The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-02-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.
MR.. wYMAN's LETTER.

Mn W NM . ZEN
wAsHIxGroN, Feb. lin response to
a request for information upon the fish
cries treaty and kindred subjects, M.
Erastus Wymun has written the following
letter:
" AsHINGToN, Feb. II.
EDITOR MAIL. Toronto:-In answer to
your inquiry | beg to say that the pro
posed fishery treaty, As far as its contents
are known, is in my opinion the best set
Element of an ugly quarrel that could DE
arrived at under the circumstances
While at first glance it might be urged
that the interests of Canada had been sac
rifced, it will be found in the long run
She will be a gamer rather han u loser.
The rigid enforcement of a harsh inter
probation Of the treaty of 1918 had pro-
duced nothing but retaliation, culmlnat-
ing in the passage of the retaliation act,
The provisions of the new treaty, so tar as
understood here in Washington, will tend
to increase the intercourse between the
two countries and remove an element OF
serious and dangerous indifference that
was steadily separating them and threat
ening their peace. To accomplish a pur-
pose so important Canada can we'll
afford to Weld all she will be called on to
yield. This is especially the case when
it il understood that this
settlement will enormously improve
the prospects of commercial union
in the United States. Hitherto one Of the
chief obstacles encountered to a discussion
of
CLOSER COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
between the two countries has been the at
titude of Canadians denying privileges to
American crafts and American people
afforded to Canadian vessels and crews in
American ports. SO long as the fishery
question was unsettled and a possible
threat was implied Of forcing the Ameri-
can nation into reciprocal arrangements,
Just 50 long was the policy of force a pos
tive barrier to favorable consideration.
The Americans are not the kind of people
that are driven into arrangements Of this
character. They may be Won and per
suaded, but Canadian cruisers did more
to postpone reciprocity than to promote
il. The advocates of commercial union
have encountered this sentiment at every
turn and is existence had a significant
expression in the last clause of the But
terwOrth bill, added since the last session.
Now, however, that there is a prospect
that by this treaty this fishery question is
to be settled and the Canadians are about
to afford to the people of the United
States almost the same privileges as they
themselves enjoy, this barrier to a favora-
bic discussion of commercial union is re-
moved.
The next most vexed question to be adj
justed is the conflict now impending be-
the great railway systems of the
two countries. The success of the new
500 route intensifies the fact that the
Canadian roads are free from
the exactiens of the state commerce
and this means enormous loss of profit
to every other road in the United States
which is carrying produce from the west
to the east and merchandise from the east
to the west. This condition of things
seriously threatens the repeal of the bond
ing system by which American produce
is carried through Canadian territory
without payment of duty on its entrance
into the United States. This repeal
would mean simply ruin to Canadian
roads, as without through business they
could