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

1t q predicted that every iron ana
steel plant in the country viii be work s
ing full time by January LIST next How {
ever, the price of steel stocks IS rot 1
based upon the activity or prosperity OF
the mills. but upon the ability Of Wall
Street influences to manipulate the
! marketS.-Savannah News.
! Talk about the heroes and heroism OF
past. In Manchuria today are being
enacted deeds of desperate valor hat
have 10 counterpart in all history. Ire
commercialism OF the z has not
brought physical or moral degeneration.
so far as the glory of wa is CON-
cernad. The warrior gods before the
gates OF Ilium were tin heroes COM
parerd with the modern Bersrerkers of
Japan and Russla-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
We venture no opinion about Judge !
Swayne'S guilt ST even blameworthi-
ness, at this stage Of the proceedings, /;
but It must be apparent to anybody
that if a United States judge were to
accept favorS from a railroad, when
he is eventually to decide questions OF
great to the railroad ft would
be difficult to name any graver crime;
because, if the courts are poisoned,
where lies the hope of justice?-Savan-
nah News.
Al OdDdIICst L NoAAAA ~ AAt
something OF their recent naval losses. /
Admiral Togo reports the sinking CT
one Of his torpedo boats and the serious
damage of three others in the attempt
to torpedo the Russian battleship Sc
vastopol at Port Arthur. By the way.
how it is the japanese find It neces-
sary to send torpedo boats IN 10 Sink
this vessel II they ave already sen. all
the Russian ships t. The bottom by the
fire of their gurs OIL Two Hundre- and
, Three L1etre Hill?-Ex:nanG-.
Poor Prioleau. When he tempered
with letters in Uncle Sans mail he
5 was evidently under the impression
, that Uncle Sam and the republican par
, ty were Synonymous and that there
fore, whatever he, Prioleau, I'D wouId
be considered as just a little matter
between friends. Unfortunately FOR
this colored candidate for congress but
, fortunately for the country, Uncle
:, Sam is occasionally able to dlvoIce
I himself from craftsmanship. The result
is that instead of representing the first
e congressional district, including
. Charleston and DR.. Crum, in the halls
S of congress-" the misguided Pr1oleau
= must spend three months In the
Charleston county Jail, the United
States government standing Tor his
A few nights ago a DINNER Was given
t in New York to John D. Robinson, now
seventy-two FEARS, old and who taught
school for fifty-Seven years before re-
tirement. He was the guest oe several
hundreG of his fI;Te- pupils, a large
y proportion of th1m hril.g mea who are
Y now prominent = p-,"a. "'Ai and COM
mercial circles, and two having occd-
pied the position of superintendent CT
:; schools. AS might have been expected,
the afterdinner talk was devoted large
III ly 70 old and new methods of educa-
lie ton, and it is interesting to note that
L there was a very general protest
lie against some of the details of the pres
\: ent system. These observers noted
that the DEVELOPMENT of educationa
"A ideas had not been altogether alc1s
satisfactory lines. ,Jne former supe in
" tanGent not only asserted that tas
+ crowded condition Of the schools was
x, due 70 a course which extended over toe
at long a period, but" he added, THE
ill pendulum has wUn too far. l. hOpt
rn it will swing back. We must have NOR.
o. fundamentals and less frins." To any
person who has passed the prime o
:. life the past always seems to have pos
sessed many advantages over the pres
emit. Allowing, however, for this nat
1t ural tendency of the human mln1
fol there is still much of truth In the com
he ments made at this gathering of for
- mer pupils. There is danger that tn
pendulum has not only swung too al
but that it is continuing to swing i
the wro..g Observation-Disclosures Eos
Oh Grossly libellious'' is the phras
of winch Samuel Untermyer and James v
Beck use in describing Thomas "
TO- L.av~on's instalment of "Frenzied r
EanLe" in Everybody's Magazine &C
nj January. These lawyers speak in rs
IA half of Henry HI. Rogers ono ain
whose connection with the Amalgama:
ate I'd Copper Company MI. Lawson ia
IN written in unflattering terms and the
ore warn the American News ComPIl
the against handling the product of Law
sons pen. On the face of it one woul
I SUPPOSE that Mr.. Rogers had, for le2
lrs. sons best known to himself, formed
De- secret alliance with Lawson, and, {
part Of the compact, was doing his be;
10, TO help the sale OF Mr.. Lawsons fir
I've works. The threat of a libel suit pre-
by broadcast through the press is an az
vertisement OF the most alluring kin
If the whole edition of EverybOdy'S
Jew not exhausted within twenty-fo,
an hours. neither Mr.. Lawson, Mr. Roger
rho Mr.. Beck. o M. Untermyer can
&c MS - nPsaS-
,an- +h.t tbo,gs +na nrasen+ :, +icla M
lstl- libelouS the preceding ones are NJ
This is perhaps a matte of person
taste. Some people will accept Wi
c~omplacency such epithets as liar a
&c - Tay most readers Vii concl,,
the that If Mr.. Rogers iet the earlier inst;
r be ments of Lawson s tale pass unchi
Life ienged, it was not 50 much because
cad a no ground for action, as becar
he preferred dfgnlfed silence TO I
:. R. prouuclioi oou.l uooN' u
meantime Lawson S heroic pose and
rhodomontade about paying the "aw
rage price suggest nothing less than J.
Quixote's, L am he for whom Stra-
re perils, valiant deeds, and vast adve
tIlraS are reserved New York Post