. Review of reviews and world's work . benefitwill be derived by Canada, asthe weaker profit more than thestronger. This should never bea party question. To say thatit involves a weakening of ourties with the motherland isabsurd, insincere and false. - .,. The opposition. Position ? • , of the under the leacler-^?** ship of Mr. , made much of theannexation bogey and the cryof American doHars. Reci-procity with the UnitedStates, said Mr. Borden, in adocument issued on the eveof the campaign, must be re-jected, because it segregatesand separates the pro\-inces, tempting those of th
. Review of reviews and world's work . benefitwill be derived by Canada, asthe weaker profit more than thestronger. This should never bea party question. To say thatit involves a weakening of ourties with the motherland isabsurd, insincere and false. - .,. The opposition. Position ? • , of the under the leacler-^?** ship of Mr. , made much of theannexation bogey and the cryof American doHars. Reci-procity with the UnitedStates, said Mr. Borden, in adocument issued on the eveof the campaign, must be re-jected, because it segregatesand separates the pro\-inces, tempting those of theprairie region (Manitoba,Saskatchewan, and Alberta)to forget their \-ital connec-tion with the East and tolook to American markets fortheir agricultural productsand for their supplies of manu-factured goods. It wouldmake Canada a commercialappanage of theUnited States,and in adopting it the Domin-ion would virtually surrenderthe control of her destinies. Some There was muchCumpaion bitterncss in the Amenities t, • i President. >m tlie Montreal /\ri/y SIR WILFRID press. Taf t,who is regarded by most Canadians as thefather of the reciprocity measure, Mr. JamesJ. Hill, whose railroads compete at manypoints with Canadian systems and would besupposed to benefit by a lowering of thetariff between the two countries, and Mr. Hearst, whose various newspapers, withtheir editions in Canada, have been boom-ing reciprocity, and at the same time chron-icling the indiscreet utterances regardingannexation, made at different times by vari-ous American public men, were personalitiesscarcely less prominent in the campaign thanthe Premier and the Opposition leader them-selves. The opponents of reciprocity triedto make that policy appear as disloyaltylo Britain. The Liberal press, however, had LAURIER IN THE HEAT OF THE CANADIANCAMPAIGN been bidding Mr. Borden go to Halifax andtell his own constituents there that free tradein fish is treason. The Opposition leaderdid not favor the mari
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