 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!  The Living Age - Page 3891916Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1912 - 232 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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
...British relations. Among various utterances by the American press and American public men, the most fatal was that of Speaker Champ Clark : ' I am in favor...decidedly what they do not want. Their historical connexions, their sympathies, their ideals are British, not * 'Parliamentary Debates on Confederation,'... | |
 | 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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