The Irish standard., 1902-04-12
REMOVING BOUNDARY MARKS,

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The latest intelligence from distant
Alaska is to the effect that Canadian
surveyors have been detected in the
act of removing the boundary monu
ments erected by the Russian govern
ment between British and Russian ter
ritory prior to the cession of Russian
America to the United States. 1t is
said that President Roosevelt has
ordered an army officer to proceed tc
Alaska for the purpose of determin
| ing the truth Of the report.
If the Canadians are guilty of effac.
ing boundary lines it is the worst thing
they could possibly do for the adjust,
ment Of their fraudulent claims. 1t is
well for them that John Hay is filling
the chair once occupied by James G..
Blaine and Richard Olney. To avoid
any friction between the United States
and the Mother Country during the
Anglo-Boer war, the high joint COM
mission ceased it's labors, and John
Hay, in the goodness of his British
heart, granted the Canadians permits
sion to take American territory and
Use it for all it is worth as if it were
their own. Such magnanimity, at the
expense of the American people, is
uneXampled in THE history of nations.
Not satisfied with what they got
from Hay, the Canadians are evidently
extending their Entertainments, and be-
fore they stop they will claim that all
Alaska is theirs! J. w. Ivey, the
American Collector of Customs at Sit
ka, protested vehemently against Can
adam aggression, but he got his walk
ing papers for exhibiting old-fashioned
patriotism. In a recent letter he says:
"Greater by far than the eNtermina-
ton Of the seal herd by English poach-
ers, or the thousand and one acts of
commercial pllage by citizens of that
| nation, is the gradual encroachment,
like tides of the sea, inch by inch. mile
by mile, Of the Canadians upon our
soil. Here they destroy Russian
landmark, there an American monu-
| ment.
"Whilc our government is doing alb
solutely nothing, the Canadian govern
ment has several forces Of surveyors in
the field, securing data and statistics
for final struggle, in which they will
lay claim to the richest collaborating
regions Of the North.
ut should make the blood of every
American citizen boil to know that
American miners on American soil are
subjected to the tyrannical taxes of
armed Canadian officials in THE form
of fines, fees and duties"
A great deal will depend on the re.
port of the military officer who has left
for Alaska. Nobody accuses Theodore
Roosevelt Of tAnglomania. He is un,
questionably a patriotic American who
will perform his duties faithfully and
fearlessly. Thus far he has had the
disadvantage of having Hay in his
cabinet but once convinced that Tho
British lackey would sacrifice Amer
lean rights to please Lord Pauncefutc
Theodore Roosevelt would demand hi.
resignation and appoint stalwarr
American in his place. If Canadian.
have been guilty of acts of CONNER
cial nillagc and of high-handed pro
ceedings against American miners OF
American SELL we believe that Presi
dent Roosevelt will sternly call hal
and drive them back to their own ter
ritOry. Give them an inch and they
will take an English ell The sooner
the Alaskan boundary question is dis
posed of the better will it be for boil
Canadians and Americans.