Show THE POUND OF FLESH Francis H Turnock a Canadian odl l tor bumptiously says in the Outlook hat respecting the late Alaskan award Canadas resentment Is not as much against the United States as ngainat Great Britain Canada did not look for my generosity from the United States she knew from past experiences In dl lomatlc l dealings with her southern neighbor that the Republic would Insist In-sist on her pound oC flesh I The cheek of itI When but for the pusillanimous abandonment by President Presi-dent Polk of our rightful boundary on he northwest there wouldnt have been any Alaskan question our boundary would have gone up to Russias and shut Canada off from the Pacific coast altogether And this sneak was made too after the people had put In that Polk administration on the distinct Issue Is-sue that the boundary up to the Russian hue should be insisted upon it was Fiftyfour forty or fight And even after that shameful abandonment Can a da < was allowed to bite a corner out of what was left on the northwest shore as any map will show But prior to that which party insisted on the pound of flesh when the north eastern boundary was up and we should have had the region up to the St Lawrence ence river But what did we get Let the map show A huge region equal to the area of a State was surrendered lo Canada and British persistence and arrogance Pound of flesh Indeed There has ever been a time when Canada did not presume upon her weakness and fretfulness fret-fulness to try to encroach upon our boundaries Usually she has succeeded this time she failed and that Is the whole story |