Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-28
BRITONS RANT AGAIN.
STIRRED Up ny THE BERlNG SEA
CONTROVERSY.
MAD BECAUSE BLUFFS DON'T GO
WILD TALK OF PREPARING FOR
"sERIOUs, PRACTICAL ACTION,
London Chronicle Says the Rest Rule
in Dealing With American De-
mands Is TO Refuse Them
Bluntly, Without Cir
cumfocution.
MAD BECAUSE BLUFFS DON'T GO
London, Sept. 2s.-The st. James Gazette

London, Sept. 2S.-The ST. James Gazette
says:
1T is quite clear that no concession we
can make and no display, however sincere,
of our wish to be friendly has ayailed one
jot to disarm the bitter hostility of those
Americans who are always ready for ag-
gressive action. Neither is there a shred
of evidence to show that the cold, passive
dislike which so many Americans who are
friendly enough to the individual English
man feel for the British government has
been warmed in the least degree"
Recalling ex-Secretary Olneys diGtum
that all connection between Il European
and an American state is in itself unna1-
ural the st. James Gazette adds:
That some such doctrine is working in
the American is evidenced by many signs,
OF which the persistent nursing of the
| Bering sea dispute is not the least. This is.
| ia itself, a fact of which We and the other
governments interested in America must
| take note. not as an excuse for losing our
| heads and rushing to meet an evil half
| way, but as good reason for clearing our
action
| The Daily Chronicle says:
| neral relations between the
| United States and Great Britain need not
| be affected in the least, wether the British
government agrees to the sealing con-
| ference or not. The conference would hard.
| ly be expected to go beyond the collection
of information 1t would bind nobody and
| could have no mandatory effect. No new
situation will arise if we refuse the Invita-
| ton"
The Morning Post says:
| 1T is the clear object of the party in
/ congress-. of which Mr.. Dingley is spokes-
man. not to pursue a dispassionate inquiry
into the natural history of the seal, but to
secure a verdict against the occupation of
Canadian fishermen outside the zone OF the
Priblyoff islands.
The sealing controversy is pursued be-
n iryll (f
girding at Great Britain and enables them
| to worry a certain number of their Cana
dian neighbors. Illustrations of this kind
will gradually teach our people that the
best rule in dealing with American de-
mands is to refuse them bluntly without
circumlocution- They do not originate in
the nation to injure and humiliate US"
The Times this morning says:
THE insistance of the American govern
ment upon either an international confer
ence or the admission of representatives Of
Russia and Japan at the meeting of ex-
perts can only tend to delay an agreement
on the basis of ascertained facts and to
render it improbable that the new regula-
tons will be 1 ready to be enforced in the
'.It is obvious that conference between
| the United States. Russia and Japan with
out England could not in the smallest de-
gree AFFECT the binding character of the
Paris award. I
"a revision of the award should be de-
| termined by the common agreement of the
governments Of the United States and
Great Britain. No other powers have any
right to a controlling voice therein 1t
may be added that as the American claim
| was founded originally on the contention
| that the United States is the successor in
| title to all the rights of Russia in the Ber-
| ing sea, 1t seems a strange proceeding to
contend that Russian interests in that
| quarter justify demand for the separate
| representation of n power not implicated
\ In the award.
when Great Britain has settled with the
United Soates whether the regulations are
to be revised and in what way there will
| be, nothing to prevent the governments
| from negotiating their extension to the
| Western coasts of the Pacific ocean, where
| the sealing grounds are under the author
| ity of Russia and Japan"