2516 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



Your sympathies are with the American view of this question? A. 

 Not unless they are right. 



Q. Well, then, I will put it in another way. Yon think the Ameucan 

 view is right ! A. 1 don't know about that. I have my own views, and 

 I think they are right. 



Q. Do your views differ from the American views ; do you differ from 

 your neighbors in Eastport? A. 1 differ from some of them, and agree 

 with a good many Dominion people I have talked with. I have also 

 differed from some of them. 



Q. Do you consider that the Americans ought not to pay anything 

 under this Commission? A. No; I don't think they should. I think 

 the markets they get are a full equivalent. 



Q. Well, that is all I want to know. Your sympathies, then, are with 

 the American views ? A. I don't take it on the line of sympathy. I 

 take it on the line of right, of justice between man and man. 



Q. At all events, your view is that the Americans should not pay a 

 dollar ? A. Not it they keep the markets open. 



Q. Well, as the matter now stands ? A. I think that is a full equiva- 

 lent. 



Q. That is your idea ? A. For the inshore fisheries. I think the open- 

 ing of the American markets is an equivalent for the Dominion fisheries 

 inside of three miles. 



Q. Well, when you say that, from what stand-point are you speaking, 

 the fisherman's or the merchant's ? Or do you take a broad, patriotic 

 view of the matter? A. I am speaking from my own judgment in the 

 business I have followed through life and am still following. 



Q. Well, when you say that the free market is an entire equivalent 

 for our fisheries, who do you say the free market is given by ; at whose 

 expense t Is it at the expense of the American fishermen or the body 

 of the United States people ? A. The free market and taking off the 

 duty is in favor of the fishermen. 



Q. The American fishermen ? A. No, the Dominion fishermen. 



Q. And against whom is it ? A. If the duty was put on it would be 

 against the Dominion fishermen. 



Q. Well, against whom is the taking off of the duty? A. It is against 

 the United States, of course. 



Q. But what class in the United States ? A. I don't know how you 

 intend to class them. I suppose the United States is a country, and if 

 the country takes it off, I suppose the country most make up the 

 amount. 



Q. How did you class the British fishermen I You thought it was an 

 advantage to them to have the duty off? A. Simply because it gives 

 him a better market for the fish he produces. 



Q Tell me why you cannot class the Americans. Tell me what effect 

 it has on the American fishermen, taking off the duty. Have you not 

 thought of it at all ? A. I don't know that I ever heard a fisherman 

 speaking in regard to it. 



Q. And you are serious, then, you never heard an American fisher- 

 man complain of this duty being taken off? A. I don't know that J 

 have. 



Q. Have you ever thought of this, as a practical man, whether it 

 affects the American fisherman at all or not? A. I have given it a good 

 deal of thought. 



Q. Whom does it affect, the merchant or the fisherman ? A. I say 



if, that to put on a duty of five cents a box on smoked herring by the 



