The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-09
STATE PRESS.

The packing house strikers al Chi
! cage have undertaken to create a meat
/, famine by stopping work in the plants
against which they have no grievance.
! such action will doubtless aleniate all
the sympathy that they have hereto
/ fore had from the public and should
operate to defeat the ultimate aim of
the strikers.-Charlotte Observer.
The lessees OF the Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad are business
men and will not take fright at sensa-
tional stories c~oncocted for the pur-
, pose, doubtless, Of keeping up confu-
sion and strife. In fact nobody is ex-
cited. but all is quiet, as calm and Sc
rene as a May morning. and likely to
remain so.-Raleigh Post.
After two apparently very satisfac-
tory interviews with President Roose-
welt, it is said Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan
will support the republican cause this
year and will see that Wall street does
its duty" in the way of financial sup
port. This, however, is only what was
10 be expected. There is 4 natural
affinity between Wall street and the
republican party.-Winston Journal.
Hon. Thomas e. Watson. the popr~
list nominee for president, is evidently
doing all he can to aid in the election
Of Roosevelt. The populists are sail
ing under n thin guise This year yet
we fear are going to fool some of the
people into voting their ticket. The
republicans are furnishing them with
all the money they need.-Warrenton
Record.
If a high tariff produces high wages,
how does it happen that in Germany
where the tariff is twice as high as in
and that in France the wages are low-
er still. although the tariff is so high
that every farmer who carries his pro-
duce to market must pay a tariff on
the country road before he can enter
the city? How do these and those har-
monte Durham Sun.
Last week we had an account OF
the escape of another convict. h
ume IL was from the state farm and il
was a man who was serving a sentence
for criminal assault. We are not at
taching anyone with the blame, but
they occur too often and then it is pos
sible that Judge Lynch might advance
such incidents in defense of lawless-
ness, since three of The recently escap-
ed criminals were serving terms for
criminal assault.-Asheboro Courier.
The action of Judge Justice I'm re-
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room Tuesday to leave when the
Brantley-Dew case vas to be investi-
gated, thereby removing to a large de-
gree the embarrassment of the ladies
in having to testify in open court. can
not be commended too highly. The
willingness with which all complied
to the request of Judge Justice. was
deservedly complimented by the court.
The action of Judge Justice is without
precedent here and almost IN nearly
all n counties in the state. In such
cases as the one above referred to ir
would be indeed commendable for All
members Of the judiciary to emulate
Judge Justice.-Nashville Graphic.
We print today a report of Judge
Winston's speech in Concord. 1t is
about wha We expected of the judge.
If he had omitted his reference to
Judge Bynum and Candidate Harris,
the speech would have been a fairly
good me-, considering The ource from
which it came. Judge Winston a no
to praise Judge Bynum, nor had
n any cause to say that the republic
can candidate for governor is not a
North Carolinian. The state. to tell
the truth, would be better off if it a
a few more men like Harris. republi-
can that he is. and few less like-but
we are going too far.-Char-
lotte Chronicle.
1t is the primary duty of a man who
assumes the garb of a soldier to obey
the orders of those who are in authori-
above him, and not question either
their justice or their wisdom. There
fore, the action of Captain w. L. Starr,
of a Macon, a militia company, in
having dismissed from the service d
private who publicly stated that he
would not fire upon any crowd who
-. l. -I ~ l. L ofo
Of those recently done to death At
Statesboro, is to be commended. The
remark came to the ears of Captain
Starr and he at once wrote to the gov
ernor for the young soldiers discharge.
Feeling as you do about the duties of
a soldier said Captain Starr TO the
militiaman, you are certainly not
qualified to remain longer in the SER
vice Of your state."-Asheville Ga
zette-News.
The Biblical Recorder in arguing
against the proposed conglomeration
of the state institutions, which nobody
that we can hear of favors, says: In
deed the promoters have one so far
as to suggest the n man for pres1-
dent of this system of the states chief
Institutions OF higher education. We
regret that propriety requires hat we
leave our readers in the dark on this
point, although we may ofer so much
light as is contained in the remark
that this presidential possibility is also
a senatorial possibility n a factor in
North Carolina politics OF persistent
force" Brother Bailey has been spok-
en- OF as a senatorial possibility and is
a persistent force in North Carolina
politics. certainly. If he does not
mean himself as this presidential pos
sibility" he ought to name his man or
fn1Ec will thtnI he dnnc Nh
News.
An attempt to solve the labor prob
lem for the south is being made in
several parts of the state. An i'm
migration bureau has been established
at Edenton. and it now looks as if the
plan will o successful. Large
number of English and Scotch settlers
will come to this state and take up
work as the hired laborer of the farm