Woodrow Wilson: “Our railroads at this moment are not adequate to moving the commerce of this country.”

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.

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

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.