Arizona silver belt., 1888-09-15
THIS FISHERIES,

1 hass kkHhaksASat-Ss I Den Butter, in one of the ahlcst
 speeches of the campaign, reviews the
 fisheries question, showing that Cana
 da, backed by England, has always
 acted dishonorably, and that the course
 of the United Staies Government, ever
 since the fisheries became dispute,
 has been one of humiIatng concession.
 In framing the treaty of peace of
 l7S3 the English commissioners pro.
 posed that in giving up Canada we
 should also rrlinquish our claims to
 tue fisheries, but John Adams, on be-
 half of the United States, replied that
 rather than surrender 8 single right
 to the fisheries, he would fayer the
 continuance of war, and so the treaty
 of l7S3 guaranteed to us the free en-
 jeyment of the fisheries, which con tinuod unmolested until 1877, The
 war of 1872 had been fought, and iu 1 1877, by claiming that, by the law oi
 nations, declaration of war between
 two countries abrogated all existing
 treaties, and also that because the
 treaty of peace of 1915 did not men-
 tion the fisheries, we had therefore
 lost all rights to them, England sue
 eeedod in ballying out of us the treaty of ISIS, shameful surrender of our claims. By that treaty the United States agreed to "renOunce forever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by tke inhabitants thereof to take, dry CT euro fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbors of his Britan- : uic Majesty's dominions iii America {; provided, however, that the American fishermen shall Do admitted to enter : such harbors for rho purpose of shel- ter and ol repairing damages therein of purchasing wood and of obtaining water, and tor no ether purpose r whatever"
 :. That three milo limit is treated, in
 international law, as being tue extent to which q cannon throws a shot, and to be the line within Tnjch any nation Q can clam jurisdiction as against any other nation on the open sea. Not g satisfied with this construction, Cana c da interpreted that limit as being a straight line drawn from poiutlhfee g miles from one headiand of bay to a T pelut threo miles from ihe ether head ! land of the bay, and as the coast i, I very irregular our fishermen could F not tell when they were within ol 2 without that line. Tie American in, F depreciation is the only far and reas- d enable one viz: that the line should '' follow the coast, tue limit being three E miles distant at every point. Under r. the Canadian construction, American e tishermen were pniustly excluded iron F. some of the most valuable fishing n grounds on the Canadian coast, anl r. from time to tiulo the Dominisn G;y IS ernment has harrassed our fishermen j Tn every possible way, upon the finn 't siest protexts, arrcsting them for fish e. ing within the three milo limit, untlel 70 ths "headland" construction, wter A oit-times they were net within sigh ol of land, and in one instance yesse r. was seized for buyIng coal in a Cana 't dian port, when the treaty mentioned t only wood.
 T In March, 1887, President Clsye c. land, by the almost unanimous con It sent of both houses of Congress, wa 90 given authority to adopt ands put il IS force measures of retaliation agains
 Canada, deemed amply effective. Thi
 power the President has not availe, himself of Congress WAS opposed t making new treaty and refused t
 sanction the appointment of eemmls sion for that purpose, asked by th |, President. Ignoring this refusal 0 i, Congress, and upon his own responsi : bilty, President Cleveland negotiate ,d the treaty rejected by the Senate, an !, he approved eff that treaty, althoug "a 1t gave to Canada the privilege of eS "a tending the three mile limit to fy
 miles from the coast, and Canadia o1 fish and fish oil were to be admltte ,5 into tba United States free of duty ,t All this was granted to Canada by th af rejected treaty After using ever is influence iR his power to have tbl treaty ratified, and failing, Presiden ,a Cleveland performs complete somer
 sault and recommends retaliation
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