The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, September 25, 1888. COOLING DOWN.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 200, 25 September 1888, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, September 25, 1888. COOLING DOWN.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

Just as we predicted, the angry feeling which was provoked over the Canadian fisheries dispute is now subsiding, sooner even than was expected. When the Presidential election is close at hand, everything is in such a state of fetment in the United States that the people are hardly accountable for their actions. Political intriguers enlarge upon every point that may be used to advantage in the contest, and naturally this fishery trouble was stirred up to fever heat. But it appears to have been found that these electioneering tactics are a bigger loss than they are gain. There never was any reason to fear hostilities. The retaliatory measurer adopted are really the only cause for alarms and that is almost completely an affaie between the two countries. As an instancr of this, our telegrams informed us the otheg day that Canadian merchants were instructing their agents not to send goods by the Unitet States. This would mean a loss to Canada, because it is found cheaper to do trade through America; but the loss to the latter would be much greater, as it means the stoppage of a large expenditure of Canadian money which previously had been circulated among American railways and American ports. Such practical arguments will soon carry weight in the United States, and when both sides have got sick of the suicidal policy that is being pursued, an amicable arrangement may be speedily anticipated.