Show AN OPEN QUESTION it looks very much as if all was not 9 going our way before the bering ses sea an i that if mr russell concludes to conclude me his before the commissioners die off or become demented there will be other fingers than ours ourson in the pie it all goe to show that in making any kind of a bargain nothing should be left to in derence or presumption all the features in the case should be and put down and then if either party cannot deliver all the goods it sells eella or in adv other way lalla falls to come up UD to the requirements require of tue the ilea deal let a forfeiture which shall pro pre have been secured be made nations sod individuals would save eave a grat deal of ill feeling and expense if they would do this thia all the time if the commission should decide that russia had iao BO title to in the thirty mile limit to seaward which she conveyed to the united states within which are contained pretty much all the seals between the straits and the aleutian islands and probably a majority of those in the whole world we will then have to fau fallback back upon the three miles or of sea water skirting our northwest possessions and while these colgain a goodly number of the bone or rather JD in this instance the hide of contention the extent to which our sealing interests as compared with what they are now would be out cut down would be something prodigious this thia would not dot however be the worst part of it we have been bandying words worda with and harrying our british neighbors continuously for years yeara over their alleged piracy disregard of the law and comity of na cione tione and so on and they would then have the laugh on us if not indeed something ing more serious so 80 would russia she got her money and gave us possession of something she did not own if we demand restitution to the extent to which we claim to be injured she would have a double defenses defense first the purchaser must beware and it he does not ascertain what it is that he Is buying it Is his own fault and his bis own loss second the purchase turned out better for us than we ex it would the property bought having already yielded many times more than it cost so that in equity the claim if any would be the other way however the decision is not made yet and as an sir charles russell bussell seems seem to wink think that a speech to be immortal must also aleo be eti eternal eliina ina it may not be for some time sod and oven even then there is a chance for it to come our way after ail in ill the meantime the question will prevail is the bering sea open or op closed like the world worlds a fair on bunday |