CANADA AND THE STATES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND THE STATES.

THE RECIPROCAL AGREEMENT.

Press Association .—Telegraph .—Copyright, OTTAWA, March 21.

Sir William Vanhorne; President of the Canadian Pacific. Railway, who is visiting London, emphatically condemns the Can-adian-American reciprocity agreement. He declares that four-fifths of the population of the Dominion are opposed to it, nevertheless it will be passed into law because the party machine will push it through. He is unable to understand the action of the British Minister at Washington in aiding and abetting the agreement. BILL TO BE PASSED. Received March 22, 8.0 a.m. NEW YORK. March 21. Congressman Champ Clark, permanent chairman of the Democratic Convention, promised the Democrats that the special session intended to pass the reciprocity agreement. ANNEXATION FEARS. Canadian Trado Commissioner’s Views.

(Per United Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, March 22. Mr Reddoe, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, in an interview with reference to Sir William Lyne’s cabled statement that if the reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States is ratified by the Dominion Parliament Canada will be annexed by the States ■in from eight or ten years, and the British Empire begin to disintegrate, said there was no such treaty. It was merely an agreement susceptible of revolution on either Parliament. He had been thirty years in Can. Ada, and had never heard annexation discussed. His impression was that there was, nothing further from the aspirations of Canadians. They are democratic and loyal to the Empire and King. Americans have no sympathy with mouarchial Government. In regard to the statement by Sir William, van Horn that four-fifths of the Canadian people are opposed to the reciprocity agreement, Mr Beddoe said that whatever people think it was a fact that the two political parties in Canada had both advocated reciprocity without doubt since the confederation.