The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-07
STATE PRESS.

1t is q mistaken idea that the nuInDeF
OF tobacco warehouses in a place, regu-
lats the price which the tobacco farm
er will receive for his product. Buyers
are what make the demand ana cause
the good prices for the tobacco.-New
Bern Journal.
Even the explosion of a powder
magazine kills more people in this
country without overturning the w
eminent than participated altogether
in the whiskey insurrection down in
Panama which made Consul General
Gudger want to come home.-Raleigh
Post
a contemporary suggests that North
Carolina is worse than Kentucky in
that a criminal in this state does not
even consider it necessary to dispase
of the witnesses in order to be acquit-
ted o. murder.-Winston Sentinel.
There is no doubt that tobacco is low
at present. 1t seems tt be the general
impression that prices will advance
later in the season. 1t would seem to
be good policy for the farmers who
are not forced to sell early to hold their
tobacco until prices pick up.-Rocky
Mount Motor.
1t is declared that LEADERS in the
i grand army of the republic will make
| an effort to have the next congress
enact a law providing for the payment
| of S12 monthly to every civil war sol
| der who served ninety days or more"
This is something like. We have al
ways held that the ideal condition
would not be realized until every fell
low and all the women get pensions.
It is not necessary for them to have
been in the wal or to be kin to anybody
VIII was. Pension, like salvation.
shrould be free to everybOdy.-Char-
lotte Observer.
The p~ostoffice scandal is u~ndOubted-
ly a sharp thorn in the side OF the res
publican party n the public vii
credit the sincerity Of the presidents
desire to nave it pulled out. Postmas-
ter General Payne was called to Saga
more Hill last Thursdty 20 discuss thu
Bristow investigation. The president
is said to lave old Mr.. Payne that tn
investigation is progressing too slowly
He wants results and wants then
quickly. TOO much time the presi
dent said, lis being spent in minor de
tails" And there ne hit the situation
off right. The demand of the chief eX
ecutive that those Who are conductin:
the investigation push themselves. is o
such an imperative nature that it can
not be ignored and it is reasonable t
believe hat the publication of tn
postoffice depa1 tment will now procee'
at a more commendable rate of speed
Charlotte Observer.
In the ~readjuStment of things 1T The
headquarters of the rural delivery ser
vice at Washington. Fourth Assistan
Postmaster General Bristow is adopt
ing a measure which will tend to Hi
further extension of this branch of tn
postal service in the South and pU
: out of business a large number of tn
routes already established. He prt
poses to enforce the rule that no ruri
route shall be established or continue
| that does not serve at least one huT
l dred families. AS every route has
l be completed each day it can be easil
seen that in the south and west whel
the country is Sparsely settled, an
roads are rocked, hat 1t would Tt
, , quire more han a day in most cases
, serve one hundred families. 1t is e.
timateG that not more than two OF
of five of the rural routes in the sout
except those radiating from large CT
les, can be maintained if this rule
rigidly enforced.-Asheville Citizen.