Woodrow Wilson: “We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.”

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the District of Columbia, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o'clock noon

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

The said United States Fuel Administration is hereby authorized to procure information in reference to the business of coal and coke producers and distributors in the manner provided for in Sections 6 and 9 of the Act of Congress approved…