Woodrow Wilson: “Nobody doubts any longer that the covenant gives explicit, unqualified recognition to the Monroe doctrine.”

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

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

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