Warren G. Harding: “It is distracting the public mind and prejudicing the judgment of the electorate.”

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

With all my heart I wish restoration to the peoples blighted by the awful World War, but the process of restoration does not lie in our acceptance of like conditions.

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.

I can not too strongly urge in early completion of this necessary legislation It is needed to stabilize our industry at home; it is essential to make more definite our trade relations abroad.