RECIPROCITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12410, 21 March 1911, Page 5

RECIPROCITY.

SYDNEY, Mlrch 20

Sir William Lyne, after discussing the Canadian-American reciprocity arrangements with 'business imen m Canada, returns with the conviction that if the agreement is ratified by the Do minion House Canada will be annexed to the United States m eight or ten years, and the British Empire will be gin to disintegrate. He -attributes the reciprocity negotiations to the failure of the British Government in 1907 to make a preferential treaty with the self-gov-erning dominions. Americans whom he met m San Francisco did not cloak the fact that the idea m their minds was the absorption of Canada. Reciprocal trade would allow American' trusts and combines to spread throughout Canada. He was glad to see the growing feeling m Canada against the treaty, and thinks that the people have more sense than to ratify it.