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If other nations go to war or seek to hamper each other's commerce, our merchants, it seems, are at their mercy, to do with as they please.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “If other nations go to war or seek to hamper each other's commerce, our merchants, it seems, are at their mercy, to do…”
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Wilson warns that American merchants are vulnerable to foreign powers if they cannot secure their own shipping.
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