Woodrow Wilson: “I am trying to tell the people what is in the treaty.”

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

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

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 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.