Woodrow Wilson: “I hope that in these statements I have sufficiently set forth the reasons why I have felt it incumbent upon me to…”

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

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

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.

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.