"ALL BOSH!"

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10226, 1 May 1911, Page 6

"ALL BOSH!"

OR A PLATFORM JOKE

UNITED STATES AND CANADA

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 29, 9 a.m.) NEWYORK, April 28. Speaking at a banquet, v at which Mr W. B. Northrup, a Canadian M.P., was one of the guests, President Taft declared that the. reciprocity question was now at a most critical period. He reiterated that the United State;; had offered complete free trade to Canada, and criticised the Farmers' Free List Bill (now before the. United States House), declaring that if the United States granted Canada more than the agreement required, the question arose whether this would not constitute a sure gratuity which must be extended to all other nations under the favoured-na-tion clause. Mr Taft denied emphatically that reciprocity would injure the American farmer, and added that if it was found to do so the agreement could be revoked. He was not an anti-Im-perialist, but. strenuously held that America would have-sufficient on her hands presently without dreaming of annexing Canada. Annexation talk could be attributed to the dreams of irresponsible persons with imagination. He declared that such people liked to picture "starry flags" waving from Panama to the North Pole. "That," Ihe added, "is either all bosh, or a platform joke!"