Woodrow Wilson: “We must not await the permission of foreign ship-owners and foreign governments to send them where we will.”

One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

No provision is made in the resolution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the combatant corps of the Army.

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…