Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-27
BLAINE TACKLES THE MEssAGeY


BLAINE TACKLES THE MESSAGEH
What He Has to Say of the Latest Phase of |
the Fish Question.
LEWISTON, Me, Aug. 27.-Hon. j G. Blaine |
delivered an address Saturday evening be- |
fore the largest audience ever assembled in
the city hall Hon J. A. kasson, of Iowa,
and Nelson Dingiey, of Maine, also spoke.
Mr.. Blaine and party arrived at O'clock
and were met at the station by full turn
out of the Republican organizations of
Lewiston and ueighboring towns, accom-
panied by bands of music, and escorted to
the hall. Over 1000 persons heard Mr..
Blaine's address, though thousands were I'M
able to gain admission to the building. Mr.
Blaine arrived at the hall at the-close of Mr.
Dingley's speech, and was tremendously
cheered In the course of his address Mr..
Blaine said:
Il did not happen to have an opportunity
of reading the full text of President Cleve-
lands message on the fisheries subject until
this morning, and with all due respect to the
chief executive of the nation, | must say
that, considering ali the circumstances, it is
the most extraordinary document that ever
was sent from the White House to the CAPT
tot" He then stated the contention over the
fish question in general terms and said that
in order to bring Canada to terms the presi-
dent had, in 1887, been given power to retail
late in thes particulars: Whenever and so
long as American vessels were deprived Of
commercial privileges in the ports of Canada
Canadian vessels should be deprived of like
privileges in the ports of the United States
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded:
president Cleveland declined to enforce
the policy, and allowed outrage after out
| rage upon our fishing vessels to go unre-
dressed He was bent upon some form of
negotiation with England even against the ex-
| press wish and will of the United States SEN
ate, and in defiance Of the large share of the
sreaty making power which the constitution
assigns to the senate. Finally, without the
consent of the senate and practically against
its protest, the president organized COM
mission TO frame a treaty that should settle
all points of dispute He thus gave what was
never. intended by the constitutions parti-
san side to an international discussion
The speaker then considered the constitu-
tional aspect of the case, helding in effect
that the president has not acted on the spirit
of the constitution in negotiating the treaty,
ana Went on as fOllOWs:
~Why should the railways of the United
States, that annually transport $50, 000, 900 Of
Canadian goods in transit, be deprived of
their business and endure a large loss on &C
count of sudden whim of the president
Why should the transit from Detroit to
Buffalo and New York, over both American
and Canadian rails be suspended, when it has
no relation whatever to the fisheries ques-
toni Why should the large traffic between
Quebec and Montreal on the one hand, and
Portland on the other, by which Portland
becomes the winter port of Canada, be sum
marlly stopped at the caprice of the presi-
dent because of his chagrin over the course
of an independent but as he considers, re
fractory senate. Is it the design of the pres
ident to make the fishing question o1ious by
embarrassing commercial relations and com.
mercial exchange along 5000 miles of front
Ter, and to inflict upon American eommuni
ties a needless, a vexatious, and perilou
confusion of trade.
If congress will give him the enactment
which he asks he will give them retaliation
until they cry hold, enoughr and will ALLOW
him to settle the fishery question in the pre-
else manner which the senate now con
citizens is not the presidents position a mer,
political device TO divert the attention of th
American people from his free trade message
and from the Mills tariff billl Is not blustel
on the fisheries TO be the plan of campaign
for the Democratic partyl Are not permit
, for bravado to be issued by the politica
agents of the administration, marked on tht
back Good till after the first Tuesday il
November
, ave have our partisan differences at HON,
a and settle Them on our own soil in our owl
+ way, but toward all foreign powers on tn
, globe we should present one united, indivisi
, bile American republic. But this was no
+ done The treaty was launched as a Demo
| cratic partisan measure rather than patroti
: | American measure and the London paper
a have been following their usual vocation o
: eulogizing the Democracy and abusing th
n Republicans with greatly increased vituper
alton against the Republican party eve
p since it was found that the senate was ben
p on maintaining the national dignity"
Having for three years offered to waiv
a the rights of the fishermen and the nationi
= 3ignity at the same time, the president d.
sires now to cross over TO the other side
. the question and out-Herod HerOd in his d
4 mands for redress He seems eager to-da
h to discharge whole battery of Krupp CUR
. on the question, when last year blank ca
q fridge from pocEet-pistol would have Sc
: tied the whole affair After subjecting th
country month after month to the humlif
.. ton of an unprecedented surrender, Il
/, presidents supporters with the zeal of ne
! rhaE with ha avt-a
IS enthusiasm of pretenders, are no
a manfesting such renewed and deep ar
, keen sense of the wrongs we ha,
h experienced from Great Britain in Canad
j in the matter of fisheries that they secor
n the presidents extraordinary somersaul
n and in the slang OF the Democratic hseler
IL they are "thirsting for Canadian gore" TT
"a Democratic papers were but short ii ne a.
y telling Massachusetts aud Maine that the
ia contemplate little question over a fe
Goldfish on the banks of Newfoundland w
II not worth consideration in the national co
If gress, and that if they kept annoying Il
"A country about it they would in the end dri
ar congress into giving the full markets of Il
M United States to all fishermen of the DOm
ion
MIR Blaine then referred to the treaty n
$ yotiated by Reyerdy johnson under Pres
N lens Johnson's instructions to settle the AL
N 1ama question, how it was rejected and
We new treaty negotiated by Grant, which sat-
actoriiy settled the matter, and continued
of Ibis strain at great length, arguing that
is svery negotiation with Democratic admi
el stration England has succeeded in obtainiI
IN the precise result she desired
IL
nd GEN. tiARRlSON'S OUTING.
d.
of At Work His Letter of Acceptance
nd Sunday nj Middle Bass.
of MIDDLE BASS ISLAND, O., Aug Git W
r. late Saturday NIGHT when Cen Harrison ,