Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-09
TEMPERANCE DAY.
The Hyde Park Demonstration
Against Saloon Pension Bill.
Growing Sentiment in Germany Against
the Yearly Increase in the War
Budget Great Sale.
England's Probability of Taking Up Arms to
Settle the Bebring Sea and Nswfound-
land Difficulties.
copyrighted, 1890, by the United Press
RERRINa SEA FIsHsRIRs.

BERRING SEA FISHERIES.
Special to the Gazette.
LONDON, June THE warlike tone Of the Lon
don Times in regard to the seal fisheries OF Ben
ring sea finds no echo in any influential quarter.
Nevertheless, the fact that the Times is in close
sympathy with Salisbury's government gives
quasi official character to its utterance and 1t is
The impression in well-informed circles that
British vessls of war will be found cruising at
an earIy date in the waters where sole jurisdic-
ton is claimed by the I'm TED States' but thaG
this action will be taken without parade or
noise, and not as if seeking any conflict with
America. The ownership of Alaska by the
American republic is a very sore fact Tor the
Englishman, interfering as it does with access
from the Canadian dominion 10 me
vast possessions OF Great Britian in North
America from reaching sGuarely to the north
ern boundary of the continent The bit
terness over this condition of affairs, which has
existed ever since Russia sold Alaska TO the
United States, has been much stimulated oy the
development OF the great wealth OF waters al,
joining the territory, and England IS determined
to prevent, if possible, Americans from having
n monopoly of that wealth; but the popular
sentiment in Great Britain at present, as during
the American civil war, is favorable TO the
United States. and would not eountenance any
hostile attitude or act towards Am erica, now,
ever much now. as then, Tory aristocracy would
like to strike blow at the great republic whose
institutions they abhor, and whose prosperity IS
a standing menace to the system OF class priVl-
leges in England.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARREL.
The British cabinet is also following con-
ciliatory policy in dealing with the French
aggression on the coast of Newfoundland. The
Newfoundland difficulty is legacy of the Amer
can revolution, the privileges then confined to
France by the treaty Of Paris having been OBJ
tanned by that country as q compensation for IT'S
share in the successful struggle of the colonies
for independence. The treaty provides that in
nrfn at tlln ffCha me n n
not engage IN daily quarrels, his BRUSH majesty
was pleased to engage that he would take most
pesitiVe2neRsures for preventing his subjects
from Ataffdpting the fishing of the French, and
tIfAfhe would give orders that French fishermen
tshould not be incommOded in the cutting OF
wood necessary for the repair of their scaffolds,
huts and fishing boats. The Salisbury
ministry claims that by the terms of this
and other treaties the French government
has no right to exercise any force in supporting
its fishermen in the enjoyment of the fisheries
conceded by England, but ought to be contented
with asking Great Britain to protect the french
from the NewfoundlanderS. The french do not
admit this, but assume the right OF virtual
police over an extensive line OF the Newtound-
land coast. While a portion OF the French press
shows disposition to discuss the matters in
dispute in an amicable way, the expressions OF
the French government and OF some OF the
prominent newspapers are decidedly aggressive
and anxiety manifests itself in England as TO
the result of the negotiations. There is much
more possibility OF war between England and
France over the Newfoundland difficulty, than
of any hostile encounter with the Americans in
Behring sea, for the popular sentiment
which favors q kindred feeling toward
America is and has always been
unfriendly to France. Newfoundland is, how
ever. in poor condition to give assistance to
the government in the event Of war. England,
while strengthening British Columbia with one
OF the most formidable fortresses of the age,
providing ample protection for Canada and
Nova Scotia, and now proposing grand system
of Notifications in Australia, has strangely
neglected NewfounGlanders which stands out
in the Atlantic, the gateway to the British col
ones in North America. st. Johns is without
defense There is no military force on the
island and the colonial police is too insignia
icant to be taken into consideration. The peo-
France, whom they look upon as enemies and
trespassers, but they are without the requisite
arms and equipment for war.