The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

Admiral Cotton and his men are |
having a high old time with the dagoes l
at Lisbon. as they had with the Ger |
mans at Kiel and the English at Ports !
mouth. The ships of the European |
squadron may be in good condition, l
but the officers will surely have to be |
laid up for repairs after all the rounds |
in which they have been engaged dur
ing the past few weeks. -Charleston
Pest
With Russia wiping out whole colo
ries Of Jews, Turkey bending to the
work Of Armenian determination as OPP
pOrtunity serves and the United States
shooting, hanging and burning ne
| eroes. it will hardly surprise the world
| to see Persia taking a hand in this in
| ternational carnival of persecution.
| The recent massacre of all the BabiStS
who could be found by the populace of
| YcZd is in strict u~p-tO-date line with
the various atrocities that have been
and are being practiced in the coun-
tres referred to. If virtue was only
as infectious as ~barbarity, intolerance
and cruelty, what a model world we
would be living in,-Bostin Tran
script.
The legal case against Congressman
Llttauer, as set forth in the opinion OF
Judge Advocate General Davis and the
memorandum Of Secretary Root, is
conclusive as to all the matters of
real m involved. There is still a
technical question as to what demand
for a refund should be made under the
law. n this the department of justice
must decide. Section 3739 or the Re-
y;Sed Statutes says that federal con-
tracts wherein members of congress
are interested, shall be void, and that
whenever any sum OF money is ad-
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States, in consideration of any sucr
contract or agreement, it shall be
. forthwith repaid" and in case of re-
fusal shall be demanded, and sued for,
exc. Whether money which was paid
over on the delivery Of goods was
money advanced" in the strict mean
ing of a statute of a penal nature. Is
vet to be determined.-New York
Pest
Three days Of grace, so familiar to
all debtors in this country, will no
more be allowed in the state of Geor-
gia. The Legislature has enacted a law
| gains the custom, and with the ~
prevail of the governor the old habit
Of putting off for three days a BUSH
7 ness matter that should be promptly
I settled according to contract will be
| abolished. The passage of this law by
our legislature will undoubtedly be
4 III uSu dbloou do " AGlAASlC GN
vance. The three days of grace allow
: ed by the old law meant noting more
than sticking to ar ancient cuStG1.
/. J The old law really favored neither the
: debtor nor the creditor in the end, but
: on the other hand delayed the ma
= chinery of business unnecessarily. 1t
should have been relegated to the rear
long ago wit. thos eother customs and
laws that disappeared at the advance
ment of the science of finance ATTAIN
: ta Journal.
{ a question that ought to be of some
moment to republican leaders is
whether or not they will put thei!
, party into the presidential campaign
o as the perpetrator Of a palrahle anC
gigantic fraud in a matter of interes
to all the people. The Dingley tariff
as it was property called in its in
h fancy, but as it cannot now be callet
" with due respect to the memory Of Mel
o son Dingley, contained in itself tn
# promise of a very early reduction o
s, sundry schedules. That measure in
is cluded the Blaine reciprocity scheme
l. to which the republican party wa
g committed by every possible form o
n commitment. Mr.. Dingley and his re
t. publican associates on the ways an
III means committee believed in rec1Droci
n. t. and imagined that all republican
is shared that belief. Not doubling tina
LS Cl6lr Dill WOulU SOOli Ue Wis., W IL
r clprocal agreements, they naturally an
properly placed the rates at such
70 height that they would not be too 10y
" after the intended and expected cuttin
of down. This is history, despite its de
st rial by gentlemen who should haV
IS been more careful. And, as we hav
of said, the placing of those schedules a
e. a height which left a margin for rec
as procity trading was just what. the oc
l. casion demanded-was an exercise {
n. sound, practical business sense. Blu
lg the retention of those schedules at tina
~ height is a fraud. That ugly word
1t. the name that fits it. It is a fraud o
10 the great mass of the American peopl
Id pcrpetrated in the interest Of a com
re paratively small number. 1t is a re
n pudiation of republican policy an
S: pledges and the reverse Of a compl
10 ment to the memory Of Blaine and Q
ne Dingley. To use the reciprocit
5 scheme in order to put the schedule
y at an unnecessary and unfair altitude
III then to repudiate reciprocity an
ie keep them there, is the dangerou
u game which the stand-patters ar
liS playing, not in the interest Of protec
- ton, but to pander to the greed G
- monopolistic combinations. And it i
- the avowed intent of the leaders to 6
a. into the presidential campaign wit
their party's record thus decorated!-
Washington Posi-
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