The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

AZ I1Oi- @1chfy " laws. III his
speech accepting the vice presidential
nomination OF his party, called atten-
ton briefly to several very important
matters. among which was that the cost
of running the government has been
Increased from $50 per capita under
President C~eveland's last administra-
ton 10 $40 per capita under President
Roosevelt Here is a proposition for
sensible and seif-respecting taxpayers
10 study and reflect upon.SChattanooga
Times
About the meanest of all to
employ in a piitical fight is the ca
nard. Those who use il know that il
aSs bound TO be refuted, but they also
know that a lie runs 50 fast that the
truth can never oyertake it. In their
search into the record OF the democratic
candidate for vice president the repub-
licans have met with disappointment,
and instead Of accepting the fact Of an
untarnished record, they have resorted
10 the detestable practice OF inventing a
canard--Baltimore Herald.
Bishop C. C. McCabe OF the Metno-
dist church advocates war on Turkey
because Abdul Hamid will not let the
Christian Armenians alone. When the
newspaper dispatches of several days
ago contained accounts of the killing
of a lot of Turks by Armenians the
voice of the northern bishop was not
heard advocating the sending OF war
ships TO suppress the rioters. II seems
to make a great difference whether the
~upspeakable Turk is the slayer or the
slain.-Savannah News.
How is this hat the sultan Of Tur-
ey now say he a not make effect
i've his promises of fair treatment to
American institutions in his realm un-
til the details of each application have
been examined by his ministers? We
thought that the United States had
secured everything it demanded for
immediate relief and enjoyment,
Wasn't the result of the demonstration
against Turkey a triumph for Secre-
tary Hay? 1t would be very embarrass-
! ing if we had to do the whole act over
again, to the point of sending back tC
| Smyrna Admiral UewelPs squadron,
which has just left that port.-Charies-
ton Post.
In refusing to pardon the negro con-
victed of assault on a woman in the
District of Columbia, the president
presses his regret that summary
methods are not available for the pun
ishment of such crimes. In answer to
| our question. Why summary" moth
ing from the republican press has yet
come to our notice, n we are still al
sea as to the possibility of anything
more summary than the law now
gives us. Certainly no zeal for punish
ment should outrun the necessity OF
making a plain demonstration of guil'
before the penalty is eXacted, and we
believe the balance has already beer
we'll struck by existing legislation; We
cannot conceive what. other steps-Ir
the shape of enactmentS could be wise
! ly taken We might wis lawyers woulc
be content with the substantial justice
the law allows and omit something Of
their zeal for mere technicalitles, bu'
| we dare. not insist on this lest some
safeguards be denied the innocent
TimeS-Union.
Raising the race issue in Chicago
promises to have more effect in settling
the strike for the meat cutters and
: packers in the way they want it settled
than any other factor hat enter into
the fight. 1t seems that Chicago neo-
] pie are a little sick of the unions and
their frequent disturbances, not always
founded in justice as they should DE
and public sympathy has turned a little
against them. Chicago is the mos;
union ridden town in the world and
the people who are always glad to he'll
labor win a just fight against capital
have gotten so tired Of the constant re-
currSncS or StElheS mat lhCs
blinded to any justice that might be-
| long properly to the labor unions. The
| fact that if the employers succeed vii
| make a negro colony OF that part of the
CITY to which Slab town n Liberty
! Hill would be barely a hint, has reused
the people of the city and they are
| going TO do something TO prevent il
| AS a strike breaker in the north tbs
negro will be ground 10 powder between
the upper and the neither mill stones o!
commerce.-Florence Times.