The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-11
The FISHERY TREATY.
1t Is Considered Again by the
Senator's.
HOAR Is DEAD SET AGAINST 1T.
That Fnterminable Tariff Bill Again
Under Discussion in the
House-Etc.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, July 10. - Sherman
offered a resolution, which was agreed
to, directing the committee on finance to
inquire into and report in any connec-
ticn with any bills raising or reducing
the revenue that may be referred to it,
such measures as may seem eXpedi-
ent to set aside to control, restrain, or
prohibit, all arrangements, contracts,
agreements, trusts or combinations
that tend to prevent competition in
the manufacture or sale Of the articles
OF growth or producing, or that
or advance artifcially the cost to
the consumer of necessary articles
for human life, with such
penalties ana forfeltures as will tend to
preserve the freedom of trade and pro-
du ton; the lowering OF prices By
such competition and the full benefit
designated by and hitherto conferred by
the policy of the government to protect
and encourage American Industries by
Ievying duties On imported goods.
The Senate thea proceeded to the
consideration OF the fishery treaty. and
was addressed by Hoar in opposition to
it. He SAID nearly every i'm
portaat maritime power, Of ancient
or modern times, owed its foundation
of its commercial power and naval
strength to its fisheries. The desire OF
Canada and Great Brit an TO contract
within the least possible limits the fish
ing grounds to which America shall
have access and possess themselves
without obstruction of calling which
brought to the great American market
its supply of fish for food, and fish oils,
has Yaster purposes than the
mere struggle for profitable indus
try, important as thar might
be. England has already taken
poss os3ion of all tue great routes of
commerce, and is now adding land
route across Canada to keep open this
impartial highway at both extremitiss
Sixty thousand fishermen of the Do
minion must form almost an indispens-
able element of greatest strength. They
would issue out fro II Halifax at one end
of the great continental line, and from
Van COuYer's Island ct the other, form.
ing IN time of war q perpetual menace
to commerce and the coasts of the
United States. This was struggle on
the part of Great Britain and Canada
to increase their naval strength and
diminish that of the United States; to
increase the number of naval schools,
whose graduates would be e constant
threat to American commerce in time
of war both on the Atlantic and Pacific
Turning his attention TO the treaty,
Hoar said there is not to be fonnd, SO
far IS he can hear, a single fisherman
who does not deem its provisions an
outrage. There never has been a more
unfoundad calumny than to charge
that opposition to the treaty had its
origin in party prejudice. The
earliest ana most earnest voice
of .monstrance had coma from
eminent Dem ]crats who had oc
casion to study the question in
times past. The series of insult to the
American flag, policy Of the persistent
unfriendliness, of the refusal of common
international Inequalities had been in
augurated for the purpose of com pei
ling the change in domestic legislation.
It was for that Congress, without dis
tinCtion of party and with nearly I'M
animous approval of the people, had
placed in the hands of the President
simple, direct, peaceful, but ample and
most effeCtual means of redress.
Instead of using that means
the whole American complaint was
postponed to most remote and uncer-
tain future. Neither apology nor COM
pensatiOn, neither indemnity for the
past nor security for time to come was
postponed. Americ ans are not quar-
relsOme people, but we can never live in
peace with Canada If We allow her to
think the methods SIZE has taken the
last three years are the ways to gain
concessions from us. We can never
live in peace with England if we permit
inc
once more the exparim ents in our for
bearance which preceded the reVolu-
ton, which pre- ceded the war in 1912,
which accompanied the war of tbs
Rebellion. A rejection of the treaty is
in the interest of true, thorough aud
lasting peace. HOar recited the history
of American diplomacy from the days
of our infancy down to he breaking out
of the late war, referring partly to our
experience with England, France and
General Grants notice that any
American citizen with claim against
Great Britain should bring evidence
to him and the result thereof.
Those were days when an American
citizen held up his head in pride of his
citizenship. Those were days when the
flag was as harmless as the flower to
those who loved it, but asterrible meteor
10 those WuO 1dLcu lG' IL nOdJSu CHSI1-
where in the peaceful seas and was
honored everywhere in friendly ports.
No petty British officer hauled it down |
from the Americana msthead. No Cana
dian minister of justice laughed in the |
face of an American citizen when Grant |
was in the White House. l confess
much meditating on these things. l
take little satisfaction when [ think of
Grover Cleveland. do not like policy |
which everywhere robS American citi-
zenship of its glory. 1 do not like tie
methods of fraud and crime which have
destroyed popular elections in SO many
Democratic States. do not like tAls
conspiracy between old shareholders and
the English manufacturer to strike down
the wages of the American workinEmen
and the comforts of American work
mems homes. I do not like the refusal
to maintain the American navy a"
fortify and defend the american ooas
ana ike it no better than the preset
treaty It leaves the American sailor
to be b,.iiiad ai iDaulted without re-
dress $40 auaa American rights to