Woodrow Wilson: “It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of…”

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.

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.

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.

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