The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-07
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM ENT.

The pastor of a Lutheran church IN
Baltimore used the convention OF ElkS
in that city to make this good point N
a ermon Not a few of Gods people
might learn from them the W. CT i
smile and the uplifting influence of good
fellowshipand good will. The kindly
spirit Of Hello Bill might work Well
in some churches where there IS a SUI
perabundance Of cold formality and
unfriendliness, where members or the
same church pass each other without
speaking and where the stranger must
wait and hunt for a seat."-Richmond
News Leader.
We can but take a lightsome, rot to
say irreverent, view of that perform
ance of the brother in black in Boston
town. Booker Washington, It seems,
had been invited to speak. Lewis. the
former centre rush Of the Yale football
team, presided T. Thomas Fortune,
Just back from Manila was very much
on hand. And the fun began. One
husky 'Rastus objected to the ruling
of the chair and refused to the calm
and serene. In fact he started a large
and rough house. Valuable
assistance was promptly rendered him.
The swish OF razOrs made music in the
hall. T. Thomas rose to oil the waters
with his mellifluous CAB and chOked
after a few sentences. The stage had
| beer red peppered for the occasion
Finally twenty-five policemen succeed
ed in restoring a semblance of order.
We repeat that the incident was
| not wholly devoid of the elements that
| drive dull care away, and when We
| contemplate it set like a jewel In the
| bosom of Boston We pause to restrain
| our emotions. We the m
| cident to the intimate scrutiny o. the
| sanity press of Bostou.-Virgfn1an-
Pilot.
Today's renewed calling for free
trade by the inconSiderate Filipinos IS
i only one of the trials of the republican
"stand-patters." The Cuban rec;proc.-
ity treat. is looming. 1t was especial
ly to approve of it that the president
determined to call an extra session Of
congress-. Eminent "Stand-patters''
had assured him al the time that a
slight letting down of the tariff bars
for the CubanS would not be neon
sistent with the sacred doctrines Ci
"stand-paatism.' But trouble Is now
brewing. ProtectiOnists on the watch
tower are saying that there IS danger
in any lowering of the tariff whatever
whether for Cubans or anybody else
and whether we promised it OF not
They detect in the innocent 1ookin:
Cuban treaty that awful thing, the en-
tering wedge, as we'll as the first ster
that costs, and the camels head 1nsiCt
the tent. Dropping figures of speech
and coming down to hard legal claims
the contention is made that the Ding
ley tariff was of the nature of a con
tract between the government and tn,
parties benefited, and that the latte
have in consequence a vested righ
: with which no treaty TIT no interna
tional policy must be allowed TO inter
fere. But his gasps the panied Trf
bune, is to assert in the name Of pro
lection the worst that it's enemies evel
[ charged. Possibly, however, the sait
enemies have all along had a more cor
! rect idea of the unflinching greed o
q the protective system thar it's aIniabl
: and somewhat gullible defenders IN tn
preSS.-New York Post.