DESTINY OF CANADA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 11 January 1912, Page 7

DESTINY OF CANADA.

TO THE LAST CRACK OF > r-n • ■ DOOM." ' b ,]..•: , .!> "I cannot say too emphatically that t#Hi in Canada are British and intend >&>; remain British until the last'crjack f?pf jdoora." This was the keynote of, a speech delivered on November Mr. George E. Foster, Minister for Trade Stnd Commerce'?in• the "new Borden Ministry, to a distinguished company of American financiers, savants and politicians gathered at the Hotel Astor, in New York. In order that there might be no mistake concerning the place Canada hopes to occupy in the British Empire, Mr. Foster frankly informed his hearers that the word autonomy during the last few of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's regime had been worked to death. "In season "arid-'put of season," he exclaimed, "this expression has been invoked for all it is worth in certain parts of Canada. Un"der the new.regime I trust we shall hear more about our responsibilities to the Empire and less about.,our..rights and I 'ftnich more about our duty." ~ The Imperialistic declaration of the iiew Minister caused evident astonishment among Ids American audience. Mr. Foster proceeded to assure his listeners that Canada rejected reciprocity not because of a feeling of hostility to ''the United States or because she did _not want to trade with the neighboring '"Republic, but because she did not like the form of the compact. Canada wanted to grow into a great nation; she wanted ''population. To gain these ends she ; was doing what America did in the beginning. When Canada has achieved 'her ends, then it will be time enough to ■ talk about lowering the tariff walls between the two countries.