The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-14
SAFE PRESS.

You might as well expect a bullfrog
to Jump a ten foot wall as to expect
| repubIicanism TO do anything for the
common class OF people. h old
thing is married to trusts. deceit is its
nanny and highway robbery its
daddy.-New Bern Journal.
Colonel Bryan's stock ought to TAX
a rise on the democratic market It's
| 4 case Of beaping Goals Of fire on some
OF us. AIR. Parker is evidently grow
| ing upon the country generally. Mr..
Hearst, after using a lot OF wet
| blankets on the democratic campaign,
is now in the band wagon" with his
several "yallers." There has never
| been a time in The history of this
| country when anything needed to be
| SO sternly rebuked as the present ten
| dency of the republican policy. The
question is. whether IL will be DONE
| Raleigh Times.
Hon.. Chas. A. Towne, ex-populist
| and now democratic candidate for
congress in one OF the districts of New
York city. has just returned from a
and Indiana and declare that he WAS
an dIndiana and declares that he was
especially impressed in Indiana by
the fac that the gold democrats are
all back in line." Statements like this
| are seen rather frequently in the pa
pers in reference to the gold demo-
Gratis of one state and another-that
they are "all hack in line" Pray,
why should they not be? OF all classes
of democrats they have the least to
kick about.-Charlotte Observer.
P1ehaps the most inspiring and
memorable utterance which the cam
paign has brought forth is the ring
ing letter of Carl Schurz from his
does not at all indulge in v~itupera-
ton or invective, yet it is very largely
a personal Characterization, and if
the president read it. it must have
strongly inclined him to either pro-
family or prayer. The mirror is held
up to the president in q relentless
and it would be very interest
ing to know what he thought of him
self after reading it. 1t is so calmly
frank as to mak a sensitive man
writhe. or an innocent man indignant.
Durham Sun.
AS has been noted in this olumn.
the Japanese lead in personal health
and fitness" hi being the case, il
is not surprising to learn that in the
| opinion of A surgeon in the engineer
branch of the United States army ia
pan is far ahead of all other nations
of the world in the organization OF the
sanitary branch of it's army. Far
ahead" mind you! The same surgeon
says that japan has been the first to
anticipate and take measure against
the fact that the greater numbers of
deaths in war are caused not by bull
let's, but by disease. The world surely
has much to learn from the Japanese.
Greensboro Telegram.
The conundrum of the day is the
word Cotton" with an Interrogation
mark after it. A man whose judge
ment is considered good on the SUBJ
ject said last night that if a killing
frost should come now the crop would
be eleven million bales. His idea was
that What is already picked, what is
opened in the field and what bolls
would still open is sufficient to make
eleven million bales. Some others
think the high limit of the crop is
eleven million bales. no matter what
happens. Ordinarily you pay your
money and take your choice. In the
case of cotton, you take your choice
of predictions n then pay your
money.-Charlotte Chronicle.
The slogan of the republican party
is prosperity-Prosperity with a big
p. n claim set up Ivy them that the
country is only prosperous under
republican administration of govern
mental affairs. That all dinner pals
are not full, however, after eight years
of republican rule, is made eviden in
an article published recently in the
New York World in a lengthy Stats
teal article of very recent publication
shows that New York cjty's free lodg-
ing house has entertained 46 per cent
more u~nfortunates this year than dur
ing 4 corresponding period of last
year. From January 1st to July 31st
1904, the house has entertained a.
265 derelicts, and fed them. thereby
breaking the record of its entire ex
istence extending over a period o
more than seven years.-GreensborC
Record.
In the matter of furnishing publ,
speakers to discuss the issues of thu
campaign in northern states, the soutf
is doing nobly. Nearly every states
man in Dixie who is physically able
to do so has taken the stump or is pre-.
pairing TO do so. The south has evel
beer the nursery of American oratory
but too little of southern %eloquenc,
has been heard in the nothern anG
western states. This campaign sets
precedent which people UP north viii
not wish to have set aside in the flu
ture. Southern orators are welcomed
In the north and west: they are listen
ed to with respect and they are prov
ing effective vote getters. Wherevel
these men of the south nave appeared
they nave made a ''hit' and the nat
ural consequence is that the nationa
democratic committe is overwhelmed
with requests for their services.-Ral
eigh Post.