Woodrow Wilson: “Principal Consular Officers shall keep at their offices a Register of all American citizens residing in their several…”

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

If there ever was a time when America had anything to fear from foreign competition, that time has passed.

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

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.