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VALUE OF PREFERENCE. the last twenty years?' Mr. Ross blurted out on the spur of the moment, 'Twenty millions.’ Is any one prepared to get up on a public platform in face of the opinion of a competent person such as Mr. Ross, and say that the Colonies care nothing for the policy put before the country by Mr. Chamberlain?

To sum up, the net result of my visit to Canada was to convince me that Canada could produce all the wheat we are likely to require in the United Kingdom now, and for many years to come; that the preference proposed by Mr. Chamberlain is sufficient; that Mr. Chamberlain's policy would build up the Empire; that if we do not adopt it we may lose Canada, and if we lose Canada it will be the beginning of the end of the British Empire. 179