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Show T Senator Smoot's Foresight. , I By F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor of The Citizen. IT IS probnblc that the lcngue of nations plank In the Republican platform more nearly represents tho views of Senator Smoot than of any cither .senator who took part in framing tho party's declaration of prlncinlci. As Senator Smoot re-1 re-1 marked moii nfter tho conipromlso had i been agreed upon, "It does not repu- dlate the league of nations nor does I It pledge the party to any specific action for the future." It leaves the party mi trammeled to meet the new conditions while binding It to save the country from tho perils which Senator i Smoot discerned In tho covenant as j soon as it was presented to tho senate i by President Wilson. t It 1b to bo presumed thnt even the mot tcaloiiH advocate of the league V will concede today that Senator Smoot acted wisely and bravely at n time I whon the people of Utah were swept i) off their feet by generous but mls- '' taken impulses. They believed with ' mi abiding fnlth that tholr president had brought homo a covenant which ! Insured permanent peace throughout S, the world and they displayed a com mendable enthusiasm for u noble jaytiiKC. It was many months before f ' Ji'V realized thnt Senator Smoot had I seen through tho shams of the coven- nnt with unerring vision. .Meantime v he was -ulijeetod to n veritable whirl- ,' wind of embittered criticism from men . who have slneo recanted and como over to his side. It required high patriotism for the i Republican senators to brave tho I storms of inlsundurfatandlng and do- I nunelatlon. It was Inevitable that the ; Democrats should raise the cry of ' partisanship and thus obscuro the , Issue. None had bigger odds to face I than did Senator Smoot and nono met I them with a more unflinching courage ' and determination. Thoso oyfl days have vanished nnd a saner tlew prevails everywhere. Wo may ba sure that in the long run the Aurtrlcan people will decide the ques-I ques-I tloa wisely and Justly and with their fcafuuc Idealism. |