Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-28
DINE up gr BLAINE.

Ehtters-A Review of the Case and n
Correct Presentation of the situation.
Lewiston, Me-, Aug. 25-The second
public address cf MIR. Blaine on the
political issues of the campaign was
delivered in the city hall at Lewiston
tonight. Hon. John a. Kasson OF
Iowa and Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr., of
Maine. also addressed tie assemblage,
which was the largest ever known in
this section OF Maine. MIR. Blaine spoke
with precision and vigor, as follows:
did not happen to have an oppor-
tnnity of reading the full text Of Presi-
dent Cleveland's message on the fisheries
subject until this morning, and with all
due respect to the chief executive OF the
nation, l must say that, considering all
the circumstances, il is the most extra
ordinary document that ever Was sent
from the white house to the capitol.
Here are the main tactR of the issue be-
tween Canada and the United States, or
perhaps, to speak more exactly, between
Great Britain and the United States, in
| respect to the fisheries. It was our be-
lief, and still is, that after the articles OF
the treaty OF Washington relating to the
fisheries had expired, the Canadian gov
ernment behaved in an unneighborly
unseemly and unjust manner towards
our fishermen, in refusing them rights
which they had enjoyed by long pre-
scrlption. In order to bring the gov
ernment OF the dominion to Just ap-
probation OF the subject, congress au-
tborized the president in the spring of
1887, to adopt at his discretion policy
OF suitable retaliation, directing among
other things that whenever and SO long
as American vessels were deprived oi
commercial privileges in the ports of
Canada, Canadian vessels should be de-
prived of like privileges in the ports of
the United States. This. II / NAV in
duIge in appropriate slang, was
genuine tlt.for-tst policy, In which the
punishment was admirably fitted to she
crime. President Cleveland declined to
enforca the policy and allowed outrage
after outrage upon our fishing vessels
TO 20 unredressed He was bent upon
some form of negotiation with England :,
even against the expressed wish and
will of the United States senate and in
defiance OF the large share in the treaty
making power which the constitution
| assigns to the senate. Finally, without
the consent of the senate and practically
against Its protest, the president organ
Ized commission to frame q treaty that
should settle all points of dispute. He
thus gave what was never intended by
the constitution a partisan side to an
international discussion. It was never
designed by the founders of our govern
ment that intercourse with foreign ma
tions should be conducted by republi
\
federalists, It should ouly be by the
nation as whole. Why should the
railways OF the United States, that an.
nually TRANSPORT $50 ,0U0. 900 OF Canadians
goods in transit, be deprived of their
business and endure large loss on ac--
count OF sudden whim of the president :?
Why. should the transit from Detroit to
Buffalo and New York over both Ameri-
can and Canadian lines of rail be sus.
pended when it has no relation whatever
to the fishery question? Why the large
traffic between Quebec and Montreal on
the one hand, and Portland Oh the other,
by which Portland becomes the winter
port of Canada, be summerily stoppsd
at the caprice of the president. because
OF his chagrin over the course Of an In
dependent, but as he considers refractory
senateP Is it the design OF the presI.
dent to make the fishery question odious
by embarrassing commercial relations
and commercial exchange along
5000 miles of frontier, and to intiiot
upon American communities needless,
vexetious and perllous confusion of
trade? Ii congress will give him the
enaotmer ts which he asks he will rive
them retaliation until they cry s.hold.
enough" and will allow him to settle
the fishery question in the precise man
ner which the senate now oontemptuous-
ly rejects. Or, after all fellow citizens.
is not the presidents position mere
political device to divert the attention
OF the American people from the free
trade message and from the Mills tariff
bill? Is not bluster on the fisheries to
be the plan OF campaign for the demo.
cratic party? Are not permits for
bravado to be issued by the political
agents OF the administration marked on
the back "good till after the first Tues
day OF November? We have our psrti
san differences at home and settle them
on our own sol. in our own way; but TO-
wards all foreign powers on the globe we
should present one united, indivisable
American republic. But this was not
done. The treaty was launched as :"
democratic partisan measure, rather thu,
patriotic American measure. And the
London papers have been following
their usual vocation of euloRlzing the
with greatly increased vituperation
against the republican party ever since
it was found that the senate was bent on
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