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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-11-23
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Meriweather T. Carter died at the
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The Old Dairy Homestead viii be
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Socality Lyceum on December 18th.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-11-23

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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
SOUTHERN COTTON MANUFAC-
TURING.

The Wall Street Journal evidently
has faith in the south's future as a
cotton manufacturing ENTER. 1t has
this to say on the subject:
Southern cotton mills show no sign
Of having lost their attractiveness as
investments. On the contrary, enlarge
ment OF plants, erection of new mills
and installation of more machinery
are the features Of the news coming
from that quarter. With raw cotton
at present prices, more money will go
into cotton mills, because this is still
the chief manufacturing industry in
which southern enterprise feels itself
to be master. But the growth Of the
industry has brought with it various
other industrial problem, including
such as economics in the use Of power
and the training of talent for their
own needs. The problem of power
economy is receiving solution by the
use Of electrical power on water
courses and in nearby localities. The
machinery of whole towns is run in
this way. In the training Of young
men for a career in the mills the
mechanical colleges are doing much
tha will go far to equip southern cot
ton manufacturing with a superior
class of man.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

The audited expenditures Of the
Panama canal up to December 31st,
last, the statement Of which has just
been published, amounted to $S4, 449,-
900. This includes the $50, 1000, 900
paid to the French company and the
Panama government for the canal
property right :: way and franchise.
For goverDme It and sanitation the
amount is 1851 900: for con-
struction and engineering $9,729,-
900; for the "l,iant,' including
rolling stock machinery, railway
track, waterworks, etc, $12, LIS 5000.
The Canal Record states that &C
tual masonry work at the Gatun
locks can be commenced in eighteen
months. What the public is more in
terested in is when the entire work
will be completed. 1t is not much
concerned in the details or even ia
the cost of the canal.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
LATEST CRANK REFORMER.

The latest crank reformer gives his
ideas to the public in a recent issue
of the New York Tribune. He is 60
ing to put a stop to the use Of tobacco
and liquor by legislation. His plan 10
cure the tobacco habit is to require
users of the weed to ak it in the
form of tobacco tea at their meals.
The liquor habit he is to cure by re-
quiring tin cups to be used instead
of glasses. He says any man will
soon stop drinking if he is forced to
take his highball or his cocktail in &
tin cup. That might work with a Ger
tain class of drinkers; but how about
the fellows who take theirn in a gourd,
warm from the still, or out of the
bottle without the luxury even of .
gourd?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
THAT PACIFIC CRUISE OF OUR
WARSHIPS.

We see a great Zeal in the press
these days about the cost Of sending
the battleship squadron to the Pacific
about what an ex%travagant move
ment Of the war ships it will be. We
can't see it in that light. If we are 60
ing to have a navy at all
we must have an efficient one.
We may as we'll have noue
at all if the vessels after being
built at heavy expense are 10 be tied
up at government wharves or put in
dry docks, with crews idling or at
least having no practice. If the vessels
are to be kept in commission and the
men aboard made proficient by con-
slant drill and practice, which is the
only way to keep the navy up to the
notch money, and a lot Of it, has got
to be spent. What difference does it
make whether the money is used to
send the fleet to the Pacific or keep
it steaming up and down the Atlantic
coast. We admit that it will cost
something for the fleet to make
a steady sail around the two Americas
than it would if the vessels spent the
time visiting nearby ports where they
would, while at anchor, use less guam
tity Of coal, but that is the only
to the government. ALI other
expenses will be the same and it will
give the officers and crews splendid
practice which they could not get iii
the little flying trips from one At
lantic port to another. If We are go
ing to have a navy let's have n that
is of some account.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

1t says that Mr.. Brown has worked his
way from n of that county's poor
and obscure boys to one of the states
leading, influential and progressive cit
liens. 1t thinks the office has beer
filled with lawyers long enough and it
is time now that a business man" is
put in the Svernor's chair.
II Mr.. Browns friends are going to
bring him out as a candidate it is
about time they were doing so. The
Office is not going to seek the man next
year. On the contrary there is going
to be a mighty seeking after the Of
ice by a number of men who are anx-
lous to fill 1t and are already hard az
work getting pledges from the people.
If MI. Brown would like to be govern
or it would be nothing to his discred-
1t for him to say so. These are not
the times for men who desire politi-
cal preferment to be backward in let
ting their desires ba Luown. Mr..
Brown has DIS much right to enter the
field and make a try for the nomina-
ton as have the gentlemen who have
already done so, and unless he does
he will stand no showing for the nom
1nation. There are three aVowed can
didate in the field now, all of them
working personally and through
friends. Mr.. Brown must do the
same thing If he expects anything Of a
following in the convention.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
WILMINGTON AS A SEAPORT

1t gives US pleasure to note that
newspapers in all sections of the state
are taking an interest in the endeavor
Wilmington is making to secure d
~thirty-foot channel to the sea in order
that this may be made one of the
leading seaports of the South Atlantic
coast. This is. indeed, a matter which
concerns the whole state and the fact
that newspapers in other parts Of The
state take this view will aid greatly
in the fight for the necessary ppro
priation by congress for the work. We
published an article along this line
from New Bern Journal not long ago.
Today We give our readers an editor
ial on the same subject from the Char
lotte News, which says:
Few Of us realize the importance of
Wilmington as a seaport town. Fewer
still appreciate the importance to the
state of a good seaport. There is a
proposition on foot, backed MOI only
by the business men of Wilmington,
but by interests all over the state, and
approved throughout the south, to
build a 30-foot channel to the sea
from Wilmington, and thereby to
make it one Of the leading seaports of
the Atlantic coast. This scheme has
been noted and commented on here
tofore by The News. but it is impos-
sible to press the matter too warmly.
The commercial growth OF Whining
ton means the commercial growth of
North Carolina. The expansion and
enlargement OF the port at tina point
is Of vital concern to every interest of
our state. 1t is because North caro-
lima has never had any large seaport
that she is today paying excessive
freight rates, that is. it was because
of this fact that the rates were once
made higher than in other states.
If the proposition TO make Whining
ton a first class port. capable of ac-
|commodating ne largest sea-going
vessels is successful. and everything
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

points that way now. the progress Oh
this state viii be far more rapid IN
the future than ever before. for our
one great barrier will have been re-
moved
But, today wilmington cuts a big
l ger figure than most people imagine.
| Statistics for the rear just closing.
| show Wilmington I'D in n style as b
| cotton exporting own Up to August
| 31st, 317,340 bales OF cotton had been
| sent out of the Cape Fear river. n
/ IL is remembered that up TO that date
| only 1876 bales a been exported
| from Charleston, s. c., an idea may be
| had OF the way in which the Old North
| state o~utstrfpped its sister state Al
| ready in the new cotton year Will
mington is 5000 bales ahead OF the
report last year TO date
From the above an idea may be had
of wilmington's Importance as a cot
ton exporting point. In a previous IS
sue of The News the big increase In
| the amount Of lumber exported from
that point has been commented upon.
Wilmington indeed is a factor in our
| commercial growth of no small pur-
port a. she stands today. n II the
| nronosition to enlarge her shipping
facilities is successful We may expect
still greater things
The News we'll says that the CON-
mercial growth OF Wilmington means
the commercial growth of North Car
| DINA, and that the enlargement OF u
| port is of vital concern to every IN
(; terest OF the state. In fact, with the
! 6~eepening of the channel TO the sea
Wilmington could not become a great
seaport unless the goods and mer-
chandise for inland points were ship
ped through her port The greatest
harbor facilities If the world would
be of no benefit to her unless made
a pass-way for commerce between
ether ports and the inland sections of
this and adjacent states. 1t is COM
merce which Will help Wilmington and
at the same time be a benefit TO all
the vast territory she viii supply. The
own of the interior viii feel III Eocd
effect Of the improved conditions Ltg.
as much, If not more than viii or
city, for they Vii. be aOie 20 secure
a greater reduction from the presen,
scale of freight rates than she will.
The way TO get the appropriation
from congress for the deep channel
is for all the papers of the state to
pull together-tO unite in urging it as
a state measure, as a work which viii!
be of i~ncalculable benefit to sections
OF the south beyond the borders of our
state.
Every paper in the state should give
Congressman Goodwin hearty support
IN his endeavor to accomplish this
great work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
..THE STATES CHIEF SEAPORT

The New Bern Journal of yesterday
contained an editorial under the above
heading, which we give below. We
thank The Journal for it's article
showing the Importance to the whole
state of making a great seaport Ct
Wilmington. If all the papers in the
state would take the same stand as
The Journal such pressure would be
brought on congress and it would be
made to see so clearly the Importance
to the state of the work that Will
mington would be sure to secure the
necessary appropriation for a thirty
foot channel to the sea. The Journal
North Carolina has need of a great
seaport and the way to get it is
for the people of the state, led by the
press, to pull together in an effort to
get it. The Journal says:
The continued growth of Whining
ton means commercial growth for the
state. Tha city much, local
~, in development, but the good
effects reach wherevery a town or
city has commercial dealings with
North Cardinals chief seaport city.
Wilminston's showing as a cotton ex-
port point is a remarkably fine one.
The closing of the export year was
August 21st, and the reports give 3D.
$40 as the number of bales sent out
of the Cape Fear river. This in COM
parison with 149,736 bales exported
from Charleston, South Carolina. gives
the Old North State d big lead in this
cotton export trade. Already in the
new cotton year 5000 bales is the re-
port made of excess in receipts over
last year to date.
The warrant for Wilmington's ask
ing n government to deepen it's river
channel is apparent when its export
business N cotton is shown. Growth
in population. and in Industrial and
commercial lines, n growth that is
steady and permanent, demands gov
recognition and the giving
of such appropriations as may help
and assist Wilmington to meet its in
creasing trade demands by water.
North Carolina has need Of a great
seaport. /. Wilmington through the eff
forts and energy OF its people has met
trade conditions ana increased its for
eign exports. These trade conditions
are increasing, and while Wilmington
continues to work for itself, the matter
of increased water depth 10 the sea
is one in which the people OF the en-
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

who try married life come to the con-
| ciusion that marriage Is a failure,
or that our court dockets are so full
| of divorce suits when such marriages
as the one described below occur. A
/, Winston special to The Industrial
News says: ~
There Was a trim, MISUNDERSTANDING
woman al the passenger station his
morning. about forty years old who
when asked by a reporter where she
was going, replied that she VAS en-
route To- wilkesboro. The newsgnth-
erer then propounded another query:
What might be your name" The
woman cast her eyes TO the floor. and
crimson bushes mhntled her cheeks
and she made no reply. The reporter
was non plussed. but with ever so
much kindness repeated his request
for her name, and h O courage
and said. Il do not know what my
name is" "You don't know what
your name Isl shouted the news man
in Amusement. NO. you see l was
married in Greensboro today. 1t was
q q 5 OF o at first sight. n 1 do
not know my husband BY any nanlc
except John. We met for the Arse
time yesterday. When We were mar
ried heard the magistrate call his
name. but I amt recall II now. My
maiden name is Clarke. and l live out
several miles from Greensboro. | do
know where my husband Is from.
but we are going 10 Wllkesbor". am
sorry I can't tell you m" name she
concluded, but the truth OF the INST
ter is tina: don't know IL myself.
THE IL nnt an isolated case. Many
a mar N woman marry who Know
no more about each others DISPOSE
ion. character of qualifications 10
make n suitable life companion. Many
others enter into marriage Tor con
v~enience. knowing. but not caring
that the parties are not suited 80
each other and that sorrow ard trou-
BILE are likely to follow. Which Of the
two Classes deserve the gr,ater cen
sure it is hard TO say. Tha conduct
OF loih is to be condemned II no.
body was to suffer but themselves J.
would no be So pad. b.. the Gaatppy
ma. led life ana l.cg, ,a..4 50
often follow bring sorrow ala. shame
T. others and tend to a gs.e.a lower
ing of morals.
Until greater safeguards are thrown
around marriage, divorce cases viii
continue to crowd the court dockets,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
NEED OF IMMIGRATION.

Any one who a never travelled
through Bladen county has no idea of
the vast amount of land lying idle. A
large part of it is now bare OF timber
and likely to be of no service for years
to come. Some m hat there
is not mere than one acre in a hun-
dred in the county under ~ultivatio
We need severa1 hundred more good
farmers in Bladen, and more would
come in # they could buy land.
The above, taken from the Clarkton
Express, is quite a surprise to us,
and we believe will be so to a great
many OF our readers. We had no idea
that such conditions existed in B!a-
den or in any county in this whole sec
ton of the state. The lack of judg-
ment-often wantonness-with which
saw mill men have cut timber for their
plants is, no doubt, responsible for
the destruction of the timber lands.
The people of this state have done
themselves almost irreparable DAM
age by the careless manner in which
they have contracted with the saw
mill men. 1t will take years for the
country to recover from the denuding
of the forests which has been permit
ted. The owners of the timber lands
look to present gains, without a
thought to the future.
If these denuded forest lands could
be cultivated some return could
be had from them, and the loss by the
waste OF timber that has been per-
mitted could be somewhat recovered,
but because of the scarcity of labor
the lands cannot be titled, but are
forced to lie idle, making no present
returns to their owners, and because
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
WONDERFUL MENICO.

The article below from New York
Commercial shows what wonderful
progress Mexico has made IN the last
few years. From a small Latin
American republic" she has developed
into d prosperous nation and an i'm
portant factor in international COM
merce. The figures showing her prog
ress in foreign trade are:
MeXicos imports and exports have
enormously increased within a fcyg
years. Where imports were S42.254 900
IN Mexican currency I'm 1895 and cx-
ports were $l0J,017, 900, the returns
Tor the fiscal year 1906 reveal impor-
tations Of s271 1$S,SO9. The Increase
over the previous year, 1905, was s42.-
446,112 in importations and S62.els.-
357 in expectations. In other words
the increase in "a single Year alone un-
der the gold standard was equal to
nearly tWo-thirds of the entire volume
of foreign trade that was carried ON
in the year 1896. II Is needless to say
that the United States has enjoyed it's
full share in This increase. FiGureg
for the fiscal year 1907 have been
CoHtpheu ny lnc bureau OF StdtlStlCS
in the department OF and
labor. expressed in American Cur-
ency. which show an increase IN i'm
ports from Mexico into the tinted
States from SlH,j00 900 IN 1885, to
S57. 200, 900 in !90G-or ar Increase Of
more than twO-fold in Mexican exports
20 his country thin ten years. Ex-
ports to Mexico from the United
states increased in a ratio only slight
ly different-frOm $23.40O. 900 in 1897
to $4,000. o in 1907.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
FUND.

Just as 500 as the government bu-
reau OF statistics laid the foundation
for the full dinner pail slogan in the
next campaign by reporting that wages
in 'forty selected industries" had in
creased faster than the cost OF living,
the coal trust ran UP the price OF its
product, for the purpose, we suppose,
Of starting a republican campaign
fund out of the extra profits from the
advance in price. IL the bosses of all
the forty selected industries"
do the same the failure Of
the big insurance companies
to repeat their performances in the
last campaign or Mr.. Harriman's re-
fusal to be as obliging as he was
then in raising funds at Mr.. Roose-
velt's request will not incOmmode the
republican campaign managers in the
least. Perhaps, however, it may de-
pend On who is the republican nomi-
nee whether or not the coal barOns
and the bosses of other trusts will con-
tribute from their increased profits to
the campaign fund. They might not
want four years more of Mr.. Roosevelt
or of the Roosevelt policy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
A REMARKABLE DECLARATION

The News and Observer declares
lated the contract of lease OF the
North Carolina railroad because it
did not put passenger rates at W.
and a quarter cents a mile on the day
the railroad rate bill went into effect,
Notwithstanding the injunction issued
against enforcing this rate. For its
position it relies upon the clause in
the contract OF lease:
And the said party or the second
part (the Southern Railway Co.l
hereby covenant with and obhgate
itself to the party Of the first part, it's
successors or assigns, to do and per-
form all acts and things affecting said
railroad or its operation, running, OF
conduct, that shall be required or en-
joined during the continuance OF
this lease by the laws Of the state.
To make that position tenable 1t
must be held that an act of a legis-
lature is the law of the state no matter
how f~lagrantly its terms may violate
provisions of the constitution OF the
state or the United States. There are
no laws of the state except such as are
in harmony with those two instr1I-
ments. One would suppose from read
| ing The News and Observer these days
that there never had been a case be-
fore in which a federal circuit court
! Judge had by temporary injunction
suspended the operation OF an act OF
a state legislature. The court reports
| are full of such cases, though one new
er gets n knowledge Of that fact
| by reading that paper.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE
Sun.

Those who think that there Is moth
ing new under the sun will probably
change their minds when they learn
that northern bankers are borrowing
money from western farmers. The
money is wanted for houses in Chica-
go and the eastern cities. These i'll
situations are not only trying 10 bor-
row from the farmers, but are send
ing circular letters to country banks
offering high rates OF interest on loans.
They are Offering to take small loans.
as low as a thousand dollars, on long
time at six to seven per cent. Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Wilson says they,
are reaching out for the farmers"
money through the country banks aud
that the ~inanciers are just beginning
to realize that IL they wan money
they must go to those who produce
it. :
The southern farmers soon will be,
if they are not now, ready TO come 20
the aid of the Chicago and New York
bankers. With cotton rolling into
market by the thousands Of bales daily
and selling at over twelve cents &
pound our farmers are causing =
stream OF money TO iow into the
south, and it is not money borrowed
from the northern banks 20 move the
crop. II is money that is coming 10
stay-to add TO the wealth Of the COZ
ton growing section.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-24

When in the year ended August
31st, 1897, it developed that the
southern textile induStrY had conj
sumed for the first time more h
100000 bales Of cotton in twelve
months there were doubts that the
record of advance thus shown would
be maintained, and there were still
doubts Of the kind when the 2.000,-
O00-bale mark was passed in 1903.
But the recor of ~2,439,10S bales
taken by southern mills in the cotton
year Just ended a eco that would
AVE passed the $500, 000-bale mark
if the mills a been able to secure
operatives in sufficient number to
end all their spindles, indicates that
there has been nc abatement in the
progress of the industry in the south.
That is a point dWelt upon by Col
onel Henry G.. Hester, secretary Of
the New Orleans cotton exchange. in
his comprehensive and valuable re-
view of the past season. UDon the fig
ures of that report is based the fol-
lowing table Of takings Of American
cotton by bales, showing the progress
made by southern mills during the
past ten years in comparison with the
mills in other parts Of the country:
Y'r end'g Northern Southern. .....