The Hon. E. L. Patenaude, Conservative politician, urged a Conservative mass meeting at Lachine, Que., to unite to fight annexation of Canada by the U. S. He declaimed:
"I have no fear of annexation by treaty, still less of annexation by conquest, but I do fear the insidious daily penetration of Yankee foodstuffs, Yankee clothing, Yankee cereals, Yankee periodicals, Yankee 'movies,' Yankee ideas and Yankee ideals. . . .
"The 49th degree of latitude is a line that exists only in the imagination, and it looks as though it were going to cease to exist...
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