The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-19
DEEP CHAGRIN IN CANADA.
SERIOUS CRITICISM OF THE
 BOUNDARY DECISION.

the Improved AngIo-saxon Friend- ship-One London Paper Regards the Decision as q Very Serious Blow to Arbitration. -a Toronto, Oct 1S.-In an article on the reported decision of the Alaskan bound | ary commission practically conceding | ali the claims of the United States the Globe (Government) tomorrow will make point os the value to Canada of Pearse and Wales islands, the lat ter of which practically commands Port Simpson, the probable terminus of the new Canadian trans-continental rail- way, and says the decision giving these islands to Canada is of great import ance. The Globe continues: aNo doubt one of the British comnlis- sioners shrank from the dangerous deadlock that would have ensued had both sides refused to give way in re- gard to the ownership of the head of the Lynn canal. The fact that Ca- madam goods are bonded across the coast strip makes the Lynn canal ques- ton less important than it otherwise would be- Canada will nevertheless be deeply disappointed with the decision in regard to the ownership of the arms of the sea in the disputed territory. The finding is a compromise in which neith- CT side gets all it set out to secure. Decision is final. however. and there will be no marking back. Every foot of boundary line is now settled forever with no possibility of further strife"
 After pointing out that the terms of the arbitration were most unfair and that the United States showed slight confidence in the judicial soundness Of it's claims by refusing to accept neu- tral arbitrator the World (Opposition) will say:
 Imperial statesmen or rather Eng fish statesmen, for they do not appear { to have grasped the meaning of 1n- perialism, regard the friendship cf the United States as pearl beyond price provided this country has to pay for it.
 'sThese easy trirmphs for American diplomacy in the settlement of bo,lrla- ary disputes are full of dangerous pos abilities. There is a broad frontier be- tween Canada and the United States. If raising a boundary claim is to make subsequent acknowledgment a mere matter of form the Americans are like ly to make our frontier bristle with boundary issues before Canada is much older
 Montreal. Oct. lS.-C Commenting upon the decision of the Alaska boundry com mission the Gazette tomorrow will say:
 "Canadians generally did not expect much from the arbitration commission. The commission was not an arbitration tribunal such as could be expected to decide on the weight of evidence no matter which side suffered. The three representatives of the United States were hardly open to conviction" 1"
 The Journal will say in part: .'The re- suit had been seen from the beginning. Tn accepting the decision of a commis- sion named equally by the two parties to the case England plainly indicated 9 disposition to no longer sustain the con- tentions of Canada but to sacrifice them in the hope of securing the disappear ance of cause of continual friction with the United States.
 .sTo-day we find ourselves conte1n- plating, not the decision of an arbitra- tion commission. but a diplomatic ar rangemen wherein our clear rights have been sacrificed without any return"
 Le Canada, which is the personal or. gan of the Canadian minister of marine and fisheries. will say:
 'Lord Alverstone, the representative of Great Britain, has ranged himself or the side of the Americans and decided favorab1y to the Americans all along tht lien save for one little concession through the grace of which it is hopet to excuse this shameful equalization Through the treaty MT. Chamberlain signed with Mr. Hay Canada is com pelled to accept the decision of the tri bunal and to submit to the voice of tn, majority In word Chamberlain ha E given 1t to us in the neck. He was tn whole machine. He issued his instruc tions before he Jeff the colonial office he refused to heed the protests of Can ada against the personality of tn American commissioners; he gave LOT kAlVeFStOIle HIS l6SSOIl dilu HSaIldud wa condemned before the case was heard We have one more instance of the be trayal of our interests to add to the lon lisS of British defections. The decisio of the Alaska commission is rude bloy to the cause of imperialism in Canada.
 London, Oct. 19.-Few of the mornin newspapers publish editorial articles O the decision of the Alaska boundar tribunal. The Daily Telegraph ex presses extreme satisfaction that al agreement has been reached, because failure would have dealt blow to tn policy, still in it's frail and tender in fancy, of settling differences of thi character by arbitration. The pape hopes that no attempt will be made 0 either side to reckon up scores or clair a victory, but that the decision will | accepted in good faith. It adds tha the Canadians must recognize it to b better not only for the Dominion, br for the empire, that Great Britain an the United States live on terms C friendship and cooperation than ths in every frontier dispute Canada shoul get the better of the republic.
 The Standard is of the opinion ths each side in the Alaska boundary dis pute got in essence what it wanted. says the demand for access by one sid and the denial of it by the other form ed the very kernel of the controversy.