"BLAZING INDISCRETION."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 6 May 1912, Page 5

"BLAZING INDISCRETION."

The Pall Mall Gazette comments on President Taft's "blazing indiscretion" in making Americans ask themselves whether Mr Roosevelt is more acceptable for political sobriety. It says, "The President's friends are endeavoring to represent that President Taft only desired that, commercially Canada and America should be adjuncts to each other. But the dog is not an adjunct of the tail, and President Taft explicitly wrote the treaty which would transfer all important Canadian business to Chicago and New York. It is useless to pretend that President Taft's scheme was anything but a deliberate plot to destroy Canada's economical independence. The credit of its defeat belongs to Canadian patriotism. The humiliation of being duped is distributed among the Liberal leaders here and in the dominion."

(On Friday notice of a question was given in the House of Commons, to ask whether Mr Bryce, Rritish Ambassador to the United States, was aware' of Mr Taft's intention to make Canada an adjunct of tlie United States when he recommended the acceptance of reciprocity. The Evening News, repeating current reports, suggested that Mr Bryce's departure to Australia was the prelude to his accepting a peerage and re-enter-ing^ British politics. It stated that his position had become impossible since the failure of the treaty and that threequarters of Mr Bryce's time was occupied with Canadian affairs.)