Woodrow Wilson: “We live in a world which we did not make, which we can not alter, which we can not think into a different condition from…”

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

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

Such records, files, reports, copies of contracts, correspondence, and proceedings transferred under this order, and such personnel detailed or assigned thereunder, as are stated in a written notice to the Secretary of the Federal Trade…

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.