The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-20
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
4;STAIE PhESS.

If the bill Introduced by Mr.. Fuller
becomes a law it will make trouble for
the railroads and they will have them
selves to han for IT. Notwithstand-
ing that the law is odu for our
benefit we cannot say tina we are in
full sympathy with Thurman Herald
The appointment of a negro as as
slstant district attorney at Boston does
not relieve Roosevelt of the charge OF
inconsistency The public generally
and the business men of a community
do no: conn into contact with d dis
trIct attorney or his assistant as with
a postmaster or collector of customs.
The case 8 are not Parallel at all and
no twisted or distOrting statements
from the White house can make them
So.-Charlotte News
According to the news dispatches
Senator Albright of Rhode Island. bit
terry opposed the suspension Of the
tariff on Coal When the mater came up
Tor debate in that body of which he
is a member. A day or two ago the
senator coal bins ran empty II at
ter a struggle his agent succeeded III
purchasing a few tons, but it cost the
senator SIS for each ton. Now the SEN
ator thinks probably it would be d
gUud Iued to suspend the coal tariff.
II makes all the OllleieIlCC III the WOTlQ
whose bull is gOred.-ChallOtte News.
The increase in circulation in the
United States of oVer $9S, UOU, QUO in the
past year raised the total money sup
ply on January l to $2.3iS, 100. 901 and
made the per capita circulation S29I Is.
This was exclusive of the holdings of
the treasury. The cirCuIation consisted
OF gold coin, 1929. $50. 632; gold c~srtifi-
Gates. 1916, AIS, SI9; silver dollars. SIS
310.334: silver certificates, $453.5 30. 632;
fractional silver. $94,35O DOG; treasury
notes Of 1890, $23. 920, 1926; g~raenbacks,
$343, 110,S5S; national bank notes, $685.
61S. 531. The stock of gold III this coun-
try is $1.246,S76, T5. or some 1880 OO
more than a year agO.-GO.dsbOro
HeaGlioht.
1t too often happens that when the
lawmakers gather at Washington fear
comes over the country that business
will be harmed, or when the Raleigh
lawmakers meet that soma hurtful leg
IslatiOn will find Its way upon the
statue books. Capital is wonderfully
sensitive. and the best way to invite
it here for the upbuilding and devel-
opment of the state is to let it be I'M
derstOOd that it will not only Ue fairly
treated but that there Will be no leg
~islation affecting it save such as is
NOSSp ulll lIldl SNClI
will be enacted only after the fullest
investigation and most careful consid-
eratiOn.-Ashevilie Citizen.
Mans inhumanity TO man" could
not be better eXempIified than by the
curse which is being pursued by the
coal dealers in many northern cities.
According to the board of health in
Chicago. .OO.O 900 persons n that city are
sick, due to the lack of sufficient fuel
during the present winter; and at the
same time there are said to be hun
dreds of cars loaded with coal on the
side tracks in Chicago, which are
marked to be kept intact and not to be
unloaded or sold. Also there is report
ed to be hundreds of tons of Goa which
has been dumped from cars along side
the railroad tracks in the outskirts of
that city. This holding back by the
coal dealers has but one object. that of
increasing its price, and making con-
sumers either pay or perish.-New
Bern Journal.
In his Boston appointment M.
Roosevelt, as will be ascerta ned later,
has played pretty smart politics. He
has by it established for himself and
his party a new claim upon the negro
vote in the p0rtl.; he has met the
: southern demand thai he appoint ne
groes to office in the north also if he
is to appaoint them in the south. and
thus establish his consistency; he has
not injured himself in the south for he
expects no electoral votes from this
section anyhow and these appoint
ments will not operate against his Sc
curing convention vOtes here; and he
has not hurt himself in Boston or New
England. for we maintain that there is
no such race feeling there as here and
will not lie so long as the negro popu-
latiOn bears SO small a relation to the
white as il does now, though when it
becomes predominant Or formidable. if
Il ever does. the View0lint of the
north will change. The president has
confronted and answered his accusers
Ii neSatived the charge that he has
: offices for negroes in one section of
the country but not IN the other
| Charltte Observer.