The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-21
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM ENT.

No excuse for the Atlanta clerk who
stole S94, 900 from his employers is found
in the fact that he received but $50 a
month for filling a post of great
cial responsibility; but an object-lesson
of considerable value to the employers
themselves IS furnished by the affair
Norfolk Landmark
Mrs. Richard Henry Savage says that
the objection to women's smoking is a
Typographical prejudice" that in some
parts of Europe n in India and South
America women almost invariably
smoke. That is quite true. But has
Mrs. Savage eve noted any of the
fashion sheets OF Africa, Bornoe and
the South Sea Islands? Is it geo
| graphical prejudice" which prevents
these fashions from beinr duplicated on
Fifth avenue?.
Criticism is aroused in New York be-
cause of the State Commission of Lun-
acy considered it necessary to send a
Iobbyist to Washington to push legis-
| lation in which it was interested, and
paw him 81, 800 for his services, though
the state has two senators and thirty
seven representatives in congress. This
| official employment of lobbyists is not
a new offense. The western states en-
plOyed agents on commissions of a
large percentage to get the Swamp
Land Indemnity bill through congress,
and within a few weeks the governor
of Connecticut paid a % per cent. COM
| mission, amounting to more than $780,
| coo. to a man who has been a senatorial
| candidate for getting a state claim bill
through congress.-Philadelphia Record.
They celebrated Jefferson's birthday
in divers ways last night. one of the
best being a n~on-partisan gathering in
Washington. At this Senator Hoar
and w. J.. Bryan were the principal
| speakers and republicans and demo-
Gratis united in paving tribute to the
| great statesman of the early days of
the republic and the author of it's peo-
pies word to the nations. We have
had Jefferson exploited by various
brands of democrats for q long time
and it is just rs we'll to broaden his
benson for the benefit of the republi-
cans also. If Bryan can claim Jeffer-
son as his political progenitOr why
might not Hoar or any other politician
of IN view?-Clarkton cost.
In it's '"Timeo Danaios ct dona feren-
tes' editorial, The News and Courier
| tacitly confesses that it can find no
flaw in the purposes of the Southern
| Education board, but wants to know
what is behind the movement, and
why it would not be practicable to ac-
complish as good results by the old
| educational agencies as by the new
1t is all right to inquire what is be-
hind the movement if there is any,
thing hid. but the board has certainly
made it plain that it proposes to work
with and through the established
| agencies of education by encouraging
assisting and STRENGTHENING them.
While we are being advised to become
so suspicious, why not inquire what
is behind these attacks, covert and
open, Upon 1.-The movement?" That is
VIVA we want to know. What, for in
stance, actuates the Manufacturers
Record in it's persistent onslaughts
upon the Southern Education board
If that journal-or any other-has
damaging or otherwise important in.
ormation as to what is behind thu
movement" let us have it.-Columbia
State