The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-09-06
CANADA STIRRED
Fight Over Proposed Reciprocity Pae
Wakes Fast and Furious.
JAURIER LEADS FIGHT
Reciprocity Remains The Dominant
Issue in the Canadian Campaign-
Great Crowds Hear Leaders Speak
Daily-AnneNation Bug-bear De-
nounced by the Liberals.

nounced by the Liberals.
Reports coming in from all parts
Of Canada show the intensity of the
election struggle which is under full
headway, and they request also that
position and progress of the various
elements on the main issue-recipro-
city between Canada and the United
States.
Although the campaign comes
while harvesting is at its height, con-
ventiors and political gatherings are
drawing audiences unparalleled in
size. 1t is conceded a greater num-
Der of votes will be polled than ever
in Canada.
Reciprocity has continued the dom
inant issue since Premier Laurier
and Opposition Leader Borden made
their initial addresses. Since then
Mt Borden has remained in Ontario,
speaking daily, while Premier Laur-
ier, after one Ontario meeting, has
swung over to the French-Canadian
province of Quebec, where he has
been addressing from one to two
meetings each day, including Sun
Gay.
Meantime the premiers of the va
rious provinces and other leaders
have been ranging themselves on the
firing line. Premier Whitney, of On
tario, Premier Mcbride, Of British
Columbia, and Premier Hazon, of
New Brunswick, have taken the
stump in opposition to ratification of
reciprocity and in opposition to the
return of the Laurier candidates.
Clifford Sifton, formerly a member
Of the Laurier ministry, is holding a
meeting in Ontario, at which he de-
nounces the reciprocity agreement
and the government for having made
it.
The grounds taken for and against
reciprocity are shown in the reports
coming from all sections. The fight
against reciprocity is made on both
economic and sentimental grounds.
Opposition leaders declare agricul-
ture in the United States is so much
| better developed than it IS in Cana
da, and that the Canadian farmers
/ will be swamped by the arrival Of
food products from the United
States.
Conservative papers have been
printing offers from alleged Ameri-
can fruit, dairy and provisions firms
to sell cheese. fruit, vegetables and
other produces to Canadian dealers
at less than the prevailing Canadian
rates as soon as the reciprocity agree
ment is confirmed. The liberals
have denounced these stories as not
genuine but arranged for to stam-
pede the Canadian farmer against
reciprocity.
The sentimental ground raised
against the return of the government
is based on the report of President
Taft, in which he said Canada had
come to "the parting of the ways, :"
as justification for having passed the
reciprocity agreement through con-
gress. The opposition still insists
President Taft has the opposition of
| Canada in view. Leader Borden gave
instance of this in his speech at To-
ronto saying:
Il don't doubt the loyalty of the
Canadian people, but if Canada de-
l:berately interlocks her interests
| with those Of the United States she
| will be led step by step into condi-
tions which all her loyalty could not
Change. The time to withdraw is now
before the threshold is reached"
The fight for reciprocity is based
by Premier Laurier and his follow
ers on economic advantages which
will accrue to Canada as whole and
they denounce the annexation cry as
a hollow device of the campaign.
Quebec is regarded as the pivotal
province in the election. Here Hen
ri Bourassa, opposition leader, is Wig
orously denouncing Premier Laurier
as too imperialistic. Bourassa de-
clares Laurier betrayed Canadian de-
pendence to Great Britain by enact
ing law for the creation OF a navy
which eventually will lead to the
CONSUMPTION Of the young men of
Canada This same cry stampeded
the electors of Drummond at Atha-
baska. where Laurier was brought
up in a bye-election two years ago.
Premier Laurier, at meeting in
Saint Eustache recently, departed
from his usual dignity and calm by
declaring that Mr.. Bourassa was
"wilful liar"
The prime minister has shown
splendid form in the campaign, and
in spite of his seventy years he
speaks with more vigor than ever be-
fore.
The opposition claims they will
gain seats from the government in
the maritime provinces (Nova Scotia,
Il D,.;~