Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-17
AMERICAN INTEREsTS,


 Once more the great American eagle flaps it's wings, for though the first five points in the Boring Sea controversy were decided against the United States, the gen eral effect of the decision is 8 concession of much importance to this country and Uncle Sam can afford to pay the little bills which are incurred.
 And the seals will have 8 season of peace. The wholesale slaughter of these harmless innooents of the sea for the sake of the mighty dollar has bsen barbarous in the extreme. The interference of the na tiona in behalf of this defenceless and val uable animal Is most timely and praise worthy, and it wss needed, for the decima- tion Of the seal has been frightful and has threatened their total extinction. Once over the quiet plains of the mighty west thundered ths buffalo In his countless herds. Only twenty years ago there seemed no end to their numbers. Now but few sorry specimens remain, and attempts under na tional auspices gre being mads to save the race from total aEnihilation. The United States will have no proud American eagles soon unless the laws for their protection are more rigidly enforced. Once, too, the air was, in the season, darkened for hours by the immense focks of wild pigeons that were engaged in migratory flight either to breeding places or to feeding places. Our residents can easily recolleot when the woods of Fair Haven Heights and Esst Haven were annually visited by large focks of these birds. Now the days of the wild pigeon ara over, and the focks ara numbered with other his- torio facts. So, 1t ia with joy in a human itsrian point of view, that the great Amer joan public will regard these international measures for the protection of the Ameri- can seal, aud, in a commercial point of view, the action is of course also highly important. The ladies, moreover, will re- joice with sincere joy that protection is to be afforded the seal by two such distin- guished and powerful agencies as the Brit ish lion and the American eagle. To lose forever the seal would be a deprivation in deed that the ladies would feel most keen- ly, and no doubt it is owing in part to their potent intercession and in difference to their necessities that the wise, learned and august body that sat in discussion and de- bate over the question was appointed to the work, and has wrestled so faith fully with the subject, The seal Is to be protected. Protection is good for the American seal. It has also worked splen- didly for American industries. It has en coursged and developed msnufa curing in America to vast extent. It has multi piled our manufactories on every hand furnished employment to myriads of men and women, and at wages far sup erior tc those paid in the old world. It has fos tered industries which without 1t, would have pe1ished in competition with tho low wages paid across the water or whicl never could have been established withou it, and by its aid these industries hay, grown and prospered until now unde protection they defy competition and hav also in many cases greatly lowered tn price of the articles manufactured d as we'll The menace to the country prosperity to-day, far more serious thai the silver question is the menace to Amer ican industries and the free trade wages tt ensue if the democratic platform is carri& into effect.