RECIPROCITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10270, 23 June 1911, Page 6

RECIPROCITY.

CANADA AND THE STATES. ANNEXATION. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June,22, 9.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 21. During the debate on the Reciprocity Bill in the Senate, Senator Heyburn made a startling declaration. "Whatever we have taken from England,'" he said, "has been taken at the point of the bayonet. My only hope regarding the Reciprocity Agreement is that it may lead to the annexation of Canada." Senator Bacon characterised these remarks as a grave mistake in view of the pending Anglo-American Arbritration arrangement. Senator Heyburn explained that the remark about the bayonet's point referred only to Government acquisitions. Senator Galiinger asked if the United States did not owe more to England than to Canada, because Ejngland's freetrade policy had been advantageous to America. ! Senator Nelson expressed the hope that Canada would one day form part of the United States. ; Senator Bacon rebuked the speakers for ■ their spreadeaglism, declaring that more benefits had been received by the United States from England' than from, the rest of the world. OPPOSITION IN CANADA. (Received June 22, 9.20 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 21. Mr Borden, Leader of the Opposition, is conducting a campaign against the Reciprocity Bill among the farmers' constituencies of Western Canada. Mr Borden has declared that his party is uncompromisingly hostile to the Bill, and is urging upon farmers that they will not be promoting their own best interests if they support reciprocity, which is certain to link the fortunes of Canada, and those of tho United States. ' ■ '