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" I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the north pole! "
Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxation - Page 416
edited by - 1913
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The Living Age, Volume 289

1916 - 880 pages
...on Confedcralon." p. 55. was that of Speaker Champ Clark: "I am in favor of the reciprocity treaty because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the North Pole." Canadians will readily grant that many worse things might befall them, but the fact remains that this...
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Every where ..., Volumes 29-30

Will Carleton - 1911 - 858 pages
...our House of Representatives, said, during^, -discussion of the question: "I am in for reciprocity, because I hope to see the day when the American flag...float over every square foot of the British North Americas, clear to the North Pole." This remark Mr. Clark is said to have made "jocularly" : but a...
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Debates: Official Report, Volume 3

Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1911 - 1216 pages
...Mr. Clark's remarks up to this point. Then he continues : I am for it, because I hope to see the day the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North America possessions clear to the north pole. I do not observe anything which would lead me to believe...
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The American Year Book

Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1912 - 996 pages
...frequently made to a speech of Champ Clark, in which he said, in the House of Representatives: "I am for it because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the North Pole." President Taft's words that "Canada was at the parting of the ways" were often quoted to show that...
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The World's Work, Volume 24

American literature - 1912 - 896 pages
...House of Representatives declared in advocating the Canadian Reciprocity Bill, " I am for it because 1 hope to see the day when the American flag will float...North American possessions clear to the North Pole," it aroused, instead of laughter, an international misunderstanding. That this incautious remark of...
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Die Monroedoktrin in ihren beziehungen zur amerikanischen diplomatie und zum ...

Herbert Kraus - Monroe doctrine - 1913 - 488 pages
...angeführt werden: „I am in favor of the reeiprocity treaty to promote our trade relations. I am for it because I hope to see the day when the American flag will flöte over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the North Pole. They...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 225

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1916 - 624 pages
...public men, the most fatal was that of Speaker Champ Clark : ' I am in favor of the reciprocity treaty because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the North Pole.' Canadians will readily grant that many worse things might befall them, but the fact remains that this...
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The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor, Volume 49

Oscar Douglas Skelton - Canada - 1919 - 350 pages
...interpretations. Speaker Champ Clark's announcement that he was in favor of the agreement because he hoped "to see the day when the American flag will float...square foot of the British North American possessions" was worth tens of thousands of votes. The anti-reciprocity press of Canada seized upon these utterances,...
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Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Volume 2

Oscar Douglas Skelton - Canada - 1921 - 618 pages
...annex Canada," the Speaker of the House, Champ Clark, had declared, and, more seriously, "I am for the bill because I hope to see the day when the American flag will float on every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the North Pole." Lesser politicians...
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The United States of America, Volume 2

David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1924 - 884 pages
...the House that he favored reciprocity because he " hoped to see the day when the American flag would float over every square foot of the British North American possessions clear to the North Pole." It was the language of Charles Sumner over again. President Taft had spoken of Canada being "at the...
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