20 WITH MR. CHAMBERLAIN IN THE 



your appointment by the Tory Government was 

 made in the hope of compHcating still further the 

 Irish difficulty." 



*' I have not seen anything of the kind," v^as the 

 reply. " That cannot be, and I would not pay any 

 attention to such an insinuation." 



Commercial Union 



The reporter then drew his attention to the action 

 on last Thursday of the New York Chamber of 

 Commerce advocating free trade with Canada, and 

 to the fact that a committee had been appointed to 

 see what could be done about commercial union, 

 also to the following extracts from his English 

 speeches read at that meeting : 



Commercial union with the United States meant 

 that Canada was to give preference to every 

 article of manufacture from the United 

 States over the manufactures from Great 

 Britain. If the people of Canada desired 

 an arrangement of that kind he did not doubt 

 that they would be able to secure it. He did 

 not think anybody in England would pre- 

 vent such an arrangement by force ; but he 

 remarked that in that case all the advantages 

 of the slender tie that bound Canada to 

 England would disappear, so far as England 

 was concerned ; and it was not likely that 

 the people of Great Britain would continue 

 much longer to sustain the obligations and 



