Woodrow Wilson: “There is no means of judging the future except by assessing the past.”

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.

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

The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.