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mg Sea, as they will be when the statutes of tlie United States shall 

 permit them to euter with the Cauadiaiis and also with the people of 

 other nations into that harvest field, and to have equal rights in the 

 spoils that we are asked to place within their reach. 



Although we have not yet considered the British case on its 

 merits, which covers only the claim of right to unlimited and un- 

 controlled pelagic sealing, and have only considered the objections 

 to the case of the United States that are stated in the British counter 

 case, I must assume that the citizens and subjects of the respective 

 Governments everywhere on the high seas are to have equal rights 

 and privileges. If it is the right and privilege of the pelagic sealers of 

 Canada to waylay the seals in May and June at Unimak Pass or any 

 other j)ass, and in July, August, and September to waylay them in 

 Bering Sea near the passes or near the breeding islands, the same 

 right must be accorded to the citizens of the United States who for 

 personal gain choose thus to violate the declared public policy of their 

 Government. 



If it must be that this Tribunal will inflict upon the United States 

 the double indignity of having her wise and honorable policy of 

 preserving the fur-seal species disregarded by her own people, under 

 the suggestions of the award, and of requiring the concurrent action 

 of Great Britain in the principles, if not in all the details of laws and 

 of administration, in guarding the proposed 30 mile zone against intru- 

 sion by citizens of the United States, we should at least be careful 

 to protect the United States against a definitiou of the rights and 

 powers of pelagic sealers that is so radical as to break down the 

 admitted rights and principles of self-defense. 



The same necessity does not exist for guarding Great Britain with 

 protective regulations, because no pelagic hunting is done within thou- 

 sands of miles of any place where she has any sealing industry, and 

 the interest of the i)elagic hunters is in accordance with her present 

 policy of giving them free rein in the destruction of fur-seals if they can 

 make any money by the operation, as her policy is now disclosed in the 

 regulations she has submitted. 



As to citizens of the United States who would be thus encouraged 

 by such an award policy to raid upon the industries and revenues of 

 their Government during five months of the year and to defy its public 

 policy, it may turn out that the United States will abandon them to 

 their own devices for protection while they are engaged in this selfish, 

 cruel, and unjpatriotic work. 



