CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13019, 7 February 1911, Page 2

CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

THE AMEIUCVnIgREEMENT.

FAR-REACHING EFFECTS PROB-

[Pbess Association—Coptihght.]

ay . , , Lona*on, Feb 5. Air Austen Chamberlain. MP speaking at the Birmingham Jewoilers AssoeiatiMi dinner, said that the Lanadian-Amencan reciprocity agreement would June the greatest'effoe't on commercial history m,icc the foundaVr n ■ German zolveroin. If ratified lie feared that the result would ><-' a great diversion of Canadian trade to tlie .South. Ihe agreement exposed lintain to the. new and eager competition of the United States Food prices, which had been kept low in Britain by the bountiful Canadian harvests, might be increased by th" American dema.nd. Men who shrank 1 iom the host bargain over offered a commercial nation, fearing to rai'e the. price of bread by a farthing, might see their policy raise breed by .halfpennies and pence. The "Evening Standard" givo lS details .of the schedule of the Canadian agreement with America, which is more extensive and far-reaching than tlie telegraphed summaries indicated Mr Mewins, secretary to the Tariff Commission, pxiys that the possible results of the- agi^cmcnt are colossal. He domed that the, agreement would !).-• the death blow to Imperial preference, which is now more urgent than