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R > *y w 2 -- us m S "m. e cause twenty--fAve <years ago Conser-- vatives had done so. -- That was . a aoak sample of the moss--grown Toryism €teadily," year 'by year, refused to us, which one ofter read about, but and we have thg power to negotiate which never existed. He asked. why commercial treaties, who can tell that -- Sir George Ross, Hon. Clifford Sifton, something may not happen, say five 1 and Hon. E. J. Davis, the Opposition vyears from now, that will bring the $ leader's 'neighbor and ' chum," had question up in an unexpected manner, A found a new path. and what may be the result of that? . | ut How can we guarantee what the opin--| No Sentiment In It. lon of our people will be, say, fifteen ; The Prime Minister complained or twenty years hence, when perhaps | ' 1 that the only argument of the OP-- some great question will come up to B position speakers on the subject had| be decided in a manner that may re-- been that somebody would get two quire immediate .('le(',lfilon'-' It may be Iand a half cents cmore for lamb or | it will take a little more than the | some other product. sentiment was, sordiq reason of a little difference of a matter that had never been dis-- a few cents on a lamb or a dollar or cussed except by the Liberal leader, i | so on a hog to 1Pzgd them t.o abandon and then only to & slight extent. 'I'heir'{ | that sense of their happiness and whole argument was that this or that." | prosperity which has been with them product would return the farmers a, tso many years. few cents more. The member for ' peaerenmmemenewtumenneteetatonmemmenints satemecoal : 'Haldimand had argued as if the whole ; , ' question was wrapped up in the cat-- ' tle markets of Buffalo and Toronto. ':\n "Astonishing'* Amendment. } t I ¢ | __Sir James took strong exception toi Hon. Mr. MacKay's amendment as tho\ "most astonishing, most surprising," before the House, and read the last clause in which the Liberal leader de-- 'mecatml the expression of views that | the loyalty of Canada was purchas-- 'able by tariff concessions. It was an amendment the like of which had never been introduced before in any Legislature of the Province of On-- tario. 4 "I challenge anyone to justify that woale statement, to show -- anywhere anyi ' public man, any man of prominonc(-.l or any responsible newspaper that has 4 . made any utterances to justify it." i Al About Sir William Van Horne. | 4 -- \ _ The Prime Minister attempted to y ridicule Hon. Mr. MacKay's illustra-- tions in supporting reciprocity. In 1 commenting upon Sir William \'an! ,'({, Horne's sweeping condemnation of', 5. the agreement the Liberal leader on | PX Thursday pointed out that such | en patriotic utterances did not ring al-- YhJ together true from the man who had 'w-g' taken money gathered in Ontario and| 1-5*7'* had invested it in enterprises in ('uba.' }Q'fv f "What," asked Sir James, "has Cuba 3 -- l 3 to do with the question of whether '}}1\1 the people of Canada are wise . oT foolish in adopting this reciprocity ' treaty ?" d j 4 it No Straight Answoers. ',' There was, asserted Sir James, no ; ' . attempt or pretence at an attempt on o f the part of the other side to answer | the straightforward -- language 'and e,':'"';' ; statements of President Taft, James y *{.-fi" h J. Hill, Champ Clark and -- Senator \ig' Beveridge. The latter would soon be yff'{'w_;; a in Toronto, and we should have the| &%?{ | opportunity of seeing the g(*ntlemanl «.\:i' | who was so outspoken as to declare 'f( ' his intention of bringing back some of! 4) hk ' | the American capital that had been "_;f, & ;in\'este(l in Canada. Sir .]umes'dp-l fi | clared that annexation--not forcible, es | of course--was the avowed object ofl 7*4'/ lmany of the public men and private: ,Nzg'/" 4 citizens of the United States in favor--| ":1:,\'.3';;\ ' | ing the agreement. . "I upprshenr]."' 8 I said he, "the people of Canada will} m ' ¢ not be decoyed away from -- the olfl't ,f" ' pathway, at any rate by men of alien | § Qg;;. ' | nationality, who don't conceal from | ,x"v' 1tho world at large their intention to | f 'H'f" ' | put every possible obstruction in the :535 5\\'a3' of consolidating our connection 11 with the Empire."' t 7 \Not Five Hundred For Separation. ; "' | "With all humility L say, as a Van'd-' i ' i | dian citizen," said Sir James, "as one i | of those who rejoice in being a Brit-- : y } ! ish subject, and without regard to !4_,35 | | political party, I feel like repeating y ' | some words spoken by me over three en | vears ago in this House, in conversa-- & \ tion with a prominent English states-- ) i man, in discussing the question of \the Canadian future, that I did npt know, I did not believe, you could ' i find five hundred men, who could read | lan(] write, between Vancouver and e | Newfoundland, who would stand up d ! in public and say they would favor d E isoparflthm from the Empire or an-- < nexation with the United States. . a "Banged, Bolted and Barred." "But,"* he continued, "things move § fast in these days, and if you come to « a day when you hear our English statesmen tell us that the doors are k banged and boited and barred against ~ everything in the nature of a prefer--| t ence, and the British preference is| i un $ .