Woodrow Wilson: “There is something inspiriting in knowing that this is the errand that we have come on.”

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

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

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.

The authorization granted to the United States Fuel Administration and the United States Fuel Administrator by paragraph 5 of the executive order of July 3, 1918, was and is terminated as of January 1st, 1920, and the said powers were and…