| Show SMOOT SM OT AND THE TARIFF Senator Smoot has been called down don downor for tor or misquoting Mr lr Knight on the tariff question and he has been met with a poser by way of ot a return query Mr Ir Smoot has been saying that the mines and nd smelters woud be closed If Bryan were w re elected because the tariff woud be taken off ot of ot lead lea Mr Ir Knight who Is somewhat Interested In mines and nd smelting Is supporting Bryan which Is ample evidence his hili opinion on n that subject and he asks Senator Senat r Smoot moot why wh the Provo woolen mills have ave been shut down this long l ng while when the th beneficent Dingley tariff is 15 bringing ringing prosperity in such miraculous waves to the country The talk of or free tree trade as a bugbear bugbears b Is s of oC course ridiculous Mr Ir Smoot knows as well ell as us anybody that the gov gO government Is compelled to have revenue and nd that its chief source of or supplies Is Isn In n the tariff He ought to know that it costs a billion dollars annually wider the he Republican congress to run the government and that It faces a deficit now ow because the revenues have hae been cut ut down by the Roosevelt panic Any An revision of o the tariff tart therefore will willave have ave to provide money from import duties dutle and those duties will m be levied 9 1 lead lend and sugar and other Items of ot large urge importation on the schedule which Insure a steady inflow of o money mone through the custom houses Incidentally Senator Smoot Smoot might discuss this question how much of oC the benefit to lead and silver goes to the smelting melting trust t represented by Republican lican can Senator Guggenheim and how much ot It has ha been permitted to reach the he the prospector and the men who llo make by y the discovery hn nd iud development of the mining indus Indus IndusI t l V t i S f fI I I Further Fur he Je might explain ln b f h V t price of ot lead and copper dropped into an abyss when the Roosevelt panic panl panic struck the country in spite of o the fact Tac act that the tariff on metals was ivas working right along Talk STalk about the loss to th the metal producers from Bryans Boans election n the panic of at last October which still stil exists cost the holders of o copper and ant lead and the mine securities o 0 of the th country untold millions and yet Sea ator tor Smoot t asks a ks the miners to vote fo for forthe the continuance of oC the party th the themen themen men who were ivere were responsible for l r that loss Mr ur Bryans Brans election might mean trouble tr ube for fr t r the smelter sm ter trust and th the theother other trusts say sa the powder trust who pay enormous enormous dividends on wa watered Watered stock at the expense of the raIn raIning Ing Ing Industry but It can by y no possible stretch str of ot Imagination be b figured as a menace to the welfare of ot legitimate mining such as Mr Ir Knight carries on and awL expects to carry on after aCter Bryan Ban I Is 0 elected |
