CANADA AND THE STATES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND THE STATES.

THE RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT,

[BY TELEOBAPH —PEk PBES3 ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr Beddoe, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, was interviewed in reference to Sir Wm. Lyne’s cabled statement that if the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States was ratified by the Dominion Parliament Canada will be annexed by the States within eight or ten years and the British Empire would begin to disintegrate. He said there was no such treaty merely an agreement, susceptible the revocation by either Parliament, for thirty years. In Canada he never heard annexation discussed. There was nothing further from the aspirations of the Canadians. They are democratic, and loyal to the Empire and King. The Americans have no sympathy with monarchial government. In regard to the statement of Sir William Van Horne that four-fifths of the Canadian people were opposed to the reciprocity agreement, Mr Beddoe said that whatever the people think, it was a fact that the two political parties in Canada both advocated reciprocity without a doubt since the confederation.