The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-03
CURE COM MEAT.

Of which was: IF I were Lemuel E J.
Quigg, I'll tell you what I'd do; I'd
crawl into a little hole and pull the
hole in, tool" lust at the moment.
it looks as if Mr.. Quigg were
making strenuous efforts TO era WI out
Of the hole and put Representative
Montague Lessler into it.-Savannah
News.
We shall not enter into a discussion
of the political effect upon Mr.. Roose-
welt, personally. OF his raising the issue
involved in his invitation to some ne
groes to the White house reception:
but, so far as our observation goes. the
more thoughtful friends of the negro
race, including Book-r Washington, be-
lieve that their progress is checked
rather than helped by pushing them to
the front in politics and society.-New
York Sun
The man named Doblin, who swore
that Lemuel E. Quigg got hin to tell
Mr.. Lessler that there was 5000 for
him 70 be made by abandoning his op-
position to the submarine boats. now
swears that Mr.. Quigg did not tel him
anything Of the kind-that he swore
falsely before a congressional commit
tee. A few years in the penirentiary
should be given him to enlighten his
mind On this branch Of the subject. Mr..
Quigg's attorney accepts Doblin's state
ment as indicating his client. 1t does
not vindicate him nor does it nvlc
him. The public has nc means Of
knowing which statement was true.
All that is certain is that Doblin is a
brazen liar.-Florida Times-Unlon.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, the dis
tinguished scholar and patriot of Mas
sachusetts. has, in three notable ad-
dresses given in the past three months,
performed a public service for which
the whole country should be grateful.
The first Of these addresses was dellv-
cred in the city Of Chicago, the second
in the city of Charleston, s. G., and the
third in the city Of New York on Mon
day evening at the thirteenth annual
banquet Of the Confederate Veterans
camp Of that city. We say that MIR.
Adams has done a great public service,
because as an American citizen he has
had the courage to stand up before au-
diences in the north and in the west
and in the south and proclaim the
truth.-Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Incorporate ~harangue of the ne
gro lawyer, Hayes, last Monday night
will cause neither ACCOMPLISHMENT nor
alarm. Richmond is quite able to take
care of any sword and torch regime
that he may undertake to set up in that
city, and the same nay be safely said
OF Virginia at large. 1t is, of course,
possible. though not at all probable,
that disturbances here and there may
occur, not only in Virginia, but in other
southern states. These. however. will
be the result of recent appeals to the
vanity and credulity of the half-edu-
Gated and p~retentious negro. They will
not be due to ally folly or malignity on
the part of the race at large. In any
event, the punishment will fall upon
the dupes OF the impudent and vicious
incendiaries who stir up passion and
invoke violence from a safe istance
never upon the incendiaries themselves.
Washington Post.
Bishop Potter seems to have accepted
the dictum Of President Harrison that
"a cheap coat makes a cheap man."
At a meeting of the Consumers League
the Bishop said: You can't buy any
thing on a bargain counter without
finding on it, if your eyes are sharp
CltOuSh, q stain VI DlOOu SOlIlSW IlclC.
"In its passion for economy at one end
Of the SCALE" he continued, "socfety is
guilty of most cruel extravaganza at
the other" But the person who pays
a high price for an article has no assur-
ance that the workmen and workWo-
men who constructed it were proportion
ately paid. The greater part of the
community is compelled to be onom-
zeal. Most of the industrial progress
of the world is due to the efforts of
manufacturers to economic the cost OF
production so that they can reduce their
selling prices. and If one must pay high
prices n must buy fewer articles,
and the demand for labor would be re-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
President Roosevelt will get enough
Of the negro before he is done with his
disposition to push him above the white
man in the south. The door OF op-
~portunity' he has opened to the black
brother is pretty we'll blocked already
and the rush has just started. "Bill'
Pledger. the notorious colored republic
can boss of Georgia. and Bishop Wal
ters Of the African Methodist church,
called at the White house the other
day as representatives of the Afro
American council to suggest to the
| president hat he practically turf over
to that body, the power Of appointment
to office in the south. They proposed
hat the council establish a commission
Of selection and endorsement to which
the president should refer all colored
applicants for office in the south, and
that none should be appointed without
! the approval Of this commission. This
would be a sort of negro senate, ap-
parently, taking the office now delegat-
ed to the nat of the United States
by the Observation-Disclosures Post.
Pension seekers will hail with ap-
prevail a suggestion to be found in the
message of the retiring governor OF
South Carolina. Dissatisfied with the
| conduct of the county boards which
have distributed the 5000. 900 appropri-
| ated annually for the pensions Of Con-
federate Veterans. Governor McSwee.
ney recommends that the executive of.
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