The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-19
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT

The President and his advisors nave
oeen looking with awe" upon the
quarterly bills which the telephone
company has just sent aroung TO Sec
rotary Shaw. IN some of b govern
ment Offices the charge has jumped loo
per cent; the 'extorrlon." indeed, IS
So great as to occupy the chief place in
cabinet deliberations. Such alarm is
unworthy OF Uncle Sam. Ffrt. II de-
notes a misery spirit. This Is not a
n~iggardly administration. In Wall
street, IL Is always believed that the
giving UP of telephones is the surest
indication of hard times; but this is
a period OF republican prosperity"
despite the fact hat the treasurey mas
piled up a deficit of S21, OOO. 600 since
July /. Above all, high prices are a
blessing, Secretary Shaw himself has
said ii, though the comptroller OF the
~treasur-yiS cutting down the telephone
bills to the old figures. If high-priced
clothes and food are good things, high
priced telephones must be equally SO.
OF course. a soldier like Roosevelt will
not ask the common people to go where
the administration would fear to tread.
There. is no occasion for awe" We
pay to ourselves: and If the Washing
ton telephone company ''gougeS" IN
Gle Sam. it's stockholders-and Possibly
even its workmen-will have more
money to pay out in taxes.New York
Post
No matter whether the Russians AXE
a brace and finally whip the Japs, CT
whether the Japs push their series Of
successes to a victorious finale, the
trade of the United States should ex-
pand through the results of the war.
II Russia wins out in the long run the
protracted struggle will have exhaust
ed her financially and to proceed to the
commercial DEVELOPMENT of Manchuria
and her other Oriental provinces she
must call in American money and
American get up inc get" Japan, if
she wins. has already announced thar
the open door" policy will be pursued
in o Korea and Manchuria. And
Korea, if Russia should win, would be-
come al sort OF neutral buffer" state
which would permit the expansion of
American In any event
h ultimate result of the war must
be the opening UP of the territory
which is being fought over, and with
the completion of the Panama cana!
a great impulse will be given to Amer
ica's foreign trade. Already more than
one-twentieth of our foreign trade 1s
with peoples either directly or indi-
rectly interested in the result of the
war. And it is an xiom that. artificial
walls for the purpose of keeping out
are usually raZed by wars,
which change the color Of the may. So.
no matter whch nation we should like
to see win through the arbitrament OF
arms, it is the United States that will
win in the long run.-Attanta JournaI.
Since Theodore Roosevelt was nomi-
mated by the republicans he has been
the Paramount issue in this notable c
campaign. The republicans knew when
they nominated him hat he would be
tho iScI1n ond thQV would QladIv have
laid him aside for a more conservative
man, but they could not help them
selves. The democrats thoroughly. I'M
derstood that Roosevelt would be the
paramount issue and hence it was That
they turned to Judge Parker, a conser-
vative man of the people,, who was
knowwn to be the antithesis of Roose-|
welt. The republicans have n1anfuiyi
tried to keep MI. Roosevelt in the back
ground. Since he was nominated he
has been held in durance vile. 1t was
necessary for him to make a speech OF
acceptance, but that speech no doubt,
was thoroughly edited by the republican
leaders before Mr.. Roosevelt was per-
mitted to make it public. 1t a as
everybody remarked AL me time, utter
ly different from the mpa rougn
rider and free lance. 1t was, as every
BODY knows, nothing like a free express
sion Of Mr.. R~oosevelts me
Republicans Il Slhi hit
check and hoping that the public Will
accept Mr.. Roosevelt's speech as an ex-
ponent OF Mr.. Roosevelt's principles:
but the public know Roosevelt too Wei
and know that his speech was made for
campaign purposes. The issue is now
squarely Joined between R~ooseVelt
and Parker. Principles are not to be
ignored m political parties are to De
Judged in a measure by the expression
of their principles, as contained in their
platform. But a principle is an aD-
stract thing; a man is concrete. A
nrinciple is like a gun, the force and eff
feet of which depends upon the char
acter Of the nan behind it. The prin-
ciples of the republican party are COM
mitted to Theodore Roosevelt; the
principles of the democratic party are
committed to Alton B. Parker.-Rich-
mond Times-DiSpatch.