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Show SIR JOHN CALLED DOWN. Th. Frl.ada of lh. I nlt-d Dial. Speak Out la Ilia laoadiaa Parliament. OnowA, Ont., May 2. In the house yesterday Laurier, leader of the opposition, oppo-sition, arraigued the government for the insulting 'epithets whtoh Kir John MeDouald and othur members of the cabinet had showered upou the United States during the rcceut campaign. The result of the recent elections, he held, was practically a victory for the liberal party aud their policy of unrestricted unre-stricted reciprocity. Sir John iu reply said the government govern-ment had every reason to congratulate themselves for the manner iu which tho country repudiated the liboral party and their policy of annexation. Ho regretted re-gretted tho loss of suveral of his supporters sup-porters who bad falleu in battle, but the defeat was duo to the McKiuley bill and not to any charges that could be directly brought against tho government. govern-ment. Cartwright characterizes the whole course of the government as one calculated calcu-lated to exasperate the and irritate the United States against Canada, and that it was to be regretted that Sir John had not seen tit to withdraw the unfriendly references he made to that great repub, lie, in place of stating tbat he would stand by what he had said. The con-duet con-duet of the Canadian government in It-8(1 has almost drawn the Uuited States into a commercial war ugriust the dominion, do-minion, as bal subsequently bad been found out by Tupper. The liberal party had repeatedly urged he adoption of some measure that would lead to a possible commercial com-mercial intercourse between Canada aud tho United States. There was one of few things certain to occur, free trade with the United States or a practical prac-tical suspension of all commercial intercourse in-tercourse with the republic by tho attitude atti-tude toward the United States. The insults that had been heaped upon the ti.VOOO.OUU people of the great republic to lliu south of the dominion has aroused a spirit of hostility toward Canada iu the United States whose in-lluenco in-lluenco President Harrison or Secretary lilaine could not ignore. Sir John McDonald had denounced everyone who voted for the liberal party and unrestricted reciprocity as aunexionist and according to this theory and the result of the recent elections elec-tions over one-half of the population of Canada were in favor of political alliance al-liance with the United States. If annexation an-nexation was ever to become alive issue in Canada it would bo throngh the acts of the present administration who had precipitated such a state of affairs in the country. ' Minister of Finance Foster was not in position to define the government's position po-sition in regard to the negotiations at Washington, but would ask the house to wait patiently until the correspondence correspon-dence was brought down, when , it would be seen they acted in the best interests of the country and he would say however, that the government considered con-sidered the treaty of 18o4 a fair treaty ahke to Canada, aurias'nited btat.'S. |