RECIPROCITY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 69, 23 March 1911, Page 7

RECIPROCITY.

NO SUCH TREATY

THE CANADIANS ARE LOYAL

[PBESB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, March. 22. Mr Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner, interviewed in reference to Sir William Lyne's cabled statement that if the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States was ratified by the Dominion Parliament Canada would be annexed "by the United States in eight or ten years "and the British. Empire would; begin to disintegrate, said there wasno such, treaty. It was merely an agreement susceptible of revocation; by either Parliament. He had been thirty years in Canada, and had never heard annexation discussed It was his impression that there was nothing further from tie aspirr ations of the Canadians. They were i democratic and loyal to the Empire and the King. 'The Americans had no sympathy with monarchical (*overnment. , „. In regaTd to the statement by bir William Van Home that four-fifths of the Canadian people opposed the reciprocity agreement, Mr Beddoe said that whatever people might think, it was a fact that the two political parties in Canada both advo-. cated reciprocity without doubt since the confederation. =