It is not fair to the great multitudes of hopeful men and women who press into this country from other countries that we should leave them without that friendly and intimate instruction which will enable them very soon after they come to find out what America is like at heart and what America is intended for among the nations of the world.
Address to the Citizenship Convention at Wilson Normal School
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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.
The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.
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.
One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.
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