Woodrow Wilson: “It passes judgment or gives sanction, but it cannot direct or suggest.”

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

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

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.