The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-30
CANADA IS CAIDED
LONDON PRESS DEPRECATEs AC-
TION CALCULATED TO CAUSE
BREACH WITH AMERICA
PLAIN TALK INDUCED IN
MCONSISTENCY OF THE AMERICAN
ADMINISTRATION POINTED
OUT BY REVIEW
WAR IN PHILIPPINES CITED

WAR IN PHILIPPINES CITED
LawIessness I'm Cleveland Strike
Also Referred TO-Review Con-
cIudes British Government Should
Not Urge Canada Beyond Reason
able COncessiOn-Amertc Poll
ties Discussed in London.
Copyright by the Associated Press
LONDON, July 29.-The Alaskan boun-
dary dispute again looms large in the
newspapers, and a heated discussion is
raging for and against the latest sugges-
ton that a harbor should be leased to
Canada. The official view seems to favor
this compromise as general basis for
a friendly arrangement. 1t is pointed out
that, as the United States, Canada and
Great Britain have to live as neighbors,
and In their hearts desire to live as
friends, neither side can afford to act as
II this was to be the last transaction to
be arranged, and as the main question at
issue, though almost lost to view among
the multitude of irritating side issues,
was an easy access to the Klondike, the
lease of a harbor would seem to meet
the needs of Canada.
EXTREME VIEW.
On the other hand the Saturday Review
Eoices the feeling of a considerable num-
Der in pointing out that in accepting the
proposed settlement Canada debars her
self from again raising the question of
territorial rights, and becomes a mere
Hcensee, where she claims to be the own
er in fee simple. Many think the pro-
posed compromise would lead to endless
complications and annoyances, acts of
retaliation and liability of one side to
exceed their own or restrict the others
rights. In the compromise the Saturday
Review thinks Canada should in no way
cOncede her right under international law,
unless she receives considerable conces-
sions from the United States in other
questions before the commission.
The Saturday Review proceeds to claim
that Canada now suffices by herself, both
politically and economically, and has no
further need of the United States; that
only the most factious policy on the part
of Great Britain could revive the annexa-
ZIONIST party in Canada, and asks what
possible reason Canada can have for In
voIving the country in the gravest inter
national questions. The article concludes
as follows:
SOME PLAIN TALK.
with thousands of Americans slaugh-
tering Filipinos, whom they want to be
free while the truth is concealed from
the public by methods worse than Rus
sas as an instance of external aggres-
sion, and with a reign Of terror in Cleve
land, where a tram strike is conducted
with nitroglycerine bombs, as an exam
pie of internal convulsion, there is raised
the grave question of what will happen
when the present tide of prosperity turns.
Therefore, to urge Canada to so beyond
the bounds of reasonable concession
would be good neither for her nor the
empire
In connection with the Alaskan dispute
Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, formerly sec
retary of state for the home department
in a Canadian paper recently repudiated
remarks which he had made to the cor
respondent here of the Associated Press
When Mr.. AsQuith was visited by the
correspondent today to ask wherein he
had been inaccurateIy reported, Mr. As
Quith said:
What I said to you was said in the
course Of casual conversation. I have
said nothing in public about the Alaskan
question, and have not given leave for
? any utterance on the matter to be pub
lished. Any interview I always revise,
and like to have it in my own words. I
uttered no sentiment rejecting on Canada
at any time I therefore could not adopt
the utterances in question, and when my
attention was directed to them 1 was as
a public man bound to repudiate what
had evidently been published as a public
utterance."
OHIO POLITICAL CONFERENCE.
The simultaneous presence in London
of Congressman c. H. Grosvenor and r
E. Burton and H. A. Garfield, coupled
with the announcement that United
States Senator M. A. Hanna will soon
arrive here. is believed to indicate the
possibility of an important Ohio polit-
ical conference here next week.
H. L. Chapman, who was the Demo
cratic candidate for senator from Ohio IN
the election of 1879, and who is just clos
ing an European tour, says that despite
the action of his friends, he VIII not be
a candidate before the Ohio Democratic
convention in the autumn. Mr.. Chapman
thinks that John r. Mclean. of Cfncin.
natl will be the nominee, though he SAYS
it is difficult to select the winner amone
the multitude of entries. Mr.. Chapman
says that with riots in Cleveland an(
dissatisfaction regarding the war In the
Philippines this looks like i Democratic
year.
AMERICAN INRUSH