Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-03
sAruRDAY."...'...xs..JULY'' 1856.
New York.s Limited Horizon.


sentatives who represen. well the AFRO
CANT self-sufficiency Of that city. These
gentlemen, like the people and press Of
The city they represent, dsnounce every
wear the river and harbor bill passed
BY Congress, because 1t appropristes
money for the improvement OF rivers
and barbors with which they are not
familiar, and every year vote to make
the largest obtainabls appropriations
for The improvement Of New. York har-
Dor and all the entrances to that city.
Especially is Mr.. HEWITT, an excel
lent congressman in many respects and
one of the bsst-informed men in the
House Of Representatives, noted for his
opposition to what be and his followers
dsnounce as log-rolling river and harbor
bills.
But on Thursday last, Mr.. HEWITT
moved in the House Of Representatives
to appropriate more than one hundred
thousand dollars of the peoples money
to the Inauguration Of BARTHoLDI's
statue of Liberty Enlightsning the
Worlds statue which is to sdorn New
York barbor. and which will add to the
attractions of that great city. which,
however, asks UNCLE SAM to furnish
the money needed for placing that man.
moth statue in position. 1t is signif-
cant that when the House was in Com
mittee Of the Whole that body by
vote Of more than two to one decided
in favor Of Mr.. HEwITT's proposition,
but when it resolved itself into the
House OF Representatives refused by a
vote Of LOG nays to lO3 yeas to make
the proposed appropriation. We sas-
pct that some congressman were afraid
Of their constituents.
Wearenot sure that Congress oughtnot
to make an appropriation to this object.
What We wish TO emphasize is the
sslHshness and blindness and incon.
sistsncy Of the people Of New York, as
proved by the course Of their journals
and the votes and speeches Of their
congressman in regard to this and the
other things to which we have allu-
ded. II Virginia had at the proper time
asked for an appropriation Of ten thou
sand dollars to aid in the Inauguration
of the statue Of WASHINGTON 10 this
city she would have been laughed
to scorn. We do not suppose that
one single congressman from New
York would have voted for such an ap-
preparation, nor one single journal in
that city have advocated the granting
Of it. And il q request for aid to in-
augurate the statue Of WASHINGTON
would have met with q reception
of that sort, no one can easily
imagine the storm on indigna-
ton that would have beaten upon
old Viz. mia If she had, in 1875, asked
Congress to appropriate even a few
thousand dollars to aid in the inaugu.
ration Of the statue Of SToNEwALL
JACKSON, though this last statue was
present from Englishmen, as that OF
BARTHoLDI is a present from French
men. The liberal-minded people of this
country are still to be found in the
southern States. Especially are the
people Of New York city afflicted with
admitted horizon. The sky touches the
ground oil around that city at the corpo-
ration line. Virginia paid for the statue
Of WASHINGTON, Therefore she did
right to set it up herself. The United
States nominally, but New York really
receives the statue Of Liberty Enlight
ening the World as gift, and therefor,
that city ought not to set it up at hel
own expense
We beg our New York contempora
riss not to object to the appropriation
Of $4,000 to the improvement Of tn
james river below Richmond.