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

One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.

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.

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