Woodrow Wilson: “All provincials have got to take a back seat.”

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this country.

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.