The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-08
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM MENT.

Even our Italian immigrants appear
to be O~bstreperous in this restless
epoch of strikes. Yet their pay is much
larger than they could ever get in the
land of the Caesars. 1t is in no way
astonishing, however that they should
demand whatever they hin they car
secure in this New World of big figures
and ~ab0unding prosperity. Men,of
other n~atiOnalities have enforced their
schedules Of higher wages. The Ital-
ians refuse to be put aside in such con-
ditions.-New York Tribune.
The regular republicans in Delaware
are exactly in the position they might
have expected to be in this time. and
a couple of years hence they will be
still worse off. Mr.. Addicks has given
notice that he will not treat them as a
party or even as a faction: individually
they may come into his camp and be
welcome: beyond that he has nothing
to offer them. Senator Alice says Mr..
Addicks viii succeed DR.. Ball. and as
the former had control over two thirds
Of the republican members Of the last
legislature. there is nothing sensational
about the Observation-Disclosures Re.
cord.
General Corbin's skill as an orgdni-
ger OF street parades has long been
recognized says the Springfield Re-
publican, land this accounts for his
selection as grand marshal at ST. Louis
his week. 1t ma not be too much to
say that in the logistics of street pa
rades General Corbin is superior to any
ether great soldier that America has
produced. We have had generals who
could Lead armies of 100, 900 men to VIC
tory against an obstinate enemy in
egion where the swamps We're as good
as the roads; but not one Of them could
lead a street parade like the adjutant
general This is a just and timely
tribute. And yet his hero is black
balled by a Washington ~club.-Colum-
hia State.
\ business man closely associated
with Mr.. Rockefeller n said to be IN
a position to know, is quoted in the
New York correspondence of the Phil
adelphia Press as asserting that Mr..
Rockefeller is now by far the richest
man in the world, worth more than
twice as much as any other American
citizen. His standard Oil stock, at the
market rates, is worth $500, 100000
from which alone for several years HI
has received dividends Of $4O,0 900. 900 per
annum. or a little less han 81, 600 900 a
week. Besides his he has other
sources of income that bring him about
$50, 600, 900 a year, so that his total in
come from all sources is not less than
S15, 000. 900 a year as it has been for
several years, and there is no sugses-
ton of q checy to the enormous inflow.
Savannah News.
One of the most remarkable develop
ments incident to the great prosperity
of the western states during the past
two or three Years, has been the accu-
mutation of capital in the western
states, and their growing nancla in
dependence. The time-nOnOred tradi-
ton of eastern capital going west for
investment, n the annual movement
of money from the eastern n to
move the crops. has been one of the
landmarks of financial experience for
more than half a century. During the
past few months, however, thesa tradi-
tons have received a rude shock. and
eastern banks are beginning to ask
themselves whether the time is not at
hand whe the tables will be turned.
and the west will become q creditor
section instead of q debtor; and when
new enterprises seeking capital will
turn to the middle west as they for
merly turned to New York and New
England. 1t is a fact that deposits in
the western banks have been inCreas-
ing with q steadiness and volume un-
dreamed of at any other period. This
| has taken place during a season Of pro-
found dullness in the eastern money
centers.-Atlanta Journal.
The decision of the Pennsylvania SUI
| preme court. which refused to allow
WadsWorth, q emb of the state
guard, to go to civil trial on the charge
of m~anSlaughter for having killed q
riOter during the coal strike last sum
mer, is II to be received with apprOv-
al by all l~aW-abiding citizens OF the
union. The fact that many labor Or
CARNATIONS at the north ave lately
seen fit to eXpel from their membership
those who We're enlisted as militiainen.
is in itself deplorable enough. 1t ap-
pears to bear on its face Il taCit admis-
sion that such unions expect to come in
conflict with the laws OF their COM
monWealth, of which the miltitialnan
stands in the attitude of an upnOlGeF.
But to have permitted a civil tribunal
to try Wadsworth on the charges pre-
ferred against him, would have been
at once to make a traVeSty OF our
whole state guard system. and 70 have
paralyZed the arms of the individual
commemorative. Heacted under Or
ders. but had he been allowed to be
convicted by a jury, what other young
citizen soldier in the future would have
exhibited the very fundamental prln-
ciple of his calling, i. e. obedience to
his superior OfficerS?-AuguSta ChrOE-
icle