Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-07-13
LXH, NEW SERIES VOL. XXXIV.


negotiate in regard to the American griev-
ance. That he puts off to a more con
Venient season He negotiates where we
need no negotiation, and leaves our con
ditOn worse than he finds it, Our de-
mand for redress. which is fit subject
for negotiation, the gravity of which he
has again and again admitted, he wholly
ignores or pCspuneS. He has done the
things he ought not to have done and has
left undoue the things he ought to have
done.
In the year 1856. 700 American fishing
vessels, and in 1887, 1852 American fishing
vessels were boarded and called to account
by British officials in British American
waters or ports and nearly 400 vessels
have been involved in seizures or other in
references. More than $50 of these have
complained to our government
And now we are quietly told, in the cor
ner OF a report, that these claims have not
been considered, as some demands are
made against us for interfering with seal
fisheries in the North Pacific, and both
subjects are adjourned to Il future time
1t is not too much to say that, while this
administration shall exist there will
neither be redress nor hope nor eXpecta-
tiOn of redress for any outrage committed
by Great Britain upon an American any
where.
Mr President, the whole of the treaty
recognizes what we streuuOusly deny-the
against our fishermen. 1t turns their an
cienl privilege and exceptional honor into
bad T. of disgrace 1t constantly atlirms
q d6ninion on the part of Canada over the
fishing grounds Whlch from the beginning
nave been our Joint property. 1t estab-
fishes throughout Il relation of contr jl.
License, license, license is the stipulation
at every step. What we claim rs IA right
they compel us to accept and hold only un-
der their license. Instead of full frank,
free recognition vi general com mercial
rights every thing we are to have il a
privilege, constantly to be the subject Of
difference and quarrel until the demands
of Canada are fully yielded.
| Tell us that we are eudeaVoring to make
party issue on this treaty, when we ad-
/ here 10 the policy that both Houses unPu-
mously and without distinction of party
declared a little more than II months
ago For the first time, with but "A single
exception, has a secretary made such an
utterance. For the first time in Ameri-
can history has an administration sought
/ to curry favor with Great Britain on party
grounds For the first time has au Amer
lean diplomatist told her what she had to
expect from a party, 1t is the author of
that utterauce who deprecates "the sug-
gestion of partisanship."
! III closing he said You know how the
French emperor, victor OF Se6astOpol and
/ SOlferino in the height of his military
strength, hurried out of Mexico at word
uttered by Mr. Seward. You remember
the time when Gen. Grant gave notice
that any American ctlz-n wno had a
{ the evidence to'bim That hauuhty pOWer
sent over her commissioners to apologiZ -.
for her wrong. and WAS held AS depeu-
dent to make compensation. on renem-
ber how the diplomacy of the same great
administration induced nearly every first
class poWer IN EurOne to renouuce the old
doctrine of perpetual alleglance and let
our adonted cIliXpns alone.
Those were davs when the American
citizen. national aud Adopted, held M his
head i'm the pride Of his citizenship. Those
We're days when the nag, heautltnI aS me
now w ,%so n,t,o n.tad -
noatrd evervyhere IN peaceful seas
and was houured everywhere in friendly y
ports. No petty BRUSH officer hauled it
down from an American masthead. No
Canadian minister of justice laughed III
the face Of an American citizen when
Grant was in The White House
| confess that, much meditatng OF
these things, | take little Subtraction
when | think of Grover Cleveland. dc
not like the policy which everywhere rob-
the American Citize uship OF It's glory
do not Ike the methods o. fraud and crime
which have destroyed popular elections il
so many democratic states
| would have the box where the Ameri
oan freeman casts his ballot sacred as d
sacramental vessel. do not ike this
conspiracy between the Old slave holder
and the Euuli.h manufacturOr, to strike
down the wages of the American work
man and the comforts OF the Americil
workmtns home do not like your re
, tuSal to maintain the American navy auC
! tn fortifv and defend the American coast
And ike no better the present treaty
1t leaves the American sailor to be bullieC
, and iusulted without redress, and aban