The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-26
BLAINE PLAYS THE CRITIC.
The Message Declared a Most Extra
ordinary Document.

ordinary DOCum emit
PORTLAND. Me-, Aug. 25.-Blaine adj
dressed another public meeting here to-day.
In the course of his speech he said:
did not happen to have an opportunity of
reading the full text of President Ceveland's
message on the fisheries subject until this morn
ing, and with all due respect to the chief
executive of the nation. / must say that
considering all circumstances, it is the most ex
traordinary document that ever was sent from
the white house to the capitol. Here are laid
down the facts of the issue between Canada
and the United States; or, perhaps, to speak
more exactly. between Great Britain and the
United states In respect to the fisheries. IL was
our belief and still Is, that after the articles of
the treaty Of Washington, relating to the fish
cries, had expired the Canadian governments
behaved in an unneighborly. unseemly and UNI
just manner toward our fishermen in refusing
them rights which they had enjoyed by long
participation.
RETALIATION AUTHORIZED.
In order TO bring the government of the
dominion to just appreciation of the subject,
congress authorized tue President In the spring
of 1887 to adopt, at his discretion, a policy OF
suitable retaliation, dlrec ing him. among other
things, that whenever, and so long as American
vessels we're deprived of commercial privileges
in the ports of Canada, Canadian vessels should
be deprived OF like privileges in the ports of the
United States This, If / may indulge ia
| appropriate slang, was genuine tit
for-tat policy, in which the punishment
Cleveland declined TO enforce the policy and
allowed outrage after outrage upon our fishing
vessels to go 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 TO large
share In the treaty making power which the
constitution assigned to the senate
APPOINTMENT of THE COMMISSION.
Finally, without the consent of the senate,
aud practically against its protest, the Presi-
dent organized commission to frame
treaty that should settle all points Of
dispute. He thus gave what was never in
tended by the constitution. a partisan side to
an international discussion. Ii was never de-
signed by the founders of our government that
intercourse with foreign nations should be con-
Quoted by republicans, or by democrats, or by
nation as a whole.
SERIES OF QUERIES.
Why should railways of the United States
that annually transport $50. 000, 900 of Canadian
goods 10 transit be deprived of their business
and endure large loss on account of a sudden
within of the PresdentS Why should transit
from Detroit to Buffalo and New York over
both American and Canadian lines OF rail be
Ssassr to when tss fishery has Question: %S2
| should the large traffic between Quebec and
Montreal on one hand and Portland on the
other, by which Portland becomes the winter
port OF Canada be sunmariy stopped at the
caprice of the President, because OF his chagrin
over the course of an independent, but as he
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MAY BE A CAMPAIGN ISSUE.
If congress will give him the enactments
which he asks, he will give them retaliation UNI
I'll they cry "hold, enough, " and will allow him
TO settle the fishery question in the precise man
ner which their senate now contemptuously re-