CANADA’S DUTY

Evening Star, Issue 14183, 7 October 1909, Page 6

CANADA’S DUTY

WHAT BRITISH SUPREMACY' MEANS. EARR GREY'S PLAIN TALK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, October 6. Earl Grey (Governor-General of Canada) has been making a series of remarkable speeches at Calgary, Edmonton, and Regina upon Canada’s duty to the Empire. Speaking at Regina, when laying the corner-stone of the Saskatchewan Parliament House, he declared that if British supremacy were interfered with even for one season, or if a hostile cruiser stopped the export of grain from the St. Lawrence or Vancouver, every farmer would suffer. “The people in tie Mother!and,’ he added, have gallantly undertaken the responsibility single-handed of ensuring the safety of your overseas trade until you are strong enough to come to her assistance. A our self-respect and your selfinterest alike will not allow yon to permit tho overburdened Mother Country to perform a duty when you are able to do ii for yourselves. You should be anxious to-sup-port the Federal Government in their endeavors to create a Canadian raw.”

FETTY CRITICISM

OTTAWA, October 6, (Received October 7, at 8.20 a.m.)

Tho speeches of Earl Grey have provoked criticism from some of the partisans of the Government, who argue that the Governor-General has no right to express personal opinions on Imperial subjects.