The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-05-17
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

The Washington Post does not seem
to have a very delicate taste for dia-
mon back terrapins- The way they
are served The Post intimates that
they are mot worth the price OF a plate
Of pork and beans, or half as good to
eat" What does an editor know about
diamond back anyhow? Well bet
a sugar cookie that The Post man is
from Boston.-Durham Sun.
The Washington Post says that North
Carolina democrats are greatly worried
over the possibility of losing the eighth
congressional district now that Mr..
Kluttz has said he doesn't want the
nomination. Mr.. Kluttz is a most
worthy congressman, but we can't be-
lieve that he is the only man in the
district who can defeat Mr.. Spencer
Blackburn.-Greensbo Telegram.
The views of Judge Parker on some
of the national issues, as given out in a
purported interview with Elliot Dan
forth, in Washington, the other day,
strikes a responsive chord in the hearts
of every southerner. Judg Parker
would allow the south to settle her
problems and would have no outside
interference. This is all the south de-
sires. She has problems and great ones,
but she is fully competent to settle
them to her entire satisfaction if allow
ed to do so in her own way. This is
what Judge Parker would allow and
is what the south wants.-Elzabeth
City Economist.
The Hon. Charley Towne, Mr.. Bryan's
running mate in 1900, is toeing the
mark If Mr.. Bryan is not-in other
words, he has got some kind of sense,
for he said the other day: THE in
cfr T,,1r De- l..
ing on all New York delegates, and we
will take off our coats and work for
hiEl with the utmost zeal. My belief
is we shall have harmonious time at
st. Louis. For one am for peace, even
if we have to fight for it," Mr.. Towne
is a resident of New York now and
no doubt Mr.. Bryan thinks, if he does
not say so, that he has become a plu-
tocrat.-Greensboro Record.
Professor Charles Richet, OF obscure
fame, comes to the front with a dec
laration that the sympathy of the world
should go out to Russia because, being
of the white race, she represents high
er civilization. We presume that the
professor is probably well versed in the
history of modern civilization, but he
seems to overlook the fact that Rus
sia's record in the conduct of Siberian
affairs has placed her below the level
of Japan, as far as civilization is con-
cerned. 1t is probable that the world
will never know the full extent of the
horrors of Siberia, but enough has been
learned to concluSively show that the
Russians of today are in no way en-
titled to the sympathy of Christian peo-
ple.-Asheville Citizen.
The press OF Europe attaches the
greatest Importance TO the fact that
the strategy and valor of the japanese
have been able to drive the Russian
army back from the lower portions OF
Manchuria into the interior. 1t had
never before been demonstrated wketh-
er the Asiatic would be able to hold
his own with the European in battle
upon fairly equal terms. The Japan
ese. however, have bested the Rus
slams hitherto in strategy and have fully
eQualled them in courage. The mental
and mechanical work OF the brown
men of the Orient in the war has been
superior to that of the Caucasians from
the west. Europe meditates and Won
ders over the fact. What of Japan's
future baskerville Gazette-News.
II all the people OF the country were
as loyal to every interest that affects
them as the newspapers are to their
towns, counties and state, there would
be wonderful difference in things. The
newspapers of North Carolina, and of
other states as well, daily and weekly,
city or country papers, show more gen
uine loyalty to the communities, towns
and cities in which they labor than any
other Institutions or enterprises that
have to do with the public interest.
When di6 one ever read anything in a
local or state paper that reflected on
the locality or the state except in the
purpose and hope Of doing good?
So.ietimes papers have to print news
that is unpleasant but the editors and
managers bear more of such unpleas-
antness than any one else.-Scotland
Neck Commonwealth.