Show THE SEA TROUBLE the anglo american dispute over lie Itel iring sea claims is again be coniing serious the administration to all practical intents adheres firmly to the doctrine that the alaska naters which were formerly claimed and held by the government are a part of the purchase of the united along with the alaska peninsula the movements of our government now and for some time past indicate beyond question that tend to maintain those claims canadian fishermen with a full understanding of that intention continue their sealing expeditions into the forbidden waters and when interrupted by american cruisers and their catches seized they pour in their appeals upon the imperial government to avenge their wrongs the canadian organs take up the refrain in language which if meaning anything at all means a great deal the imperial government though ven upon no pronounced attitude atti tuda in the matter returns the covert response that the imperial authorities have decided that british rights in the bebing aea must be protected from further american outrage the term british rights is a convenient phrase which might mean and again might mean almost anything you please presuming that the united states have taken a final stand to hold to their claim befall what may and there is no question that they will be sustained in lucli a position by the masses of the american people then the british government must back water or feht england through all the years of her history hag shown a facility beyond any other nation for bullying her way through adversity amid acclaims of belf but atie cold logic of the condition is clearly this that the british rights in those moat be protected from further american outrage implies directly that they have suffered american outrage and if this is the name they choose to apply to the seizures that have taken placa up there notable among which is that of the black reported a few days ago then we shall predict without qualification that the american outrages will continue so long as the ao calad british rights an fn the behring ring sea are insisted upon and pursued by canadian sealers bo whatever horn of alie dilemma they may adopt humiliation or war is inevitable of courso from the american standpoint we should bay there can be no war england ia too wisa to be so foolish as to a war the united states but we thought she was too wise to have authorized the belligerent language above quoted she certainly in view of past expert encee cannot hope to make buncombe answer for cannon balls in the bettle ment of her differences with the united states it this is after alt the extent of her mistake then mattera are not so very serious for the she will receive when she undertakes to her claims of american outrage will make her feel so foolish that she will settle the differences feren ces upon any terms that will hush the the quickest years of prosperity have not tailed to engender ta the mind of the american citizen the most perfect confidence possible in liis powers of aalf krotec tion if he knew that the whole civilized world beside was combined against him in a war of political extermination le his rest with as calm an assurance of triumph over his enemies achaj mahomet v ith the chariots of heaven leading him in battle anything is more serviceable than buncombe as a persuader la such a case IT WILL be reassuring to admirers of the respectable ballet to know that among the leading lights of the stage there is a growing disposition to appear in high in addition to the other paraphernalia |