The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-21
Tho Triumph Of the Franco-Amertcan Te'e-
graph Cable.

Tho Triun,ph Of the Franco-American Te'e-
graph Cable.
II is matter of national congratulation that
the landing of the Franco American cable has
at last been permitted by the government at
Washington. The grant, however, seems not
to have been free-will offering by the power
elected by the people to guard their rights and
expand their commercial and political interests,
but to have been wrung from that power by an
overwhelming popular voice. enunciated and
developed by the expressions of the public
press. We reproduce number OF these ex-
pressons in the HERALD to-day. Besides, we
show from Washington correspondent that
the attempts to hamper the movements of the
Franco American Company in their efforts to
land their cable on American shores were con-
ceived in the spirit of well known Washing
ton lobby operation, which cannot but be re-
garded as only little less than criminal. We
refer to the fishing up of an old act, presented
| to and rejected by former session OF Con-
gress, and which was palmed upon the Secre
tary of State as the most recent action of the
national legislature, ard upon which he based
| his late action in regard to the Franco Ameri-
| can cable. This system of shameful decep-
| ton on the part of the Washington
| lobby has heretofore been passed over
tant concerns involved in the present trans
| action call for energetic and decisive action at
| the earliest moment of the meeting of the next
| session of Congress These lobbyists should
| be swept from the corridors of the Capitol.
They should be wiped out as thoroughly as
the halls and Hobbies are cleansed. after an all
night session. The people may bear with in
capacity in department of the government,
hut they will put their faces sternly against
the workings of dishonest lobby upon such
honest imbecility as has been displayed in the
recent action of the heads of more than one of
the departments Of the government on this
Franco-American cable project.
| The fact is, as we announced and recon-
mended from the beginning Of this cable I'M
broglio, the Franco American Company need
| not have paused moment in their great I'M
dertaking. They might have gone on with
their work, brought their cable into the harbor
| of New York, carried tho shore end up to the
city and fastened IL to the pillars Of the City
Hall, without, in the present era Of civilization
| and enlightenment, encountering any just
opposition from the government or people. As
Americans, progressive above all other nations
in this marvellous age of progress, our people
would have hailed such an event with joy and
satisfaction. And as for the pother and log
rolling business in Massachusetts, about form
ing company under the authority of the Lee
gislature to facilitate the landing of the cable
in the town of Duxbury, in that State, OF
| three marine leagues therefrom, it was
not only miserable dodge of some specula-
tors, but an neutrality-suspicious. never cor
daily accepted by the fishing interests OF
! Maine aud Observation-Disclosures our maritime
rights extend only the distance mentioned
| from our shores-an idea that won no fame
for John Quincy Adams when he permitted
that restriction to be included in the settlement
of the fishing boundaries question at the treaty
of Ghent in 1914, as q compromise for some
other concession, although he earned some his
tOrical renown for not permitting our Northern
fisheries to be abolished altogether upon the
demand of the commissioners of Great Britain
during the discussions on that treaty.
Briefly, the Franco-American Company have
all along acted just as they have had per
feet right to, and the sooner their cable is
landed upon our shores the better The future
action of Congress in the premises will moi
initiate against their interests, but, on the
contrary, will afford evidence to the world tha
this is not nation walled in with barbara
prejudices, but one free and open and ready tt
embrace with reclamation every enterprise
that tends to enhance its material, its CONNER
cial and political interests, come from wha
quarter it may.
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