Woodrow Wilson: “We must go forward with this concert of nations or we must go back to the old arrangement.”

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.

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

The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this country.

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.