Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-04
a Holly Good Time Ahead.

It looks very much as if the Congress
of the Americas now gathered at WASH
ington is to be good deal of junketing
affair. It's adjournment to the 18th of
November has quite that appearance, and
would indicate that Americans, from
whatsoever quarter of the continent they
may hail, are thoroughly imbued with
the notion that all work and no play
makes Jack dull boy. Meanwhile, it
is consoling to know that the
representatives of the seventeen
American nations have been rendered
and have accepted the hospitality
of the United States. The invitation
was given in Mr.. Blaine's best and most
ELUSIVE style; and, as an earnest of
what is to come, our illustrious
visitors have already enjoyed ban
quet at the Hotel Normandie, ostensibly
given by Mr.. Blaine, which will in all
likelihood be paid for by the United
States, and cold lunch at the Executive
Mansion, which will probably also bs
liquidated by Uncle Sam under the head
of sundries. It has been unusual in the
history Of the past to gush over visitors
in this style, whether private
or official, but it is probably
all right, and part of the process o.
"blowing in" the surplus so fervently
recommended by Hon. Tom Fitch in his
speech at the Pavilion during the last
campaign. The Plumed knight, from
the tone of his ebullient address, Seems
to contemplate q very thorough pro
gramme of travel and recreation for the
entertainment of the distinguished
strangers from the other two Americas
If we are to trust to his hospitable declar
alton, they are to be taken over the
country at large, in order that they may
know what kind of region the United
States is. As an incident of this gay
and festive progression they will
doubtless be dined and wined to theil
hearts content, and they will be made
to see things as through the bottom of a
glass, darkly, and yet far from dolorously.
Much grandiloquence will exploded in
the sessions of the Congress of the three
Americas after the enactment of such an
agree able programme, and enthusiasm
will be on the rampage, so to
speak. But, outside Of good
lot of eloquence, of assorted grades,
from fair and middling to super
lative, what good this Congress will
effect, We fail to see, SIS long as the Re.
publican war tariff prevents American
manufacturers from making goods as
cheaply as they can be made in England
and on the continent of Europe, and rem.
ders it impossible for our ship builders
to build ships to sail on the high seas
The delegates from the Central and
South Americas will 60 home after shak
ing Mr.. Blaine effusively by the hand
and the peoples they represent will KEEP
on buying their goods where they
can buy them cheapest. We shall have
INDUCED in diplomatic coup d.
theatre, and shall have reaped from it nc
practical benefit whatsoever 80 long al
the Republican party denies to our man
ufacturers and ship builders the free raw
materials which would enable them tt
meet the manufacturers of Europe OF
equal ground. But, while we shall NO
extend our trade as the result o
this conference, we have the consola
ton of knowing that our highly pro
tected Carnegies will go on importing
cheap labor from abroad to displact
Americans, and that they will continue
as of old, to pocket the prodigioul
profits accruing for the time being from
killing the goose that lays the COLDER
egg, on the principle latter us thu