Word: canada
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF MARCH 6, 1889.Question: "Resolved, That the United States should annex Canada...
...interests of Canada are in the United States because of the large number of Canadian born who are residing here.- No. Am. Rev., vol. 136, p. 326; C. Richmond Smith on "Immigration" in Pol. Science Quar., June, 1888. (a) Canada, through these emigrants, is bound to the United States by the tie of mutual friendship...
...National Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place in Madison Square Garden, New York, next Saturday. It will be the largest athletic meeting ever held, as the entries already number over seven hundred. The list includes some of the most famous athletes of England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, and it will be strange if several records are not-lowered. Among the men who will endeavor to break records are Westing, M. A. C., champion one hundred yards runner of the world, who will attempt to lower the present record for seventy-five yards; Copeland...
...Reisner, '89, opened for the negative, arguing that the first speaker had exaggerated the condition of the United States, and that we have nothing to gain by commercial union with Canada which we cannot now secure by reciprocity treaties. He thought it impossible for the United States to assimilate Canada successfully; that Canada will not consent to union except with the right of representation, and her quota of senators and representatives would hold the balance of power in all legislation...
...Surbridge, '89, closed for the negative, recapitulating in the main, the arguments already advanced by that side. He thought also that the arguments of the leaders upon the affirmative were inconsistent, and was unwilling to concede the position which they took, that Canada desires annexation and that England is willing, declaring that the question did not confine the debate to that ground merely...