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Show THE CANADIAN CAMPAIGN. There ought to be no end' of fun in attending the debates that are going on in Canada just now over the reciprocity treaty. The opposition calls up every imaginable danger to the country if the measure carries. In strictly English terms the people are told that the proposed treaty ia filled with menaces to Canada; that really it means annexation an-nexation to the United States; that the union jack will be lowered, the flag of the United States, intertwined in-tertwined with the tri-colored flag of France, will be raised ; and not only will their country, but their religion as well, be endangered ; and a thousand other vagaries are raised, making clear that the provincialism of that country is something some-thing appalling. In the French quarters the fear seems to be just as great. In them the belief is that the treaty really means annexation, and there the great fear seems to be that the church schools will be closed and that all will have to attend the wicked public schools. There is nothing worse than ignorance, except an education which ia hedged about with intolerance intoler-ance and bigotry.' |