Woodrow Wilson: “Business is all right so long as it is not sordid, and it cannot be sordid if it is shot through with ideals.”

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

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 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 country.

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…