Woodrow Wilson: “The thing had needed to be done for a long time, but nobody had ventured before to undertake it in systematic fashion.”

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.

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…

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

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.