The Right Hon. J. G. Dodson has given his opinion
on the purchase of the Suez Canal, and he is in many ways a representa- tive man. He, on the whole, approved it. He raised the old point about the number of votes conferred by the shares-.—as if Baron Rothschild's influence on a company he joined would be limited to his vote—but said he thought that, pending informa- tion as to the precise terms of the purchase, the part-ownership of the Canal would be an assistance to England in time of war. She would, in defending the Canal, be defending her own pro- perty, and not taking other people's, an argument which would weigh much with neutrals and the world. He further thought that the purchase might be taken as "a friendly notice to all the world that we cared about the Canal, and were prepared.to risk something to maintain its freedom." Read " Egypt " for " Canal," and that sentence nearly expresses the fact.
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