The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-15
STATE PRESS.

II the management of the road de-
ciares a dividend and does not show
an increase in the volume of business
1t will be an indication that there has
been something rotten somewhere
Durham Herald
The universal recognition extended
TO the s~tatesmanlike qualities of such
men as John Sharp Williams and Sena-
tor Joseph w. Bailey makes IL SUM-
GENTLY evident that the south is still
producing presidential timber, though
unable to market it.-Charlotte Obser-
yer.
Some persons persist in trying TO foo.
the Lord and they live in this town
many of them. When a man gets so
good he cannot subscribe for a paper
because it does not suit his views, yet
Just drops around" every day and
filches one, he may think he is fooling
Him, but he is not even fooling any
one.-Greensboro Record.
Secretary Shaw declares that it is a
marvellous sign of prosperity when our
manufacturers can sell goods in Eu-
rope cheaper than we can sell them at
home. He instances mot less than
four million dollars worth Of merchan-
disc which he knows to have been dis
posed of in this way. This is very
lioN I1OQiildll NNcNS
David Bennett Hill is planning to
beat Tammany, says The Atlanta Jour
nal. That paper adds: David Ben
nett owes his failure in life, largely
to the fact that he is always planning
to beat some other democrats when he
should be planning to beat the repub-
licans." There are others in the ma
ton, too, who might profit by the above
Observation-Disclosures Post.
How ungrateful we poor mortals are.
This people of Wilkes voted a hundred
thousand dollars worth Of bonds on
themselves and then the bond holders
had to bring suit to inforce the pay
ment Of the bonds. The lawyers who
won the suit only charged s31, 900. 20 as
a fee and now the bond holders are go
ing into court claiming that the fee is
excessive $31, 900. 20 Is no big fee. The
lawyers might knock off the 20 cents
and that should satisfy any reasonable
man.-Mount Airy News.
Dne of the most Improbable ways in
which a person may spend his time is in
%brooding over the mistakes made in
life and thinking what might have been
achieved if he had not done at certain
times the thing he did do. A mar who
has been unsuccessful naturally looks
back over a life which, but for blund-
ers made, certain hasty, ill-considered
acts into which he, almost unconscious
ly and without due consideration of
consequences, a been led. would, he
feels sure, have been entirely different.
-Lumberton Robeaenian.
The speech of joan, Sharp Williams,
Temporary chairman of the national
democratic convention. in which he
stated in effect that while the party had
apahraa cod thu Rryan crusade events
a proved that the Cleveland position
was right; snd the tremendous demon
stration whish the mention of Cleve-
lands name invoked-tbese give hope
that the party has returned to the old
land marks ard that we may ave his
year a genuine old-fashioned- democratic
campaign.-Statesville Landmark.
At the Republican convention in
Chicago a little white girl and a small
negro boy were placed side by side on
platform, say the press reports Of the
convention. The scene ELECTED the
widest applause from the delegates
summoned there to do the bidding OF
Theodore Roosevelt To say the least,
the scene could not have been other
wise than revolving so the decent south
erner. Does it mean that Roosevelts
party yet intends to attempt to bring
about social equality of the races?
wv naIeNeT II Inlay HledH, II Is uue lid
Roosevelt is making sd grand stand play
for the colored vote throughout the
country.-Smithfield Herald.
The recent national convention of the
populist party and the little interest
which it attracted calls attention to the
time, not so many years ago, when
populism was a force in American POI
itics. Then it held the balance Of pow
er in a number Of states and its sup
port was eagerly sought after by botn
of the dominant parties. But the con-
ditions which made popuiism possible
exist no longer, and there is now only
a remnant left of what was once an
Organization of considerable power and
influence. Founded as it was on a bass
OF idealism and norished by Impractical
policies, the only wonder is that it eE-
listed so long as it did.-Winston Senti-
mel.