I do not believe that the tariff should be made a political question and issue. but that it should be a purely scientific one. that a nonpartisan t:.riff board should be created by Congress to gather facts and information regarding the cost of production at home and abroad. and that we should only charge at the customhouse that difference. This is the Republican doctrine and it is the American doctrine. It means America for Americans and protection to our American industries and workingmen against the cheap coolie and Hindu labor of foreign lands. It is true that the Payne law is not correct in every particular at this time. and that the tariff should be lowered in some instances and raised in some to meet changed and existing conditions. The woolen schedule and the cotton schedule are too high in some particulars. and if this Congress had followed the Information gathered by the Tariff Board it would be an easy matter to change these schedules with due regard to what is right and fair.