| William Lawson Grant - Canada - 1926 - 1058 pages
...Clark, leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives, declared he was for the treaty "because I hope to see the day when the American flag...American possessions, clear to the North Pole. They speak our language, their institutions are much like ours, they are trained in the difficult art of... | |
| David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1927 - 910 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... | |
| Charles Grenfill Washburn - Legislators - 1928 - 406 pages
...utterances, who said, in a speech advocating reciprocity, that he was in favor of it because he hoped 'to see the day when the American flag will float...North American possessions clear to the North Pole.' There were, of course, other influences which affected the Canadian vote, but this was one of them.... | |
| Walter Phelps Hall - Great Britain - 1928 - 560 pages
...Clark, which perhaps more than anything else killed reciprocity. "I am for it," said the Missouri Solon, "because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the north pole." Now Mr. Clark was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a leading candidate for the Democratic... | |
| American literature - 1912 - 804 pages
...American House of Representatives declared in advocating the Canadian Reciprocity Bill, " 1 am for it because I hope to see the day when the American flag...North American possessions clear to the North Pole," it aroused, instead of laughter, an international misunderstanding. That this incautious remark of... | |
| John Castell Hopkins - Canada - 1912 - 854 pages
...that no importance attached to the remarks. The reference to the Bill was as follows : I am for it because I hope to see the day when the American flag...American possessions, clear to the North Pole. They speak our language, their Institutions are much like ours, they are trained in the difficult art of... | |
| Protectionism - 1911 - 762 pages
...Democratic party.'' He hinted at annexation, when he said that he favored the agreement because he hoped to see the day when the American flag will float over...North American possessions clear to the North Pole. Some excellent speeches against the bill were made by Mr. Broussard of Louisiana, Mr. Dawson of Iowa,... | |
| 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 - 628 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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