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Show LAURIER DECLARES ANNEXA-TION ANNEXA-TION BUT AMERICAN DREAM Canadian Premier Favoring Reciprocity Reciproc-ity Proclaims Loyalty to Britain. Ottawa, Ont., March S. Tho reciprocity reci-procity agreement was Indorsed, tho loyalty to Great Britain aflrmcd, an-nexatlon an-nexatlon scouted, tho development ot Canada proclaimed nnd friendship between be-tween farmer and mnnufacturor recommended rec-ommended to Canada in tho house ot commons by Sir Wilfred Laurlor, prime minister of tho Dominion, In the first speech ho has delivered ln the reciprocity re-ciprocity debate. His vlows against annexation nnd for good returns wero especially em-' phaslzed. it was once tho conviction ait tho American president, ho nsserted, that Canada should become n part ot tho United States. Although It was flattering flat-tering to American 'prldo thot tho territory ter-ritory of tho republic should extend over tho wholo continent, ho urged his neighbors to remember that Canadians wero born under tho sumo flag ob tho nucostorB of tho American people, n ting under which Americans may havo Buffered oppression, but which to Canadians lias been and Is more than ever the emblem of freedom. "If you havo founded u nation upon up-on separation from llrltalu," ho said, "remember that wo Canadians have set our hearts upon building a nation without separation, nnd In this tusk wo nro tar ndanced. The blood which flows In our violns Is as god as yours, nnd If you nro n proud people, though wo have not your numbers, wo nro as proud as you, nnd rather than part with our national existence wo would pnrt with our lives." Tho prime minister's speech Is regarded re-garded as tho most Important utter ance made on tho Canadian side ot tho line. Tho premier's lepinrks wero received re-ceived with approving demonstrations. Describing ills Ideal of tho relationship relation-ship between ,tho United States and Cnnuda, Sir Wilfred said: "There perhaps may bo a spectacle noblor than that ot u united continent n spectacle which would astound the world by Its novelty nnd grandeur, n Hpectnclo of two peoples living side by side, separated only by an Invisible line, with not a gun frowning across It. not 11 fortress on cither side, with no armament 0110 against tho other, but living in harmony, in mutual confidence confi-dence and with no othor rivalry than a generous emulation In commerce and the arts ot peace." "To tho Canadian people 1 would bay that It it la posslblo for us to obtain ob-tain such relations between these two young and growing nations, Canada will havo rendered to old Kugland, tho mother of nations, nay, to tho wholo British empire, n service unequalled un-equalled in its present effect and still moro in Its far-reaching consequences. 'I think I can venture tho assertion that the policy Involved in tho agreement agree-ment has met with tho enthusiastic approbation of tho majority of tho Canadian people," he concluded. |