Show I I I A M1W FlING AT UKYAT i I At the McKinley meeting Tuesday i i j Hon John Henry Smith made a genuinely I gen-uinely Republican speech in the Salt j Lake theatre He did not state in so I I many words that he viewed with alarm Ilia condition of the country j but that is what his words implied He II stated that in his belief the American I I people are confronted with the most I j I serious problem they ever met in times j i that are gone by A reading and < a rereading I I re-reading of that sentence convinces us j that the American people are in Mr Smiths opinion confronted with som j i I problem that has confronted them in I the past Which one of the problems of the past are they confronted with I i i The most serious problem the American i Ameri-can people ever met in the past was I the secession movement and the war upon the Union and according to Mr i upn I I Smith they are again confronted with the same problem Go to go to Mr i = < Smith you were unduly excited when you made the statement But there was a part of < Mr Smiths speech for which he deserves censure and which i unworthy of him I was his fling it was nothing else at Mr Bryan at the very close of his speech He said Mr Bryan was a fallacious Moses with wonderful eloquence but without ability scarcely to provide for his own wants and necessities in the midst of the struggles of life Mr Bryan is not a man of wealth but he is an honest man He Is not the candidate candi-date of the rich the millionaires and monopolists but he is the candidate of the toiling millions the millions who can scarcely get enough to satisfy their hunger and clothe their backs Mr Bryan is not the candidate of the rich class but he is the candidate of the class to which Lazarus belonged Mr Smith when he threw stones or mud should have remembered the old saw about people who live in glass houses I he will freshen up his memory he will recall the fact that the Republican candidate for president made a most disastrous failure some years ago and was only saved by the contributions of wealthy friends chief among whom a Mark Hanna Mr Smith should remember this when he again feels called upon to speak in behalf Of the salvation of his country |