Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-29
THE PRESS COMMENTS.
On the Treaty-Its Rejection Probable
( From the Albany Journal. !


From the Albany Journal.
1t is clear that the Senate has but one duty,
and that is to reject the fisheries treaty. No
time should be lost in performing the obli-
CATION. The Administration should be taught
that in its subserviency to English demands ii
has gone a step too far.
From the Philadelphia Press
While our policy has been to relax law and
regulation in favor of Canadian interests the
policy of the Dominion has been the reverse.
We can afford to wait for a change III its
practice r Lett (the senate) reject the trea-
" and then, if Canada standing on the letter
of a treaty seventy years old still denies our
claim, let US fall back to the strict letter and
limit of treaty rights and deprive Canadian
trade of the privileges we have generously
conceded
Washington Republican (Rep.)
If the Administration really had at heart
any object except to make treaty on any
terms and be rid of the subject, it has been
sadly ovcrreached by the willy Britons. With
reference to the rights of the United States
the treaty gives us nothing.
Boston Traveller (Rep.)
w e. can not bcleNt lnt treaty VIII Ut Tdti-
fed that the Senate will consent to a sur
render to the outrageous demands of a British
province. This is what the treaty proposes.
Its ratification would be a national humila
ton and disgrace
From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
There is reason to suspect that the scath
ing criticisms of the document INDUCED in by
portion of the Canadian press, and already
quoted in our columns, were intended to
throw dust in Yankee eyes by making it ap
pear that the Dominion had made conces-
sions of humiiatiug nature. Canada has
better reason to be satisfied with the treaty
than the nited States
From the Portland (Mc) Express.
The American members of the Commits
sion were overmatched. But the fault is not
wholly their own; they were ment to be over
matched Neither the Department of State
nor the Executive understood or even sym
pathized with the wishes and opinions of our
American fishermen.
From the Bangor Ne Wing and Courier
That is fine proposition to submit to our
fishermen. They can take their choice of
two evils The one would tax them out of
existence for enjoying the privileges that are
rightfuly theirs, and the other would turn
the American market over to the Canadians,
which is just what they have been aiming at
from the start.
From the New Haven Palladium.
This administration could long ago have
brought the mperous Canuck government to
its knees if it had possessed the courage and
patriotism to use the retaliatory weapons
which Congress forged and polished for it and
a..
nor courage, and being controlled in its for
eign policy by a Secretary of State who cares
more for pleasing Englishmen than for serv
ing his fellOwcountrymen it has declined to
maintain the honor of the flag, declined to
enforce the rights of American citizens, de-
cliued to do anything except to whimper, and
now to set forth treaty which settles moth
ing, affects nothing. and amounts to nothing
further than as it attempts to bride the
American people into repeal of tariff legis-
laton by the offer of the right to buy bait, if
we will do so.
From the Brooklyn Standardization.
And in this proposed treaty the administra
ton appears to play directly into Canada's
hand
From the Fall River Mass News.
We are confident that American fishermen
prefer TO wait for complete recognition of
their rights, rather than consent to a ratitica
ton of the new treaty which affords only a
partial remedy for their wrongs.
From the Springfield Union.
Let us exclude Canadian fish from our
markets. We can very well do without it,
and our fishermen will have all the better
chance. Let the Canadians keep their fish
and eat it themselves, until they get salt
enough into their constitutions to keep them
from spelling.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As to the free trade contingency, il is not
to be considered and is out of the question.
Great Britain simply makes another bid of
which she has made many and often, for our
open ports to her various commodities. OF
course, we tolerate no outside interference
with our tariff policy, no dictation nor reel
procity in that direction.
From the Washington Star,
On our side of the line the most significant
comment has been made by Representative
Diugley, of Maine, who is generally recog-
nized as the man in all the House best quail
fed to voice the sentiments of the northeast
ern fishing interest. He leads his New
England colleagues in contending that the
United States have not only surrendered all
their rights in controversy, but barred them
selves from claiming them i'll the future.
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Rep.).l
Ii is by no means so complete and there
fore satisfactory solution as the public had
been led to expect.
Albany Express (Rep.).
The entire treaty is a series of disgraceful
concessions to which the American people
will not give consent.
From the Albany Express.
That protocol to the fisheries treaty
which goes into effect for two years without
any 'advice or consent of the United States /
Senate is an insolent piece of business.
From the Newark On. j. Advertiser
The treaty does not acknowledge any i'm
portant right insisted upon by Americans and I
it only proposes to grant us certain '.privi-
leges" provided we pay for them.
The treaty has few good points and many