El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-12
CANADIAN LOYALTY Is USED AS
WEAPON AGAINST RECIPROCITY
Washngons Speech Quoted Appeal by Conservatives
To Defeat the Measure

| ~ TTAWA, Canada, Sept ~
BY the Introduction of the
annexation bogie into the
Canadian campaign che Conservative
party has brought into question the
loyalty OF every elector who casts his
vote for reciprocity with the United
States For the next IL days, or until
| the election on September 81, there will
| be a whole lot Of flag waving In the
dominion, prodigious amount of pa
triotie song singing and a continual
| King!''
Reciprocity Ia Feared.
In the first place. the loyalty issue
policy of the government. 1t is set
forth by conservative leaders that the
| preferential tariff now enjoyed by
Great Britain in its trade with Canada
completely, by the proposed recipro-
cal agreement with the United States
70 violate the preferential is to be dis
loyal, 1T is argued And this argument
| OF the identical party that in 1900 at
tempted to defeat the Laurier govern
| ment on the ground that 1t advocated
this identical British preferential
In the second place, the royalty issue
| Is raised by the declaration, however
unwarranted, that a vote for reciproc-
ity is vote for annexation. Under the
influence of this agitation compliment
tary references to president Taft and
the United States are Missed in public
meetings, the American flag publicly
displayed is liable TO insult, and every
thing American Is subjected to ridicule
or abuse.
In rebuttal, the Liberals question the
loyalty of the Conservative allies. the
Nat1onal1sts OF Quebec: The followers
OF Bourassa, say the Liberals are utter
~ disloyal to Great Britain, they are
openly In opposition to Canadian par
tlclpation in the defence of the empire,
Franco-Canadia independence and who
plan disruption of the dominion.
These, say the Liberals. are the disloy-
al allies of the ultra-loya1 Tories in the
purpose is to destroy Laurier.
Macdonald Fayors Treaty.
me Liberals quote Sir John Mac
Donald In advocacy of reciprocity. The
positively but effectively, with Sir
johns famous: "A British subject 1 was
born; British subject 1 will diew Sir
John Macdonald is a national hero of
Canada, but he is something more
ne is the political god of the Conserva-
tives. The idolatrous affection that
a canadian arnn1,n Tory can put into the
amazing. 1t matters not that Sir John
was for reciprocity with the United
States in natural products, 1t matters a
al to England and that he was a crust
ed Tory in domestic politics A Con-
servative newspaper has kept stand
ing yat the head of its editorial page
Sir Johns electoral address: 1t is
therefore need scarcely state
my firm belief, that the prosperity of
Canada depends upon its permanent
connection with the mother country,
and that / shall resist to the utmost
any attempt(from whatever quarter
1t may Gomez which may tend to weak
This is a strong statement, having
the force in Canada that a dictum of
washington or Lincoln might have
In the United States. 1t is the voice
OF the national hero. And, OF
course. 1T is a. powerful argument
against reciprocity that would bring
ABOUT closer commercial relations with
Conservative view, weaken the union
between Canada and the mother coun-
try But, ask the Liberals, what was
Sir John talking about when he said
Self Government Talk.
80 the Liberals dive back into the
mouldering past and discover that Sir
John wasn't talking about reciprocity
ment IN the year 1914, when he was
f1ghung against the Introduction of re-
sponsibie self government into British
North America! And after that, when
his fight against self government was
lost, when Canada had become self
governing nation, and when Sir John
was at its head by virtue Of the free
suffrage of it's people, he repeatedly
and perseveringly for 20 years endeav-
ored TO negotiate reciprocity agree
ment with the United States, in which
endeavors he also failed
The Bourassa followers in Quebec
are denouncing LAurier as a traitor to J
the French tongue" for having sold Us :
n 70 the English, and for being an I'm
gan Doys into foreign wars to be shot
Tor Britain's sake. Every French
canadian is appealed to vote against
Laurier and the Liberals because they
are too loyal. That is one racial queS-
ton raised in Canada to hurt Sir VIII
fri is,,. But It is is not the only one.
to repudiate Laurier because he is
about to deliver Canada over to Uncle
sam. bound hand and foot TO be out
ragged by the ruthless financial pirates
peal to the British born" is the title OF
one of many pamphlets being distrib-
9ted eyer the country by the Cana
tion is not to be COMPOUNDED with the
nationalist party, which is Mr. Bou- |
rassa's ORGANISATION. AS the Nationalist |
easSSe i f EngIsb T SO the National nal
one thing-the desire to defeat the |
Laurier government.
"AppeaI to British Born
The appeal to the British born and /
other documents issuing from the same |
source aim TO line up those Canadian |
voters who were born in the old coun-
try to vote against Laurier and recf- /
procity by way of emphasizing their |
loyalty to the crown and their distrust
OF the United States. Some Canadians |
OBJECT to the use of the phrase Brit |
sh born in this connection, declaring |
that anybody born in the empire is
British born. But of course the appear
Is addressed to the sons of England
1t Is a curious fact that most Eng
lfshmen who migrate to Canada become |
conservatives, even If they have been |
thorough going radicals at home.
mere are many reasons for this. but
two of them are determinative One is
that the leader of the Liberal party is |
a French Canadian. The other is that |
the British born find many traits in /
the Canadian that are distasteful. and |
these they are prone to charge up to |
the defiling influence of the Yankees. |
therefore they make haste to cast their |
lot In with that political party that |
makes the most of the British connec- |
ton and talks loudest about the en- !
pire
The appeal indeed, says that Ca
nadians are not British and are not |
Americans, but better than either
which may be true-and then 1t pleads |
with. the British born to defeat reel
procity so that the Americanizing in
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