Woodrow Wilson: “If asked, Are you ready to defend yourselves? we reply, Most assuredly, to the utmost; and yet we shall not turn America…”

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

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.

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