Canada, on her part, would enter into an alliance with the United States, looking towards the preservation of peace on the American continents and the establishment of an American international political system.

Canada and the United States in their turn would agree to lend the support of their naval forces to Great Britain in the event of a general European war, but solely for the purpose of protecting the cargoes of grain and other food which might be needed by Great Britain.
Surely the advantages of such an arrangement would be substantial and well-distributed.

Canada would feel secure in her independence, and would be emancipated from irrelevant European complications.

The United States would gain support, which is absolutely essential for the proper pacification of the American continent, and would pay for that support only by an engagement consonant with her interest as a food-exporting power.

Great Britain would exchange a costly responsibility for an assurance of food in the one event, which Britons must fear--viz., a general European war with strong maritime powers on the other side.