The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-22
CURRENT COMMENT.

"a
the Morton Trust Company. said 10 a
Sun reporter yesterday that he be-
heved southern democrats should
name the candidate for president and
construct the platform on which the
candidate will run. Mr.. Ryan said
That in h conservatism which the
south has always stood for was 10 be
found protection from those who
would demoralize the party again and
that h way to make New York and
other states democratic was to restore
to the south that recognition in the
party councils which its leaders had
in former tmes.-New York Sun.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York Herald says the publ
cation of the postal scandal report has
caused the greatest rumpus in the re-
publican party since the feu between
Messrs. Blaine and Conkling. Efforts
are being made to involve President
Roosevelt in the fuss, and no other
topic IS now discussed in Washington.
The effect of the publication OF the
correspondence of members OF con-
gress, he said. has reached every con-
gressional district, the members from
which wrote a letter to Beavers. I'm
less the matter is cleared up it will
cost, perhaps, a hundred members
either their nominations or their cleo
N4oilSg dll llCi 10 I'll SlE d1Ilcu lSIdllOIl
existing that BODIES i'll for harmonious
action in the coming campaign."-
Times Dispatch.
This Is the era Of the south's great
est opportunity. Never before has
the once PROSTATE section been the re-
cipient of such favorable consideration
from the north and west. Never be-
fore has the full realization of the
south's possibilities and yet dormant
wealth been so near to dawning upon
the remainder of the country. And
1t is important to us that such knowl-
edge should spread throughout the
sections possessing the only ingredient
lacking to transform the south into
the richest section in the world. Here
is contained every natural advantage;
full development only is lacking and
for the full development within a rea-
a time adequate capital is re-
quired. There is capital, vast sums in
idle capital, in this country, and the
diversion to the south Of part of the
stream, that has been pouring into
h west and that is yet going to
Mexico and many other foreign coun-
tries, would mean the unparalleled
prosperity of this section.-Columbia
State.
Their cosld be no means adopted
which would more promptly put the
democratic party absolutely out of ex-
iStence, and have il go the way of the
federalist the Nhig and the know
nothing" parties as to nominate such
n man as earSt- He seeks constant
ly to array the masses against the
classes. He urges daily hat labor
should abandon the implement of the
artisan and go inea politics as a body.
There is no form of state socialism he
hasn't advocated from government
ownership of the railroads down.. A
platform embOdying what he has ad-
vocated in his newspapers would SC
brighten the country that the democ-
racy wouldn't secure even the south
ern states. Jefferson believed that
the best government WIS the least gov
and he opposed centralized
power with all his great intellect.
Hearst is the anti-Jefferson of politics.
He has a sovereign remedy for every
political i'll and would leave nothing
to the people. Then he is personally
an unknown. He has v made a
speech. His own district in New York
doesn't know him. He has never
opened his mouth in congress. He
would lose New York state by 100000
votes. AS one democratic editor Of in
f1uence puts it. I'VE do not know
whether he can walk, talk, read, write
Or do anything except sign checks
Probably he has some one employed
to do that for him.-KRoxvilIe Sen
tineI.
The news that the Bates treaty with
the MorOs was quietly ~abrOgated two
weeks ago, need surprise no one. When
first drawn it was loudly proclaimed
as a marvel of skill and wIsdom-the
highest possible proof of American fit
ness to deal with our M0hammedan
and equatorial subjects. Such persons
who criticised it for its apparent rec
ognftion OF polygamy-now denied by
Taft-and for other reasons, were
widely denounced as mere
who would alter the world in a day.
Gradually, however, it appeared that
it was not the model agreement it had
at first seemed to be. Finally, even
the army officers began to call for it's
annulment. Since the cofncident ar
IVA OF General Wood in Mindanao,
in the JolO group, and the renewal of
hostlIities with the Moros the abroga-
ton OF the whole treaty has been
merely a matter of time When you
are killing men right and left, de-
stroying their institutions, n forcing
your civilization apo them, of what
use is a treaty? There is nothing
easter in such cases than to prove
that your adversary violated it when
your adversary is ON mere sultan
of Sulu. Al it is, the Moros are now.
under the ~overlordshfp of Leonard
Wood, residents of the Moro province
in the Philippine archipelago, subject
to the laws therein under the sover-
eighty of the United States" Thus
endeth the fiction that in treating with
Sulu's sultan we were dealing with a
separate nation, which was at the
same time part and parcel of our
glorious republic, or at least subject to
it's jurisdiction. So ends the attempt
to make an Egypt of Moro land.-New
York Post.