Woodrow 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…”

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.

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

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

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.