The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-24
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM ENT.

The New York Evening Post the
other day said hat Georgia had add
ed lustre to her fame by killing the
bin 20 apportion the school funds be-
tween the races in proportion to the
taxes paid b. them. And now m
the Springfield Republican with the
declaration that Georgia is again dis
graced' by the refusal of the Legisla-
ture TO enact the child labor bill. As
lone as Georgia can take on 'lustre'
and disgrace in about equal proper
tons she will do very we'll indeed
Savannah News.
Aprops Of General Miles 80 mile ride
in nine hours. the Brooklyn Eagle re-
calls that Caesar never did anything Of
that sort at the head of his armies,
that Grant preferred to be driven in
an ambulance wagon; Won Moltke
travelled in a carriage; Lord Robert
rarely urged his horse beyond a mild
gallop. and it is nowhere recorded that
any OF these great warriors was re-
markable for equestrian stunts" But
Miles military career is nearing an
end and he doubtless remembers the
contrast in the latter careers of Shat
ter. who captured Santiago in a buck
board, and Roosevelt, who liberated
Cuba by his fabulous dash up San
Juan NH on
State.
Cardinal Gibbons will have plentv OF
time to each Rome for the conc;av-
which will elect Pope Leo's successor.
and even Sardinia Moran of Aus
tralia will be able to attend the i'm
portant gathering. Each of these
princes of the church living afar from
Rome has beer a weeks journey on
the way to Rome and the aged pontiff
still lives. 1t is likely that the next
conclave will show a full attendance Of
| the sacred college. The presence CT
Cardinal Gibbons. representing the
| millions of Catholics in the Western
! hemisphere and standing for the pro-
| gressive ideas of the day in church a.
| we'll as in secular affairs, will he n
| satisfaction and should be a benefit 70
| the interest of the church in the two
AmericaS.-CharlestOn Post.
More or less CUFF is being worked
off by some of our contemporaries be-
cause the Georgia legislature refused
to undertake to remedy the child labor
evil by the Slap-daSh method. There
is the usual talk bou 'inhumanity,'
! disgrace to civilization" and the rest
Of the hysterical clutter with which
we are all only too YEARLY familiar.
As the Virginian-Pilot has said time
| and again. it is in favor Of child labor
| legislation. There are unQuestionei
| abuses in some of our southern cotton
| mills. But a correction of those abuses
will not be a by groos e~xaggeration
and wild unreaSOning rant. 1t Will
! come. when it comes at all, through Il
| calm and dispasSionate consideration
of the whole situation and of all inter
ests NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Virginian.
The M%anchurian agreement seems to
meet with Scant praise in the far east
| Japan interpretS the proposed opening
of a free port on the Yalu as q hostile
nov against Korea. and promptly
gives check by demanding of China the
opening of the opposite port Of WiJu.
The British representative at the no
ear capital has pressed the same re-
quest upon the Korean government
a striking reminder of the vitality of
the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Mean
while, it is suggested rather malicious
ly that Russia has offered two free
ports to the United States. in the full
assurance that China will refuse to rat
ify the agreement. Should China on
sent to play the part of JOrkins fer
Russia, the whole situation will be-
come un~pleasantly tense. The great
GeSideratum in the far east is the
definition of Russia's position. Frank
declarations to RusSia'S ambitions IT
M~anchuria, OF Japan. would do mucn &c
clear the diplomatic air.-New York
Post.
Here is a story condenser from Har.
per's Weekly; There is now at large
in the Delaware and enjoying free
dom. a negro named Neal, who some
ears ago committed a criminal as
sault on a White woman ana then
attempted to hide that crime by mur-
dering the Anthony Higgins,
formerly United States enator n now
a leading republican politician of Del
aware, was Meals counsel and man
aged to obtain his freedom and escape
from any kind Of punishment for his
crime on a tecnicality. after his client
had been three times sentenced 10
DEATH" arper's Weekly gives the
facts more in detail and declares that
out for the memory Of Meals case.
the negro White would not have been
burned at the stake at Wilmington the
other week. The laws delays are re-
sponsible for much of the lynch law in
the country. for the people have a way
of remembering these things.-Rich-
mond Times.