DELIBERATE PLOT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5

DELIBERATE PLOT.

MR. TAFT AND TREATY MAKINGBLAZING INDISCRETION. ATTACK BY "PALL MALL GAZETTE. ,, - liy Teieeraph-Prcss Assorialion-Copyrif.j»it (liec. May 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, May i. The "Pull Mall Gnzc-Uo" coiumer.t, , * on Mr. Toft's blazing indiscretion in shaking (in , Americans ank 'themselves vrfwtlior Mr. Roosevelt was more acceptable, for his political sobriety than Mr. Taft.. The President's friends were ejidea-vour-ing to represent tliat Mr. Taft oiily desired, that, commercially, Canada and America should be adjuncts of eae'a. other, but a dog was not nn adjunct of its tail. Mr. Tuft explicitly wrote the treaty which would transfer all important Canadion business to Chicago and New York. It was useless to pretend that Mr. 'faffs scheme was anything but a deliberate piot to destroy Canada's.economic independence. The credit for its defeat belongs fo Canadian patriotism, and the humiliation of being duped is distributed among tho Liberal leaders here and in tho Dominion. MR. JAMES BRYCK'S DEFENCE. London, May 3. The ".Westminster Gazette" describes the attaek on Mr. James Bryce as disgraceful, and disbelieves that President Taft had political designs, though ho sought to bring Canada under tho primary cf the United States.