The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-05
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATk PRESS.

Sec euaTy wilson uttered a meaty
Saying yesterday. He Was questioned
regarding the present price M beef.
and had a good deal 20 say in raply.
The gaSt OF his remarks was that tne
margin between what tine farmer re-
ceTveS for his cattle and what rf1a con-
suner pays for his beef is greater than
actual conditions warrant This led To
Cne inevitable question. would the re-
fmoval of the duty on beet from Can
d remedy this state OF affairs? Tbs
responSe was Quick-fhe effect on re-
iaaerS Would not amount to much
However" says the secretary OF agi-
culture, you know / am not much of
a taTir student aLly1nUw. But / ann a
prorectIonlSC You may put me down
for mat This statement should COM
mand admiration The secretary does
not know anything about protection.
but ne Is a protect 1niSt- Prooecaon
Is IKE reVealed eigio One does not
Question IT: one merely g it
nat is a great truth Many have he'd
L. but no n before the secretary has
ever formally stated it To be sure,
there Is just a gram of uncertainty
w1hedne his protectionIsm is entirely a
matter OF pure faith. There may re
a Little fear in it; for lie sayS that il
the duty We're. taken Off agricultural
products. we should PROBABLY hear from
the Gloucester fisher men and h New
oN 60 l. . "CA hluOSI LII
the latter believe thai faith without
works Is dead-New o-k Post
The republican Bosses in congress
viii not permit the passage of a river
harbor DIH whereby much needed
work on tine waterways of the country
would be carried on and the whole peo-
pie thus benefited, but they look with
v on a service pension bill which
VIII distribute some $6j, 900 900 among a
/ IdNOre1 f6U and nlla-n thl. burden an
the rest The Post a frequently call
Cd ATTENTION TO the attempts of the ma
Jornty party TO keep the expenditures
u TO such a point as vii make a de-
fIclt inevitable and thus give it a
chance to argue that a high tariff pol
icy is absolutely necessary, while at
tine same time managing Things so
ufat d majority of the voters may be
deluded into the belief III the affairs
or the government are being eoonOm-
[ca1y administered The bosses are
e~nCountering many obstacles in at
tempting to carry out this pan, but
they are progressing in a way which
they hope are making votea-HouSton
PLSt-
The Associated Press learns that
Great Britain is satisfied that Rcs-
slas reply TO Japan is sufficiently con-
GlIlatory TO warrant its acceptance by
Japan In full satisfaction of her de-
. - b1VItIl IS IJIlI2Tlr Ia
pan VIII nave to be. because the Mika-
90 could not Uhink of coins TO war with
RUSSIA unless he were assured OF thu
Support of this great western ally. So
the situation is more peaceful in its
chan 1t has appeared from the
oeSlhlAng OF the trCuSla. But Russia.
WIFI. at a more convenient d
press her claims and wA aIctlfn her
encs some day too.-ChaIlsStOn Post.
When the American patriots ait Phil
adelphla signed their declaration of in
dependence in 1916. neither ruhey nor
unelr English oppressors SO much as
dreamed that in little more than a CEN
tury and a quarter-in 1SC4-England
would draw a declaration OF indeoea-
dence aimed ait tine tyranny of Amer
lcan cotton Such a declaration has.
IN effect, been ISSUED; and Tot only
England. but France and as
we'll, nave entered upon a joint IN
paign for the emancipation of Euro
pean cotton mills from their deDAn-
dence upon the American staple. The
american cotton market, say the Eng
llSh and continental amer is Cen
tfOLed by SPECTATORS" who swing
prices back and forth for private gan
h Europe hopes to do us to estab-
llSh cotton Plantations. in the African
colonies. whence they expect in time
ITO derive a supply adequate to meet
their needs; ~Whereupon they can give
<alifShiSiIf COCUOll lllS SOiIlIIDeTS1aI Cut.
direct So far. while efforts at cotton
raising i'm Africa have proved agr.cu,-
turaILy successful. no considerable head
way has been made toward the estab-
lShment OF a cotton growing industry
in Africa The aImounL of cotton pro-
d1ced outside of America AMID India is
inconsiderabie. The feasibility OF Afri-
can cotton agnicuIturaily speaking, Is
undiSputed The problem is one OF
labor; THE native tribes being, as a rule,
i'll adapted to the cultivation of cotton.
The proposition to import ''coolie" tabor
from China is a "far cry and an ad-
mission of weakness. Eut greater diff
ficuitieS than these have been overcome
in the past history of industrial strug-
gle. Europe has rea :hed a point almost
| of desperation in this matter, and Will
in time certainly find new sources of
| cotton Supply.-Atfantd Journal.
The Philadelphia Ledger avs that
crimes committed in that city by ne
groes are increasing out of proportion
| to the increase i'm black population. In
| veSt1gatlon shows that since January
LIST nineteen egr criminals have been
| convicted in the criminal courts, and
that n~inety-ffve per cent of the persons
\ tried for burglary N the interval in
the criminal courts were negroes. From
his advent in the city" says the Ledger
1.-The negro has figured largely in h
| criminal annals. Figures compiled by
THE government Will give am idea OF
this. The Eastern ~pen;tentiary was
| opened near the close OF the wear 1929.
In 1S29-'30 and 1884, when the negro
4 population was 5000 less than it Is
4 today, so OF the 339 convictS in the
| pe~nitentiary were negroes. Crimes in
| creaSed tcia startling extent in the next
| fifty years and then fell off. and in
1896 it had shown a five per cert de-
creaS In that year OF the 5S,012 per-
\ sons arrested here. $500 were
about eleven per cent. The total num-
Der of arrests in the city per annum has
risen from 81. 221 in 1864 to 81. ia in 1903.
SiXty-four per cent. of those arrested
we're negroes, an increase of evenly
lgnt per cent. 50 far as this race -
observation-disclosures.
Killed.