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honesty of purpose than did President 

 Taft, and while his plan was success- 

 fully opposed by political adversaries 

 and distrustful manufacturers within 

 the ranks of his own party during the 

 years we were engaged upon it, he has 

 lived to see everything for which he 

 so valiantly contended at that time 

 approved and enacted into organic 

 law by Woodrow Wilson and the very 

 men in Congress who put to death 

 the original Tariff Board of which I 

 had the honor to be a member. Per- 

 haps then, after all, the weeks and 

 months away from my own fireside 

 and business affairs, spent first in 

 wrestling with Count Bernstorff and 

 M. Jusserand over German-American 

 and Franco-American trade relations, 

 and secondly in grappling with the 

 intricacies of "Schedule K" were not 

 entirely wasted. Somebody has al- 

 ways to do some plowing before some 

 one else may reap. Some one has to 

 ride ahead and help blaze the legisla- 



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