The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-08
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DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
HENRY @. CAREY AND PHILADELPHIA.


A very pleasantly written article in the May
issue of the Chicago Bureau refers to the oc-
casional gathering ''of hslf-a-dozen, or ten or
twenty, as may happen, of the solid, leisurely
and leading men of Philadelphia" in the
library of Henry O. Carey, the philosopher,
economist and author. Seeking those among
his friends and acquaintances who know the
vital and characteristic facts of society, bus-
ness, politics. and social science, and yet are
not themselves writer's, Mr.. Carey keeps
abreast with the practical affairs of the day.
and is never overridden by them. His OBJ
servations are based on aotualities, and not
on theories of what has probably occurred, or
ought to have occurred.
Such company as Mr.. Carey is thus able
to gather, on almost any afternoon when the
cares of business are not too pressing, is
circle of gentlemen whose counterpart are
not at hand in any other city. While Long
fellow, Lowell, Holmes, and Emerson might
be grouped around a Boston table, to dis
ouss literature. poetry, or the arts Mr.. Carey
commands the pleased attendance of men not
less excellent in their purity of life and char
acter; not less devoted to the solution of
social and industrial problems; more active
in their efforts for political progress and yet
again more occupied by pressing and contin-
uous labors. Here are the journalists with
genial and veteran McMichael worthily at
their head), the iron man,
whose skill and capital are re-
ducing the ores and working the metal at
thousands of fires; the other industrial en-
ployers, every class, the merchants, the bank
ers the writer's. Among them all, Mr.. Carey
is at home leading the conversation and hand
ling all subjects with equal ability. His solid
attainments and deep and thorough mind do
not prevent the hearty humor of his Irish
stock from enlivening the occasion, and his
entire good-fellowship is the central influence
of his ''vesper" gathering. To quote from
the article in the Bureau, already mentioned,
''the demand for association and interchange
of ideas, which is here gratided on his own
behalf, and that of his friends, is the out
growth of his philosophy"
There is something pleasing to us in the
character of MIR. Carey as 1t appears under
these circumstances. Philosophy SO ac-
quired, so digested, so communicated, cannot
be other than the philosophy of humanity. 1t
must be at once kindly and just. 1t must be
earnest, practical, and progressive. All these,
to our view, it is, and appropriately finds its
home in great city where industry earns its
reward, and where prosperity is built upon
the solid and enduring foundation of pro-
duced wealth. The metropolis of steady, in
telligent, and well-rewarded labor is, as it
ought to be, a city of contented comfort and
in il its true and representative mind is such
q one as that of Henry G. Carey.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMISSION
From the London Saturday Review.
The first report that the Joint High Com
mission at Washington had already com
pleted the most arduous part of its task would
have been gratifying if both parties to the
negotiation could have been supposed to have
been equally conoiliatory or equally tenacious
Experience shows that modern English diplo
macy confines itself chiefy'to the provision
of more or less plausible pretexts for conces
sion. There was nothing in the telegraphit
statement which appeared fortnight ago il
the Times to indicate departure from recen
practice. The surrender of an equal share
in the Canadian fisheries to the people of tn,
United States appeared only to b.
money to the Government of tn,
Dominion; but it has since been asserted tina
the Canadians are to be allowed rscipreca
access to the coasts of New England. TIL,
Americans have maintained that the right o
fishing which had been conceded to them il
the treaty of independence WAS not termi
mated by the war of 1912; yet in 1918 they b.
their own act reacquired the right of fishini
as part of the arrangement continued in tn
treaty of reciprocity. Having in 1861 volun
tarily denounced the treaty, they assented tt
authority; and it was only when the license
were withdrawn, in consequence of the abus
of the permission by American fishermen
that the President at the instigation of Gene
raj Butler, announced in menacing languag
his intention of resentiug the protective mes
sures which had been adopted by the Canada
Government. Both England and Canada wer
at all times willing to renew the agreemer
of 1918, but the Government of the Unite
States preferred to maintain existing restraint
on commercial intercourse, in the hope ths
the inconvenience suffered by the colonist
might tend to create a feeling in favor {
annexation. The natural order of bushes
was inverted when the English GovernmsI
proposed Joint Commission to examine til
question of the fisheries. 1t is for the CLAIM
ant of privilege to devise the means
which it is to be conferred and recognizet
and England had on behalf of CaaaC
nothing to ask from the GovernmeI
of Washington. The President ar
the Secretary of State, natural
inferring from the overture that England W,
ia yielding mood, proposed that the sau
commission should inquire into method
settling the Alabama claims. If the tel
graphic announcement was accurate, the r
suit will have fully justified the calculation
of the American Government. In dealir
with the question of the fisheries it is chief
necessary to protect the rights and interes
of Canada. The colonists would have in
ground for indignation if their property "
sacrificed by the Imperial Government for Il
purpose of facilitating the settlement of Il
dispute between England and the Unite
States. 1t can scarcely be supposed that Il
majority of the English commissioners wou
overrule their Canadian colleagues.
The ambiguous report of the proposal
the Commissioners for settling the Alabau
anar,ini Il