Woodrow Wilson: “The characteristic of this treaty is that it gives liberty to peoples who never could have won it for themselves.”

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

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.

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.