The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-19
OUT OF LEADING STRINGS.

made an important discovery in the
progress of it's endeavors to preserve
to the North American Commercial
company the monopoly and profits OF
catching seals in Boring sea. 1t mas
that the reason why Salisbury insists
upon holding the conference appointed
for this month to it's first purpose of
ascertaining the truth about the alleged
decrease of the herds, and refuses to
join the Observation-Disclosures convention,
is because Canada wants him to do the
one and refuse the other. There is
some heat in the tones of the inspired
announcements from Washington that
betoken an unpleasantness and a sur
prise in this discovery. 1t would not
be cause for wonder, aside from every
other reason, did England consult
Canada in this matter, for, beyond the
curing, dressing and dyeing Of the skins,
still wholly an English industry, Eng
land has no interest, while Can
ada has, in fact, a larger inter-
est than we have; for sealing is
open to all her citizens, while it is
closed to all of ours except the COM
pany named.
But the administration might have
learned that Canada is out of leading
strings had it paid due attention to the
events of the queens jubilee The first
note of warning that the colony had
merged into the nation was sounded
by Kipling in his famous poem, ''The
Lady of the Shows" famous not only
because it was the first tariff poem ever
written, but because it proclaimed the
Dominion a nation
nation spoke to nation
A queen sent word to throne;
Daughter l in my mothers house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates mine to open
AS the gates mine to close,
And l set my house in order"
Said our Lady of the Shows.
Preceding that was the passage of
the Canadian tariff act, that designedly
set aside the commercial treaties of
England with Germany and Belgium,
with it's discriminating reduction Of du-
ties. adopted in the face of statements
that the tariff would be ineffective as
against those countries unless the trea-
ties were denounced. Then came Laur-
| ier's visit to England and his notice to
| Chamberlain that his scheme of Zoli-
verein would not be accepted by Cana
da, coupled with his distinct deelara-
| ton that Canada was already nation
whose relations to England left her so
free that she did not desire separation.
TIL n came England's notice to Belgium
and Germany of the termination of the
| treaties that admitted to the ports of
her colonies their merchandise on terms
as favorable as were accorded to Eng
land All these things might have in
formed the administration that Canada
was no longer to be dealt with as a de-
tendency of England to be snubbed at
pleasure and cold-shouldeTed whenever
she made advances looking to closer
trade relations, as an impertinent child
that ignored its parent.
The administration will learn that
| its international busybody is not as
cute as he thought himself when he
devised his little scheme of a quadri-
| lateral international convention to
| frame restrictive regulations for seal
| ing, and invited England to join. Cana
da does not purpose walking into that
parlor to be outvoted by Russia,
japan and the United States, one of
which sets up a sixty-mile zone, one of
| which does not care much for seals,
anyway, and the other of which has
set up the absurd claim to a monopoly
of thous ands Of miles Of open sea. Were
the United States in Canada's place,
| then neither would be so simple as to
! be caught so easily.