New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-26

GOVERNMENT IS CONFIDENT
Conservatives Will Use Obstruc
tive Tactics to Defeat It, but
Liberals Believe 1t Will
Win Popular Approval.

ottawa. ont, July 2J-Premier Lau-
rier and the Liberal government Of
Canada decided to-day TO place their
political future in the hands of tho
electorate of the Dominion. to be de
cided almost entirely upon the reciproc-
ity issue. -, general election will he
called within two months, and upon it's
result. which will he governed largely
by the attitude Of the people for or
against reciprocity, will depend the con
tinued political ascendancy of the Lib
eral party. Premier Laurier and his
supporters are confident that they have
correctly gauged the sentiment Of the
country and that the majority of the
people believe with them that reciprOc-
ity with the United States spells pros
perity and should he enacted
If q majority of Liberals are returned
at the coming election the Fielding
Knox agreement will be passed and will
be I'm effect before Christmas If the
majority returned is Conservative. Mr..
Borden, present leader of the Oppos-
ton, will become Prime Minister and
the reciprocity measure will be dead.
These concrete lines We're drawn at
oaucuses Of both parties held to-day.
| The Conservatives decided that obstruc-
tion would be continued until the gov
crnment dropped the reciprocity meas
ure. The Liberals then held their meet
ing and determined To press the meas
urc against obstructive tactics until the
people were thoroughly cognizant Of the
fact that the minority in Parliament
was arrogating to itself the right of the
majority to govern and that an election
must be held TO discipline them.
Parliament will probably be dissolved
after two weeks more sitting. and an
election date will be fixed as soon as
voters lists can be prepared and other
preliminaries arranged. The last week
of September or the first week of Oc-
tober, from present indications, will fur
nish the date of the election.
The remainder of the present session
will be devoted to fixing the responsi
bility for calling an election before re-
distribution, and thus depriving Western
Canada Of twenty seats in the new House.
Tho government will try To throw III.
blame upon the Opposition. and the Con
servatives will try 10 convince the coun-
try that the government is needlessly in
ssting upon the passage of reciprocity
now. and that it could leave the bill over
for passage at the next session, and thus
allow redistribution to precede it.
As Sir Wilfrd Laurier is a master Of
political tactics. some interesting de-
volopments are looked for before Parlid-
ment is dissolved. Morning sittngs be-
gin tomorrow, and the House will be
kept in session until a late hour every
night. There will probably be some
twenty-four- hour continuous sessions TO
demonstrate to the electors how deter
mined the Opposition is TO block reci-
procity and how impossible the position
of the government Is. and thus justify
To the West the calling OF an early cleo
ton
The Liberals believe tnat they will
sweep the country, reports from all parts
of the country indicating a growing Ie-
mand for the enactment Of the rC,i-
procity measure. This Is particularly
true of the West where the government
believes immediate reciprocity Is more