The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-06-01
CAUSE FOR PROTEST.
Canada's Vacillating Policy in tho
Boundary Controversy.
OUR MERCHANTS vIOTIMIzED.

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lures For Legitimate Business the
Lave Were So Changed rs to shat
Them Out, Involving Heavy Loss.
Washington. May 30.-Feeling It to
be necessary at this stage in the eX
changes between the United States and
Great Britain respecting the Canadian
boundary controversy that the exact
attitude Of the American commission
ers should be defined, and that the
people not only Of the United States
but Of Great Britain might have an op-
portunity to Judge for themselves of
the comparative rectitude OF the sc-
tions of the United States and Canada
respectively. the following statement
has been obtained from u prominent
person:
Canada continues TO Re land OF
surprises. The friendly protocol oi
Washington was signed on May so. 1898
for the adjustment Of all differences
between the United States and Canada
in most amicable spirit. The ink Of
that protocol was only well dry when
the province of Ontario discovered II
chance to exhibit her idea OF interna.
tional equity. American lumbermcn
had been invited to take timber limits
in that province with the privilege G;
cutting logs and exporting them to the
United States. The provincial govern
rlent, after giving them tneir Leases
and taking their money into the tire. =
nry, passed decree prohibiting the eX-
port of such logs, with the result OF
causing some bankruptcies In Micai-
gan.
During the sessions OF the commits
sion the same peculiar idea OF interpu-
tiunal justice was exhibited In another
province-that OF British Columbia
This time II was the mining interests
that were involved. The authorities
of that province took the money of the
American miners who had made the
discoveries of god, allowed them 10
spend thousands OF dollars in con-
structlng roadway to the scene OF
their interests and then proceeded to
change their laws to contine all suCA
mining privileges to British subjects
and British corporations.
Another such instance OF this kind
of practice worked out to American
nurserymen. They had taken contracts
to supply certain stocks to the Cans
dians, when. under the pretense ~
fear of San Jose scale, the CanadigN
authorities rCohibited any further i'm
portation of nursery stock. At the
same time the Canadian courts held
the Americans liable for violation of
the contract which their own laws had
caused to be vacated.
The Dominion government also
seems to share these peculiar prin-
ciples Of international intercourse In
respect to the boundary OF Alaska.
They protested Indignantly against
any conditions saving the existing
right OF Americans to the country to
be arbtrated. Years before the COM
missien met United States citizens.
without any question or protest against
their right to do so, had occupied the
head waters OF the Lynn canal and es-
tablished towns and settlements there
Canada had never asserted claim to
the region. The Americans had built
paths over the passes from the Lynn
canal beyond the mountains and es-
tablished communication with the
1ukOH ny intervening iuheo anu
streams This, too, was done without
protest or question Of their right to
pass over the mountain submits.
Under these circumstances the Uni
ted States commissioners thought II
right to withhold such tidewater set
Elements from the arbitrators' juris-
diction, and ii was against this limita-
ton that the Canadian commissioners
so vehemently protested. Now it seems
that Canada is protesting with equal
vehemence against arbitration. unless
the United States shall agree to give
them in any case the Pyramid harbor
region, to which they never before the
meeting of the commission asserted
any right, which they had never occu-
pied with n nag, or constable or Can
adian subject, or even canoe.
How they reconcile this claim with
their position in the commission in re-
spect to referring the boundary Ques-
ton to arbitration remains to be ex-
planned to the British government.
There seems little prospect OF adjust
ment of the boundary question If 1t is
left to the control of the Canadians.
IL they are to control the action OF
the imperial government 1t is import
ant to that government that Canada
should bring her ideas to conformity
with those which have hitherto guided
Great Britain and the United States
into the paths of peace and friendship.