The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-10
CURRENT COM MENT.

Nearly all the papers III Tic SCuIlGS
are commenting on the heroism of the
late Conductor Wood, of the Norfolk
and Western Railway. who sacrificed
his life to prevent what would have
been a horrible wreck. No knight OF
old ever did a Drawer or nobler deed
than this-Norfolk Landmark.
Southern cotton mill owners arc hop
ing that their interests Will be benz
fitted by the textile strikes in New
England. Perhaps southern competi-
ton must hereafter be considered by
New England cotton mill companies
and their help when considering the
question of a strike.-Springfeid Re
publican.
The negro problem is no longer a
sectional affair. 1t is the north's prob
lem; it is the republican party's prob
lem is we'll as the democratic party's
problem. It is more the problem OF the
republicans than it is the problem of
he democrats. We democrats of the
south have solved the negro question
politically, and it is giving very little
trouble. But it is up to the republicans
of the north and President Roosevelt
knows it. And we are mean enough TO
be real glad.-Richmond Times-Dis-
patch.
The old adage that cit IS an i'll wind
that Blows no good" seems to be meet
ing with Illustration in the present mill
troubles in New England. The state
ment s made hat the American Cot
ton DCck Company, which owns the
Stark mills at Manchester. Y. Il, has
decided TO move to Alabama. The rea
sons assigned for the removal are hign
taxes, unrestful labor conditions
throughout New England, the constant
agitation for an eighI-hour law and
the desire to concentrate it's properties.
The company owns 10000 acres in Ala
bama, ana has a plant there Of 15.006-
horse poWtT. Recently it remOTc1 its
Greenwood mills from New Hartford,
Conn. to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chronicle
In carrying out the suggestion Of Mr.
Ingersoil, the correspond .nt o. the
Brooklyn Eagle, that a state be set
apart for the negroes Of the country,
where they would be able 70 control
all the Offices. anG direct all the affairs
of government, il might be as Wei TO
have two states set apart for such an
experiment, one in the East and one in
the Middle West. We have G4ready
explained why the state of Illinois
should be selected as a negro state, n
we would suggest now that il might
mot be a bad idea to devote the cjm~
Emonwealth of Pennsylvania to his ser
vice also. According to the last'United,
States census there are 1o6,S4o cHiored
persons living in Pennsylvania, of
which rambler 1865 are males over u
years OF age. II Illinois there are only
87.O7S colored persons, of whinl 29,l62
are POSSIBLE voters.-NeWs and Courier.
We have suggested that after having
enriched our vocabulary with the
priceless serm "undfgested securities
Mr.. Morgan might place us under still
further obligations by giving Is its
definition. Nor need his kindness stop
there. He would DO the public a great
err favor still by going on to explain
the process by Which securities are dI-
| gested. For instance, the value or
| stocks listed on the New York stock
| exchange has Shrunk to the extent or
| about a billion dollars since the recent
| boom at whose height Mr.. MorgaIIs
ia pie was garnished with so many az
| tractive securities, or
| What has become Of the billion? Has
1t Deer digested? If so, who has d.
gested it? The United States Stael
stocks have. a market value of nearly
| s2Oe,0OO.O0O less today than they had
when Mr.. Morgan issued them. Has
anybody digested the difference?-NeN
Yo-k World
The presidents speech on the tariff
viii be read with more interest per
haps than any other one of the speech
es which he has delivered or will te
liver on his trip through the west, 70
the reason that the tariff is pretty Ger
tain to be the paramount issue 4. IN
nexr presidential campaign. He want
the country to believe that the goo
times which we are now having are du
to the present high tariff. He says
The present phenomenal p~rOsIerit
has been won under a tariff which Wa
made in accordance with certain fiXe
and definite principles, the most IN
portant of which is an avowed deter
mination to protect the interests OF II
American producer business a far
mer and wage-worker alike" He I'd
vances no argument to prove that PRO:
perity is due to the present tarlt
There are argumentS-very strong one
|, lin favor of the position that we AZ
having prosperous times in spite Cf II
} ltariff.-Savannah News.