The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-03
Ghp Ulessemer.
WHAT WILL MIR. DANIELS sAYe

For a long time there has been a per-
soual fight carried on in the editorial
columns Of the Papers between the ed
irors Of The Post and The News and OBJ
server. The thing seems to have come
to-a climax OF late-that Is We hope it
a We hope. we mean, that n Or
the other will have the manhood to
resent what has been said about him.
The people are tired of this valiant dis
play OF blue pencil courage and person.
al cowardice. If 10 Daniels does not
take personal notice of the charges OF
The Post OF yesterday and the day be-
fore he need never again expect any
one In this state to give him credit for
having courage enough to defend his
wv name. Yesterdays Post says:
There are times when n must
handle a dirty thing, n it becomes
necessary to take off gloves. The IN
decently ~scurrilouS article in the News
n Observer Of yesterday in reference
to the Post furnishes the subject and
the necessity. And yet it is difficult to
e with that paper and its already
disgraced editor in terms that are ad-
~ d
The editor of that paper has been 50
generally denounced and cuffed that
It is not creditable TO any one to resort
to either method of Furnishing him as
he d-eServes.and he has come 10 presume
upon his as a defence and a license TO
pursue his course Of Islander Of men or
Institutions whom he thinks may be In
his way or refuse to recognize his pre-
tentions.
Recently. the Associated Railways,
comprising all the systems doing busl-
ness in the states of the south, deter
mined in Difference to the just demands
of the wholesale merchants and jobbers
of this state TO equalize rates and put
our merchants on an absolute equality
with the same class of merchants of
Virginia cities. Heretofore the latter
have had an advantage of from 3 to 4
cents per hundred pounds in freight
rates over North Carolina merchants or
the same class on certain shipments
into North Carolina. On the 18th inst.
the Norfolk jobbers and wholesale ship
pers held a meeting to protest TO this
change, and the Virginia-Pilot of the
10th gives the following report of the
proceedings:
Mr.. Bagley, of the Raleigh News
and Observer, appeared before the
meeting and offered a proposition from
the paper he represented to begin a
campaign of education in the interest
of the local" (meaning Norfolk) Job
bers and brokers.
Mr.. Bagley explained that he, for
his intended to visit all of
the large and small town in the state
of North Carolina to acquaint the job
bers there with the situation rs IL
would be if the raise of freight rates
went into effect; that he would let the
North Carolina merchants know of the
friendly relations existing between the
merchants of the two states and that
he would gather data which would be
Printed in a series of articles, and that
h papers would be mailed all over
h state. Mr.. Bagley Submitted the
proposition to the meeting.
The grocerS, hay INC grain men and
h broker accepted h proposition
and the articles will begin in a short
time"
AS we say this change in rate only
places the wholesale merchants, jop-
bers and brokers of this state on an
exact equality with those of Richmond,
Norfolk and other Virginia cities with
out any change whatever so far as our
retail merchants or buyers are concern
ed unless the latter prefer to patronize
Virginia merchants rather than jobbers
in our own state. Yet here is a propo-
sition to sell the influence of the News
and Observer to the merchants of Nor
folk against the jObbers of u own
state"