The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-24
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COMMENT.

Mr.. Bryan's politics is sentimental,
not practical. 1t is the politics of a
religious enthusiast, and not of a man
who can see clearly and guide wisely
in a business concerning the welfare
of a great busy, progressive and deter
mined people.-Mobile Register.
The prediction that the principal
contest between the parties in the
next will be on the financial
question will be good news to the
trusts. If congress can keep right busy
question OF tinkering with the tariff
can probably be kept under,-Indian-
apolis News.
Some of the Mississippi papers note
the fact that there has been Il marked
decrease in the number of l~ynchings
in that state Of late. A complete eX-
PLANTATION of the change is not fur
nished, but it is thought the prompt
ness with which murder and assault
cases are now tried and the tendency
to administer the death penaly have
had much to do with it.-Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
President Roosevelt, Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw n Secretary of War
Root have emphatically declared that
there can be no revision of the tariff
III LII pSOfA~ NAN~ oAAANCd NV
shall so decide in a national election.
They should have added that this de-
cision of the people can be made only
through the election Of a democratic
majority in congress and a democratic
president. The election of a republic
can congress and president would be
q popular decision against a tariff re-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
What has become of the Wisconsin
which was to have been held in At
hopeful indications of the times is that
so many of the leaders of public
thought in the north have come to the
conclusion that the negro question can
not be satisfactorily settled except
through the white people of the south.
We nave known that for many years,
although it has looked as if our friends
up north would never realize it.-News
n Courier.
Still more stringent relations ought
to be adopted in almost every state Of
the union for the protection of game
beasts, birds and fishes. Such ~restric-
lions are in the long run fo~ the ad-
vantage of the masses and not for the
enjoyment of any privileged class. In
fact. under the Stars and Stripes there
are no privileged classes Americans
4 every where nave ample REASON 1OT au-
vocating the enactment of wise and
judicious game laws. Much good has
been done, and more is in stcre.-New
York Tribune.
| Some comment has been o~ccasioned
| in New York, Washington, and else
| where by the fact that Mr.. James NJ.
| Beck, the assistant United States at
torney general who so successfully
waged the fight against the Northern
1 q o,,;@. To~o,~r hoe Looo~~z n
member Of a New York (Wall street,
! firm of lawyers prominently connected
with corporate interests. From a
trust BUSTER" therefore. Mr.. Eeck
may become a trust defender. Mr.
Beck's new firm, it is asserted, is close
lv allied with interests controlled by
Rockefeller, j.. p. Morgan, James Still
man and other trust magnates:-Sa-
vannah News.
interested in picking flaws in the
Southern Educational Association anC
all the prominent northern philanthrO'
pists connected with it, including MIR
Robert c. Ogden, who is made a spe'
cial butt Of attack, though he ha:
shown himself in many ways to be {
sincere friend of the south. Now, TIL
Landmark is not going to join withou
good reason in the assault on thes
northern men who are trying to hell
the cause of education in the south
There appears to be method in the cir
culation of marked copies OF attack
on the association and it's officers
Norfolk Landmark.
In his speech OF the race question
Mr.. Cleveland has given Colonel Brya1
a tough proposition. In the first plac
it is so complete an expression tina
the Nebraskan can not hope to mate
it in satifaction to the people of tn
south or of the country generally an
in the second place.. if Colonel Brya
undertakes to carp at it he will surel
run counter to the views Oh the sec
ton which alone gave him any Apr
! cable support in his second and flu
nished the bulk of his. votes in his frs
race for the presidency. Yet if h
doesn't touch on the matter at all,
will be said that he has been silence
at last bv the great eX-presiden
, Doubtless he will fall back on the oil
resort of a despairIng disputant ar
| impugn the motives of his vanquishe
: He will now claim Mr.. Cleveland
speech to be a direct bid for the SUI
, port of the south and conclusive ev
, dence of his seeking another nomin;
/ ton for the Observation-Disclosures
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