RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6

RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT

SIR W. LAURIER WILL NOT LEAVE,

THE FIGHT TO GO ON,

Pies* Association-^By Telegraph—Copyright.

OITAWA, April 29.

Tho Leader of the Opposition, Mr Borden, made an offer to Sir Wilfrid Lauricr to end the existing deadlock in order to enable the latter to attend the King's Coronation, provided the Government postponed the debate on the Reciprocity Agreement. Mr Borden urged that there w;is no need to hasten Reciprocity, and asked if the trade interests of the Empire were Jess important than ihose of the United States.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he would not go to London unless the Reciprocity Agreement were allowed to pass.

Mr Borden retorted that the Conservatives would maintain their opposition to the last.

LECTURED BY TARIFF REFORM PRESS.

LONDON, April 29.

The 'Pall Mall Garatte' says that if Sir Wilfrid Laurior's intimation not to attend the Imperial Conference unless tho opponents of the Government, abandon their resistance to the Reciprocity Agreement prevails, his action will come within measurable distance of a deliberate affront to the Mother Country. Any doubts existing about the trend of Reciprocity should be removed by President Taft's unabashed confession that only the immediate passage of the Reciprocity Bill could avert tho consummation of Imperial Preference.