Woodrow Wilson: “America will not bring glory to herself, but disgrace, by following the beaten paths of history.”

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

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.

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.