PANAMA CANAL.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2305, 9 March 1914, Page 2

PANAMA CANAL.

THE QUESTION OF ITS TOLLS : PRAISE FOb"~THE PRESIDENT. IT ILEOTBIO TELEGRAPH— COPYBIOHT. FUR PRESf ASSOCIATION. Washington, March 7. The estimates show the likelihood of majorities of 100. in the House and 50 in the Senate in favour of the immediate repeal of the Panama Canal tolls exemption. Apart from Mr W. R. Hearst's group of papers, the- American newspapers acclaim President Wilson's honesty, courage; and statesmanship in his Message' to Congress. London, Marcli 7. , . The Morning Post says that President Wilson's noble appeal ,to Congress will live in history. The Chronicle says that President Wilson has put himself in the same class as Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln. Their difficulties were greater, but they fought more popular battles. Neither ever said nor did anything requiring greater exercise, of moral courage than- President Wilson's Message on the Canal tolls. The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent says that Mr. Roosevelt, ■in all his long-winded messages to Congress—sometimeb reaching 2000' words—never achieved such, a triumph as President Wilson's 490 words. . . .;'. Paris, March 6; ' The feeling against participation in the San Francisco Exhibition is growing, owing chiefly to dissatisfaction with American Customs methods. Members of the Chambers of Commerce are petitioning Parliament against the proposal. Adelaide, March 7. South Australia has decided to participate in the Panama Exhibition. '