CANADA AND THE STATES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 232, 6 February 1911, Page 5

CANADA AND THE STATES

- MR. BIRRELL'S OPINION. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 5, 5 p.m. London, February 4. Mr. A. Birrell, speaking at Bristol, said it was Britain's business to wish Canada well in her enterprises. Let her make the best bargain she can. He would say to Canada, "Do the best you can for yourselves and your glorious country. We will do our best for our old crowded country, which requires wheat wherever we can get it." A correspondent of the Times, in an article denying that the reciprocity Agreement will render preference impossible by making Canada and the United fitates one wheat market, describes how the "wheat trade is conducted, and argues that there will be no difficulty in distinguishing Canadian from American wheat. ORGANISED OPPOSITION FROM FARMERS. Received 6,12.20 a.m. t New York, February 5. Farmers' organisations, with a membership <of a million, are opposing the reciprocity proposals and organising a deputation to the Government, demanding that Congress shall reject the measure. The leaders declare that all the advantages are on the side of Canada. SLOW PROGRESS IN THE SENATE. PRESIDENT TAFT STARTS A CAMPAIGN. Received 6, 12.20 a.m. New Yprk, February 5. j President Taft is planning a speechmaking campaign in the large centres of population, in the hope of influencing the Senate in favor of the Reciprocity Bill, which is making slow progress before the Committee of Ways and Means. COMMERCIAL BODIES' PROTEST. Eeceived 6, 5 p.m. Vancouver, February 4. Commercial bodies throughout Canada are making representations to Parliament demanding that the reciprocity agreement with the United States be not ratified.