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Evening Star, Issue 14627, 25 July 1911, Page 6

Tho people of Canada and the people of the United Stated are coming together to break down the artificial wall erected so painfully be! ween them through years of blind Selfishness and economic" folly. Into 'that agreement Canada goes with her eyeti open, and for the great advantage of "her p.ople. Weie the greatest possible good to come to Canadinns from this freer tiade with Americans, the Union Jack would still float from the flagstaff at Ottawa, and because of the increased prosperity and enlarged contentment of her people Canada would be a more powerful and even more loval member of ilia-., galaxy of free nations which swim,' sound the world tOT'iiii',' allegiance to the Throne and pei?.::: •;; Britain'-- King.

The Reciprocity Agreement between the United States and CanThD ada has safely emerged Reciprocity from its stormy passage Agreement. through the Senate by the handsome majority of 16. This result, we are advised, has given great satisfaction to President Taft, to whose tactj skill, and determination the successful approval of the Bill, which gave effect to the Agreement between the two nations, is undoubtedly duo. Those outside and ignorant of the wave and courses of American politics may be pardoned if they express surprise over the announcement of Air Taft's triumph. For months past the general trend of the Press meet-ages has been adverse to the chance* of the Bill. Its passage through the House of Representatives was, of course, assured from the beginning of the session of the new Congress, The Democrats, though politically opposed to Mr Taft, are strong enough to oarry any measure on which they have decided, and as, in the present instance, thoy were supported by the "insurgent" Republicans, the President experienced no difficulty in getting through the Lower House the Bill that Congress hud been .specially convened to pass. It was in the Semite that the tug-of-war was expected, and where it was encountered. The reason is not far to seek. The Republicans are in a majority in that Chamber, and nothing but the most conclusive proof of the disastrous consequences of their action, from a party standpoint, would have restrained them from pushing roughly on one side the decision of thv people, ais made known at the November elections, and rejecting the Bill. It is therefore not surprising that public opinion in England—particularly that portion of it avowedly hostile to the Bill—may have been Jed to put too much reliance "on the uewo of danger and probable defeat persistently (scattered abroad. Today the world knows that the Bill has gone through unhampered by a single amendment, condition, or qualifying clause. It reaches the President's haii-d.s intact, as the President trairi it would. What this victory means, what it represents ill the way of overtures, negotiations, cocrct meetings, and diplomacy may .some day be known, when the f.tory conies to be written from the inside. Jt is sufficient, however, for the men who have moat actively participated hi the cause of progress and enlightenment to know that their leader, PiesidciitTaft, bus carried his point. Some weeks ago. when a carefully-selected deputation of' farmers waited upon him to protest against, the Bill becoming law, Mr Taft tlatiy declined to argue the que.-"ion.. It has passed out of the region of debate, be said, unci further argument is no longer admissible. Again, he told the Western Economic Society at Chicago that the paper and lumber inl,-icols had niKtiuinctured the antagonism they all heard iso much about, end had mad? it jippear as though it was the fanning industry that opposed Beeiproeity. " The arguments against its adoption," he added, " would be remembered only as exaggerated instances of a perverted imagination." In Canada. Sir Wilfrid Lamier has much the .-ame road to travel against vested interests, and an Imperialism based on tnriif barriers to tight against. He may not piove as successful in the north a'- Mr Taft has in the south. There is a huge amount of dangerous misconception abroad as to what the Lauricr Government seek in this regard, and what will be the ultimate effect of their policy on the Empire. To these the words of Dr J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto 'Globe,' spoken during an address delivered on a recent Sunday afternoon at Whitfield's Tabernacle, mav be commended :