The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Washington correspondent Of the
| New York World makes the interest
ing declaration that the investigation
| into the division of salaries and allow
| ances of the postoffice department, OF
| which George w. Beavers was superin-
| tendent has disclosed the fact that
this branch of the service was util-
led entirely in favor.ng senators and
| representatives AID IN Strengthening
| them with their constituents" 1t real
ly begins to look as if the senators and
| representatives would nave to investi-
| gate themselves at their next session.
| Savannah News.
Let the Republican brethren, into
whose communion the venerable Will
litm NJ. Stewart recently has been re-
admitted, look sharply afttr tina pen
| admitted, look sharply after that pen
itent. He is beginning to talk of the
| necessity for more and yet more cur
rency, with occasional explosions of
| wrath against the plutocracy-infalli-
BILE symptoms of a lapse into the di-
vine ratio and it's accompanying man
| ifestations of economic mania. The Re-
| p%ublicans will have to strap Brother
Stewart to the mouners' bench if
they want to keep him from back
| sliding.-Chicago Chronicle.
Until recent years we have been re-
! markedly free in the south from the
charge of Sabbath breaking. We have
been mostly tillers of the soil who
| worked the fields for six days Of the
| week and who were willing when Sun
day came to stay quitely at home,
| while the stock rested and the crops
| grew over the day of rest. We have
had little temptation TO break the
fourth commandment. But a new or
| der of things brings new conditions.
With the development of our indus
trial system and the congestion of pop
ulation in growing cities we shall have
to face questions which have not pre-
| serted themselves heretofore for ur-
gent consideration. The running of
! trains and the operation of street rail
ways on Sunday have already engaged
the Sttention of our southern people.
These are but signs of the new times
which are upo US. This is a mighty,
rushing age. Nowhere in all history is
there such a gulf between two gener-
ations in the world of work as that
which separates us from the times of
our fathers.-Columbia State.
l we are luuCl pledSeu " learn CndC
a petition is being circulated in this
city asking Mr.. W. R. Hearst, of the
New York, Journal, to establish a new
afternoon newspaper in Richmond.
We hope that the petition will be gen.
orally signed and promptly granted.
We always welcome new enterprise and
everything that will bring more money
and new people to Richmond. We
will be just as glad to have Mr.. Hearst
! spend some money establishing a news
| paper here as we have been to see Mr..
Gould invest his money in street-rail-
Iway enterprises. 1t is slightly illogical
for those citizens who have been abus-
ing Mr.. Gould and Manager nj so
bitterly for importing yankees to AXE
the places of our own people on the
street cars, to implore the Yankee"
Mr.. Hearst with his yankee" capital
to appear here and take charge Of the
newspaper situation for this Virginia
community. We do not share these
p%rejudices, however, and do not expect
logic from evaporation, and, as al
ready indicated, are ready to welcome
Mr.. Hearst n his representatives and
any investment they may desire to
make. We can assure them of every
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courtesy to new Observation-Disclosures
News Leader.
The Constitution some time ago
warned the fresh-water element in the
republican party to keep an eye on
Uncle Marcus Hanna. Perhaps they
did so and have been greatly edited
by the swift and easy way in which
he has once more the drivers
box of the republican tally-ho. and
means to manage the coming preSi-
Dental campaign in his own and only
familiar fashion. 1t : all very we'll
that the president is a Gle YER rough
rider, but Uncle Marcus is sapient
enough to see that republican victory
next year is not to be gained by the
stampeding n rounding-up methods
Of the cowboy cult. He is president
enough to know that the road over
which he has piloted the republican
chariot a couple of times is very mar
row n very treacheIouS at many
points. He knows that at certain we'll
defined points the driver has got to Ego
slow and mighty keerful!' The I'M
~derstanding of these things has made
him determine to take a third term on
the box and the backing he was able
| TO summon shows that all others am
bilious of the job have had to go away
back and sit down. There is Wall
street and the business world, the
trusts and monopolies and the labor
vote-no nan desiring to be elected
president on the republican ticket next
year could afford TO ignore them. The
president de facso could not command
them and the great necessity:o of MT hos
ing them. has caused the whoa& presi-
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