Woodrow Wilson: “We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.”

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 burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

I think, therefore, that the bill should not become law and that the tract should be made a Federal bird reservation for the protection of the birds which now frequent the lands.