Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1146 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V the result of establishing extended trade relations between the Republic and Canada. Sir Charles Tupper, in private correspondence in 1888 with Mr. Bayard, stated that the one way to attain a just and permanent settlement was by a straightforward treatment and a liberal and statesmanlike plan of the entire commercial relations of the two countries, Sir Charles Tupper therefore proposed to the United States that the Fishery arrangements and the Treaty of Washington should be continued in consideration of a mutual arrange- ment providing for greater freedom of commercial intercourse between the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland. This unrestricted offer of reciprocity, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier interpreted it, was rejected by the United States. The Liberal party had naturally throughout maintained its attitude in favour of reciprocity, and in 1889 Mr. Laurier moved an amendment to supply on February 26, declaring that steps should be taken by the Government to secure un. restricted freedom in the trade relations of the two countries. At the same time Mr. Goldwin Smith advocated very strongly the fullest measure of reciprocity, and indeed a Customs Union with the United States. This position was accepted in a speech by Sir Richard Cartwright, who had been Minister of Finance in the Mackenzie Government from 1873 to 1878, and was Minister of Trade and Commerce in Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s Government from 1896, on October 12, 1887, in which he declared in favour of commercial union even in view of the political risk of annexation. ° There is,” he said, “a risk, and I cannot overlook it. But it is a choice of risks, and our present position is anything but one of stable equi- librium. Without Manitoba and the Maritime Provinces we cannot maintain ourselves as a Dominion. And looking to their present tempers and condition, and more especially to the financial results of confederation in the Maritime Provinces, I say deliberately that the refusal or failure to secure free trade with the United States is much more likely to bring about just such a political crisis as these parties affect to dread than even the very closest commercial con- nexion that can be conceived.’

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