PREFERENCE COMES FIRST.
(Eecei\>ed 5.50 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 20. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, replying to a farmers' deputation, asking for reciprocity with the United States, said that the American tariff admitted agricultural implements free, but the duty on parts of 45 per cent excluded Canadian machinery. If reciprocity were introduced it must relate to every part of the implement. He was anxious to secure a fair and workable trade treaty with the United States in order to secure that market to Canadians, but the latter should follow the American example and put their interests first. Sir Wilfrid Laurier declared his willingness to negotiate with the United States, but preference to Great Britain must not be prejudiced. That stood first and last for all time.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 171, 21 July 1910, Page 5
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