St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-05-23
HE WITT ON THE TARIFF AND HAIR
RISONS APPOINTMENTS


RISONS APPOINTMENTS.
The London correspondent of the
New York Herald has held the fol-
lowing interview with Ex-Mayor
Abram S. Hewitt of New York -
| have seen the principal steel man
ufacturers of England and the Adj
miralty tests, and have gained all
the information | hoped to get, and
am well satisfied. | am convinced
that America will make iron and
steel for mankind in the long future.
We have the iron, coal, capital, skill
and energy necessary to do it. The
tariff is all that binders us now
that foolish tariff-but that is only
temporary. Another generation will
see it removed. | believe the Ameri-
can people will get tired of stewing
in their own fat after a while. l be-
lieve every tub ought to stand on its
own bottom, and that the United
| States is abundantly able to do it.
| 1t has. the facilities for being the
greatest exporting country on the
earth, and it ought to be. The soon
er duties are abolished the sooner it
will become so. Now that food, cot
ton and petroleum form the bulk of
our exports, we ought to export very
largely of manufactured articles.
The result of removing the duty on
iron would compel us to make our
iron where facilities are favorable
and stop making it in places where
they are not We would have to
shut up some of our mills which are
now where they have no business to
be. The iron and steel manufactu-
rers would be confined chiefly to the
territory lying between Ohio and
Lake Superior, to Tennessee and Ala
bama, and there is where it ought to
be-"
eff you think that duties will soon
beabolished you do not believe, then,
that the republican party have en-
tered upon a long lease of power? ?"
queried the correspondent.
Eyes, l do. | believe that the folly
of the democrats has given the re-
publicans long term. BY that,
mean that the republicans will hold
for long time the power to block
progress. The next president may
be democrat, and democrats may
quite likely get control of the House
again soon, but the republicans will
retain the Senate There is no
chance at all of their losing that for
dozen years at least
what do you think of President
Harrison's appointments ~
They are good, on the whole, so
far as | have learned them The Sc
lection of Mr.. Lincoln is a very adj
nirable one. He is a gentlemen eX-
perienced in public affairs, and will
make most acceptable Minister to
England. l believe | served in Con
greSs while he was Secretary of War,
and came to know him well, and to
think very highly of him. AS to Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, he is an able man,
but should not have been appointed,
l think. No editor ought to be APP
pointed to an office, least of all to an
important diplomatic office l be-
that editors ought to be left out.
They have written and said much
that must necessarily hamper them
as efficient servants of a government.
They are necessarily more or less
partisans. In order to properly rep
resent a government at foreign
courts, they ought to be entirely free
from all commitment as to the policy
of other nations. All editors of any
standing cannot be thus free. My
only objection to Mr.. Reid, as Minis
ter, is that he is an editor | know
him well, and know he is able. Leav-
ing out the consideration of his being
an editor, | am glad he has been APP
pointed, and | believe he will fill the
position very acceptably. The Presi-
dent has made one appointment
which, in my opinion, ought not to
have been made. l mean that of Mr.
Egan to Chill. Why man whose
naturalizatio papers were hardly
dry should be appointed to an i'm
portant foreign Office, when there are
plenty of native Americans or long
naturalized citizens perfectly compe-
tent to fill the position, is difficult to
explain satisfactorily. l do not
think his appointment can be defend
ed. 1t is open to the charge of at
tempting to please, cOncil1ate and
hold the Irish vote, and has the APP
pearance of an Endorsement by the
government of the position which
Instantaneous take on the home
rule question, a matter which con-
Germs foreign government and with
which the United States has no bust
ness to meddle 1t looks like an of
fetal expression of sympathy with
the Irish in their efforts against the
government of England. Mr.. Egan
may be very able man, and fully
competent to act as Minister to Chill,
but his appointment is open to criti-
cism for the reason have given, and
ought not to have been made. 1t
may be thought that the United
States was really trying to do Eng
land a favor by sending Mr.. Egan to
Chill, where he could not agitate any
more. If that was the cause why
then it is all right. 1 believe it proper
enough for Irish-Americans to con-
tribute money for the cause of home
rule, but the government should not
get mixed up in matter of admin
istration. 1t did very wrong, in nv
opinion. Another great mistake
that was made was in sending Lord
Sackville back. If had been Presi-
dent would not have done that, if
every Irishman in the United States