Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-05

AL AUSTRIAN View OF Our Secretary Of
State al His Aims
Vienna Tagblatt.

1t is customary in America 10 name ci
dren after famous men and thus it often
happens tina. A.exarder, julius (m.ar.
Columbus. and Franklin are spanked con
emporaneously. It IS pity that the North
American Secretary of State, Mr.. Blaine,
does not bear the Christian name of Bismarck.
lie has taken Bismarck for a model, and
occupies himself with great ideas. North
America should become a great sea power,
should control the worlds commerce-that Is
the goal of Mr.. Blaine.
In the meantime congress of all the free
American nations has assembled in Washing
ton, and at the head Of this congress is Mr..
Blaine. First there was an opening session,
then banquet, in which all members of the
Washington Cabinet participated, and finally
last Thur day the foreign members of the
congress started on forty day excursion to
get az cqusntcd with the United States The
representatives, of Central and South America
will see Niagara Falls, the national park, the
workshops of Edison, the finest buildings,
the finest factories, and the finest machinery
They will be shown what America has ac-
compished. That is a necessity, for the
Central and South Americans know London
and Paris much better than they know New
York and Philadelphia.
The story is told of a Judge of the United
States Supreme Court that he once asked
what language was spoken in Chill. The
different zones of America are quite unac-
guainted with each other. Where Spanish is
spoken little sympathy with the North Amer
cans can be found The people there are
afraid of the restless, speculative spirit, the
inventive egot,sm OF lbe United states.
Therefore the surprises Of the forty day ex
cursion will be all the greater for the foreign
dele gates. They will be blinded by the
great riches Of the cities and astounded by the
wealth of products. Mr.. Blaine has looked
to it that the United States should be repre-
sented on this excursion by able men-great
merchants and manufacturers and highly edu-
Gated men Of the world.
Two men, masters Of their respective fields
of productiou-big miIlionaires-have been
chosen for this service. The one is cotton
king, another an iron and coal king, another
gold and silver king. The fourth has i'm
mense spinning mills; a fifth represents
European trade; 8 sixth, tobacco; a seventh
| can tell all about the wonderful development
| of California an eighth is an expert machin-
| isl; a ninth is an accomplished diplomat; =
tenth is a military man The delegates will
, SIC fo4e. ses ait ii..r I,faiation from the
| best authorities. The forty-day excursion
b fore the b ginning of the negotiations,
| that is American. I: is All undoub,ed i'm
/ provemenf, for it would be expedient every
| where TO have representatives know ac-
cgr4tely the interest they have to deal with.
| The correspondents of the English and
French newspapers try TO prove that the con-
grass viii make shiprreek; that is, be re-
suIiless In England they are comforting
| thems elves with The belief that the ool pro
| ductioB of some States south Of the equator
viii prevent the consnDmation Of an Ameri-
ean Zoilverein. The United States, they say.
~ilI rot i.s in this wool free. They rely mp
On these southern sheep a. a mainstay Of
their hopes. They also argue that the Cen
tral and South American States would be IN
able to H8d reimbursement for the loss Of
their cnstems duties Nevertheless they are
~ofriei. They are apprebehsiye Of an
American ZollvereiB.
7 The congress makes, indeed q grand i'm
Or ssion. Besides the Unitsd States, Brzil,
the Argentine Republic. Columbia, CDsta
Rca. Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicsfa
qua, Chill. and Perm are represented by tried
aad famous men. Their immediate objsc
is zo,lverein, which shall comprehend al
their part of the world excepting Canada and
the West Indies The idea 10 connected
| With the idea of the United Stafes' prose ctivt
. system We have already considered th'
I p<rilous consequences of such . acuitinanpa,
/ Of oil the world that Columbus discovered
{ and 1t is self evident that the resulting tasii
var could nos be long endured The Amer