Show TAFT VERSUS SMOOT The President's Stand for Free Hides Seems Better Than the Senator's Even for Utah President Taft is strongly in favor of free the dispatches while Senator and Senator Smoot are in favor of high taxes on and thereby hangs a Senator Smoot 's Senator Smoot telegraphs to the Utah papers that he concedes nothing as to the tariff on and that hides will be put on the free list only on condition that leather goods are materially reduced or placed on the free list For this stand the Senior Senator from Utah is we doubt a great deal of praise for his apparent support of a Utah it does look at first but let us What Is Senator Smoot by his contention for free that the tariff on hides raises the price of this article used by every He says that he insists on the reduction of the leather duties so that the people and not the leather shall get the benefit of the removal of the tariff on Just what is that Cost of Taxed Shoe the famous shoe manufacturer of has proved to the whole American people that the tariff on hides and leather adds an average of fifty cents to the price of every pair ot shoes purchased in this The population of Utah is nearly All wear shoes except infants and certain who wear Each person at ot averages two pairs shoes each That allowing people of Utah wear the cost of the tariff on hides and leather to the people of Utah is per What Does Utah On the other what benefit do the people of Utah derive from the tariff on Only a few of the people sell hides or Of these how many get an increased price for their hides by reason of the and what does it amount We have not figured it out as but if there is one tenth of the lost on shoes in this state recovered on we should be greatly it is the beef not the Utah that sell the after all and we don't believe that they divide the swag with the cattle Taxed Hides The simple fact is that the tariff is indefensible as the on hides as tariff on or steel or on sewing It benefits only the beef while it adds five dollars to the yearly bill of every family in Those who are lauding Senator Smoot because of his stand for taxed that is for dearer are simply advertising their own We can understand why a high tax Senator Smoot prefers on He has friends among and he himself the rich cattle men belongs to the capitalistic But why the Republican masses in Utah should each prefer estra per to pay every woman and child in the family that wears shoes is past our Utah families are proverbially good so that for some families this leather tax on and other things may easily amount to Taft is We rather think that President Taft has the best end of the free hides even in and that Senators and Smoot have mistaken the interests of their rich friends who sell hides for that of the masses who must pay for |