The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-27
CLIPPINGS FROM Our EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COM ENT.


Ar the 10th annual banquet Of the
New York chamber of on
Wednesday evening last Bishop Doane
Of Albany made the most telling speech
of the occasion on the subject of Cap
ItaI and Labor He prefaced his re-
marks by saying that he knew little
about capital, except that of his neigh
bOrs who had helped him perform many
good works, but he did know something
about labor. for he had been a laborer
himself for 80 years. He protested that |
the popular expression. capital and
labor. is an outrage on grammar and
on facts. because il seeks to oppose in
stead OF uniting the two nOunce. Cap
ital AMI labor and labor Is capital.
There are two classes in the world,
idlerS and labOrers. The idlers who
lOaf in clubs or in groceries are The
inedible fungi Of humanity. They ar
drOneS that Will one day be driven
from the social hive. either by suicide
or by commitment to prison; all the
rest of society are labOring men in one
sense or the other. The misleading Of
the Holy Scripture makes labor part
Of the result of sin. Work was instt-
tuted in Paradise before marriage, and
the only element that sin has brought
into the world is the resistance of The
material TO the muscular world, SO that
man must live by the sweat of his fac.
The hardest workers of the world are
those who work with their souls or
brains OF hearts. not those who work
with their hands and arms only.
Muscles rest in sleep, but brains and
nerves cannot always SO find repooe.
The hard worker are those who work
both brawn and brain. Every particle
of capital has been amassed by labor;
capital crowns the work of labor
Columbia State.
Many of the newspapers which up
hold the administrations Panama
policy are doing so in perfect frank
ness. cOnfeSsing that the morality OF
the proceedings IS questionable. but
declaring hat the end i~uStifieS the
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Hay
should be equally frank and should
stop protesting that every step they
are taking is in accordance with treaty
rights and law.-Norfolk
Landmark
The Philadelphia Press thinks that
The Records parallel between the
threatened recognition by Great Bri-
tain Of the ~COnfederacy and the presI-
dents hasty course IN the Panama az
fair IS imaginary. If The Record is
prepared TO maintain that the southern
states had as good reason and good
right to Secede from the union as PAN
ANA = to Secede from the union OF
Colombia remarks The Press. 'then it
can find some ground for the compari
II otherwise" The goodness OF
otherwise of the cause of the Panama
secession however. has nothing to do
with the case. The Record" accuses
President Roosevelt OF Il reckless dis
regard of the law of nations: of hav-
ing committed, and persisting in the
commission of acts of war against the
republic of Colombia and of aiding n
4 a hprrinp har anarniaS nh11
Record. Whether or not President
Roosevelt actually fOmented the revo-
luton in Panama and gave aid and
encouragement to the rev~olutionisTs
we know not. but it is PLAIN, from what
the president himself said in the mes,
sage which he prepared for congress
before the revolution at Parma occur
red, that he was in a frame of mind
to do that Observation-Disclosures.
One of the most significant develop
ments in the church today is the move
ment in several denominations to d.
vert the energy. effort n money hitn-
ertO expended in foreign mission work
to the home field. particularly with 4
view to improving the status of the
southern negro. From the point OF
view of the church. of course. foreign
missions have not been a failure. for p
single soul saved IS regarded by the
orthodox churchman as a sufficient ic-
ward for all that has been done. Bu!
the fact remains that from the secular
point of view the results achieved o.
missionaries in foreign fields are by
no means commensurate with the Ell
fort put forth. Indeed nothing but n
sublime faith that tremendous results
will come from scarcely appreciate
beginnings can account for the cOntin-
uance of mission stations in many
fields. Years of the most Jealous ef-
fort have only resulted in small iso-
lated congregations. maintaining a
more or less ~precariOuS existence. This
habits of thought and Of life of the
great mass of the people have been 10
way affected, to all appearances. This
is, we say. the ~cOncensus of opinion
among secular observers touching
many fields where the greatest effort
has been put forth. There is. o:
course. the case of Japan. but even
there the drift is now toward the old
beliefs or frank agnosticism. Tn
movement to which we have referred
would seem to indicate that in some
of the denominations at least the Sc
CuIar point of view is coming meaSm-
ably to prevail. There is apparently
a feeling that the results achieved n
the foreign field are too a a re.
, turn for the outlay in money and n
cOnSecrated effort. and there is in con
; sequence a disposition to turn TO tx
home field where the demand ar
greater than the church can meet with
, all its and where the stOnc
wall Of prejudice. tradition and alirr
habits Of thought and life will no
have 10 be battered down before prac.
, teal results can be accomplished
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