Warren G. Harding: “We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled, and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew.”

There is actual depression in our agricultural industry, while agricultural prosperity is absolutely essential to the general prosperity of the country.

It is not an unworthy selfishness to seek to save ourselves, when the processes of that salvation are not only not denied to others, but commended to them.

We have been giving, and are giving now, of our influence and appeals to minimize the likelihood of war and throw off the crushing burdens of armament.

We recognize the necessity of buying wherever we sell, and the permanency of trade lies in its acceptable exchanges.