The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-09
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
CURRENT COMMENT.

It's good 10 have money and The
things money will buy. but its good. too,
to check I'D once in a while and make
sure You haven't lost the things that
money won't buy. When a fellows
| got what he sets out for in this world
he should go of INTO the woods for a
few weeks now n hen TO make sure
he's still a man. and not a plug hat and
a frock coat and a wad of bills-Satur-
day Evening Post.
Henry Watterson promises to tell the
democratic editors next week. when
they gather in New York, what he
would do this year il he were a repub-
lican n why. OF course, ne would
vote for Judge Parke and no doubt
he Will give good reasons for such a
determination from a hypothetical
standpoint. As a matter of fact, Henry
Watterson couldn't possibly be a re-
publican, but IL he had been born one
he would not vote for Parker this year
but be whooping it up for Roosevelt.
What we want to know from great
democrats this year is not what they
would do IL they were not what they
are. but what they car do being as
they are.-Charleston Post.
The waning of Woodruff and the
waxing OF Higgins as possibilities for
huE republican nomination Tor governor
are good signs. Evidently the more
serious leaders of the republican party
are aware that this is not the year IN
which to put up a yellow dog"-to use
the phrase attributed 10 an eminent
republican statesman. There is to be a
hard contest, in which both parties
must draft their strongest men. If
higgins be nominated, the democrats
will be forced to stop all talk about
S~t9nrhfpl0 mr. anv other man nh ,-ilI
be looked upon as a residuary legatee
of Mr.. Hills political estate. The can
didate must be a man of high intelli-
Sence and irreproachabfe character. In
quiet times, Senator Platt used shrewd-
ly TO remark, candidates from the ma
thine are all right. But even Mr.. Platt
as aware that in a hot campaign some
one who is bigger than a mere machine
politician is needed.-New- York Post.
Tomorrow we shall have a national
holiday and celebration whose design
is to dignity labor and exalt the work.
man. A nations greatest asset is it's
for all wealth, save that
which nature provides, is the product
of mans toll. and without toll a nation
would soon become poverty-stricken.
The workmen are the backbone of the
republic n the more prosperous and
the more intelligent the are
NN~ AA tA0 u
be in every respect. The nation is eX-
allied as its are exalted. If
we keep the workmeu down, we keep
the nation down. These propositions do
Eot need to be demonstrated 1t is very
becoming, therefore, for Us to cease
from toll one day in the ear n turn
our attention TO questions which pecu-
iiarly affect the workman and his well
fare. 1t is good to know hat there new
er was an age when the workman was
held in such esteem. when he was
SO prosperous, when he was such a force
in business and political life. Society
no longer treats him as a beast OF bur-
den, but as a man, entitled to an hon
orable position in the world and emit
tied to a wage that will enable him
to live in a manner in keeping. with its
new station. The world recognizes and
comedies as never before that the Ia
horer is worthy of his wage. and that
the more worthy he becomes, the higher
his wage will b~e.-Sunday's Times-Dis-
patch.
The excuse given by Comptroller Of
the Currency Ridgeley for the CHROME
Gus statements concerning the. ability
of southern banks to meet the demands
of the cotton crop situation seem to in
dictate that there is something radically
wrong in the methods of doing business
in that particular division of the treas
ury department.. certainty Il SeEfOuS
error was made in the. official statement
just sent out; and as no blame can we'll
attach to any officer of the department,
it must be the system which is at fault.
1t will be recalled that a few days ago
there was embodied in an official re-
sumo of the financial situation sent out
by the comptroller. the statement that
the banks of Georgia are not this year
in as good condition to meet the de-
mands of the cotton crop situation as
they were a year ago. This statement
was so at variance with the facts as
they were understood by everybody in
the business world, that Tae Constitu-
ton Immediately instituted a searching
inquiry which embraced rot only the
banks of the Georgia cities, but of the
smaller towns as we'll. The testimony
of all was to the same effect: Not only
are the Georgia banks in better condi-
ton to meet the demands of trade than
they were at the corresponding period
last year. but they are in far better
condition than they have been in a
great many years. Their cash in hand
is greater, the sums to their credit with
their New York correspondents larger,
and they will have to borrow less to
meet the demands of crop moving h a
at any time SINCE the war.-Atlanta
Constitution.