CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15921, 6 May 1912, Page 7

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

HAD MR TAFT POLITICAL DESIGNS. * THE ATTACK ON MR BRTCE. LONDON NEWSPAPER COMMENT. United I'reas Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON,'May 3.' Tli9 ".Westminster Gazette" describes the attack on the Right Hon James Bryce, British Ambassador at Washington, as disgraceful, and refuses to believe that Mr Taft had political designs, though ho sought to bring Canada under the influence of the United States. (Received May 5, 5.5 p.m.) The "Pall Mall Gazette" comments on Presidont Taft's blazing indiscretion, making Americans ask themselves whether Mr Roosevelt is more acceptable for political sobriety. The President's friends are endeavouring to represent that Mr Taft only desired that commercially Canada and America should be adjuncts of each other, but the dog is not an adjunct of its tail, and Mr Taft explicitly wrote that the treaty would transfer all important Canadian business to Chicago and New York. It was useless to pretend that Mr Taft's scheme was anything but a deliberate plot to destroy Canada's economic independence. The credit for its defeat belongs to Canadian patriotism. The humiliation of being duped is distributed among the Liberal leaders in Britain and the dominion.