AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14985, 6 May 1912, Page 7

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

A "BLAZING INDISCRETION." MR. TAFT'S SCHEME A PLOT. >, • ' - l BEATEN BY PATRIOTISM. t • By Telegraph.-Press Association-Copyright. i (Received May 5, 5.5 p.m.) i London, May 4. I The Pall Mall Gazette comments on I the "blazing indiscretion" of Mr. Taft in making Americans ask them- ' selves whether Mr. Roosevelt is the • more acceptable for his political [ sobriety. The President's friends ' were endeavouring to represent that r Mr. Taft only desired that commert' cially Canada and America should j be adjuncts to each other, but that j. the dog should not be the adjunct > of the tail. , Mr. Taft had explicitly written s that the reciprocity treaty would t transfer all important Canadian busil ness 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 i economic independence. r The credit of its defeat belonged - to Canadian patriotism, and the " humiliation of having been duped was distributed among the Liberal 1 leaders here and in the Dominion. i . ■ i • THE PRESIDENT DEFENDED, j i London, May 3. > The Westminster Gazette deli scribes the attack on Mr. John Bryce (Ambassador to America) as dis- | graceful. It disbelieves thatPresi--1 dent Taft has political designs, » though he sought to bring Canada J' under the primary control of the ' United States. L