The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-27
STATE PRESS.

PRESIDENT Harper says AAo
great universities and not the theo-
logical s~eminaries that must furnish tne
religious training Of the future. It
was about time for Chicago university
IN make a new effort at the startling.
This time the lot fell upon the president.
we suggest that the ethics of the
standard Oil Trus would be a good
course on the religion of n great uni
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Standard
The washington Post is entirely cor
rect in the suggestion that the south
would join the rest Of the country in
supporting a bill designed to curtail
congressional misrepresentation. The
south, North Carolina included, has
mad TO put UP with a good deal of that
sort Of thing in the past. though, we
are thankful to say We are not suffer-
ing overmuch from it AT the present
writing.-Raleigh Times.
One of the points most emphasized
by the speaker in the meeting here
Saturday was the injustice done the
| south by the government in estimating
the cotton crop. The south believes
that the crop. this year will be much
less h the figures set by the gov
| eminent, yet the world believes the lat
ter and the price slumped accordingly.
| There will no doubt be an earnest eff
fort made to induce the government to
quit this BUSINESS, and it should sue
ceed.-Monroe Journal.
Bishop, Wilcox and Utley nave all
been trying to get a pardon. 1t looks
as though they were all going 10 fail.
! Only a few weeks ago we refused TO
sign a request for a pardon of a whit
man now on the gang. 1t was refused
for the simple reason that we do not
believe that mis- original sentence was
long enough. There are cases where
a pardon is just and proper and in
such cases The Tribune is always will
ing to add it's small Endorsement
Concord Tribune
A bill is pending in congress which
provides for the establishment of a
bureau of information and demonsta-
ton at New York, where there will bs
a representative from each southern
state. who will meet the immigrant:
who have no definite destination and in
diligently present to them the advant'
ages offered by the south to home-seek
ers and those in search of employment
This is getting the matter down to prac
teal basis. The south could then ge
not only all the immigrants it wants
but the kin it wants.-Charlotte Chron
icle.
In the Washington Post of Monda,
there is a communication signed b.
Ezra Nat Hill in which Mayor McClel
Ian, of New York; is criticized for hav1n
said at a banquet of the Southern Soc
ETY. in New York that the south Shout
have the credit of having fought tn
} revolutionary war and that Lee, John
l ston. and jackson were cOmparabl
! spirits with Washington and Jefferson
| and in which President Alderman
. the Virginia University is commence
for saying that the quality Of the leat
ership of the south is weak. The ave
age southern man will not. we thin
p subscribe to the view of Mr.. Ezra n
q Hill. On the contrary the situation W
q be completely reversed. The southe1
q heart will go out warmly to Mayor NJ
Clcllan-the son of a northern gener
4 for his magnanimous words and
4 will be more or less incensedN at t
o. words of President Alderman, who
a will be felt, served no good or usef
II purpose by airing his views as to /
PC inferiority of southern leadership
70 Greensboro Telegram.