The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-30

LoyDoN, March %. 1t is stated on
excellent authority that Rear Admiral
Hotham, of the Pacific squadron, has
received instructions to protect the Ca
madam sealers, in the event that no ar
rangement can be arrived at with the
United States Lord Salisbury was at
first inclined not to take this step, and
leave the matter alone, letting the Ca
nadians take their chances OF escape
from the American revenue cutters and
of litigation in the American courts. To
this Sir Charles Upper, the Canadian
high commissioner, strenuously OBJ
jected. He pointed out that such a
course would be in dishonorable con.
trast to the strong foreign policy which
has characterized Lord Salisbury's gov
ernment in other regions of the world,
and that failure to protect British sub
jects engaged in an occupation asserted
by Great Britain to be lawful would be
n virtual abandonment of all claim to
Canadian loyalty.
Sir Charles gavo Lord Salisbury to
understand that Canada demanded the
protection of England and that nothing
less than complete protection would be
satisfactory to her. people Should the
sealing issue result i'll war, the Cana.
dians would be prepared to do their
part and prove their loyalty on land;
but they must look to England for de-
fense at sea. Sir Charles urged that
England could afford quarrel on this
question with the United States as 1t
was question regarding which the
whole world would be on the English
side as against the claimant to mo-
nopoly of animals rowing the high seas
He also argued that there would be no
public sentiment in the United States
behind President Harrison and his cabi.
net in raising the issue; that 1t was re-
ally scheme on the part of few
very wealthy men, some Of them hold
ing high position, to stir up an anti
British feeling in order to sustain them
in monopoly from which they had
already accumulated millions, and that
he, Sir Charles, had reliable assurances
through special inquiries in different
parts of the United States that there
was no general public sentiment behind
the few men who were using President
Harrison.
The American people, said Sir
Charles, had no sympathy with monop-
olies in Alaska or anywhere else, and
when the whole history of the Alaska
monopoly was laid bare, as it inevita-
bly, would be II the quarrel was pushed
much farther, the American people
would be astounded. Sir Charles Is said
4, have pointed out that the natives of
the Aleutian Islands, although nomi-
rally entitled 10 all American rights,
tvere virtually the poems of the Alaska
Commercial Company, as they were
prevented, while in the islands OF which
they were natives, from pursuing any
other work than such as the company
gave them to do; that IL the people Of
the United States understood this fact
they would demand that the monopoly
should be swept out Of existence, and
that no part Of the territory Of the
be controlled by United States should
q chartered company.
The American people had spent thou
sands of millions OF. dollars, argued
Sir Charles, and sacrificed hundreds OF
thousands OF lives to put an end to
slavery thirty years ago, and they
would be amazed, he declared, when
they fully comprehendedt that they were
invited to go to war in order that form
ofmoditied slavery might be maintained
in the Aleutian Islands and part Of
the ocean made monopoly for the
benefit OF few millionaires
WASHINGTON, March s5.-The follow
ing are the essential features of the re-
ply Of President Harrison to the pro-
posals made by Lord Salisbury, and in
which Mr. Harrison asserts the rights
OF the United States:
WASHINGTON, March o., 1892.
SIR JULIAN PAuNCEForE-SR: I am d..
rected by the president 10 say that your note
dated the 18th inst has had his immediate at.
tention IN view OF the extreme urgency and
gravity OF the matter under discussion. The
urgency grows out OF the iact that much further
protraction OF this discussion will make any
modus that may be agreed upon Intellectual 10
protect the interests OF the United states and
Will give 70 the Canadian seaiers pracucal I'm
munity by reason OF impossibility OF communi'
eating TO them the agreed restrictions. II IL
known 70 this government that the sealers nave
hastened Their departure 10 escape notce OF q
possible modus and that every day adds 70 the
heet that must he overhauled ~ sea. Already
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