Woodrow Wilson: “All departments and established agencies of the Government are hereby directed to cooperate with the United States Fuel…”

I am not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.

We shall not witness an immediate satisfactory adjustment of domestic and international trade relations.

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.

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