long conflict between these tV
n forces would eventually fix the prop
relations between them.-Charlotte 0
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