Woodrow Wilson: “We cannot isolate our thought or our action in such a matter from the thought of the rest of the world.”

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

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.

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.

Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.