The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-08-12
THE SECTIONAL SPIRIT.

The New York Tribune urges pacifica-
ton. arbitration and all sorts of concllia-
tory measure in~regaid to the Mexican
outrages on the border, where several
American citizens have been brutslly
murdered by foreign officials and where
an American citizen is now held in durance
vile, under q severe sentence, for an alleged
crime perpetrated on American soil and
under the supposed protection of the
American flag, and at the same time urges
that the most positive action be taken in
the squabbles originating between Cana
dian and New England fishermen, where
no lives have been lost, and where all is
done in strict compliance with law and
treaty stlpulations. 1t evidently makes a
good deal OF difference down east as 10
whose OK Is gored. The following from
Saturdays Tribune shows the spirit in
which they wish the fishery troables ham
died:
The administration has been SO humble
and spirltless In submitting to Outreges on
the Canadian coast that il may be uues-
toned whether the high-handed act now
reported from ShelbuTne will call forth
| even feeble protest from the state depart
ment. The Gloucester schooner, Rather
loaded to the Runwale with mackerel,
was forced by heavy storm to take refuge
in the mouth Of the harbor The cruiser
Terro at once ordered her to II port at the
| custom house and placed q guard on
board. As the vessel was bound for Glou-
cester and had all the fish on board that
could be carried, there could not have
been the slightest pretext for her deten
| ton for violation of the fisheries or Gus.
tom laws. She had anchored off the har-
Dor at least ten miles frem the custom
house, and the skipper was obviously ln-
tending to put to sea as soon as the wealth.
er should moderate. Yet scarcely had the
anchor been dropped before the cruisers
officers were ON the deck with arbitrary
| orders for the vessels detention. As Con
sul-General Phelan sententiouslv remarks
she was treated as pirate and an armed
| guard lett on board of her"
The time has surely come when such
| outrAges as this should cease. There is
not another civilized country on the globe
| where q harbor is closed against vessels
taxing refuge in It from q storm. The
Dominion of Canada now has the unenvi
able distinction of having the only sea-
board where mariners escaping from the
| fury OF the tempest are Arrogantly placed
under a naval guard and subjected 70 in
suits and humiliation. The treaty OF
| 1918 does not deny the privilege of shelter,
which Is the common right of the storm
tossed aud shipwrecked sailor the world
over. But the meddlesome naval mart.
nets who are harrassing American fisher
men do not hesitate to violate all maritime
| canons and notions of decency. They an
noy, IntimidGte and insult q master and
| crew who have taken refuge in unsafe an
choEage ten miles from a custom house.
| They place an armed guard on board the
ship and compel compliance with their
own arbitrary and capricious orders. II
there were Webster or a Marcy IN the
state department, there would never be
but one outrage like this. Mr.. Bayard Is
now conducting the nations diplomacy
The outIages will be continued indef.
nItely.