Woodrow Wilson: “The procedure and the prerogatives of authority have been agreed upon; liberty has encroached upon sovereignty and set…”

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.

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

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.

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