Woodrow Wilson: “Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.”

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.

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

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.

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