RIGHT TO PROTECT INTEREST AND INDUSTRY. 179 



If by the judgment of this high and distinguished Tribunal the 

 Alaskan seal herd is sentenced to be exterminated, a result which the 

 United States Government has been unable to anticipate, it must sub- 

 mit, because it hassoagreed. Until will no! the less regret having thus 

 bartered away that plain right of self-defense against unwarranted 

 injury, which no nation strong enough to assert itself has ever surren- 

 dered before. 



K J. Phelps. 



