Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 5 | longest Frontier the Most Peaceful

LONGEST FRONTIER THE MOST PEACEFUL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Praises Treaty With U. S. NEW YORK, March 17. One hundred hun-dred years of peace between Canada and the United States has been in great measure the outcome of the Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817, limiting armament on the great lakes, in the opinion of both Sir Charles Fitzpatriclt, chief justice jus-tice of the supreme court and deputy governor general of Canada, and Si'r Edmund Walker, chairman of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, who spoke at a hmehcon of the Lawyers1 club in this city today. "It would be hard to overrate the blessing that agreement has been to our countries," the chief justice said. "And what an object lesson has been here for the rest of the civilized world. The longest frontier on the earth's surface has at the same time boeu the most defenseless de-fenseless and 1 ho most safe. "If there had been the slightest disposition dis-position to bad faith on either side," he added, "the Rujh-Bagot agreement would have been broken a score of times." Sir Edmund Walker asserted that the agreement transformed the lakes from ' ' a dividing line between two embittered embit-tered peoples into the greatest agency I of peaco and industry in the whole world."