 | 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1912 - 896 pages
...was 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...North American possessions clear to the North Pole." President Tart's words that "Canada was at the parting of the ways" were often quoted to show that... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1912 - 232 pages
...Reciprocity Bill, said: " I am in favor of the reciprocity treaty to promote our trade relations. ... I am for it, because I hope to see the day when the...North American possessions clear to the North Pole. They are people of our blood. They speak our language. Their institutions are much like ours. They... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - United States - 1912 - 228 pages
..." I am in favor of the reciprocity treaty to promote our trade relations. ... I am for it, oecause I hope to see the day when the American flag will...North American possessions clear to the North Pole. They are people of our blood. They speak our language. Their institutions are much like ours. They... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 522 pages
...them on some of the necessities of life. Champ Clark [Mo.], the Speaker, followed. I am for this bill because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the North Pole. They are people of our blood. They speak our language. Their institutions are much like ours. They... | |
 | Herbert Kraus - Monroe doctrine - 1913 - 488 pages
...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 are people of our blood. They speak our language, their institutions are much like ours. They... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - Canada - 1921 - 618 pages
...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 and obscure journals were quoted to the same deadly effect. It was in vain that... | |
 | 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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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! 
