Woodrow Wilson: “We will not ask our young men to spend the best years of their lives making soldiers of themselves.”

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.

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

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.