Woodrow Wilson: “In looking back to that time, the impression is inevitable that we started with sundry wrong ideas about ourselves.”

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.

The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.

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