28 JANUARY 1911, Page 17

-What will be the effect of these remarkable innovations on

the doctrine of Imperial Preference ? It is obvious that the United States will give to Canada advantages which she does not propose to give to Great Britain. This will be a curious situation, and the prospects of Imperial Preference will be profoundly affected. In 1892, it may be remembered, Canada refused to enter into any preferential arrangement with the United States from which Great Britain was excluded. It may be that the results in the case of manufactures will be doctrinal rather than practical, as in the articles named in the new Agreement there is little competition between Great Britain and the United States. Still, the new reciprocity in one way and another must unquestionably postpone the hopes of those who advocate Imperial Preference.