The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-23
MORE CANADIAN OPINIONS

HOluWlil SIQlLn III toronto Sun-B6tOrS
the joint high commission, just as reci-
procity was coming on, the Canadian gov
eminent, for reasons best known to itself,
chose to raise the question of the Alaska
boundary and to insist on the priority of
that question. So we were told at the
time. The Americans being, as they said,
in possession and satisfied with their title,
were at first inclined to refuse arbitra-
ton, and for that course the British gov
eminent had just provided them with
very glazing precedent. To arbitration,
however, the question has gone, on data
perhaps as little satisfactory as those of
other questions concerning the delimta-
lions of territory which at the time was
an unknown wilderness. The result is UNI
welcome to us, but we have no reason for
doubling that it was the one to which,
on the data before it, the court was con-
strained to come. The British foreign Of
fee has always done for us the best that
diplomacy could do; it would be madness
to ask it to do more. Our counsel pre-
Sented our case well. 49, -.
Toronto Mail and Empire-It is pity
that Lord Alverstone does not give his
reasons for the judgment he has reached.
True, he is not compelled to- do so; but
statement explaining the position would
in all probability remove misconceptions
and aliay the feeling which the decision
evokes: From an examination Of the ar
guments as presented before the court,
the most probable view of the situation is
not that Lord Alverstone deliberately and
summarily rejected the Canadian conten-
ton, holding that the Dominion in such
dispute might readily be sacrificed, but
that he was influenced by the principle
of occupation and acquiescence, which
was very strongly pressed upon the court
Toronto Star-The man in the street
| periodically assumes that Canada had the
best case and has been victimized. Across
the international boundary the men on the
street assume-with no more and no less
+ knowledge of the case-that Canada hac
1 no claim at4all. Five or six million people
are angry in Canada, but if Washington
mad allowed "a different verdict to be Sc
cured from different court, sixty Q,
seventy million people in the republi,
would have been angrier still.
ManitobagFree Press-The merits of tn,
| case, to the satisfaction of one of tn,
parties to the dispute, can never be de
cided now. If Canada was right the de
| cision is iamentable; if she was wrong
1t is calam1tous that an impartial tribuna
could not have made this clear. AS
s is, the damage is irremedable. Cana
dlans, with very few exceptions, will &C
1 NSPt fW1euouIs question the statement q
their representatives that their interest
were sacrificed; and the resulting resent
ment Is certain to affect the attitude {
Canada toward the United States, ant
in q still greater degree, toward til
motherland.
Winnipeg ssTribune-That the decisio
was q political one is made pretty clea
: by the statements issued by the Canada
: Io~ ~
+ trick: to whfrI, our commissioners away +
the august presence of King Edward an
then to have the attempt made to betra
them into some expression of satisfactfeI
with the award-an expression influence
by the, presence of majesty The who
i business is calculated to make the ave,
. age democratic stomach sick. What
the use OF talking about binding the en-
, pre- together into 'one harmonious whole
f under such depressing circumstances
! The sooner Canada looks out for No.
/ the better it will be for all concerned.