Woodrow Wilson: “America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.”

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

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.

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

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.