The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-07
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
STATE PRESS.

With the mercury climbing way
above the summer-heat notch, a pano.
ramic performance OF railroad receiver
ships going on, lawyers n official:
hurry back n forth between Ra'
leigh n Washington and Raleigh and
New Bern. contempt proceedings ga.
lore, habeas corpus writs, and Genera
Kuropatkin writing to his mother ex
planning the situation as it was three
week ago, we may be pardoned fol
being old-fashioned enough TO ask: Il!
it hot enough for you?"-Raleigh Post
II Josephus Daniels is in contempt
of court with Judge PurnelI he is in
greater contempt with Judge PEBBLES
And this might threaten a complication
OF state and federal Jurisdiction, IL Jo-
sephus should prove the Moses over
whose body the two judges SHOULD con
tend. The Scriptures represent Michae
and Satan as contending over the body
OF Moses. But which would me relative
ly the angel n which the devil in the
other proceedings we are contemptibly
cowardiy about suggesting.-Charlotts
| News.
h destruction of Dalny after its
evacuation argues that the Russians
never expected to occupy it again, and
that they look upon Manchuria as
| permanently lost to them. Dalny
sprung into being at the word of the
autocratic ruler, the car, and splen-
did docks, magnificent public buildings,
fine streets and beautiful parks were
constructed at a cost of many million
dollars. The war in the Far East is
becoming all that General Sherman said
war is. If the stories are true of the
Sayings of thousands ir several recent
engagements, the greatest battles Of
modern times, in point of losses Of lives,
are being fought between the hardy
Slavs on one side and the willy brown
Orientals on the other.-Winston Sen
tinel.
The Lumberton Argus makes the
point that Judge PEBBLES ought to have
first taken UP the newspapers. It says
that if Judge PEBBLES had attached the
first editor fer contempt that really be-
came co~ntemptuous during or after the
Haywood trial, the present unparal-
leled condition would not exist. eff"
IT says, 1.-The publications constitute a
basis for contempt proceedings, it is
evident that proceedings should first
have been instituted against the pub
fishers, whose publications, unchal-
lenged, largely justified the later pub
l. bCiiOONCS JuoSC L cCUicS ~
d1sprove the charges against him, but
1t is not, in our opinion, necessary for
the respondents to establish their
tr~uthfulness." To our mind, there is
something in that, but perhaps the
judge will not hin so.-Charlotte
Chronicle.
The report of the national department
of Agriculture upon the bobwhite. is of
Interest Tt iS shown that he iS inual,--
able as a destroyer of weed seed, and
that some of the pests which he habitu-
ally destroys are the Mexican cotton
boil weevil. the pests of the potato
crop. the cotton worms, the chinchbug
and the Rocky Mountain locust. While
doing all this good he does no harm to
fruit, grain or any other crop, and
with good reason he is pronounced the
most helpful bird on the farms. Bob
white thus has placed upon him the
impromatur of the national govern
ment, n in the light of this report
upon him, in addition to what vas al
ready known. it is seen that 1t is
wrong TO kill him under any circunl-
stances and that to kill him wantnnly
is a crime.-Charlotte Observer.
1t is comforting TO know that little
disturbances like these we now have in
the state will be Of short duration
North Carolina people strike hard and
quick when they feel their rights are
being interfered with. Personal differ
ences and dislikes are for the time be-
ing forgotten. while a common syrnpa-
thy is blended in the rightfng Of what
is considered Il wrong. These are SIM
ply ripples on the surface Of the broad
deep stream upon which float quietly
and securely the political. commercial,
educational and social possessions Of a
great people. The explosion Of these
little storm ceTters only end TO. clarity
the general atmosphere, and to give US
security against any greater or more
disturbances. And we may
look for the sober, second Thought OF
the people, with the same certainty
that we shall look for the sunshine
over.-Raleigh Times.
The North Carolina railroad war Is
attracting outside attention and some
Of the papers are taking a VSy con-
sentative view Of the situation. Among
these is The Richmond NewSLeader,
which discussed the point that has been
raised that the federal -~srnment has
no right to take charge of STATE prop
erty. Under certain conditions, The
News-Leader contends that II has
That paper holds that from an outside
and non-professionaf standpoint. it
looks as if the state when she engages
in ordinary business Indicates her SOW
ereignty, steps down from the throne
and makes herself liable to the condf-
tons with which all Others who are TN
business must deal. In the present case
the evidence seems to indicate that the
state had nGsmanaged the property
abominably and hat the minority
stockholders had cause for COM
plant. The road is short n in its
present condition unimportant. Appar-
emily it has been regarded as a political
asset and has been used more to pro-
mote the interests of the state admins
trations which happened to be in pow
er and in control of it than to earn
| money for the stockholders. A state
cannot be sued. but when a state is
| doing business in partnership with
| private individuals and so conducts the
| affairs of the mutual concern as tC
| wrong and deprive the other partners