Woodrow Wilson: “It is none of my prerogative to allot peoples to this government or the other.”

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

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

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

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