Warren G. Harding: “In a world where there are tens of millions who need food and clothing which they can not get, such a condition is sure…”

The base of the pyramid of civilization which rests upon the soil is shrinking through the drift of population from farm to city.

Again comes the reminder that we must not be unmindful of world conditions, that peoples are struggling for industrial rehabilitation and that we can not dwell in industrial and commercial exclusion and at the same time do the just thing…

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.

I believe Congress ought well consider the desirability of the only promising alternative, namely, a provision authorizing proclaimed American valuation, under prescribed conditions, on any given list of articles imported.