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to chide or reproach; for every argument, 

 whether sound or merely silly, that was used in 

 Canada to resist the demand for freer trade 

 with the United States had been used with 

 effect in the United States, in a dozen campaigns, 

 to resist the demand for freer trade with Great 

 Britain. The national spirit was producing 

 in Canada the identical phenomena that had 

 attended the growth of the United States to its 

 magnificent estate of independence and power. 

 Hence no bad blood was made by the failure 

 of reciprocity. The Americans looked serenely 

 on while the great Dominion displayed the 

 same spirit, in maintaining economic independ 

 ence at the end of the century of peace, that 

 the little Canadian provinces had displayed at 

 the beginning of that century, in maintaining 

 their political and military independence. 



The harmony between Britain and America 

 was the leading factor in another effort to pro 

 mote the cause of general arbitration. With 

 the seriously qualified success of this undertak 

 ing the diplomatic record of the hundred years 

 of peace was substantially completed. In the 

 summer of 1911 a form of agreement was de 

 vised which referred to arbitral procedure all 

 international controversies that were &quot;justici- 



