Woodrow Wilson: “I urgently advise and request that the Congress grant the Executive power to accept for the United States a mandate over…”

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

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.

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.