07/09/1919
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"Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers."
"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."
"The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop."
"The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this countr..."