1909] Need of Equal Enforcement of Laws 



tion, as it necessitates the sacrifice of immediate in- 

 terests for the sake of the future. 



In an official letter to Mr. Knox dated from Indian- 

 apolis, November 26, 1909, I urged the important 

 fact that the boundary waters had "less need of 

 stringent regulations than of equal enforcement of 

 law on each side.'* As a matter of fact, the Canadian Unequal 

 patrols showed great efficiency, while our own state en f rce - 



patrols, insufficiently manned and poorly supported, /^ ' 

 were far from adequate, the discrepancy in this regard 

 being greatest in Puget Sound. Everywhere in 

 Canada obedience to law was taken for granted by 

 the fishermen, most of whom were of British origin. 

 This was not the case on our side, where many 

 nationalities are represented and where "whatever 

 can be put over, goes." 



While the above matters were still pending, Prince 

 and I took a third trip along parts of the boundary 

 line for additional information, Charles A. Christin, 

 an alert and capable Stanford senior, acting as my 

 secretary in place of Stolz, then at Oxford as a Rhodes 

 Scholar. This time we naturally made a special study study of 

 of Saginaw Bay, the chief region which claimed to 

 be unjustly treated. We now found that the criti- 

 cisms made by Mr. Orr and Mr. I. Lincoln of Alpena 

 were in fact justified, for the lake herring of the bays 

 of Huron is (as already implied) slimmer than species 

 in the other lakes and in deeper water. So with the 

 approval of the Department we set out to remedy the 

 defect, an adjustment to which Laurier at once con- 

 sented. 



For the purpose of completing this arrangement, 

 I went personally to Ottawa, the Canadian capital, 

 in January, 1910. One fine clear day the courtly 



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