Woodrow Wilson: “I hereby establish an Exports Council, to be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Agriculture, the…”

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.

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.

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.