The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-01
STATE PRESS.

The world Is waiting for the coming
clash between the lam armies In the
Far East In the meantime the turn
ing home of the Russian squadron at
Jibutil. in French Somaliland. instead
OF going to the scene ofwar, Is Sig
nifcant of the fact that Russia mas
yielded TO the point of japanese SUI
periority on the Pacific. She Is feeling
what the Spanish admiral felt after
passing through the Suez canal to at
tack Dewey, namely. that good ships
were OF more value on top Of the water
than at the bottom Of the ocean. 1t Is
said that the condition of the car Is
pitiable under the modification Of de-
feat and retreat. But it is just as we'll
for an absolute monarch to feel some
times that there are others in the
world.-Charlotte News.
A poo boy. applying in writing for
a job. and reciting that he had a
mother and a young sister to support.
AIDED, by way of conclusion, 1T beats
hell how hard times is" In every de-
partment Of life it beats that same
thing how things come to pass. Now
here is The Chattanooga T~imes-itself
a traitor but apparently getting along
in the UNDERGRADUATES The Mon
goemry Advertiser. the leading and
ablest paper in Alabama, upon its
having changed from a six-day paper
to a daily, and in the same column
congratulating The Vicksburg Herald
upon it's enlargement from a six-column
eight-page paper to seven columns
The point is that the whole punch
Chattanooga. Montgomery and Vicks-
burg-all are t~raitorous sheets, every
n of them having dropped out of tine
when The Peerless became the captain
of the host. Yet all of them are ir
moderate circumstances and appear to
/ he ina nrnyrin0 II heats What fhn -rooIl
boy said.-Charlotte Observer.
When Sheriff Estes of Caldwell coun-
ty died some months ago, his daugh-
ter. Miss Mary. was appointed by the
county commissioners to go on with
the tax collecting, and she rounds the
boys up in the local paper thus: Il
respectfully ask the people of Cald-
well county to come and paw Their
taxes before there is any trouble. for
trouble there will be if you taxes are
not settled at an early date. The
money or the property the n or the
! other, Is certain. Now is the time for
you to decide which will be the easier
TO give UP. We will say again that it
viii be of little benefit to you to wait
until April to decide" No Mary had
a Little Lamb about this young wO-
man.-Monroe Journal.
Solicitor Webb says he is not going
to make a monkey of himself over the
cases of stock gambling returned by
the Mecklenburg grand jury. Don't
blame him.. No one expects a sensible
fellow, a good lawyer to do such a
thing. Solicitor Webb is not one of
the kind to throw fits i've a PROPOSE
ton that does not stand the test OF
common sense and law.-Concord Tri-
bune.
Tho noAra W. tL;-1- - - 49,
are led to fear that The Hague, in all
Western Hemisphere cases. will have
Uncle sam where the wool is short. if
Its recent decision in the Venezuelan
case is continued to its logical conclu-
sion. We fear that our friends at his
court are disposed to make us a much
bigger instrumentality for the preser-
walton of peace and the enforcement of
international ethics than we wish to
be- We would be pleased to heal from
Senators Hoar and Morgan on h
matter.-Raleigh Post.
The pledging of candidates for the
legislature may be justified under some
circumstances, but there are many
men who would make the very best
representatives who do not relish this
practice, 1t is better to try to CON-
bine two qualities in a representative,
and then cave him to do as he thinks
LII liz lISk pldCS, lO Hail OUGHT
to be nominated nor elected who has
not intelligence sufficient to recognize
VIVA his people need, and having re-
cognized this, he ought to stand for it
under all circumstances. So that good
sense and common honesty for the
most part preludeS the necessity of
special instructions to members of the
Observation-Disclosures Times.
According to the reports from both
Russian and japanese sources there is
to be no real fighting for some
weeks. probably months. The zeal is
huStling for a good place to make a
stand and the japanese are preparing
to make it warm for him when they
come up with him. While the first
real battle may be delayed for some
time, it is safe to predict that when
it does come it will be one of the
fercest in the history of the country
since the civil war.-Charlotte Chron-
icle.
1t is related of Hearst who is max
ing some Roadway in his canvass for
| president. that he never was for free
silver, but supported Mr.. Bryan be-
cause he was the nominee of the DEM
ocratic party and he wanted to be
regular; that Judge Parker. of New
York, did the same thing. Let us
suppose this is true-and we have no
reason to doubt it; for many newspa-
pers and individuals did the same
thing-but the fact that Bryan is
grooming him or will be satisfied with
him will kill Hearst at once. for the
great mass OF voters will swear, wheth-
er true or not. la Bryan will shape
his policy or in IN event will be a
member of his cabinet-in other
words that Bryan will be president by
proxy-Greensboro Record.