Woodrow Wilson: “I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.”

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…

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.

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.