RECIPROCITY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13060, 21 March 1911, Page 3

RECIPROCITY.

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

SIR W. LYNE'S VIEWS

[PBEsa Association— Coptmght.] (Received March 21, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, March 21). Sir William Lyne, after discussing the Canadian-American reciprocity arrangements with tho business men of Canada, returns with the conviction that if the agreement is ratified by the Dominion House Canada will be, annexed by the United States in eigut or ton years, and the British Empire will begin to disintegrate. He attributes the (reciprocity negotiations to the failure of tho British" Government in 1907 to make a preferential treaty with the ■self-governing dominions. The Canadian reciprocal trade would allow American trusts and combines to sprc&d through Canada. He was glad to see tho growing feeling in Canada against the treaty. He thinks the people have more sense than to ratify.