Show REJECTION OF THE FISHERIES TREATY message of president president cleveland upon the fisheries nail eries question furnishes interesting reading As usual with an all he fie says that relates to the weal of the nation it to Is a clear concise document he goes directly t to the point the treaty basone which the coun try could have accepted as a dignified solution of a vexed question by re the senate or the republican portion of that body imagined that the president would thus be placed at a disadvantage this idea is strengthened bythe by abe fact that the rejection of the treaty was attained by a strict party vote the republican senators and their party are injured by this repudiation as shown clearly by mr cleveland the responsibility I 1 for adv trouble that nay may arise and that Is to result from the strained relations that must ensue between anis country and great britain rests evou their sh shul alders ders and not upon the executive and the democratic party As mr cleveland very properly states the senate has rejected the treaty without any suggestions as to how a netter better arrangement could have been it throws the measure overboard without offering of ferio anything letier this thia was because ahe e senate had bothin nothing superior to suggest it not why was it not tendered tea dered if the senate bad a better plan for solution it was its duty to exhibit it As the chief executive mr cleveland points out the potent fact that he be must do something to redress and prevent the alleged alfted wrongs perpetrated upon american fishermen in canadian waters having been driven by the republican senators from attaining the result by amicable treaty dons his bis only omy re recourse clourse is to ta institute a golice policy of retaliation upon the british canadian colonies existing laws are ae not sufficient for the purpose and congress must legislate in order to place the necessary power in his possession if it does not mot the question must remain in its prolonged unsettled and unsatisfactory condition and the blame or responsibility for the wrong must rest upon the republicans of the senate and their party the act of driving the executive to the enforcement of a retaliatory policy on this question is most injudicious and is ai all the more inexcusable because its performance performS uce was incited by partisanship patriotism had nothing whatever to do with it the solution tion of international questions by treaty is a civilized statesmanlike and dignified ra method ethod retaliation is ill not it ft is a method instituted to force one or other ot of the parties to tot terms and often culminates in war when there is an honorable way of avoiding it it is an egregious error to adopt a course likely to lead to international ter national ruptures and consequent bloodshed and general di disaster such may not be the result in this instance but retaliation to is a dangerous means of adjusting difficulties between nations and when pacific agreement is within reach there should never be any recourse to it but bat whatever difficulties ma may grow out of the fisheries ies camphe complication 02 from present appearances pe arances at as least up proper blame for dis disaster sater ww attach IL to president ident Ol cleveland eveland his hia position on this question will strengthen his prospects in the campaign and thu that is the opposite of we the effect which the recent act of the senate was intended to produce |