Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-03
samana Bay.

Some six months or moro ago the
American press was full Of what was
to be wrought W MI American cor.
pOrntiOn-"THe Samana Day Com.
pany." Having acquired sovereign
| powers Over large territory in The
Island OF lIayti, il was to swiftly
build up great free port on Samann
Bay, and restore to San Domingo The
prosperity attained in former cen.
tury, with still higher development
commensurate with tho progress Of
the age. A large directory, with q
president, secretary, and treasurer
was announced directory made u,
ofmagnates in the realm OF commerce
OF the fancy stock exchange, of real
estate brokerage, Of railway opera
tiOns, aud Of kindred callings, who
were to show how easily aud janntil,
! Americans, merely in the way OF
diversion from their more scriGu.
business operations, could establish
anu administer distant colonial ijus
sessions.
But that elf man Lroposcs. God
disposcs," appears 10 have been one,
more illustrated in this nffnir Of the
Snmana Bay Company. Bern with
SO much ecfat as the heir to so large
an estate, we Apprchend il has died
i'll the hands ofa nurse altogether too
much occupied with other cares to
pay it even ordinary attention.
In Europe, similar commercial cor
porations have been the means OF
creating and administering rren,
colonies. Notably of this character
was the British East India Company
whose operations gave England her
Indian Empire. Its rival, the Dutcl,
East India Company, With whom il
had 10 wage even an obstinate war.
That founded the Oriental possessions
OF the Netherlands. with the occupa.
ton Oft chief centres of conmt :,
on the Indian Archipelago, such rs
Java, Ccylon, Sumatrn, and Bornco
and the monopoly of the spice trade
II was another, like the French Com.
pany under whose auspices Fremcl
naytl became SD prosperous in til,
ANlllth century; while through Tho
Hudson LAY Campany England &c
cured her Pacific American posses
sions.
Bat, tlien, successful corporation.
were organized and administered b,
; men eng:oSscd In the large objects u
which they aimed by nlcn who full,
comprehend that all the talent, time
, and energies Of home directory
aided by such 'seryalits,,-as- -Oiive
Ansii,.ts~, 4suwrcNce, aud Wellesley
were essential to the success of til
+ undertaking.
The men who planted and raise,
up BRITISH power in India, Dutcl
, power in Java and Ccvlon, Frepcl
industry and commerce in the Yves
indies, and CLEANED immense wealtl
from the frozen wastes of fhypcrbor
, can America, did not have the vamit,
and presumption to enter upon thcil
bold undertaking as merely secon,lur,
affairs, or as the employment o { nlcr,
!, spare moments sublracted from til,
management of shops, coupled will
the transacting of commou.carrie,
business. The direction of thcs,
companies was not taken in hand b,
men who, at the same time, wer,
. mainly absorbed in the details of al
attorneys Office, or of the fame,
STOCK market, or in spcculations il
New Mexican diamond mines. togeth
or with the intrigugs fur the manage
, mcnt OF half q dozen railroads. The,
understood, Oh the contrary, til,
magnitude of what they undert ook
T. and set about it with Becoming intel
!. ligencc and grasp ofits affairs, ra,hc
+ than i'll spirit of overwecning sell
; estimate, and thus, with the aid O
happil y-gifted agents, became sue
ceasful in SO large a measure, far
indeed, beyond their original plan
and expectations.