Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-01
THE BASE AND SELFISH EAST.

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 After the appointment of a commis- sion, after the commission has gone to London and met a similar English Commission. after these two commis- sions have spent weeks arguing pro and con. in regard to the information al boundary line of Alaska, and after the American commission has success fully established the fact that Canada had no rights whatever 10 the strip ,if coast line claimed by her. and the commission has awarded all that the United States has contended for. enu about which there should never have been any arbitration in the first pla3a, now comes some Eastern journals and seriously propose to open to the Can adians by treaty an open port in the Lynn canal as an act of generosity eto the Canadian government
 It is the easiest possible thing to see the base and sordid motive Of the cringing and grovelling East in this proposal to surrender 10 Canada rights for which she fought SO hard and fair Iy lost, and after losing on her propo- sitiop, sits up and whines. even to the extent of dissolving her relations with the mother country.
 The section of the United. States making this proposition is anxious fer reciprocity with Canada. that, by this concession of giving the country 70 the north an open port, the doors of the Canadian ports will be opened to the manufacturers who adjoin her in New England, and in the Eastern States adjacent to New England.
 This is but another device, frequent ly pat in practice in the East, and which the East always tries to work for it's selfish benefit at the expense Of the remainder Of the country.
 The pigheadeGness If Canada has -isr, times past brought this country close to the lines of war with Great Britain, because the people of the snowshoe district have sought our pos sessions. Millions upon millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives have stood in the deepest dan ger, and only within the past few years, because the people of the Unit ed States have withstood. :he greedy fingers Of Canada in grabbing at any piece of ground in Alaskan territory that she could put them on.
 Canada never had thought about or for Alaskan territory until the year 1896. h that year the news about the fabulous finds of gold began to trickle out to the people of the world. h 1897 this excitement grew, until the year 1898 the greatest stampede into the frozen north occurred, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of lives in the eager search for gold. The American min CTS discovered the gold for the Cana 6ians, showed them how to work the frozen placers, were unmescifully roDb- ed and jobbed by the most consummate set of grafters and looters that ever disgraced the names applied to them. and could have opened g night schoc; to Boss Tweed in the palmiest days of his rule of New York. From the debauched and corrupt judge who pro fessed to administer lew in the Yukon. through every grace of office the American miner was 70 de 10 fec! ;he graft and say they liked it.
 Now that Alaska is demonstrating on the American side her wonderful resources, minerally, agriculturally and for grazing, cattle raising, fisher ies, the East would have the country give up to these grabbing. envious neighbors, what is becoming Of i'm mense value to the country. It would he the rankest injustice to our Amer ican traders with the Yukon country 10 now go over and hand to Canada voluntary invitation to accept half our victory, and possess themselves Of more than half our commerce to ane through the Lynn Canal. Ii the oues- ton was left to the persons who went into the Yukon country in the early days 10 settle. and to the miners par ticularly, there wouldn't be a Cana dian permitted to ever put his foot in Alaska