Woodrow Wilson: “I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.”

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.

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.

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