Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-11
English and Canadian Views on Retalia-
ton. The Canadian Cabinet Not in
Accord With Salisbury And the Home
Government.

There are Indications coming to light
tending to show that the British Cabinet
begins to see the necessity of checking
the headstr0ug action of the Dominion
Government. That such would happen
sooner or later has been obvious for good
while to those well informed as to the re-
lations between the London and Ottawa
Governments. The Canadian Cabinet has
been talking and acting for some time in
way that no sagacious English States
men could approve. 1t is understood that
the first meeting of the Dominion Cabinet
since Cleveland laid his Retaliation meas
ures before Congress, was held early last
week. The British Government sent IA
cable despatch to Sir John Mcdonald re-
IueSting him to furnish a full text of the
extent and character of commercial rela-
tons which had existed between the
United States and Canada since the con-
federation of British North American
provinces; also "A clear statement of re-
mOn@trances which had been made BY the
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legged irregularities in according to United
states citizens their rights conceded by
the treaty, rs well as a full explanation as
to the probable effect on the Dominion if
the proposed retaliation measures were
carried out. This information was laid
before the Cabinet yesterday. On the
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that in requesting this information Lord
Salisbury enjoined the Dominion Govern
ment to exercise the utmost caution in
every movement just now when an ir-
regular stop might strengthen the feeling
of hostility which has been raised toward
the Dominion. Lord Salisbury has spoken
pretty plainly to Sir John, and the atti-
tude he has assumed was not very cor
daily received by members of the Gov
ernment. The members of the Cabinet
were by no means united in endorsing
the remedies which Sir John proposed
1t is stated that serious rupture in the
Cabinet is not improbable over the inter
ference of the home Government.
One thing is clear and beyond dispute,
cnt Dominion Government and the Cleve-
land and Bayard Government at Washing
ton to have the management of the grave
and important questions now in issue be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain. Cleveland and Bayard have so boggled
and mismauaged the American claims aud
interests rs to cause the Canadian Govern
mcnt to act aggressively and Extensively
towards the United States. Thus the
questions IN dispute have been so coinpli-
Gated and befogged that there is absolute
need of the British Government taking
prompt action to restrain the Dominion
Cabinet in it, preposterous pretensions, or
to bring about the resignation of the pres
ent Canadian minority, so that a wiser and
more temperate Cabinet may take its place.
1t is equally important that the American
people should comprehend the present sit
uatiou and select wiser and ADLER men in
the place of Cleveland and Bayard, who
have shown so strikingly and fully their
utter incompetence to manage our foreign
relations, and especially our Atlantic fish
cry and Alaska seal interests. A change in
the officials at Washington and at Ottawa
are equally imperative. The American peo-
pie will accomplish the first, early in No
vember. The common sense and the con-
sentative prudence of England will know
how to bring about the second in que time