Show 1 SMOOT ARRAIGNS UTAH LABORERS Senior Senator Tells President Roosevelt They Will Not Work W prk I SAYS THEY ROB EACH OTHER INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN HIS OWN NEWSPAPER From the columns of his own news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper Senator Reed Smoot announces in language that will vIll bear of ot no mis misconstruction misconstruction misconstruction construction his attitude on labor Jabor HE HP declares that there are no American la ha laborers laborers borers In Utah that the American la Ia laborers laborers borers are too busy bu robbing one another to go to work This appears in an in interview published In the tain tam Republican his own newspaper This interview was a portion of or a talk which Reed Smoot had with President Roosevelt concerning the Utah labor ing men eleven months ago Reed Smoot is now a candidate for re reelection reelection election and hopes to secure that re reelection reelection reelection election through the votes of the labor laborIng laborIng Ing men m n for Republican Candidates for forthe forthe forthe the legislature who are pledged to je turn Reed Smoot to the United States senate The article In full including the headlines is from the lain Republican of Dec 2 1907 SENATOR SMOOT OX ON ONt t AMERICAN LABORERS Says Sas They The Will Not ot Werk and For Foreigners Foreigners Foreigners eigners Get the Money Ione Washington Dec 1 The Americans wont work any more They are so 00 o busy speculating and trying tring to live oft off each other that they the have abandoned labor and the foreigner collects the wages and sends the money abroad This Is the arraignment of the nation delivered by b Senator Reed Smoot of or Utah at the White House today toda Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Smoot laid much of the blame for forthe forthe forthe the present financial stringency upon the shoulders should rs of or hits countrymen and said he hoped thE tho money troubles would teach them a les lea lesson lesson leason son Greeks Do It All Out in my m state and in the sur stir surrounding surrounding rounding states state you ou cannot find an American laborer said Mr Ir Smoot All AU the work is performed by bJor foreign foreigners ers mostly Greeks at present and the moment they get their pay they ship every eer cent of ot it they the can spare from their bare living expenses to their homes in the old country That means theana more Greeks I 1 do not think that the postal bank as suggested by b Postmaster ter General Meyer reer or any other scheme schem of government guarantee would keep that money from going across the thc ocean If Tf the foreigner is paid more money than he actually needs to live on he will send it home May Teach Us Something Perhaps the th financial panic will nill teach us a lesson and some time in inthe inthe inthe the future the Americans will go bad to work In the lat last few f years ears our people haye been b n too busy bus gambling and speculating to do any an real work They The have hava been too much engaged in robbing each ea h other Salt Lake Inter InterMountain InterMountain Mountain Republican Dec De 2 1907 |