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Show AMERICANS"! "NOT LKED people of Ontario Vot- ed Their Hatred in I the Election f.pToronto, Sept. 22. The Mall and EmpIre (Conservative") says today. i .-".The Knox-Ficlding pact has recelv-jed recelv-jed its quietus. That menace to Canada's Can-ada's Independence, that troublor of xjur politics for the fast eight months Ihas been dealt with by the sovereign jfpcople in a fashion that makes a man jifoel prouder than ever to be a fellow fpitTzen of the great majority, who yes-Kprday yes-Kprday tore Into tatterB tho covenant Fpfx -treason our ministers concluded jKIth the President of the United tatos. SfJf"Not only is tho evil spirit of con-Unentallsm con-Unentallsm exorcised, but the government govern-ment It possessed is cast out. This .lsVthe end of the most Infamous false flialfng that the ministry of a British pmlnion was ever guilty of. To fal6e dealing was added despotism such as ih most autocratic government In the world would hardly have attempU ed.'-' T The Globe (Liberal) says: !b;J,The government of Sir Wilfrid .Lsaurier goes out of power on a great Jsaue. Believing as it did that the pYjer of tho United States to exchange lfatural products with Canada on a "duty-free basis would prove advantageous advanta-geous to both countries, the government govern-ment risked its life on the issue of Sclproclty and lost it. "The people of Ontario do not like t(heir neighbors to the south. That 1b emphatically the decision of yesterday's yes-terday's election. Liberals In' tons of 'thousands must have joined the Conservatives Con-servatives in city and country to show tfielr objections to oavlng any 'truck 0 trade with the United States.' J"Tho other provinces , taken together, to-gether, havo a majority for Laurier 3nd larger markets, but by an overwhelming over-whelming vote Ontario has declared -thatahe will have nothing to do with reciprocity. The campaign orators of "toe Conservative party builded better tjfiln. they knew, when', during the last two weeks .oMhe campaign, they ap-palell ap-palell to tho people of this provlnco tosavo Canada from the Americans, 'woy created a wave of feQllng,that .("ag. not observable on the surface, but that nevertheless swept the roters from their political moorings in numbers. num-bers. "That the wave of anti-American sentiment will speedily subside is entirely en-tirely probablo. It mounted too high to last. But the drift will remain and until Ontario becomes less pow rful relatively In the councils of the nation na-tion than she will be In tho opening period of the Borden administration, there will bo no hope of better trade relations wjth the people of tho United States The tariff wall will remain, The more ardent high protectionists pro-tectionists may even seek to raise it still higher If that Is to be the policy of tho victors, tho reign of Mr Borden will not bo long unchallenged The west will not stand for an Immoderate Uiriff and roaction will speedily follow fol-low any attempt to raise a barrier against imports as high as Haman's gallows. "It Is a matter of very great regret that so many of the leaders of tho Liberal party should bo among the defeated. It will be some time before lyir Borden can gather around him heads for his various departments who will measuro up to them." Nashville, Tenn , Sept 22. When Champ Clark, speaker of the national houso of representatives, arrived today to-day to bo tho guest of the Tennossce state fair, he was asked If his supposed sup-posed humorous remarks about annexation annex-ation at a banquet some time ago had not aidod in the defeat of the reciprocity recip-rocity by Canada yesterday. Mr. Clark wrote the following statement" state-ment" "My remarks about annexation did not do half aa much to defeat reciprocity reci-procity in Canada s did President Taft's speeoh, In which he insisted on hurrying up agreeing to reciprocity in this country before Great Britain could establish her 'Imperial policy or tariff with preferential rates for the colonies "Ho and I woro both quoted by tho anti-reciprocity crowd in Canada, he more than I, but the chances are that the quotations from his speeches and mine did not havo half so much to do wlth defeating reclprocltj as did the corruption funds sent from both this country and. Great Britain into Can-aadg, Can-aadg, (Signed) CHAMP CLARK." 00 |