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Show a or:. qui.Mio. It locks very much at If all wai not going our way before the llering lea comtnlatlou, nui that If Mr. Jtusscll concludes to conclude his ipeecb before be-fore the comroltalonen die of! or become be-come dimented, there will b other Angela than ouriln tbo pie. It all goes to show that In making any kind of a bargain, nothing ahould bo left to in lerenco or presumption; all the feature! In the cat ibouli be underitosd and put down, and then If either arty cannot can-not deliver all the goods It sells or In any other way falls to come up squarely lo the requirement! of the deal, let a forfeiture which shall previously pre-viously bave been secured be made. Nations aod IndlvlJuala would lave a great deal of III feeling andexpeusu If they would do this all tho time. If the comniliilon should decide that Jtuttlahadnotlllaln the thirty-mile limit lo seaward which she conveyed to tha United Btates within which are oontalued pretty muoh all the leali between the itralut and the Aleutian lilandi and probably a majority of those in the wholo world we will then have lo fallback upon the three rnllea of lea water iklrllng our northweit poitettloni; and while these contain a goodly number of the bone or rather In thli Inttance the hide of contention, the extent to which our sealing Interests ni compared with what they aro now would be cut down would be lomtthlng prodigious., Thli would not, however, be the worst part of 11. We have beeu bandying woidi with and harrying our Ililtleh neighbor! contlnuouily for jean over their allegeJ "piracy," "dli regard of the law and comlly of nation," na-tion," and so on, and they would then bave the Iiugh on us If not Indeed In-deed something moro aerlous. Ho would Kutsia; the got her monoy and gave us possession of something she did not own. If we demand restitution to the extent to which wu claim to be Injured aho would have a double defense) First, thepuichaser must beware and If he does not utctrtaln what it Is that he la buying It It hla own fault and bla own loss; second, the purchase turned out better for us than we expected ex-pected It would, the property bought having already yielded many tlmra more than It oott, ao that In equity the claim, If any, would be the other way. However, the decision la uot made yvtendaaHIr Uharlia lluuell seems to think that n speech to be Immortal muit alio be eternal, It may not be for aomu time; and liven theu there Is a chanco for it to come our way aftor all. In the meantime tho question will ircvall It thu llering sen upon or closed like the World's Fair on Huu-dey? |
