The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-21
STATE PRESS.

In New York some little children
work 6S hours for $500. And yet. soTss
gentlemen from that section feel called
upon to save the children Of the souti
from heartlesS and cruel task-masters
There seems still to be some opportu-
nifty to illustrate In a practical way,
that moat INK e doctrine.-Rafeigu
Times.
President Roosevelt will haze a
plenty by the time he gets through
with the senate. The rate bill and
the senate will be another instance of
Cleveland putting himself in the way
OF the silver legislation proposed. while
he was President. The 136 votes cast
for this in the house would have been
reduced by about half if it had not
been practically sure the matter would
be held up in the senate.-Ralels.l
Times.
Admiration for Mr.. Roosevelt Is man
ifestly on the increase and even South
| ern democrats are becoming proud of
the President and are determined to
back him in his fight against the rail-
roads, but from the whoop with which
LIN IA "01AI iiOu III 1HOuSS 1CICIi-
| ly it appears that his own party is at
his back in the fight. The country new
er had a more popular president nor d
more masterful one.-Lumberton Ar
gus.
If we understand the presidents con-
tention it is not la h railroads
charge too much for hauling freight,
blu that they discriminate frightfully,
charging entirely out of reason in some
instances and too low in others. Tho
secret will leak out yet-rebates. 1t IL
this that has been playing havoc. We
do not have to get out of this state to
know that the practice has bee going
on.-Greensboro Record.
Mr.. Feimster of Catawba has intro
duced a bill for prohibition in the dist;i-
lery towns of Williams and Shore. Will
the legislature squarely meet the issue
and pass this bill or TAX the chances
of pushing these places out at the % d *
door through the Ward bill? Tne
Morning Post favors the unconditional
and u~nequivocal repeal of these and
other special charters granted by the
last legislature for h purpose of ca
empting political favorites from the
Watts b~ill.-Raleigh Post.
The verdict of a jury at Columbia
last week finding a white man guilt;
of murder, in the first degree, has
caused comment because such action is
unusual. The disposition to regard it
as a h%arbinger of better days is, how
ever, upset somewhat by the statement
that the defendant was without non
nr frian60 Tho vorrHapor 60IhtloGS
deserves his death sentence and the
case will probably have the effect Of
showing that the law against murder
in South Carolina is not meant fer
negroes alone-that it now and then III
cludes poor white folks.-Charlotte o.
server.
It seems now that the legislature is
not of the same mind as the Methodist
Conference, the Presbyterian Synod, the
Episcopal Convention and the Baptiss
Convention of the state on the divorce
question. These bodies asked that the
Bible standard be made the basis of he
divorce law of the state. but the legis-
lature seems to rant a lOoSer law. To
keep the present gap down or to make
! other loose laws is to curse the state
| and make a slap at the sacred institu
tion of marriage. Those legislators
who are in favor of the loose divorce
laws have a fearful wrong against the
home to answer form. c.. baptist.
The south may have formerly mis-
| understood the Presidents position in
his judgments of the south and it's peO-
pie. Or the President may have beer.
studying the subject in the last year
and as a result Of that study changed
his views. In either even the speech
made at the dinner given in New York
by the Lincoln Club will tend ito allay
| apprehensions which the south has
been brought to labor under. The
Presidents speech would seem TO have
| very little to be desired as a manifes-
tation of his attitude towards the
south. If he follows Lincoln that's all
| wc desire, because it is generally un-
| derstood that Lincoln, had he lived,
would have stood for the south as no
| Northern man has don since Lincoir:'s
death. The Presidents speech evinces
an understanding of conditions at Inc
| south which the President a not
! evinced before. This would indicate
tina he has been giving conscientious
| study to the south and it's conditions.
His speech is conservative, dignihcd
| and all his ideas are we'll formulated
and well expressed. There cam be no
further misunderstanding OF Mr.. Roose-
velt's position on the social equality
| Observation-Disclosures Chonicle.
1 Thoro Ia no hone Of getting railway