The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-05

gland, even against the express wish and win 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 practi-
cally against its protest, the President organized
a commission TO frame treaty tuat should set
tie oil points OF dispute He thus gave-what
was never intended by the Constitution-a par
tisan side to AN international seussion. IL
never designed by the founders OF our Gov
eminent that intercourse with foreign nations
should be conducted by Republicans, or by Dem
ocracs, or by Wings or b. Federalists. 1t should
only be by the nation as a whole.
Why should the railways Of the United states,
that annually transport so 100000 OF Canadian
goods in transit be deprived of their business
and endure large loss on account OF sudden
within of the President? Why should the transit
from Detroit TO Buffalo and New York, oyes
both American and Canadian rail, be suspended,
when II has no relation whatever 20 the fishery
ques ion? Why should the large traffic between
Quebec and Montreal, on the one hand, and
Portland on the other, by which Portland be-
comes the winter port OF Canada, be stopped at
the caprice OF the President, because OF his
chagrin over the course OF an Independent, but
IA lie considers refractory, Senate? is IL the
design of the President to make tho fishing
question Odsous by embarras sing commercial
relations and commercial exchange along 5000
miles Of frontier, and to infict upon American
communities needless, vexatious, and n
perilous confusion OF trade? If Congress
will give him the enactments which he
asks he Will give them retaliation un-
I'll they cry hold, enough, and viii allow
manner which tho Senate now contemptUousl
rejects Or, after ALL fellow citizens, is not the
Presidents position mere political device, 70
divert the attention the American people from
his free-trade message and from the Mills tariff
bil2 Is not buster the fisheries to be the
plan of campaign for the Democratic party /?
Are not per its for bravado 90 be issued by tho
political agents OF the administration, marked
on tho back, Good till after the first Tuesday in
November We have our partisan differences
a. home, and settle thom our soil in our
own way but toward all foreign powers on the
globe we should present one united, indivisible
American republic. But this was not DONE
The treaty was launched as Democratic parti-
measure rather than a patriotic American
measure and the London papers have been 4 l.
lowing their usual vocation of euiogizing the
Democracy and abusing the Republicans, with
greatly increased vituperation agans the Re
publican party, ever since it was found that tho
Senate was bent on maintaining tho national
dignity
1t Is plainly apparent from the text Of the
Constitution itself that the wise men who
framed IL intended that the ordinary legislative
power should be committed to the majority,
however small, but that no treaty could be
framed without the overwhelming support Of
public opinion. They provided, therefore, that
IL should require in all cases two-thirds of the
Senate 10 ratify treaty, but despite this the
national administration went again, regardless
of results, and negotiated n treaty repugnGnt
20 the American instinct Of national self-respect
that, instead OF securing ratification by two
thirds of the Senate it was absolutely rejected
by majority vote. What then2 At the first
rebound the President has leaped so far over ON
the other side that he asks authority to cripple
oil our commercial relations with Canada from
Passamaquoddy Bay TO Vancouvors Island.
Having for three years offered 10 waive the
rights of the fishermen and the national
dignity at the same time, the President
desires now TO cross over To tho other side OF
the question and out-Herod Herod i'm his de-
mands for redress He seems eager to-day 70
discharge n whole battery of Krupp guns on the
question. when last year blank cartridge from
a pocket pistol would have settled the whole
affair. After subjecting the country month
after month 20 the humiliation OF an unprece-
dented surrender the Presidents supporters
with the zeal of new converts rather with tho
extravagant enthusiasm OF pretenders, now
manifesting such renewed and deep aud keen
sense OF the wrongs we have experienced from
Great Britain, in Canada, i'm the matter Of fish
cries that they second the Presidents oxtra
ordinary somersault, and in the slang OF thu
Democratic heeie-s, they are "thirstins for Cana
dian gore"
The Democratic papers were but short time
ago telling Massachusetts, and Maine that tho
ntemptible little question over few codisi
On the banks OF Newfoundland was not worth