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are not allowed to fish in the territorial waters of 

 Canada ; and they have told us again and again by 

 the mouths of their leading representatives that 

 this privilege has no longer any value for them ; 

 that they repudiate any desire to acquire it ; that 

 they believe it is worth nothing, and that certainly 

 they are unwilling to pay anything for it. We took 

 them at their word. (Laughter and cheers.) They 

 will not have the privilege, and they will not be re- 

 quired to pay for it. (Cheers and laughter.) The 

 other two privileges from which they are utterly 

 excluded are the privilege of obtaining supplies 

 essentially intended for the prosecution of the fishery 

 industry ; the shipping of crews and the trans- 

 shipment of their catch. 



Now, gentlemen, is it fair that these privileges, 

 which are part of the geographical advantages of 

 Canada, should be conferred upon American fisher- 

 men without any equivalent of any kind ? Is it 

 reasonable that two great countries should be kept 

 in hot water because these gentlemen decline to pay 

 anything for privileges from which they are ex- 

 pressly excluded under a solemn Treaty which they 

 have obtained on previous occasions by very large 

 concessions on their part ; which at the present 

 time they declare to be worth nothing to them- 

 selves or to anybody else ? But even these things 

 they can have at any moment. They can have 

 them, in the first place, at any time when the Legis- 

 lature of the United States may see fit to give to 

 the consumers of the United States a cheaper and 

 a more abundant supply of fish (laughter and 



