It is that against which I rise to speak. Why should not the same thing happen to us? And did it not come very near happening when the Panay incident occurred in Asiatic waters? Now that we have the information that foreign agents are here for the purpose of investigating whether they can purchase at more favorable terms. I deny the right of such government agents to come to this country under the guise of purchasing. yet in truth to ascertain the full limits of. our production. the methods of our procedure. the course we might take. or be prepared to take. when this information may be transferred to those who might shortly be the enemies of the United States.