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mere matter of personal opinion. In making the sug- 

 gestion I do not speak for California or for the Na- 

 tional Irrigation Association, but for myself alone. I 

 have been all my life a republican, and in my earlier 

 years advocated the republican doctrine of a tariff for 

 protection in many political campaigns in my native 

 State of California from the Oregon line to Mexico ; 

 but because I believe in preserving our industries and 

 not in destroying them, I believe that in order to 

 preserve the forest industries of this nation, we should 

 repeal every tariff law imposing a tariff upon the 

 products of the forests whether timber or wood or 

 wood pulp, at any rate for a limited number of years, 

 and until we have planted forests enough to annually 

 harvest from our own forests all the wood and timber 

 we use in any one year. 



