The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-12
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

We feel safe in saying that gamblers
viii hereafter keep the peace during
the session Of Judge Sha%'s court. that
voluntary prosecuting witnesses will
be rare before the same tribunal. and
that editorial intermeddIins with &c
clesiastical politics has been peremp-
tOrily Observation-Disclosures News.
1t was awful nice of the car Of
Russia 10 present President Roosevelt
with Il pair Of 4-year-old chestnut
sOrrel trotters: but they Will not go far
toward keepingt he dogs Of war in the
presidents back yard from growing
over the massacre of Jews. Magnan-
unity should begin at Kisheneff.-
Winston Journal.
We note with pleasure that Princess
ObOWnski, Princess LubOWIcski. and
Baroness IsacesOu haV4 decided to
swim across the English Channel. We
have heard that the bark that held a
prince went down" in the channel, but
since then We ave never known of so
much royalty, tOO-In the water atdlt
much rOyalJy-and faminine ROYALTY.
tOO-in the water at one time.-Char-
lCtte Chronicle.
The fiour-producing states of the
northwest, represented by the Mime
apOlis Times, point with alarm to
the tariff tax of 90 cents per barrel
levied by Holland upon American
tiOu And yet. the esteemed millers
of h northwest and their able organ
cannot or will not see the greater bur
ems upon their own fellow country
men imposed by the Dingley tariff
Raleigh Post.
\ little while ago. .he Commercial
Democrats were pointing to Senator
McLaurin as the ideal southern sena-
tors and he was held up TO the e,nula-
tionO of southern men. How is it now
hen he has gone broke" dealing
with gold brick sharpers in New York?
Better a thousand times the old time
senator. concerned with large prom
lens, than the XIII who wants 10 get
rich quick.-News and Observer
In addressing. from the platform OF
the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake
City. his hOnOred felIOw-citizans. Pres
ident Roosevelt referred to their an
cestOrs as Utah pioneers who had
done-about SO nobly in settling the
Territory. Joseph Smith and his gang
wera not pioneers to hurt. They were
driven to Utah because of their home
destroying religion, weren't they?
Pioneers, Shades of Daniel Boone de-
fend us?-Charlotte Chronicle.
In these days of general Jail deliv-
cries throughout North Carolina, we
can still keep up a show of consistency
IN condemning bIoodshed by denounc-
ing the gOings-On over II Breathitt
county, Kentucky. or by taking a turn
at Jim Tillman down IN South Caro-
lima. Then also there's the crazy ne
gro BroadnaX, recently hanged at
Reidsville and the three little negro
boys from Wilmington given twenty
years each for burglary. Oh, there's
nothing like strictly enforcing our
laws and 6nin0 II ipopa rtia llIrf -Achn1
Vile Citizen.
The Charlotte News refutes the
charge that Bishop a. Coke Smith left
Charlotte because of the aspiration of
two North Carolina minister's. who
thought that his residence in the state
would be an obstacle in the way of
their election to the high office of
bishop. 1t gives as Bishop Smiths
reasons for leaving Charlotte the fact
that he was elected a bishop from Viz
ginia, that he owns Il home near Nor
folk. Va. that he only came to North
Carolina to spend the winter. and that
most of his and his family's friends
live in NOrfolk.-Asheville News.
1t has been definitely settled tina
residents of the United States shall be
officially designated as Americans. and
our embassies abroad shall be known
as h american Embassy" instead
OF the EMBASSY OF the United
States as heretofore. To Secretary
Hay belongs the credit of drawing this
fine distinction and causing its recog-
milton by the governments of the old
world. 1t is rs il should be. Resi-
dents of the United States of Mexico
are known rs MeXicanS. those Of the
United States OF Columbians. and
those of the United States of Brazil as
BraZilianS. So why should we not be
termed Americans? It's the proudest
distinction that can be conferred upon
Il human being-WilliamSton Enter
prise.
The position of The Times IN regard
to assessing property is this: Al prop
erty. whether owned by individuals or
corporations. should be assessed at it's
true value in money. just rs thu law
provides. no more and no less: and
property owners should be given the
benefit of the doubt where there is
doubt. We contend for equal taxa
ton. If AS property Is assessed at only
% or 80 per cent. of it's rue VaIue BIS
should be assessed III the same way.
The tax rate should De uniform all
over the county and state, and the
only way to get at uniformity is to
obey the letter and spirit of the law as
assessors are swOrn to do.-ROanOke-
ChOWan Times.