Woodrow Wilson: “At whatever cost America should be just to other peoples and treat other peoples as she demands that they should treat…”

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.