| Show GREAT BRITAIN THE WINNER the grave and reverend arbitrators who sat eat in judgment in the case of the halted states vs VB great britain have rendered a di dic ision covering all the points point only one ot of which can be con Bi si tiered as altogether favorable lavo rable to taip coultry and it the leant important io in the controversy the rule of international law which restricts territorial limits to three miles from shore I 1 is hf firmed with as much gusto as though this ibis were not dot a case in which that hat rule cannot be properly invoked the opening of the great northern sea to the world to s but the abe threshing ut of old straw w 0 o far as permitting ships to come and go without question is concerned the closed sea doctrine having been practically abandoned deais years ago the award of damages for seizures and for the suspension of sealing during the sitt sitting ing of the commission was a matter of course following the award la in chief as naturally as costs coats follow a judg judgment meat in court there is ous one atom of decided comfort in the decision a close season has bus been provided so that seal murdering oan can only take place during four months of the year and these theme the most unpropitious for canadian sea sealers leral and they must keep out of a zone defined by sixty miles in all directions from the ift islands As these stretch from alaska proper in a regular iular semicircle whose conca ity fronts the bering sea to within a few hundred miles of the asiatic shore the vastness vast neos of this concession is more than appears at a glance within the time tidie named foreign seamen oan can fish and destroy outside of that limit to their be baarts arts contents content abut but not with bullets or explosives and when it Is considered that thai the great herds bards are principally found near the islands and aad that such as are found elsewhere are more or less leas scattered it will be seen that the power of the long distance fur hunter bunter to do mischief to is decidedly curtailed altogether we are disposed to concur JD in the conclusion reached by a dispatch that it might have been worse while realizing with just the slightest twinge of distaste dia taste that it might lave bave been better there la is one feature of our english relatives conduct anent the decision cion that deserves reprobation the khe suggestion that we take our medic medicine luelA and make no wry faces over it this approaches more nearly to an insult than anything that has yet occurred on either side the people over there or those of them that do not seem to have acquired such information yet are hereby informed that that to Is the yankee way of doing things the of our differences was waa first suggested by the united states it 16 being a believer and of that method of settlement Bett lement whether it was the first to advance the proposition or not it would still having voluntarily entered the tribunal of peaceful ad without hesitation or cow corn plaint and with no unnecessary delay comply with the award no matter how unfavorable and this not only in accordance cor dance with the letter but the spirit thereof demay we may not think it just may believe even know that lilt proper influences have prevailed but we are too big to cry and too manly to complain As to whether or not we would submit in like manner to a defeat by force of arms this to is a somewhat different matter our liis should remember that such a question is purely one of speculation that we have never yet been placed in that po position gitin |
