Woodrow Wilson: “I have always taken this attitude toward facts, that I never let them get me if I see them coming first.”

I am not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.

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.

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.