Show TilE CHEEKY DOMINION Canada and the United States are about as far apart on the fisheries ques tion as ever The proposal from the British Government to restore the status under the treaty of Washington without the money indemnity paid by this country followed by publication of the correspondence carried on by our Department Depart-ment of State proves merely that the whole question is just where it was at the beginning It now seems that the real purpose ot Canada in insisting upon the enforcement of un agree ment obsolete in spirit if not in letter l is to force trade concessions conces-sions from the United States What Canada wants is a free market for her fish In return it wishes to give us the I right of fiishing ceon the inshores The privilege of fishing within the threemile limit is not valued at a picayune by our filling interest A grant of entrance to the prohibited waters is practically as useless as a permit to catch seals off the Florida coast Canada deliberately and designedly embarrasses us in the exercise of this right with intent thus to put the screws on our country coun-try and to coerce us into a change of our customs laws It is as though you were fishing for salmon and another avowedly to compel you to pay him to desist should begin to throw stones into the pool where you were casting cast-ing Even though he had as good or even a better right to amuse himself by throwing stones in the river than yon had i to fish there would you regard his procedure pro-cedure with any the greater favor on that account 1 The United States should be lacking indignity in-dignity and proper National spirit if the Government did not resent such gross perversion international comity |