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Entered at the Postoffcce at Wilmlng--', ton, ! N". CJ, as Second-class ' ."'Matteiy April 13. 1S79.- THUHSDAY, pECEMBER 5, 1807.'; . THB DAILY MESSENGER by mall one. year; 56. t; six Eionths, $3.0; - threo- .months, ?1.5; one month, 5 , cents. J V. : ; j. ; j i ; - . ' THE SEMI-WEBKLY MESSEN GER (two 8-page papers), by mail one, year, 31.00; six months, 50 cents, In - advance. M: WJIAONQTOX. N-VC. SATintt AY, DECEMBER 21, 1807 popular jvunacy. The News&ea4.ert of Richmond, says ih& -;tte '"American people are 'liable to go crazy" but that "fortu nately they usually do it by sections and on different causes." It says the "financial interests, sup- : posed to be the cream of trained thought, conservatism and food Judn ment," went crazy because Ihe law was. enforced against them; that they Vent crazy and organized an attack on se curities. This bears out President Roosevelt's statement in, defense of himself against the charge that it was his action which brought on the ft . nancial troubes, saying they , were the result of. the rotten conditions thereto fore existing -which he- only exposed and tried to remedy; that it was not the exposure of the financial frauds but their existence which was respon sible for .the present conditions. The -News-Leader says that these people1 through their newspaper organs have assailed law, authority " and the vast majority of the American public "in terms vindictive, and, venomous as any half .drunken mob orator In strike time, or anarchist leader in citing riot" The next instance that paper cite3 ships, in his opinion, Is what this of men gone crazy ds that of the cotton ; country needs to restore her high pres planters of the south who are trying j tige on the high seas. The country's to "defy and coerce the world to pay them fifteen cents a pound for cotton. As to the cotton planters and their wirehcuse s fctem above alluded to, we hold with the planters to a certain extent.' The warehouse system is a good one if common sense is used in applying It If used for the purpose ton for a better price at some future day while obtaining an advance on his product to meet his present obli gations; but it should not be used as a means J. to i wee the price of cotton - above its real market value by caus ing temporary stringency, while thero is a. sufficient amount to supply cur rent demand . of consumers. : Such course hurts the mill men and will surely recoil on the men who combine to cause a' temporary dearth of cotton on the market by causing periodical ' glutting of the same. .jThe News Leader seems to think the cotton far mers In some sections have gone mad on thir'slfM . V ' V " Thefl ibat paTfr kes UP the Ken tucky tobacco planters a2Td ea7s the have gone "stark, staring mad" r& ahont a condition of anarchy, burni ing towns and killing people, 3usc because the' planters will hot stop the raising and marketing of the crop out of which they make, their living. - " Out in . Goldfield, ; Col., the miners and the authorities, according to that paper, have gone, mad and both sides "seem to be trying to create all the destruction of labor and property pos sible. i , y : The whole country seems to be turn ed topsy-turvy every man trying to get ythe better of his neighbor, by fair means ori f aul . and carrying his de sire to the extent of losing his head and- going to extreme to attain his selfish end- It seems to be a day. of every class or association of men1 for itself ' against all others, with the principle of self-interest carried, to the extent of men going mad In the seeking of selfish ends without re gard to the interests or rights of others. 1 . --. t It. looks . like the News lieader is correct in its assertion that 'all Amer ican people are liable to; go crazy," and that, this ds one of tie times when most of them have done so. . . Till RATE COMPROMISE Governor- Glenn and President Pinley can make a compromise in the state rate contest and agree upon terms which will apply to, the lines con trolled by - the - Atlantic Coast Line; According to the News and Observer's yrr.intcn d!?patch, published clro- where; those two men have settled the passenger rate question In this state which includes all the railroads ez- cept the Louisville and Nashville. How can this "bind the' "Coast Line? The last action of that system, so far as tha public has been informed, was to not ify, the . governor that it would make no compromise, t but would fight the iCfH?e 9 its end. How:'th.en. can it be said that the governor has settled the : whole matter as to state rates subject to ratification by the legisla ture? Does Mr; Flnley represent the Coast Line and has it agreed through him to come into the compromise? These are questions we think that Should be .answered rby those compe tent to do so, for the public in greatly Interested in this matter of settle ment of the question. mvLtw FREE AMERICAN SHIPS j We do not know what the standpat ters are going to do to or. with Mr. Straus, the 'secretary " of the depart ment of commerce and labor for the position he has taken in favor of frfes American ships. In his annual report just published; "fle fcas the following to f lay la reference to our national laws Iri reference to our merchant marine! Our laws relating to the merchant marine differ In two' important re spects from the laws of otberJnaition3. Practically without exception the laws of other nations permit their subjects or citizens to buy ships in any market, put . thm under the national ' ensign and employ them at least in the for eign 'trade. Our law restricts Ameri can registry and the American flag, to vessels built in the United States. That this law is now useless as a measure of protection to American shipbuild ers, so far as vessels for the foreign trade are concerned, is amply demon strated by the fact that for years we have built practically .no. such vessels under that law. Millions of American capital have been invested in steam ships under foreign, flags, engaged In trade with the United States. This is the first time, we believe, that any representative of the govern ment has had the temerity to declare that it was the laws of the nation which had destroyed ' the American merchant marine. Mr. Straus' decla ration amounts to nothing less. Free . experience, he points out, shows the futility of existing laws in building up an American merchant marine ; in I . factf they have destroyed what advant- age our country had when those pro tective laws were put into force. - Mr. Straus is in danger, for there is no knowing what will be done to a republican cabinet officer who fearless ly advocates in an official document tha principle of free American ships. DOPE TERSUS MQUOR. Norfolk sends, out a press dispatch which is almost beyond belief. It states on authority of a Portsmouth physician that there is a drug store in the former city which sells on an average of fifteen gallons of laudanum a day and another whose sales of co caine amount to ninety dollars daily. This Is hard to believe; nevertheless, such an announcement is made in an Associated Press dispatch from Nor folk. If that be true it is time "the moral reformers were turning their attention to the dope habit and letting, the liquor habit take care of itself for a while longer as it has done for these lAany years. .There is more evil and wreck of character in the fifteen gal lons of laudanum, and ninety dollars worth, of cocaine soid per day by thosa two drug stores than there is . in all the whiskey dispensed over "the bars of all the saloons in that city. Can any one deny that statenient? Beyond contra diction the assertion can be made that the so-called dope habit is greatly on the increase In this whole section" of the country. It is an evil far greater than the free use of spirits and it is one that calls for as great if not greater exertions of the sober-minded class of ourpeople to check. ' .The lates news from Raleigh about the- long-talked-of railroad rate com promise would seem - to r indicate that The Messenger's fTIend, Jack. Thomp son, of Cross Roads, had a real pro phetic dream on Thanksgiving evening as ' he sat by the fire; after partaking so heavily of roast goose and crab-apple jelly. We now have a doubt as to that being a real dream that our friend "pretended; to have. . fThat country f eK low must have in . some way got an inkling as to what was to come about and fooled this paper into thinking that he had really dreamed all he wrote us as having passed through his sleeping mind and brain on that Thanksgiving evening as he dozeel in the big arm halr in front of the I roaring fire. Whether dream or guess, Jack Thomp- I: is to have hit the .bull's eye. v - i the "If the federal ' supreme court is in doubt as to how to decide that. habeas corpus case, surely Governor Glenn will be willing to give it assistance in coming to a correct conclusion as , to the law in the case. We see that he thought it necessary to an orderly conduct of the case before that court that he should be present at the argu ment. We have not heard yet whether he expects to be asked to be present and take part in the conference among the justices when they take up the case for decision; but, no doubt, were his services requested on that occasion he coud glve th court valuable ag sistance in coming "to a nlugidn sat isfactory to himself and propitious to his higher political aims. . The cry of some folks is anybody to beat Bryan; but it seems more likely to be that Bryan will beat' any man that the democrats can put up for the nomination. How it will be with Bry an to beat any man the republicans can put up for election is another question entirely. . Mr. Cortelyou is sick. The country does not know what Is the matter with himv" His physicians says it is la grippe. Some politicians say it is cha Igrin: .V4 " .; ' v-:;-r . ; Times may be hard and money scarce, but candidates are one thing that is plentiful and they do not cost the people anything to have them. In the mind of the average congress man tfcere is a good deal of difference between cutting down expenses and reducing appropriations. Candidates are the oniy luxury the poor man has at no cost these hard times, .Here's Good Advice. ' , O. S. Woolever, one of the best known merchants of Le Raysville, N. Y., says: "If you are ever tron bled with ' piles, apply Bucklea's Ar nica Salve. It cured me of them for good 20 years ago. Guaranteed for sores, wounds, burns or abrasions. 25e at R. R. Bellamy's drue: store. C mniIlie )MI1 WHY? O BecauseQit isithe Best Ciflar ; for gtlie money n ,..Hi L RiEBL i uyriclcccZc Grcccr ! m a & ffl0)SS VLliUl sun YToih while others rest. through sheer energy. The . greatest energy-producing food; made from wheat is ro) o perfect soda cracker. - ... , . . -. . - tfp In motsture and vv dust proof packages. NATIONAL BISCUIT COW i Publishers Hard Hit It. is the irony of late that the press of the .United Staes while -powerful enoigh to protect the weak and un horse the mighty, move presidents to actipn,: influence congress and legisla tures and wield an influence such as no . other instrumentality does, is un able) to protect itself from one of the greediest of tariff-protected monopo ie3 It has been recently announced that another advance of $12 a ton on news print paper has been, made and an additional advance Ij contemplated for next year averaging $10 a ton. The -entire cost of labor for the pro duction of a ton of paper has been shown to amount to less . than an Average of $2.40. This increased cost of material And manufacture including expense of administration, of feaies, is about 64 cents a ton, according to the published report bf a large manufac turer, of news print paper Govern ment .records show that the mills of the -United States and Canada are , making paper at less than $28 a ton! Enormous profits had been made at the "; recent selling price of $40 a ton, : and the proposed advance to between I $55 and $60- a means a great burden upon the printing Industry of the country Salisbury Sun. LIVFJ STOCK frolicking in the fields rarely suggests the same .anima Is in a cooked form. . But there is such a flight-difference in the time when the cattlerara browsing 6r the poultry gobbling and their being served up by us as: first-class, meat, that we like to draw your attention to the fact to Im press you; rith the perfect freshness of our eats at all times: In spite of the, Sajct that all our- qualities are high the prices are-kept low enough to suit the most 'economical. . 5 ' . : RHODES & HimZE . ; WDLMINGTON, N. C - " v 1 ... , .. -i - -' - - ? .- - Wmfm YotuiF Hello iUbllaFS : j ACCIDENT POLIdZSJOF THE MARYLAND CASUALTY CO. Pay Double Indemnity for injuries sus tained In railroad, steamship, elevator, buminr buildings and bciler explosion accidents. . Yon should have one; they are the best. DICKINSON & DAVIS, , TtL3IlN'QTOlV. N. C. Christmas Offerings - Delicious Candies, Blooming Plants Tempting Fruits and Christmas v Novelties, afc itelidcr's Palace of Bweets, 203 .. lrincss - -. . . r , .. "CARL b. reHdeei . . CANDY COP.IPANY r1 " if A s RAW - The Atmosphere Cleared , The announcement by President Roosevelt that time has in no partic plar altered the statement made by him on the night of his election has served the clarify the political atmos phere ' It was a strange circumstance that after - having made that election day statement, he should have been a LUillltMtlMllhlillllllllllUlllllil AVefeffiWcparationfcrAs- similathig IbFood andRegula ImgtteStaaachsandBowelsof IVoinotesIHgstion,CheerfuI- ness and Restcontams nsiiner Oimiai,Morphirie norKmral. KotNar cotic. Eta? afOZdDrSAllUZZPlTCEZn AlxJainm JiecftMlUSJu -. Anise. Seeil ftrnmi Twat . . BiCartanak$oiw 115m Seed -Clarified &zgsr . hhtmrom fiartn A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, WcnnsfG)nvuisK)iis .Feverish- aes and Loss OF SLEEP. ?acSui32eSnatiirc of r.B,'.' ? pgr copy u? veappeb, ! . ' - - :.,,mJ IIIIIIIIIHIl'HIIIIIII'IIIHlllHIIIIH'I'iMt'lllllll lip a 1 fl THE PER3I. THAT PAYS YOUR CAR FARE." & . Store Open. , Every Evening Until 0 o'clock.'. Do Your Shop- A ping early to avoid the rneh that always occurs at -Christmas. $ f M ( ai dl dfl 4 IFdDPfc 1 5 St - i $t .ItotESAIiE AKB laSTAID-JntE X2IAS factor in . the situation at this time, but such - in fact he was a very Im- Ui uiui -latiui, , - practically revolutionizes the situa tion. There are still, to'besure, a few who are not prepared t to say that he has . been eliminated; even .the New York World inclines to think there must still; be some way whereby the president might, could or would , be -msmm a n H til ' and madeF to run - again; figuratively speakings rnie -World's attitude of ? mind la douDtiess expiainea oy mo .u, itdotes on Mr 4 Roosevelt Jarid yearns constantly over him, although it Con siders him very headstrong aid- way ward. Maybe, too, tne worm is so badly Bryan-scared that it thinks Mr. lute safe guaranty- of Bryan's .defeat. But the view of the World and those who think, with It may oe aismissea xt T?nnsAvelt ' 5s not to be consider- ed. Aishevllle tJazette-Newa - Millions of bottles of Foley's Hon ey and Tar kave ben sold- without any person ever having . experienced anv othr than beneficial results: from Its use for coughs, cplds and lung troubles. This Is because the ...... Tnin'a TTnn v - And ' Tar in. JSJUUAM- vie - the yellow package contains t no opi- ates or other harmful drugs. Guard; your health by refusing any but the genuine. K. c iseiiamy. . ! , Let Him Out ' s ; Governor Glenn says the compromise he offers the railroads in settlement, ot the rate cases has among 'its ad- vantages the ending "of ' long drawn out and . expensive litigation on the part of the state. Quite a number of lawyers - are the gainers by the litiga tion, but it is understood that all save one. has agreed to forego the fee$.iandl expense money and this one has. offer ' ed to withdraw. : Let him withdraw Statesville Landmark,' Lji 7,, -The' finest Coffee Substitute eve" i made, has recently been produced by Dr. Shoop, of ; 4 Racine, Wis. You; den t "have to boil It twenty or thlr-' ty minutes. '"Made; in; a' minute,"' says the Doctor. . "Health Coffee' Is really . the closest ; Coffee, Imitation ever yet' produced. Not a. grain of real uonee in it either. : Health cof- iee jiiniiauuzi is mame xrom pure toasted cereals or grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really' it would fool an expert were ;- he . to -" unknowingly, drink it for Coffee. S. W. Sanders. : For Infaiits arid Children. ;j The Kind You Have R T FT- irtv i-ears PIMP)) n vmiwh ranT) RI T9 CUT. - ' Z vi ' nnsnpQei? i, 'A Sr. BEST TO . VUY' ,YOVH GOODS. 1 i U !''-''AlirarevBbii::V!! 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