The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-16
Us FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


A r~eforYntory for youthful criminals
would serve a good purpose. but
Of our preSen troubles is that We want
many things for which we are not Will
ing to pay the price.-Durham Herald.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi.
has broken out again IN a fresh place
and he is becoming about as oher-
sive and dangerous as the smallpox.
The man who viii put the lid OF var
daman's speaking tube, to stay put,
will render the south a great SERVICE
Raleigh Time.
You will not SEE the cotton crop pan
out as large as the government esti-
mate but all the same the report had
it's effect on the price and served The
purpose of those who wanted to make
a rake off, at the pen Of the cot
ton producer.-Greenville Reflector.
Things will be evened up after a
while. An effort is being made to have
the Interstate comerce commission nix
freight rates, and a member Of :he
North Carolina legislature declares he
IS going to have a bill passed giving the
state corporation commission power to
fix hotel rates. Now # some philan-
thropic brother wants a lasting monu-
ment let him have a bill passed regulat-
ing gas meters.-Greensboro Record.
Senators Simmons and Overman both
firmly decline to fly into a tantrum ov-
er the Platt bill to reduce south
ern representation. They think the re-
publicans are not serious in their talk
about cutting out" some of our south
ern congressman and as they are on
the ground where they can look around
and sixe Up conditions for themselves
they ought to know and their attitude
nTrDh 70 10 - -
hold he oings at the national capital
from a greater distance.-Greensboro
Telegram.
President Roosevelt is not above pet
ty jealousies. 1t is said upon good au-
thortty that he would like very much
to give one more slap in the face 10 lis
old time antagonist, General Miles by
refusing to alloy the latter to act as
Adjutant General for Governor Doug
Las, the question before the president
being whether Miles as a. retired army
officer shall be allowed to serve in the
Massachusetts militia If Mr.. Roosevelt
does take this way of again %snubbing
Miles, it will certainly show a lack OF
real greatness on the part of our pres
emf chief eNecutive.-Charlotte NEWS.
The socialist vote in North Carolina,
while small, is much larger than vas
@NObOOy StSIil " IIllIlh 1t DOS
slble that the socialist candidate ror
overwhelmingly, Debs-could get pa
votes in North Carolina, but he did 20,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES item in Charlotte
observer. Yes, and nearly all of them
were voted in the Winston and Forsyth
county ballot boxes. What ails those
Fellows up there, anyway?-Raleigh
Times. We cannot explain lit more
than we can account for a vast number
OF persons in this state-and through
out the south and west-chasing the
phantom populsm a few years ago
Winston Sentinel.
The war on the dispensary in South
Carolian is getting we'll under way. The
action of the Baptist state convention
at Chester. in de%nCuncing state Whis-
key business and calling for the wiping
out of the dispensaries, is having its
effect The resolutions say that the
state OF South Carolina was deceived
INTO the liquor business and that the
people must now fight for their civil
cation. God fearing citizens are urged
to persevere in their efforts until the
last ~dispensary has been abolished.
1urne was when we thought the dispen-
sary Was fastened upon South Carolina
FOR all time, but conditions seem to
De changing and 1t looks like the pres
ent movement may grow into a popular
uprising against that observation-disclosures
lotte Chronicle.