PLOT AGAINST CANADA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 4

PLOT AGAINST CANADA.

When the reciprocity movement was inaugurated, it was hinted in these columns that the motive of the United States was one of 'absorption. I The publication of ,a .confidential.', letter igerit by President Tart ito Mr Roosevelt 'confirms this suspicion.' Mr Tia.Pt said lie advocated, the Reciprocity Bill it "would make Cana'da only^

an adjunot of tiro United States." The pifbliroifcion of this letter lias co-used a '.feeling cif profound resentment the Doinia'ioii of Canada. As the London) Daily Mail says:— "Men. will ask themselves what wrong iho British Empire had done Ito fthe United States that the Americaia Government should deliberately set to work to plot the absorption of that .splendid Dominion of which our nation is so proud. Ait the host it was an unfriendly act. Mr Taft's, letter proves how serious was the danger and how warm should he our congratiulatttcni's to the Canadian people on the ineighfc and determination which, enabled them to escape it. Canada has now emphasised afresh her' determination to ahidle in the Imperial connection. She has given their quietus to these politicians in the United States wh® would' have 'swallowed the wJiolte.' Mr Taft's plot lias (failed, and is likely to recoil upon his own head by causing his defco't in the contest for the Presidency. He had 'been 'hoist with his own. petard,' and he caraidt expect the people of this country to regret it. Put we flxavci still to team why it was that our Ambassador, Mr Bryce, gave no wlafimting of the ecintepiracy, hut rather, if we are to heJtave the statements of our British Min-i&ters, did hiis utmost to bring it to success."