The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-10
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

Says The Washington Post: 1T is
nedied that the congress was adjourn
ed upon the order of the president.
1t is limited that 1t adjourned out of
fear of John Sharp Williams" Well,
John was making it pretty scaryt for
er. Maybe both OF them were afraid OF
John Sharp.-Charlotte News.
The frequent change of pulpits by
the pastors Of the city is an indica-
ton that our church people are in per-
feet harmony. and there is on better
way 20 aid the cause of religion than
by showing TO the world that all the
churches are working together for the
same results.-Mount Airy Leader.
A report says that former Lieuten-
ant Governor G. A. Reynolds will be
the republican candidate for COVER
nor. The state convention is near at
hand and very little has Deen heard
about the republican nominees. II,
however, there was a chance of cleo
ton. there would be plenty of timber
and abundance of tustling.-Concord
Tribune.
1t seems, after all, that the sup
porting the regular ticket in 1896 and
in 1900, fails to quite qualify Mr..
Parker to receive the full endorse
ment for his candidacy. This is rath-
er a funny world anyway. Loyalty
to the party organization counts for
nothing. If genuine love and hearty
support for 16 to 1 is absent. There
is nothing surer than that some men
who are great sticylers for regularity
would prefer Mr.. Roosevelt to Mr..
Parker, or anyone who thinks as he
doeS.-Raleigh Times.
1t is gratifying to know that the
county board of education, of this
county, has perfected arrangements
by which h expenses Of county
teachers will be paid to the summer
schools, either at Raleigh or Chapel
Hill. We are glad that our teachers
in the county will be given these ad-
~vantages, and it will aid them i'm
mensely in their future work to meet
with other teachers and exchange
ideas. to say nothing of the benefits
to be derived from the different
courses at these summer schools
Durham Sun
To compel @ railroad company to
operate a train at a daily loss to the
road is a more serious matter than
many OF US suppose. It's only a Ques-
ton how much of that sort of thing
the corporation can stand before going
into the hands of a receiver. It's bad
to see men voluntarily at
tempt to do business on a false basis
of this sort, but it becomes Infinitely
worse when q of good and
successful business men ace COM
PEELED, by the strong arm of the law,
to thus do violence to their own bust
ness ideas, the result of long years of
experience and careful observation
Raleigh Times.
Prof. w. H. Harvey, who in 1885,
conducted Coins Financial School,
with such eminent success. r%eDudiates
free silver as a democratic issue in
the coming campaign. He declares
that the friends Of silver will preju-
dice our case to insist on it as an is
sue" at this time, the supply of gold
being adequate to present monetary
Whereupon The New York
Commercial meanly suggests that the
esteemed professor is now the presi-
dent Of a railroad tn ArkansaS-as If
the views on financial questions of so
good a man by any possibility be in
fuenced by a trifing circumstance like
that.-Charlotte Observer.
Booker Washington is still in New
York, lifting collections. He preached
Sunday in the Church of the Messiah,
but Mr.. Ogden IND Mr.. Carnegie were
evidently out of town. Those in the
pulpit with him were Rev. DIR. Robert
| Collyer, Rev. DR.. Thomas Slicer and
Rev. DR.. Minor J. Savage. At the
conclusion of Booker's address, DR..
| Savage that thereafter the
negro educator would have a perma-
nent address in New York-the Fifth
Avenue Bank. He conveyed this in
formation" he said, for the benefit
of those who might desire, to send
checks, with their autographs at
tached, for the work of the education
of the negro" Booker Washington
knows how to play 'em. Fears may
4 he 0ynrQSSa6 that he NAV aUantun11v
drain the treasury of the national as
ISOLATION for education in the south
and leave nothing for the poor whites.
Charlotte Chronicle.
If the European governments ac-
cept Professor Mun~sterburg's invita-
ton, says The Chicago Tribune, to sit
patiently by the bedside of the Monroe
doctrine and await it's peaceful death,
they will be sitting there centuries
hence. That doctrine has the vitality
and indeStructibility of the American
people. 1t is their fighting partner.
1t was born when they were, though
it was not proclaimed to the world in
the first and feeble days of the repub-
lie. 1t will live as long as the repub-
lie lives. It will die only when the
| republic is rent inc into weak
5nd hostile states, or when its flag
has been trampled in the dust by a
successful coalition Of enemies. The
Monroe doctrine is the defender of the
New World against insidious or over
attempts at s~ubjugation by the Old
World. 1t cannot die a natural death
while the American people retain their
political existence. Professor Nuns
terberg is a highly educated mar Of
much ability. He has lived in this
country twelve years. He believes he
can explain America to Europe. But
he does not understand America one
little bit.-Greensboro Record.