Woodrow Wilson: “Trust is the very life and breadth of business; and suspicion, unjust national rivalry stands in the way of trade…”

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.

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.