The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-02-24
STATE PnESS.

OF course it's all nonsense ABOUT
Rockefeller sending orders To the zen
ate by telegraph. Congress has ind
Gated no intention to do anything ag.n
the trusts that could not be CHECKED
off in good time via United States
mail.-Greenville Reflector.
That omnibus public buildings bill i
a pretty good thing for the sout1 if
it goes through all right. 1t carries
Sc. 900, 900 in all for southern cities. But
it is nothing more than the sCCth
ought to have had some time ago.
Durham Sun
They may explain as much as they
please that tons to official re-
ceptions at the White house have al
ways gone to negro as we'll as VIII re
o~ffiials; but they can't get around TIE
fact no negro ever got up nerve enough
to accept one until he had caus,- to
believe he would feel entirely at home
there.-GOldsboro Headlight.
President Roosevelt's administration
has been distinctly yellow. If the
democratic party thinks that is what
the country wants, then MIR. William
r. Hearst. editor of the New York
Journal and American. is just the man
it should nominate. He can give us
the real article with a f4w lurid side
touches.-Winston Sentinel.
A congressman get up a. his seat
the other day and actually complained
that our trusts are selling barb7d vIro.
alarm clocks and lawn mowers cheaper
to foreigners than to home folk. We
have had experience with all of the
above. and all We have to say is thare
is not a foreigner on earth SO mem
but that we are perfectly willing fOr
him 70 have them all at half price. 30
per cent off for cash.-Ralaigh Post.
We do not feel like giving way to
the Southern railroad. yet II the town
really has no grounds for its cOnt0n-
ton it's lawyers should advise it to
stop the suit for the ownership of Pea
body street where it is. OF ours he
SnabOard Air Lin might not like Ibis.
but the town is under no OBLIGATIONS
to this or any other roai.-Ducham
Herald.
The Gastonia Gazette says: Didn't
the sensational wholesale arrest of
gamblers in Charlotte fade out the
quickest you ever saw as 2 news COM
modity?" Charlotte is such 4 live
town that sensations are Of Almost
daily occurrence. so that the news ia
ture of each must Of necessity di>ap-
pear with its announcement so. rs to
make way for something else.-Char-
lOtte Observer.
What is to be done with our pubic
roads? Some of them are almost i'm
passable for pedestrians and vehicles.
Instead of the water running in bitches
it runs down the road. If they could
have been worked while the weather
was dry things would LAY been eff
ferent. Other counties are having
their road laws changed, why can't
. Baden? Something must be DONE
Clarkton Express.
The Washington Post facetiously Oh
serves IF the trusts have the least
regard for the feelings OF the republic
can leaders they will remain quiet ard
consider themselves busta1' But the
trusts have no souls and they will
continue to defeat antitrust leg,sla-
ton by kilograms. letters and personal
interviews so long as the republican
leaders remain in charge. The Only
way to head EN- off is to vote for TO ks
whom the trusts can't manipulate -
Charlotte News.
! The war between the freshmen e1d
upper classmen OF Davidson College
is more boyish than manly. The
/ freshmen painted a score of a baseball
{ game on the college walls n the I'M
per classman became indignant. The
! freshmen barricaded themselves IL a
dormitOry and deluged the upper class
men who came to attack hem. But
the freshmen were given twenty-five
! apiece with a board by the upper class
men. The freshmen went to Cornelius
, and from there sent a COMMITTEES TO
! confer with the upper cla$smen as to
the grounds of settlemenr.-Gastonia
News.