The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-08
TO STOP SEAL R A
a MARINE CORPS OFFICERS SIM.
PIE SCHEME.

PIE SCHEME.
Catch EN- with the Custom. Regulation.
He SayptW Worry En- with the LAW We've
cot, and No Internntionni Agreement.
Will he Necessary - Rusain's WAY.
Long before tho Bchring Sea Arbitration
Commission had devised Its Intellectual reEula.
tions for the prevention of poaching and tho
protection Of the seals OF the North Pacific:
even before there was enough Of a seal problem
so that the Arbitration Commission was talked
about, tho officers of the revenue cutter
service and of the Marine Corps who
had seen service In the North Pacific
were aware of q thoroughly effective meth
cd of doing all that the international reg
~ulations have failed so signally to accomplish.
It's the simplest sort of q scheme. and II lies en-
tiroly within the power OF the United States.
No help 10 needed from any other nation, and
the expense would not be as great as the expense
of the present inadequate patrol. in which Eng
land ostensibly plays a part without. in fact,
doing anything. A marine officer who happens
to DO in New York just now was talking about
the scheme to a SUN man the other day.
Its as simple as firing a gum he said. Our
customs regulations are most remarkably intri-
cate. They have been made to fit all sorts of
cases under all sorts of conditions. The way TO
get the seal pirates is to enforce these customs
regulations. Now you take Capt. Hooper. who
a"S oSoh a. III II DtuTlnR sea Lnlo
summer. He has been in service at the west
ward a great deal. and he knows the customs
regulations more thoroughly, perhaps. than any
other officer in the service. He understands all
the possibilities of the intricate mass of rules
which have been built up through many years.
Bend Capt. Hooper up there with orders to en-
FORCE the customs REGULATIONS on the pirates, and
Ilell very soon put an end to the business.
Not one of those fellows knows the regula-
npa Thay,rn yIa to,,cIn,t L. tho. g.
Llthered under the sun. They're ready for any
Vt OF escapade, and when they have been
owen out Of every civilized port on the globe
othem know anything of what is required Gt
teng OF navigation, and they sail their ships
IN hit-or-miss sort. of fashion, taking all sorts
rri,Es just because OF their sheer devilishness.
nme they 90 get into = scrape their reckless
on. here honest men would 60 TO the bottom.
iisht to be expected that such men should
mirac II they did. And in that fact lies The
csrtalty of their %undoing whenever the Gov
e tbn = makes up its mind to go after them in
pirates are rotten little. tubs. biige-bestunk
SGh % 9 lust a pack o. rotten plates putted
p pHs ~ t. some oroess of the n1s little nsrb21s or n9rts
one oitlem that doesn't violate some OF these
cnstohsregulations every time he sets foot on
- w wv ~ AS ne IL
to ses.and. He may not have the slight
o oft tb isensi0n 7. of of . doing Q 1t. but ignorance
3 break worry him. him. MAKE Make it ttmS h h3 m m@sss
possiblsand burn just as many Of t6om as you
can; Hye the law on him continually. There's
so little bout as the law. and they cannot afford
TO- hire lwycrs to fight for them. A first. class
regulatios. and wasn't AFRAID. would soon make
tnose leiiws mighty SICK mighty quick. Every
could rener a decision that there was proba bly,
cause Tor eizures. 9ne that would release the
II belieN that one good season, with Capt.
Hooper acting under tch instructions from the
Treasury Iepartmenta and with the Judge and
properly. w,uld put an end to the seal piracy.
II would make it so epensive that those fell
That's tn. sort of ting Russia does. but she
goes further. She VOTES the pirates, not only
IN port. but a: sea. ltHoopcr were aetins IN
der such instructionse would work 1t SO that
every boat that put int a port under his juris.
diction would be KIT out OF the hunt Tor at
least one sealing seast: But the Russians f-e-
auently put them outf the business for good.
knew OF one CASHMERE some pirates had
hauled their schoonei out on the beach on The
Russian coast for .fne repairs. While they
Russians sent a BOZ ashore and burned the
schooner up withou waiting for explanation
to them. 1t was twor three hundred miles to
anywhere, and the rates were left without a
plank and without aool to make one and with
out stores or provisns of any kind.
."'Nha are we Cog to do p they asked the
Russians.
I've don't know was the reply. and We
don't care
And they didn't are. That was the benuti-
ful effectiveness ofhe thing. They said the
pirates could walk. y into their boat. went ont
TO their cruiser. ansteamed off. The pirates
did walk, They strtGled and struggled along
that beach for two tndred miles or more. liy-
ing on raw CLANS anmussels and getting over
the stones and Erav,as best they could. Some
OF them died. but tyre a tough lot, and most
OF them got into Vdivostock. You may call
that sort of thing hin handed, but | tell YOU il
in the cruisers are SIT out to do.
You know / belve those seal patrol boats
or the Russians naer make report to head
quarters of what thy have done in such cases.
Some or these piratewho had to walk to Nladi-
vostock finally got ack TO This country. and
they made a 'greatroar about .tne outrage.
They sent statemets 10 Washington. and
Washington asked /. Peersburg about 1t ali.
the answer was tat :. Petersburg never
had heard about nnysuch thing. and was I'M
able to lind that it nd ever occurred. ! be-
lieve s.. Petersburg ns telling the truth. But
the thing did occn jrst the same, only IL
wasn't reported by tn cruise.
.,rhat sort of thing of conse. is not possible
with u.s.. a tremendous Juror would be raised
by the terrific inhunan!ty'of 1t. But, | tell
you. whom you come u knowthose pirates as
have known them. youwill cRnge your views
about humanity here re some human
brutes who can recognize andlave respect only
for brute force. The next he' thing to that in
effectiveness is the scheme I hire told you about,
inRton. and maybe he's beetrying It n little
on his own hook this summer. I haven't heard
what has been going on in Abka. This much
is sure: when 1t is tried 1t wilgork."