Woodrow Wilson: “But we have at least proved that we will not take advantage of her in her distress and undertake to impose upon her an…”

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 not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.

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

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.