The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-08-28
RECIPROCITY ISSUE STlRS DO.
MlNioN FROM ONE BORDER
TO ANOTHER.
PEOPLE SHOW INTEREST
Despite Fact That Harvesting Is at Its
Height, Audiences Listening to Ar
gumcnts for and Against Trade
Agreement With United States Are
Unparalleled for Size.

Ottawa, Ont. Aug. 21,-Reports com.
ing In from all parts OF Canada show
the intensity of the election struggle
which is now under full headway and
they reflect also the position and
progress of the various elements on
the main issue. reciprocity between
Canada and the United States.
Although the campaign comes while
harvesting IL nj its height, conventions
and political meetings are drawing
audiences unparalleled for size. II is
conceded that greater percentage Of
the country's vote will be polled than
ever before I'm Canada
Reciprocity has continued the domi-
nant issue since Premier Laurier and
Opposition Leader Borden made their
initial addresses. Since then Mr.. Bor-
den has remained In Ontario. speaking
daily, while Premier Laurier, after one
Ontario meeting. has swung over the
French Canadian province OF Quebec.
where he has been addressing from one
to two meetings each day. including
Sunday
Meantime the premiers of various
provinces and other leaders have been
on the firing line. Premier Whitney of
| Ontario, Premier Mcbride of British
| Columbia and Premier Hazen of New
| Brunswick have taken the stump in
| opposition to reciprocity and I'm OPP
position to the return of the Laurier
candidates Clifford Sifton. former
ly member of the Laurier ministry,
Is holding meetings i'm Ontario. at
Y ,,gHY I'll hn an "a,
agreement.
Fear Swampipg.
| 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.
The opposition speakers declare that
agriculture in the United States is so
much better developed than 1t is In
Canada that the Canadian farmer will
be swamped by the arrival OF food
products from the United States.
Conservative papers have been
printing offers from alleged American
fruit, dairy and provision firms to
/ sell cheese. fruit, vegetables and 9TH
er provisions to Canadian dealers at
less than the prevailing Canadian rates
as soon as the reciprocity agreement
Is confirmed. The liberals have de-
nounced these stories as not genuine
but arranged for the purpose of STAN.
peding the Canadian farmers against
reciprocity.
The sensational ground raised
against the return Of the government,
is based on the report OF a speech by
President Taft In which he said tina,
Canada had come to "the parting OF
the ways" az justification for having
urged the reciprocity agreement
The opposition still insists thai
President Taft has the annexation oi
Canada in view Leader Borden gave
instance of this In his speech al
| Toronto. saying, Il don't doubt tho
loyalty of the Canadian people. but II
Canada deliberately interlocks her In.
terests with those of the United
States she will be led step by ster
into conditions which all her loyalt,
could not change. The time to with.
draw Is now, before the threshold i,
reached
The fight for reciprocity is baset
1
crs on the economic advantages i
will bring to Canada, and they de
nounce the annexation cry as a hol
low device of the campaign.
The French Canadian province o
Quebec Is regarded as the pivotal poin
in the election. Here Henri Boroussa
the opposition nationalist leader, i
vigorously denouncing Premier Laurie
as too imperiallstic. Boroussa de
clares that Laurier betrayed canadial
independence to Great Britain by pro
curing law for the creation of
navy, which eventually win lead to II.
conscrlption of the young men o
Canada. This same cry stampeded tn
!, electors of Drummond- Athbaska
where Laurier was brought up, In
bye election two years ago. Premie
= Lanrer, at a meeting in st, Eustac'
recently departed from his usual dig
nifty and calmly declared that NJ
:. Boroussa was "wilful liar
The claims of the two sides up I
: this date are about as follows. Th
opposition claims they win gain seat
!, from tie government In the maritim
provinces tNova Scotia, New Bruins
Il wick and Prince Edward islands,,
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Brit
4 ish Columbia, while the west province
of Saskatchewan and Alberta will ri
main with the government as at pres
ent
The liberals, on the contrary. clail
: they will increase their present lars
majority in the French Canadian Sc,
g. tions of Quebec and In the martin
provinces, and will make gains IN Or
:. tario and throughout tie westel
provinces.