The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17
CURRENT COMMENT

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We needn't be disturbed about the
talk OF Colombia appealing to Ger
many for protection. The kaiser Is not
prepared TO go to war with the united
States just yet and Any interference IN
Central Or South America by Germany
would mean war between that country
and this. We have done very Wupng to
the independence Of Panama
against Colombia but we must answer
to our own accusing conscience ana
lot to the interpOsitiOn of any Eu-
ropean power.-Charleston Post.
1t is worthy of note that while Mr..
John Temple Graves. Professor Mitch
ell. the Bapticts ard innT nerablc ne vs.
papers are talking loud and lorg in tie
discussion of the negro problem, the
negro himself IS not saying a word
but is hard at work in the effort to M
prove himself, mentally, morally and
materially. The problem will be solv-
ed quicker that way than any ether.
Achievement counts fer much more in
the solution of a problem like the negra
question than rhetoric. Petersburg
IndeX-Appeal.
No thinking man acquainted with the
history of the last half century can
consider the recent events in Colombia
without rejecting or the inconsistency
of the United States government III
shedding torrents of blood and sperd-
ing hundreds of millions of dollars in
putting dcWn secession in its own
country, and Their not only approving
and encouraging secession IL a sister
republic, but, as all the world believes
inStigating a state OF that rel ublic to
secede therefrCm and establish a gor-
eminent of its cwni-News md CCI-
rier.
To be sure we are defenders of the
South american republics. Let any
foreign government attempt to take
liberties with ore of them. and see how
quickly the Monroe doctrine will be ap-
piled. At the same time. the South
American countries should keep 1t in
mind that we expect them tC favor us,
when we al to buy concessions, ard
that if they dc net. there is a process
Of elimination that can be applied.
There are tho,e to Ee sure. who are
saying that the American Sheperd dog
looks a goo deal k a Wolf. but that
doesn't hurt us Savannah News.
4 pretty Boston girl. with an ex-
cellently soft. low voice and a love for
children, has hit upon a new method
of making n oney il contributing at
the same time tC the sum of human
culture. Shc attcrds childrsn's parties,
where the Wsc tCt of the wealthy and
some CT the SrCNF arr SEN bled,
visits the Sunday schools n the kim
dergartens. d~isper,inS, wherever she
goes "a fund of delicate fancies and
uplifting lessons SO ln9eniously en-
cealed in fairy Strri-S hat the eager
little beneficiaries seal ely realize it.
The classic legends of history a. IL
as the dainty cOnceits of Gri nm ard
| Andersen are related in the simple
4~--
! with only the choicer flowers of iIe
fabulists woven INTO the Juvenile al
thOlOgy.-Atlanta News.
The president is right. Ir response
to a popular demand. vs. gave Cuba
freedom from the SpSrish yoke,
aided her in sitting up a go Ternneat
of her own. Whether or not this was
! good policy: whether CT not we should
have promised her ~lndSpend nee 1T IS
now to late to discuss. We did + :" a
spirit of chivalry and gene osity. We
undertook the ia X of our own free
will. n we ca nnot shirk ITS response
bilities. We lent cur ind Offices to
the Cubans in ( :~abli~h:ng their gov
eminent and they sem to be getting
along ve.y We'll. I, is now u duty to
help the new republic in every way
consistent with Our own interest aid
with our policy of government, and,
apart from all that, it is clearly in cur
interest, as the president points out, to
establish and maintain friendly ant
peculiar trade relations with the island.
Times-Dispatch.
While we would not by any means
go so far as to assert that the result
of the election in New York city proves
that the metropolitan newspapers are
lmpOtent mOlderS Of public opinion, We
can unhesitatingly say that it will be
fortunate for President Roosevelt aud
his party if events demonstrate the
impOtency of one OF those neWsI apcrS
the orthodoxy of whose republicani5m
was Endorsed by the president a few
weeks ago by an invitation to its con-
troller to q lunch at Oyster Bay. the
acceptance whereof was announced to
the American people by the Associated
Press. 1t is a strange fact, but we will
not attempt to determine it's Slgnlfi-
cance that the paper to which WE re-
fer, the New York Press. has been alb
normally busy in ~fOroenting ~ill-feeling,
diScord. and strife in the republican
party since that visit. Its course is just
the reverse of what President Roosc-
welt. as the candidate for 1904, could de-
sire. The Press is. or affects to be. q
Roosevelt Orgar CT the intensest de-
scriptiOn. Can anybody name any
other thing so admirably calculated to
damage both tn president and his
party as abuse of Mark Hanna IN
| Roosevelt organS?-WaShington Post.