RECIPROCITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5

RECIPROCITY.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraphic-Copyright.) LONDON, March 21. s *r William Van Horn, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is visiting London. Ho emphatically Condemns the Candian- American reciprocal agreement, and declares that four-fifths of the popui lation of the Dominion aro, opposed to it. Nevertheless, it would be passed into law, because the party machine would push it through, fie is unable to understand the action of the British Minister at Washington mi n aiding and abetting the agreement. (Received March 22, B.So' am 1 NEW YORK, March 21. Congressman Champ Clark, permanent chairman oi the Democratic Convention, promised the Democrats a special session intended to pass the reciprocity agreement. L J ■ ' AUCKLAND;, this day. Mr Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commiser, interviewed m reference to Sir William Lyne's cabled statement that if the reciprocity treatment, between Canada and the United States Avere ratified by the Dominion Parliament, Canada will be annexed by the States m eight or ten years, arid the British Empire begin to disintegrate, said there was no such treaty, merely an agreement susceptible to revocation by either Parliament. While m Canada he had never heard annexation, discussed- His impression waß that .nothing,'. was further from the aspirations of Canadians. They are democratic and loyal to the Empire and King, and/, Americans, have no sympathy with monarchial government. * In regard to the statement of Sir Wm. Van Home that four fifths of the Canadian people Avere opposed to the reciprocity agreement, Mr Beddoe said that Avhatever people think, it was a fact that the two political parties of Canada had both advocated reciprocity without doubt Since the confederation.

LONDON, March 14. At a meeting on Saturday' of the Western Counties Tariff Reform Federation at Bristol (Eng.), it was resolved to strongly deprecate any suggestion of interference with the internal administration of Canada. The meeting vieAved w|th alarm tho reciprocal proposals, holding that these will seriously affect trade with Bristol. They appealed to Sir Wilfrid Laurier to adopt such measures as will meet with the desire of the meeting.