The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-22
CURRENT COM ENT.

President Roosevelt has referred TO
he finding of the anthracite commission
as authority setting legal principles pre-
ciselv as if it were the decision of a
regular court of last resort. In this
connection The Springfield Republican
makes a rather al point with reference
TO the removal of Miss Todd as post
master in a Delaware town. By a slight
modification, it makes the finding of the
strike commission read as follows: 1t
is adjudged and awarded that =
there shall be no discrimination against
or Interference with any government
employe who is not personally agreea-
Bile to Senator Alec, of Delaware This
seems to be as pertinent as the citation
made by the president as to member
ship or no-membership in labor unions
-Curier Journal.
At outset it may be admitted that no
sentiment has beer developed in favor
of a currency based on bank assets that
encourages the belief that legislation
will be enacted in the near future. The
discussion is therefore wholly academic.
| There is no even enough sentiment in
favor of an emergency currency, SUCH
| as Secretary Shaw has suggested, TO
secure it's adoption, at least, there mas
been no public expression OF It. But IN
the end some change is going to be
made in our banking laws, and some lee
| way is going to be granted to- banks 10
| meet demands foS money,
! FOR other countries have proved that
| an elastic courrency satisfies a real
| demand Of business. and governments
| bonds are going to prove less and less
| adeuuate- as the basis of our bank u.s.
| sues.-The Des Moines Register.
On the facts of the case at Carriers
| Vile, where Rev. Sam JOres n Post
| master Alderman engaged n a. little pu--
| gilistic event yesterday, we are not
sufficiently: informed to take sides with
either partE. We do not feel absolute
ly certain that we would care to take
sides even # we knew all The facts IN
the case. Roth principals demonstrated
such a skiIlfulness is handling facts
and incidentally fists-that We are rath-
er inclined 10 side step the merits OF
the case and so escape the bewilder-
ment that might follow an alignment
with either side. From the standpoint
of a mere observer. however. We feel
| safe in saying it must have been a pic
turesque incident and one worth traN-
] cling miles to see, for on the one SIDE
1 "tIC tIllDlOSto Oh WIG ASiSS "Nt F
~perience gained in fighting foot. bal!
rivals at Princeton college anton the
other side were employed all the erer-
gy and experience gained in a long and
vigorous fight Will the devil.-Atlanta
Journal.
There is a negro editor of a race pa
2er down at Galveston, Texas, who has
dared to tell his, people some plain,
lalo-~~.o - -,;,f-1 +rr,fhc and tD
/ give them some advice which, if fol-
lowed. would do more to benefit the
Z negro than all pf. the mouthings of the
Tillmans and John Temple Graves and
other rabid advocates of summary deal
ing with negro offenders against the
I laM- w. E. KinGs thee editor in question:
has arrived at the same conclusions, II
4 effect. as those of Raymond Patterson,
who has been making an unprecedented
study and Investigation of the negro
and his condition d1 tine southern states
King also agrees in most par-f witt
Booker Washington, but he has had tn
courage to tell his own people his view:
81 in terms that are blunt, emphatic, ant
-. unmistakable. The substance of Kim
u conclusions is that wherever there is
prejudice against th negro, the chance:
are bou one hundred to one that tn
negro is to blame fog it. No one Il
going to aspect. the negro" says thi!
remarkably independent editor. SO
long as the bulk of the race are lazy
shissIess, charcnterHys, and inclined t
copy the vices of the whites, while ig
morning their HintueS. What tie. .negr
r needs is work six days in the week an
!. every week in the yRar.'-Washingtoi
Post.
a Chicago dispatch tells us that tn
light for the expulsion of the Hon
Read Smoot from the Unitea State
senate. to a seat in which body he wa
elected by the peorie of Utah, has 10
been abando red. but mas really jus
commenced. The. National Christ;a
t Temperance Union so the q snatch re
farred to tells us; has begun a cam
paign for the expulsion of the Uta
: senator which will attract attentio
l if it does nos Dust. The Hon. Mr.. Snleo'
Ten thousand letters are biz & sent frOr
the national headquarters to the locl
branches al: OVER the &C antry, wit
= Blank forms or petitions to the sen
g ate. The form OF petition to be signe
n asks that the senate Investigate tn
!, charges m lae ami filed a sainst Snoo
and says: IF IL be found that he is
polygamist. we ask that he be eYpe!le
from the senate as a Diator OF tn
laws of lns own state" But there
ample ground tor expelilng, acoordir
! ro the wNnen whether ,e is a polyg:
S mist or not. The petitions Will reaf
s Further. the Mormon church. claim
Z and teaches supreme authority diviN'
: y sanctioned. to control its member
= civil as veil aS religions affairs" Tn;
4 all lookaverS well on paper, and Won
- 1 Snnn6 vary Nell in 4 STnr1n COG-9p
but all the same Mr.. Smoot will II
be expelled. He is training with Il
l. republioans- his VOC may De needle
L. and vrlthaf he is a, pretty good sto
n teller and IT all-roInd fine fellow.
L will retain his seat in spite of tine E
forts OF h WomaLis Christian Temp
anc Union. And. by the way, We &
to see what the temperance Guesti
s, has 10 do with the matter, anyway