New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-14

annually inding large and promising Investment IN
Sand ids di'heI'0 un0'Vei0Pea resources o. TINS vas
and Pse sos bs in aHS S
Miquelon Isles is only the dimsiest II Is prepos-
have been mentioned VIZ be tolerated by Britain
and America when vast labor giving industries are
French fishermen who have only a right of sum
of Ne%fGnngsnS 20 he Thcla case IS AN anomaly
in these GAYS and the United states, with her un-
French exactioas as is Great britain though the
United States does not figure prominently in it.
as she does not possess any territorial soveregnty
1t Is not so serious 10 turn the tables on the
asserts its own independence and authority when
ever 1t can. though it has to move cautiously Pc
head by the imperial Parliament to "coerce the
lard would not consent a nodrs vIvendi arranged
between France and England at her expense. con-
cabinets continued until 1895 when Mr.. Chamber
whole subject of thes9 French treaty rights That
commission reported so strongly in favor Of New
been able TO publish The report SINCE fearing the
nf I'M roT Tg me io1e tbsir cotonsts The facfs
however. could not be hushed by the Ministry. and
action since then Hence it is that last season the
colonial authorities sent a revenue cutter 10 the
the smuggling practices of the French. -
necessaries OF their industry free OF duty but grad
fy bar OUT to hC Cg 1eWr psd
and disregardin;s the colonial customs laws alto
o Ee theF Sc de6tois in the colonial courts for ia
bties thus inc Irred. The crusade last season put
a end to this traffic for good and all. Some Of
tenders were fined much as 500 each; others
resisted the police and had to fly TO escape impris
onment. and others compromised by paying duties
what they had imported UnlawfUlly and under
French fla gship appealed to wnen TIE crusade
began but the commodore Informed them that he
powerless. they had broken the colonial
laws and he could not interfere 10 protect them
a very significant admission in the circumstances
The advice which has been given 10 the York
Harbor Mining Company by the shrewdest local
observers s disregard the French protest alto
gether and continue work If nothing had Oc-
CURED, trusting to their American nationality TO
them from active obstruction by the French
warships.. 1t is recognized that France, to main
she has always contended for. must continue to
protest against this. against all previous build
ings there. but that her warships will prevent
American capitalists from carrying on an industry
which does not injure French fishermen, Is doubt
full seeing that for the French to to the length
Of actual forciDe prohibition would be to risk a
rupture with Washington and all the dangerous
possibilities that would involve
However II that does cone. ard operations are
suspended. the company Will have n claim against
the British Government for damages. and will
doubtless recover substantial sum But 1t IS not
likely that the difficulty will reach that point, for
France eager to make trouble for herself
with the United States and that would be the Ger
tain result II the policy OF interference with this
mining venture 20 be carried into effect as Is
now threatened. The incident Is chiefly instructive
indicating the dubious value of American treaty
concessions along coast line only four days run
from New-Nork. with the two PARTNERS in the ar
rangement the foremost powers in Western Europe