STATE CABLES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 602, 2 September 1909, Page 5

STATE CABLES.

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT LUKEWARM. ALLCCED "PRESSURE." FATAL BLOW TO EMPIRE SCHEME. (By TolegtttpU.-Press A««Mlallon.-Cnpyrl«bU (Rec. Septombor 1, 10.30 p.m.) : • . London, September 1. The Toronto correspondent of "Tho Times," writing on August 23, states: "The Ottawa 'Journal, , one of tho most sober and responsible of Canadian newspapers, alleges that, through the pressure of .corporate influence and.speculative dealing in 'cable companies' stocks-by •persons close to the Dominion Administration, Ministers havo determined to ignore tho projected' Cables Conference in London and to refuse; their .support to the movement for a system of publio cables around the Empire." ■■ "The ' Times" correspondent remarks: "This, if true, must prove a fatal blow to the ■whole great project. There is reason to think that the Canadian Government.' has no natural sympathy with the movement to establish public cobles in competition with private systems. It over-ruled Sir / Wm. ■ Muiock's policy of pnrohase.. ... ;;.".■. .'."Sir Wilfrid Lenrier at best is a passive Imperialist, who believes that the only safe bond of Empire is sentiment, and distrusts. all schemes of-organic unity. He probably believes that with naval defence on tho anvil, Imperial cables can wait." ~'•;■' [Sir Wm. Mnlock was Postmaster-General of Canada from 1896 - till 1905. : Hβ is now Chief Justice of the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice for the Province of Ontario.]