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Show wfElfBLIlIu English People Pleased Over the Canadian Landslide . London, Sept. 22. Tho overwhelming overwhelm-ing defeat of Premier Laurier and tho Liberal government's policy of reciprocity recip-rocity with the United Suites at the polls in Canada yesterday, came as a surprise to England. It had been expected that the Liberal Liber-al majority would be decreased; but even the strongest opponents of reciprocity re-ciprocity had not so much as suggested suggest-ed such a majority against tho Canadian-American agiecment as the Con servatho leader, Mr, Borden, obtained The result generally is wolcomed hero, as Englishmen had felt that the trade arrangement presaged closely political relations between tho neighbors neigh-bors and a consequent loosening of tho imperial ties. There was a slight relapse In Canadian Canad-ian securities on the stock exchange this morning following the news of the Liberal defeat, but prices soon recovered and later changes were credited to other causes. Tho Unionist and tariff-reform papers pa-pers received the news with undisguised undis-guised elation, while tho Liberal and radical press remind them that the victor was obtained with tho assistance as-sistance of Henri Bourassa, leader of the French Nationalist group of the opposition, who left Laurier because of the premier's attachment to tho empire The Unionist Globe says that whilo there were some side factors In the contest, "tho issue was reciprocity and that Canadian people would have nono of it The) heard the voice of President Taft declaring that reciprocity recip-rocity meant annexation. They heard the voice of Sir Wilfrid Laurier In indignant denial, but on the wholo they decided tb believe the president rather than the pjomier. They were right in doing fao. The struggle is on between imperialism and continental-lam, continental-lam, as the German papers pointed out months ago, and imperialism has won. Tho Canadian sees the road to which, reciprocity leads. He ha no wish to moe In the orbit of Washington." |