Warren G. Harding: “We ought not to find these partisan lines obstructing the expeditious solution of the urgent problems of peace.”

I hope a way will be found to make for flexibility and elasticity, so that rates may be adjusted to meet unusual and changing conditions which can not be accurately anticipated.

But a people unemployed, and gaunt with hunger, face a situation quite as disheartening as war, and our greater obligation to-day is to do the Government's part toward resuming productivity and promoting fortunate and remunerative…

Everything relating to trade, among ourselves and among nations, has been expanded, excessive, inflated, abnormal, and there is a madness in finance which no American policy alone will cure.

We ought to amend to meet the demands of the people when sanctioned by deliberate public opinion.