The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-16
VINO Haul
DOWN The FLAG?
The Presidents Question Answered.
ByHis Own Agents.
SAYS DEMOCRATIC HANDBOOK.
q Strip of Land in Alaska Twenty
Miles Wide Turned over to Great
Britain and the Flag
Comes Down.
SAYS DEMOCRATIC HANDBOOK.
Especial Dispatch to The Ti,nesa

u Especial Dispatch to The Times )
WASHINGTON. d. C.. Sept. 15.-Fol-
lowing is the manner IN which the Demo
cratic campaign text book for 1850 dis
3 russes the Alaskan boundary dispute,
whose present status is that the United
States agrees to surrender 1900 square
aeet OF American territory to an English
colony.
President Mckinley's question who
HfIl haul down the fag?. has just been
answered through his agents and under
his instructions by the hauling down OF
the American flag by himself. on Ameri-
can territory. The United States bought
Alaska from Russia in 1867. It is bound-
I'D on the East by British territory The
bundary line was established in 1875 in
treaty between Russia and Great Brit
ain
The diplomatic correspondence which
preceded the settlement of that line shows
that tue demand of Russia, to which Great
Britain finally assented, was for a bound
airy which should give Russia absolute
control of the seacoast above 81 degrees
10 minutes and To prevent access to it
by Great Britain through any inlet or
navigable stream. The description of that
boundary was copied into the treaty Of
1867 between Russia and the United States,
by which Alaska became ours This
boundary line was laid down in the Brit
ish Admiralty map, and remained undis-
puted more than seventy years.
"a Canadian conceived the idea CT NOV
ing 1t to the westward SO that IL would
cross the heads of some navigable streams
and inless. This would enable British
subjects to have water access to the klon-
dixie mining region far ip the interior
Of the British possessions;
CANADIAN. QUARRELS
1"The Canadians, who have always kept
na hand two or three QuarreiS with the
United State finally prevailed upon their
Government virtually to farm out her
treaty-rnaking power to a Canadian COM
mission. Instead of meeting this offer
nv a proposition to appoint a similar COM
mission of citizens Of the State of Wash
.ngton. which borders on the Canadian
territory. our Government met this Cana
Clan commission by the appointment of
full United States commissioners
various questions Were discussed. and
some OF them. were apparently arranged for
when suddenly there came check 10
an proceedings in the shape OF Cana
t,ar demand for q. portion of the Amerl-
ran territory of Alaska Two insulting
Rr,t1sh claims were refused discussion by
the United States; one was 10 SUBSTITUTE
ms one of the natural boundaries me
Rehnn canal or channel. instead on Inc
1Unn Channel, which is named IN me
treaty: the other was that III lne meas
,,-in.. of the strip of ten leagues from the
-. . ee.st we should start at the west coast
~ me islands lying along the coast IN
,-a,a or at the coast of the continent.
.srTh,s would IN some parts have le1l US
-, +7,a continent entirely. No agree
,,ent was arrived at. the Cananiaas peins
bent upon having some OF the Aiiie4 Li ~
territory needed by them for access iof.
vessels to the sea- Ana 50 the eoit. :,
mission adjourned.
IOyESICK, PERIODS
oomnoencea one of those love
...f- nar;ods between the British Ampas-
s.sor al Washington and our State De
1.rtment. British diplomacy always. con-
rssts in demanding some of the TERRITORY
adjoining her, and never yieloins. 'its
.,1i,,-I sha nnssessed herself OF slice OF
Maine nearly sixty years ago. ana Oh
Rritish Columbia, then part OF oregon
in 1876. In this latest Alaskan 1iesoti<F
ton. Lord Pauncefote consented " .aAe
portion of our Alaskan TERRITORY teni-
porarily. leaving its real ownership ~ "
ascertaned afterwards
.sy,T+er the United States is bulldozed
nv Great Britain into accedinSNto an lnso-
lent demand for territory, put IS alraiu
of arousing the popular Indignation pe
fully announcing its surrender dEeat
Britain makes it a little easier by agree
ing TO call It temporary. Such an ar.
rangement is called s'modus ViVenal.
In the present case the matter was az
lowed to simmer along Tor year, anu
the people had well-nigh forgotten me
whole subject, when suddenly there comes
the announcement that an American sur
yeyor. in obedience to the instructions OF
,iarf
Eivenli. has found that Secretary Hay,
with President Mckinley's approval has
turned over strip of territory twenty
miles in width TO the British Government,
and that in SO doing he has nauied down
the American flag over a great mining
district in which American miners were
digging the gold from our soil which II
IS the desire and intention OF Great
Britain to steal.
when Lord Pauncefote dictated the
tmodus yivendi' he evidently knew that
line to demand in order to drive Ameri-
can miners from American territory and
surrender it to British miners. In other
words. he knew over Just what portion OF
Alaskan territory il was desirable to have
an American President and an American
Secretary of State haul down the flag
of the United States.
HOSTILE FOOTSTEPS.
In all this trNsaction Lord Pauncefote
might as we'll Have been Secretary OF
State for the United States as the one we
had. and Lord Salisbury might as well
have been our President as Mr.. Mckinley.
Hostile footsteps press American soil.
United States honor is insulted. United
States sovereignty is defied, and United
States territory is insolently invaded by
British subjects through faithless COM
piiance with British demands by the Nc
Kinley administration. All this has been
done without saying to Congress: BY
your leave and without submitting to
the Senate a treaty for its ratification or
rejection. If the President can thus sur
render American territory at his will,
how much further have we to go to reach
imperialism It is an insult to Americans
10 excuse this on the ground that it is
only temporary arrangement. The