The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-07
STATE PREss.

VNGK &AE CtatE ~ -
democratic expenditures These are
simply a rehash OF h 1902 charges
and were fuli- answered thea. The
/ democratic party hes spent a goodiyi
sum OF the peoples nor iu educa-
tioa apd caring for the states wards
the inmates OF the hospitals. sol
diers' home and deaf. dumb and
blind schools-and to record ft
has made IL can point the finger of
pride and say that n one cent Of the
peoples money a been sguandered
or stolen under democratic admins
tration.-Raleigh Post
The republican party stands for the
protection OF American industries
by means Of a tariff which builds Ip
| trusts and enriches them by enabling
them to impose high prices upon Am
ertean OF their products.
Notwithstanding hat they profit by
selling the same kind OF at
/ greatly reduced prices in foreign mar
kets. The democratic party is against
that kind OF protection and in ia
vor OF protecting the millions OF AM
erican from the ~raDacity
| of the trusts. II believes that the
people OF this country should be per-
mitted TO purchase home products as
cheaply as they are sold abroad
Winston Journal
Should young men Engage in poll
tics? Should our business men take
a deeper interest in the selection OF
public officials? These are questions
which touch the safety OF our civil
liberty. We do not believe that it is
| advantageous TO a bright and Eerito-
rious young man to engage in poll
tics as a professionally our country
needs the services of the strongest
| and best men that We have-men who
are honest and capable. n who can
/ not be biased by sordid gain or sell
fish ambition. 1t is not only a duty
[ which every man owes to his country
| to take a limited personal interest In
| politics, but Il is almost a crime for
our good citizens to neglect their
duty of attending all the primaries
and registering there their honest
convictions.-Aberdeen Telegram.
TIE republican orators and news
papers are telling the voters that the
democrats spend more money in the
| Administrations of affairs IN North
| Carolina than was spent under Rus
sells administration. For once they
tell the nth but they do not tell the
whole truth. The whole truth Is that
Russelrs administration. except ex-
p~enditures for schools and the insane
and helpless classes. cost $4,000
more than AycockIs administrative.
Here is the difference: The reLsb-
licans took $4,000 more from the
people for themselves and public ex-
penses than the democrats did for
similar expenses. But the democrats
ave spent more money for educa-
ton, charity and confederate soldiers
than the republicans spent-News
AMI Observer.
When the new Highland Park Mill
| No. B, is started up and other Char
lotte mills resume work on full time.
which will be within the course OF the
next few weeks. twelve undre fac
tory hands, in addition To those now
employed, will be needed here. Where
are they TO come from? That is the
question which confronts the mill
owners. They cannot be drawned
from the farms-livipg there is too
attra ctive- at present 1t would seem
to be q good plan for he mill men
who need and must nave help to pool
their issues, select a bright. Intelligent
man and send him to Fills Island
There he could pick out the better
class OF immigrants and send them
to the mills: The South Carolina mill
men are getting a good class of labor
in this way.-CfariOtte Chronicle.
What's all this reaso Associate
United States Supreme Court Justice
Dostu - ipiSSS - - coN
at st. Louis in a speech to the inter
national Congress OF Lawyers and
\ Jurists? Hear him: You can see
twenty acres of Philippine life at the
Worlds Fair. but you cannot see a
square rod Of the constitution" Now
isn't that a jar for the expandonist
apostles" And listen again to this|
| p~Lainxpeken ma in the face OF pres
idential warnings that the Filipinos
| are growing FESTIVE because Of the,
Independence" talk some people in
| this country are INDUCING in. The
| Purchase which this great exDosi-l
| ton commentaries was not the re-
suit of conquest and came not at the
end Of war. Not a gun was fired or
a life lost. A lawyer, not a soldier.
made the transfer. The glory of that
transfer is one of the laurels OF our
| profession" No wonder each Of
these utterances was followed by ap-
| plause which lasted five minutes. The
learned judge was striking a popular
chord. Expansion by the pen is a.
great deal better than expansion by
the sword. The sword is all right in
its way. hut it's way for a republ.-
doesn't. lie in the direction Of con-
qnest-Greensboro Telegram.
We grow reminiscent as we think
OF the old woodshed down on the
$50 SNoDt a. Dhht -AlGaA =
cherry tree not far away was a peach
| tree. while willows were altogether
too close. The cherry tree is, with
the exception OF the stump, gone
discouraged by the too heavy demand
made On it by the ira:e parent. The
prolific peach sprouts still shoot
h~eavenward, a warning to the young
er generation. We shed no tears
nov when thinking OF the olden.
| golden days. Plenty of them were|
shed then. But II was a wholesome
training. II was quite we'll under
stood that a licking at school meant
| a double dose at home. There was
submission to authority in those days.
A strike at school woui have bee,.I
followed By Il barrel stave Interview
in the she'd A rebellion like that Ia
Raleigh recently among seniors in
college. because they were somewhat
l restricted in their liberties. would
have been impossible: but IL possibIe|