The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-01-08

Her friends throughout the state will
rejoice in b appointment Of NrA
Margaret Busbee Ship to a position
in the public service the duties Of which
will be c~ongenial and the salary agree
able, though not plutocratic- And they
also appreciate the interest President
Roosevelt has shown in her welfare, a
chivalrous interest we nay say due TO
his appreciation OF the high character
and courage Of the gallant Lieutenant
Shipp, who was the Presidents COM
radt in Cuba and who lost his life there.
There is no politics in this case. but
the gracious recognition on the pert
Of the president of a country's. duty to
the noble widow or a noble soldier,
whose life was given In its behalf
Raleigh Post.
Colonel Virginius Semper Lusk comes
back at that republican and gentleman,
Judge Robinson, with the OBJ. in the
middle of his name. anG deposeth thus:
while Judge Robinson proclaims to
the world hat he is a gentleman, the
world. or that part of the world that
knows him. will proclaim that Judge
Robinson is ungrateful, for every one
at all conversant with the facts, knows
that the high honors to which the
Judge has heretofore been elevated
came through the negro vote, and but
for that vote, instead OF the honorable
prefix attached to his name it would
simply be Mr.. Robinson. While ingrati-
tude Is not a crime by reason of the
fact that there is no common law or
statutory enactment to make it such,
still there Is not one incident to the
mind OF men against which the world
has raised sue a oud and universal
outcry as against ingratitude." We
wish it to be distinctly understood
that this is not Jul fight. Still the
Asheville colonel raises the question
whether or not the men who were elect
ed by negro votes should pay the price
Of admitting h negroes to the table
with the white folks. If that doctrine
is insisted upon we are afraid that the
republican party in North Carolina Will
grow beautifully less until it reaches
the vanishing point.-Charlotte News.
, The Boston Herald having editoriaIly
observed that "the South is not back
ing up German" in his opposition to the
ratification of the Panama treaty, a
Nashville paper very p~ertinently says:
There is truth in this statement, and
it is not to the south's discredit. The
south has no sympathy with Colombia
or its conduct. 1t realizes the immea5
urable value and Importance of the
proposed canal, and it is not satisfied to
be merely a chronic objector to every
advance movement which it does not
fnaugurate." And upon the same line
a correspondent Of The Baltimoe Sun
writes: The southern people know
that the south has been kept in the rut
for many years by politicians OF other
sections of the country, who have used
her politically at their will, but they
now see a new era dawning for them,
and they will not let the present oppor-
tunity for great commercial advance
ment be checked by the selfish schemes
of democrats of the north and west"
1t is not only the outh's commercial
advancement that is at stake but its
agricultural as well. The agricultural
and commercial interests of this SEC
ton happily unite upon the Panama
canal, and because they do and be-
cause the south is therefore in favor
Of the ratification of the treaty.-Char-
lotte Observer.