The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-11
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM Went.

Ii PTeClQeII 1kOOSSNSi a wants ~ SONI
into a scrap in nan for the glorii-
cation of his administration we u
xest that he take the colored troops and
march down there. 1t may be that
such an army could stand tn rigors of
that death hole. The rest of us will
stay at home TO keep the enemy from
landing on the gulf coast.-Florence
Times.
Mr.. Bryan's CommOner suggests that |
latter recalling Limon. ~Leavenworth.
Spring Valley. Evansville, Danville and
a few other localities to the north Of
| the Ohio river, perhaps the south
| would be willing to let US settle our
race problem in our own way" Yes, and
/ the south is even willing to let you
have a good deal more Of the problem
TO settle.-COlumbia State.
Turkey is again engaged in a cam
| naign of delivery, and the sick man"
is as silent and inert as ever in regard
10 charges of murder, as we'll as to ap-
meals for relief. Macedonia this time
is the particular field of Turkish rapine
and the news from that section would
indicate that there is not q day or
night when the smoke of some pillaged
village cannot be seen curling upward
over ruined homes. These scenes of
black desolation are rendered more nor
rible by the cries of murdered women
and children, whose bodies, after being
polluted and INITIATED are thrown
among the smouldering dwellings.-Au-
gusta Chronicle.
And now they are trying to do that
wallowing trick anew in Ohio. Nobody
knows where Johnson ENDS and Bryan
begins. And thus the goldbug and the
- lost
Rrvan is much dissatisfied with the
constitution of the United States, and
wants TO amend it in many different
WAYS. He can't make a speech with
out pointing out something that is
wrong, or something that is lacking. in
that charter of Americanism. Instead
of cutting his principles, as he calls
them. to fit the constitution, he would
chop the constitution to fit his prln-
ciples. The democratic party can get
along very we'll with the constitution as
it is. So can the country.-Savoyard in
Washington Post.
, We are told, in recent dispatches
! from Manila. that General Leonard
Wood, the new governor of Moro
land" has called for re-enforcements
finding, as he suppOses, a condition 81
unrest and discomfort among the ma
, tives. No doubt this requisition vii
: receive immediate and generous atten
: ton. For five years past General WOOD
e has managed to obtain, not only every
thing he asked for, but a great deal h
was merely supposed to want. witt
this aspect of the matter, however, w
e are not Immediately concerned. Wha
impresses US is the fact that, so sool
S after assuming command over a terri
U town n nd n formulation which have npEp
. given us any great amount of trouble
u and which Captain PershinS left in
IS thoroughly pacified and amicable state
u General Wood finds it necessary to ca
y for an additional equipment Of militar
E force.-Washington Post.
10 1t is a queer performance, that Of tn
i irrepressible Addicks of Delaware, an
"A %nouncing at this time the candidate
whom he will favor for state offices, il
n Guiding members of the legislature, i
next years election. He has picked h
men and claimed their fealty to hin
III He proclaims, also. that he IS still
or the fight for the United States senator
Eli ship and expects to win. We suspe'
e. that he will. There was a slump lai
L winter on the part Of those opposed
III, him, which led us then to say that /
e would probably accomplish his aim. tt
81, decent republicans of Delaware a.
40 scarcely able to hold out longer again
nS the combination of Roosevelt, Qua
vn Payne and Addicks. The president can
% activity into the conspiracy to suppre
no decent politics in Delaware when !
o. ~reappointed a poor United States di
trict attorney, who had resigned the o
lal flee a month or two before for the so
h. purpo of running for mgr as g
ly Addicks man and defeating the ant
Addicks candidate by making sure 4
cl- election of a demOcrat.-BOston Heral
A colored Virginia Tillman
lie. ~petticoats has made an address
n Washington, according TO The Post
co that city. She spoke at Zion Bapti
Is church, and The Post speaks of her
ay Miss Mcdonald, a teacher in a vi
ng ginia seminary. Here is n thing sa
his by Miss Mcdonald: There is not
me good southern man, not a white m;
in the south is to be trusted, and I, w
me have the best blood of Virginia in II
ay veins, say this. 1t is not the bla
cry man who commits the crimes in t
old south, but it is the white man with
blackned face. If the negro is col
de- hitting them, it is the ones who have
-ho Tillman's blood in their veins. If a
ms man should give up the south it is t
white man. Inc south Is the neSf
art land. He did not steal it from the l
err dian and drive the latter across I
prairie to death. but he was torn fr(
his native home in Africa and broug
de- here to slave and toll for the VIII
man. 1t was the negro's sweat and s.
ave fering that redeemed the and and bl
uld it up. The negro's toll bought the Ia
we and the negro hould have it." T
Yer has significance only from the spec
I. er's position as a teacher, as Tillma
u~tterances are important only beca1
he is a senator of the United Stat
VS.. Both misrepresent the dominant t
ment in southern civilization and
condition of affairs in the south