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Show A RAP FOR SMOOT. It is sad lo See that BOm of the Smoot devotees are not altogether content con-tent Wtlh his address at the Commei -cial i'iuh in this city un Thursday night last. They do not discover the logical sequence of liia conclusions from his premises. Heie . ernes the Logan Lo-gan Republican, for instance. Objecting to Smoot's declaration that he win vnt to restore the "canteen" In the ;iirny. After stating the substance of what It considers the argument for the restoration restora-tion of the canteen, the Republican proceeds pro-ceeds to denounce the liquor traffic, to fay that consumers of liquor are generally gen-erally barred from employment if they are known to be drinkers, and thai persona per-sona who must drink should not be admitted ad-mitted to the army, and closes with thosi 'voids. There can be no compromise with liquor In business llf. pilvate life public life end certainly not in urm lit..- Liquor In exttcttnc und never compromises, it demands de-mands submission. The Semitci from Provo, a representative of a great rolig-lous rolig-lous organization with total abstinence, even from tea and coffee, as r tenet of its faith, cannot afford to compromise with liquor by voting for the restoration of tho canteen in the army r m licensing the sale of liciuor under any conditions. If an unfortunate condition exists, the Senator can better afford to seek the c:ciise of that condition and In ferreting out the seeming necessity of ihe restoration restora-tion of the army canteen h will do his country a Kn-at service and crowu his brow with tho laurel wreath of victory. The Logan paper evidently foigets the showing made- In a photograph, Which The Tribune recently reproduced, of what is in view ln the Srnoot Drug Company's show window In Provo, It was as spirited (not to say spirituous) a showing as any saloon in the country coun-try could make. So that the Republican Republi-can Is awa off Its base when It undertakes under-takes to hold Smoot up to any theory of teetotallsm or even of absteniousness, bo far as the liquor traffic is concerne d Still less Is It possible to admlte Smoot's logical processes. He is going to vote to restore the canteen, it seems, (provided he Is not thrown out of the Senate before the question comes tip ln that body.) not bcause he thinks in particular par-ticular that the canteen should be restored, re-stored, for In fact he doesn't seem to know anything worth while about the matter; but the Women's Christian Temperance I'nlon has moved the previous pre-vious question on his expulsion from the Senate, and to spite the members Of It. and punish them for opposing him, he will vote for the canteen because be-cause they oppose it A great head, th.it, which Smoot has; and his course in this proves his unfitness unfit-ness to be a Senator, and the right -ednesa of the women In their opposition opposi-tion to him |