The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-01
STATE PRESS.

Judge Brown puts dealing in futures
In the same class with crap shooting
and poker, yet the Judge will neces-
sarily have TO do quite a good deal of
preaching to impress this upon the
putlic.-Concord Tribune.
President Roosevelt might commits
sior General Wood, who has had valu-
afle experience. in placing money where
1t does the most good with the Latin
race, to get the Colombia senate in line
to ratify the Panamar lanai treaty
Winston Sentinel.
It looks nightly like a war in Eu-
rope over the ~unspeakable Turk. The
Turk has no more business governing
any part of Europe than the negro has
governing America. He is an anach-
ronism. But for Constantinople and its
strategic position, Russia would nav
been allowed to sweep Turkey off the
map long before this.-Charlotte News.
The gentle southern humorist. Major
Charles Henley Smith, is dead and the
south has lost one of her most rdent
lovers, who knew how to weep when
she wept and to rejoice when she re-
jOiced. and knew also how to chase
away the clouds of despair and hear
sickness by his messages Of humorous
resignation and unfailing hopefulness.
Charlotte News.
Alexander Dowie admitted on the
stand the other day that he has made
several million dollars out of his Elijah
business. We have not the slightest
Goubt hat Dowie, who studied theology
in Edinburgh, laughs in his sleeve at
TIE fools he has found and made in
America, and yet hopes to cheat the
decil as thoroughly as he has his W
Observation-Disclosures Standard.
"Lynching does not stop the crime
but does stop the criminal" says The
Morning Post. There never has been
p law in all the world which prevented
the commission of crime. The first TWO
people in the world were the first law
breakers and their descendants have
broken every law enacted since that
tI1Ge. 1t is not laws We need, but law
full people.-Greenville Reflector.
The of the Hamlet hotel. in
e~XtenuatiOn of their action, claim that
they were required by the Seaboard
Air Line p to serve the darkeyS,
and as there were no white guests to
be entertained at that hour, they
thought it needless to arrange another
room for Washington and his party.
There is trouble ahead for the Hamlet
hCtelists nevertheless. Booker T. Wash
iDgton, despite all his bland protesta-
tions of working out the destiny of the
negro in a meek and humble spirit, is
dong more than anyone else to bring
about dangerous fraition between the
u-hira npI h1aaly yTyinctnr C1r-
tInel.
Il is not often that politicians who
figure On the defeated side, fill their
pockets with the coin of the realm.
Put there are exceptions to all rules.
Mr. Bryan is one of them and Mr.. But
lar the other. The former makes mon
ey by his versatility in speech-making
and the latter by his gift in handling
tOcks and land deals. Strange to say
their wealth has been accumulated I'M
de-: the gold standard while they
preached that silver was the salvation
Of the universe. Mr.. Buffers latest deal
is the selling of 100, 900 acres of land in
! Mexico to the Beers. His company owl
half a million acres there. Mr.. Butler
had his eyes opened when he began
! playing politics in North Carolina. He
l LEU d "lIlIIIIS IdIIu " SIN u sever
years and laid the foundation for q
great fortune. He is nothing special in
North Carolina right now but he is {
big man MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
The Colombian senate having refused
to ratify the Hay-Herran treaty, thu
suggestion is now that the Panama
canal may yet be secured to this coun
try by the secession of Panama from
the Republic of Colombia an its annex
alton to the United States, Senator Cul
lom first made the suggestion and TIL,
New York Sun, Washington Post an
other influential papers have given i
a currency n endorsement that man.
have regarded as inspired" 1t is alst
significant that Americans as we'll a.
foreigners who nave recently returned
from that county are quoted as sayins
that the soldiers of the Colombian arm,
stationed there have not yet received
any pay for several months, and i
would be an easy matter to start a rev
o,utiOn-especially if it were known
that the revolutionary party had tn
sympathy of this government. Ever
on the face of it his would be a prett!
wild project; then there are othe
things to be considered by this country
Suppose Panama kicks out of the Co
lombian traces and we make a treat,
with her; and then suppose Colombi;
undertakes to whip her bac into tn
union? What will we do about it? Viii
we say secession is right and uphold
Panama'S action? And what is NOR
TO the point are VT not pledged, in tn
treaty made with Colombia in 1916, t
help it maintain its sovereignty owe
the Isthmus OF Panama? The treat
Seems at least to admit of this onstruc
ton and if it does We are certainly i
AL honor estOpped from fostering in
ternal strife there.-Asheville Citizen.