Woodrow Wilson: “We are trusted to do a great thing, to do it in the highest spirit of friendship and accommodation.”

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

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

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