The Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. John's calls the modus
vivendi a shameful betrayal of the interests of Newfoundland, and urges that protests shall be laid at the foot of the Throne and delegates despatched to England and Canada, and that an appeal shall be made to the autonomous Colonies to join in resisting an inva- sion of Colonial rights. The Press of the Colony is equally indignant. We are the last people to desire that the legitimate rights of any Colony should be infringed, but it seems to us that in the present case the Government were quite right to arrange a modus vivendi. It would be im- possible for the whole Empire to go to war with the United States over a small fishery dispute. But if this is so, and if, as we understand is the case, the Colony is opposed to arbitration, nothing remains but negotiation.
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