Woodrow Wilson: “The provision of the statute prohibiting the payment of advance wages to seamen is intended to apply to seamen shipped…”

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

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

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