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Show CANADIAN PREMIER SCOFFS AT IDEA THAT MATTER IS BEING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, In Addressing an Audience Composed of Miny of the Great Men of England, Handles Question Without Gloves. j London. The dinner of the Tie Kriins' society Tuesday nlgjit In honor of the colonial premiers was historic becauso of the unexpected and not ' worthy plain speaiting by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the premier of Canada. I Sir Wllfrtd. addressing an audience j composed ul many of the great men i of England, handled the annexation i question without gloves, lie began ' by express tig amusement that during I his three days' stay in England h ! had heard so many people of stand Ing voicing doubts concerning the de signs of the L'nlted Slates regarding ' Canada, lie scoffed at the idea ol ! annexation being seriously consider- ' ed on cither sldo of the border, lie : expressed In warm terms his uduilra J tlon for tho people of the 1'iiited i States, but said that as much us he j loved the American people, he loved Great llrltaln better. Cunuda, In sharing the continent with the l'nlted States, he sa d, had a double Interest In the treaty of ar j bttratlou between the I'nited States and the I'nited Kingdom, and exclaimed ex-claimed dramatically: "I thauk God that tho relations between be-tween the two .copies never were so good as lliey are today." The premier moused enthusiasm when he said tint Canada and the United States proposed to continue to show the world that the two nations with the longest bourvlury, extending from ocean to ocean, could live In peace and mutual respect, without a fortress, a soldier nr a gun on either side of that boundary. |