The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-23
HOW BORDEN
HURT CANADA
Alienated Friendship Of United
States
Mr.. CARTWRIGHT ATTACKS
A Blow to British Empire, He Says
The Cultivation of Good Rela-
tons Is of the Utmost
Moment.
Mr.. CARTWRIGHT ATTACKS

Ottawa, Ontario, Nov. 23-"If there is
one thing more tnAn another that every
Canadian statesman who is worthy the
name ought to avoid, IL is fostering or
pandering to spirit Of hostility and
luminosity between Canada and the Unit.
cd States" said Sir Richard Cartwright.
former minister Of trade and commerce,
in the Canadian Senate Tuesday in the
course of an attack on the manner N
which reciprocity was assailed in the
last Canadian election.
"For months could not taks up a
Conservative paper without seeing smns
slur or taunt or innuendo or scurrilous
attack upon the government and people
of the United States, observed some
little time ago that Premier Borden took
occasion al a dinner in New York 60
express the remarkable good VIII and
affection be entertained for the people
OF the United States Had he made that
statement while the Canadian election
was going on, had he chosen to curb
the attacks Of his followers in the cam
paign and put a stop TO the mode Of
Islander which was then in progress,
would have held his remarks entitled
to more consideration. 1t may interest
the gentlemen OF the opposition and Mr..
Borden himself to know how these re.
marks were received in the United
States" Sir Richard read an editorial
extract from an American newspaper,
which concluded: Canada may congrat
ulate herself upon having done more to
estrange the two nations than she will
be able to repair for many years"
81 fear" continued Sir Richard, that
expresses only too correctly the senti-
ment OF q great many persons in the
United States who were formerly wen
disposed toward us. | am afraid the
mischief Mr.. Borden and his friends have
done is greater than they win ever be
able TO repair. Now and all my life
long | have seen and felt that the great
est service the people OF Canada could
render to the British empire was TO cul.
tivate friendly relations with the grea.
nation on the other side Of the border.
Do these people know; do these slingers
of mud recall that the people of the
United States are to-day close to Il hum
dred million strong and within twenty
five wears will reach hundred ard fifty
millionsf That is the kind of power,
that il the sort of nation that these
people think II wise and prudent and in
the interest of the British empire for
us to insult and estrange."
Sir Richard condemned as migrate
full foolsa those English public men who
recently have been exultirg at the down.
fall of the Laurier government which,
he said. was the only Canadian govern
ment that had ever conferred service
upon British commerce or had ever
raised a hand to assist British arms.
Senator Laughed, who speaks in the SEN
ate for the Conservative government, de-
clared that during the election American
public men, from President Taft and
Speaker Champ Clark, down to the hum
biest, had made it plain that behind
reciprocity there was the uterior pur-
pose Of leading Canada away from Eng
land to annexation with the United
States. Under the circumstances, Ca
nadians could not be blamed for reject
ing reciprocity, but there was no un-
friendliness on the part Of the Canadian
government toward the United States,
he said.