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Grover Cleveland: If an American vessel should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant from some Canadian port…

On the recordSeptember 11, 1888
If an American vessel should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant from some Canadian port, from which there is railway communication to the United States, and should be denied the privilege of landing and shipping its cargo therefrom to the United States, as the Canadians do, it would be, of course, a serious disadvantage.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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