New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-23

aud all 0thor supplies ana outnts LOT gu cs On
fish ng voyage--not provisions or supphes w
which to get home, but Supplies to take out 90
the Banks. 1t would likewise be convenion0 VI
If our ln., fishermen 00 %e..e snip shermen
salts from Gloaccster for the Banks sanEs
or Nova Scotia From Glcnsos s,v. 10 from Nnva
Scotia to the Banks dav and hai AZ Gloncss.
sails short of hands She Will taSe M AZ sSs
wants twenty hands. that is eight more, Now.
If she could go to Nova Scotia or rrnce Eowaru,
Island and ship her eight men there, she w0uiu
n"S the eInense of paying and boarding these
men for the greater part OF the outward 'ii9 al"
zoe rsmrn aoan as to the matter of provisions. No
fisherman .1ils without an ample SIMPLY OF OIL. me
best kind OF PROVISIONS There is never any wam
having the best, but it Would be a convenience
TO them if while at Nova Scotia shipping more
men they we're permitted to buy bait and ice; IL
purchased at Gloucester, the ice would have been
melting on the voyage. and it would also have had
to be carried The great senes they use Tor mac nd
II Won tear one of these seDes. when
cost ST. 500, and have no means of mending II. It
might cut of a large part of your prohts. lhere-
fore il ght be convenient to buy seine.
"Then If IN storm three or four boats had been
washed over or hu SSoT so1s a boats might also
be convenient to land n cargo in CanadaIthe as
lance from the Banks being but a day and naiiL
load it on the ears and send 1t III bono 10 tne
Uni ed States and then 60 out to the Banks again
for another catch instead OF gong home NOV no
c as% Die "" to our fishermen or that our
fshern.n want except those three things. and
those three things are not gwen IN TINS treaty
II you DON'T GET WHAT YOU WANT PAY FOX H.
BY Article XIV we are graciously permitted to
purchase these three things by putting whale oil.
fish oil, seal oil and fish on the free llst
In other words the only things in this whole
treaty from beginning to end that we want
we are permitted to purchass by paying AT ieas.
100000 a year for them The duties reunited
on fish the last year during which the
Washington Treaty in force amounted TO
$685.. 900 on Canadian fish. 1t would amount to
million dollars al S
bond TO the United States, and which We wanted
to obtain. Why We have bonded their roads all
ste e ms o line ca" Ito every State bordering
Canada the W ole length Of their line, and
Name in order to get port at Halifax. We have
made thcm the favored competitors Of every one OF
our transatlantic railroads They are dong ousl-
ness of millions of dollars every year at me ex
pense of those roads and vet In this wonderful
treaty which has been considered three mon his and
n half by Observation-Disclosures we actually get tGe
and send them in bond to the United states
by paying million dollars for the privilege
have been over that treaty good may
times i have examined il with care because
have great confidence in William l.. Putnam.
n frst-cass lawyer. and sec that in an interview
with him he SAID that il would be acceptable 10 all
fishermen of the United states and ne Iegarusn ~
examined II to find wherein 1T is benenclai 10 tue
United States, ard ] have not been able TO hnd
single point.
COMMERCIAL PRIVILEGES TAXED BY THE TON
Now we come to what President Cleveland says
Ia an example Of magnan unity on the part OF
Canada and is to preserve peace between Canada
and the United States for the next two years 1t Is
called the 'modus vivend.' Under its terms we can
enjov the three things we want-and which we up
to tins time always regarded as riGlts-by paying
one dollar and a half a ton annually Tor license
for each vessel which wishes to participate IN
their endowment. l call your attention to TINS
1t is not the right to fish within t1clr
wsters-if is commercial privileges we are 10 en-
Joy for dollar and half After the abIogatlon
OF the treaty Of 1S54. the Canadians concluded 10
try q similar gam They wonld license our fish,
ing vessels at a rate VARYING from 80 cents 70 %
ton. Our fishermen, could NOT snoro
was abandoned. Then they Tesorted to outrages
10 accomplish their purpose. This treaty, now
us by the tonnage tax. 1t gives nothing but
commercial privileges; which we clam u rioet
the tn fish law in OF their ire wa adpH Which we cont
care for, and for these we mnst pay one doiiar ana
half ton The average size OF orr hsnlng YES
sels pernans 200 IONS, so that on the pnynent OF
$500 annually the fishermen would nave CONNER
cial privileges which we say we nave tne
right to enjoy to-day. A hsheman can an
pay dollar and half ton the average eaInlngs
Of fishermen are not more than $500 10 the vessel
IrIsA CUSTOM MADE TREATY.
"Some kind of treaty. l suppose. was absolutely
necessary III OTutr W bdNc tHO F"''iO'
connected with it, Mr.. Chamberlain could not 60
home without one: the President and Secretary OF
State could not afford to be without one. The
President and Mr. Rayard had neglected for two
years to apply the remedies which CONGRESS hau
provided against outrages-outrages when Secre-
tary Manning, IN an Official paper. went 10 me eX-
tent of denOuncinG as bruta. Inev coutu pou
afford 10 have three months and bali pass a1ter
enlpOtentiaries had been appointed ana h"Te
nothing result from it. Sir Charles upper eouiu
afford go home TO Canada and faee ms PEG
pie there with the confession that he had sacrihSeu
anythiug The result is this abortion calieu
treaty
FACTS FROM FORMER NEGOTIATIONS
Once again, there is not thing which this
treaty grants US gives us or proposes TO sell us
which we have not claimed from the beginning
10 belong to us by right and by law. If you will
examine our case as presented by Minister Phelps
the best presentation made Of it yet, you VIII
find that we claim as Of right all these CONNER
cial privileges contained in tins treaty. IhaO
was tho presented to Great Britain by our
OWL Minister. We said that under the law or
1929 and 80 and 1890, ratified by both the
Parliament Of Great Britain and the United StaleS
Senate. ports We're open TO all vessels OF DOlh
countries, and that Canadian vessels could conf
into our ports with perfect freedom, ana could
buy anything they pleased. no limitation Delhg
put upon them whatever That was right ana
according to the law. Under the same law we
had right TO 20 into their ports and buy any
thing. complying, Of course with Their customs
regulations. -, 4,
The CANADIANS SHIu llldt
1918 we surrendered all rights and privi-
legs except certain coasts OF the eastern shore
Of the Gulf Of ST. Lawrence. and reserved only
right Of shelter and wood and water; that we
surrendered forever all such privileges Inat
was their ground. Our reply that no nat ion
and no man can surrender what does not exist,
and when the Treaty of 1918 was made there
Icgcs in Canadian ports. When, Therefore, we
made that treaty and surrendered everything we
mad except the right of shelter, we could not
have surrendered what we did not have, to wit,
commercial privileges. These commercial privl-
Ieqrs lave since come under laws made by Con
rWss and Parliament. which opened the ports ior
The FIST time in 1850.
,GLArtNG SACRIFICE OF LAW AND RIGHT
believe our claim to lie n perfectly SOUND one
nd 7 bcIi.vc furthermore that Mr.. Chamberlain