The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-08-28
CURRENT COMMENT.


torney Folk for governor of Missouri,
anG even for president, but we fear he
won't do. Mr.. Folk has been prosecu-
tiLg the boodlers and embezzlers IL
St Louis with such success as to bring
him fame and now he is going to spoil
It all, for this statement is credited to
Kim in a recent speech: There is an
embezzIement Of power as well as an
er..bezzlement Of money. The official
who uses his public functions for per-
soEal ends or to repay a private Obli-
CATION embezzles to his own use the
power the people gave him to be ex-
ercised for the public good A man
who talks that way couldn't hold office
bu1 once.-NeWs and Courier.
Professor Booker T. Washington goes
his way undisturbed by demonstrations
such as that recently planned in Bos-
ton to challenge his prestige as ne
gro leader. He sensibly ignores the
accuse tions of his critics as the clamor
of men who see only through a. glass
Garkly-who invert facts and logic
and want to solve the race problem by
building from the top, instead of from
the bottom. According to these critics
Professor Washington ''surrenders ne
gro rights when he teaches that the
coIored race, as such, can enjoy no
status, political, social or industrial.
which it does not win by its own sacri-
flee and efforts They would count as
already achieved by virtue of legisla-
tive grants that recognition which he
more wisely holds must be the fruit
Of self denial and self endeaVor.-New
York Tribune.
We can fancy the disgust with which
the stand patters' will receive the in
te:ligence that they must prepare to do
battle with a new demand for tariff re-
vision, this one to be known as the
Minnesota idea 1t does seem a pity
to disturb them again so soon. They
he'd just settled down comfortably aft
ter their tussle with the Iowa idea"
In hat, we admit, they came off rather
we'll. 1t would, in fact, take a micro
scope to discover what remained Of the
Iowa idea" after they had done with.
it. Under the circumstances, they had
a right to expect to be let alone for
awhile But here comes a disturber Of
the psace from Minnesota, republi-
car state senator who has the effront-
cry to discuss national affairs, and de-
Ciares that Minnesota wants the duties
COMMODITIES. He also says that the
west ought to force the issue upon the
attention Of the next national republi-
can convention. All we can say about
this state senator is that he is evident
ly an ups4-art and no real republican.
Such talk as his is absolutely danger
Gus. Nobody knows what may come of
Il. Does he want to stab prosperity in
the back?-NeW York Post.
A. j. BoWser, editor of the Chester
ton, Ind, Tribune. clerk of the state
legislature aud we'll known republican
of Indiana. has started a movement for
the exclusion of negroes from Porter
county of that state. Bowser admits
that he has always entertained a deep
rooted antipathy toward the negro race
END declares that it is now time for
communities having few colored citi-
zens to prote3t themselves against any
further increase from the southern
states. He says: THE settlement of
negroes from the south II this county
means that fear would enter the home
OF every farmer in the county and ou,
wives. daughters and sweethearts
would be exposed to a fate more hor.
rihle than death in any form, property
values would go down and lynchings
would follow" In Indiana, the state
of Crumpacker, governet3 by Durbin
And the movement of a republican and
officer of the legislature to close the
door of hope and opportunity and locl
| il and bolt II and stand guard by il
| against the entrance of he negro! Lei
us plunge into the cold waters OF
| Oyster Bay.-Charleston Post.
4
| the gamblers in cotton in which h
points out the serious injury to Ameri
| can manufacturers that is beins
| wrought is both timely and deserved
| We regard the cotton situation a!
| merely a phase of 4 general question
Of grave import that must sooner. Oh
| later claim the attention of congress-
| that question is the relation of gamD
| lers in stocks, cotton and other com
| modities to the general Industrial con
| d;tion of the country. AS a nation w
| must face the fact that today the dues
| tion as TO whether we shall have pros
| perity or hard times is not determined
! by the application of the intelligence
the energy, the industry of our peopl
| 10 the resources of the country
but by the mauiuplations Of al
aggregation of gamblers who spec
| ulate IL the products of tn
peoples toll or in things pertainin
thereto. This is the ugly, the insisten
| fact. Seventy-five millions OF peopl
| may bend their energies on the farm
at the forge, in the factory. in III
mlnes, in the office and th.> bushes
houses to the betterment of their con
| GitiOn-to the obtaining of those thing
| that go to make life wholesome an
| bearable-and they wake up som
morning to find their efforts measuI
| ably counteracted and brought I
IaUght by few hundred gamblers o
the cotton, corn or stock exchange
There is a panic" the financial an
Industrial systems of the country a.
Geranged and the whole country
called on to pass through a period
mental and physical suffering throue
| TO fault of the people. but solely b.
cause of the Wall street gambler
| This is We submit. a condition tn.
he most patient people ought not