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Show ITS IDIOTIC SAVINGS. We note in tho Smoot "Mouth" of yesterday morning, under the heading, ''Attacks His Own Report," the following fol-lowing choice oditorial idiocy: You get an idea- how dotty The Tribune hiis become when you read a recent editorial edi-torial In that sheet attacking the accuracy accu-racy of Statistician McMillan's figures on th'i taxable property of the sfat Mr. McMillan naturally used the government report as a basin for his comparisons. And tbo editor of Tho Tribune was the government statistician who drew pay for furnishing those very figures. He isn't government ptatlnticlan now. And maybe ho knows beat how unreliable were the llguree lie furnlrhcd. But you would expect him to dofend rather than attack them, wouldn't you? In view of the fact that tho editor ,of The Tribune has uevcr bceu in a position to fix any taxable values or other values on tho property of this State; inasmuch as he never made any figures of that kind; and since his employment em-ployment as agent of the United States Agricultural Department's bureau of statistics for Utah had nothing whatever what-ever to do with tho matter of taxable property or iho values of property, it is puzzliug to imagine what that idiotic concern is trying to get at. As agent of Iho Agricultural Departments hit- reau of statistics, tho editor of The Tribune reported upon the condition of growing crops as sent him by his hundred hun-dred and more eorrespoudents through- 1 out the State, the yield, of different . graiiif, and so on, from month tp month, and occasionally on the market value j of sheep, horfes. .and cattle; but. never iu the least degree reforriug to taxable values or any other values by way of computing tho aggregate wealrh of iho State, llo had nothing whatever to do. I for instance, with and uevcr reported ' upon tho value of real estate, of houses. ! or of personal property, other than of j farm auimals, as indicated, from time I to time. ! The Smoot "Month" has bad a good j deal to say about the activities of the editor of The Tribune in various directions, direc-tions, but it has uevcr come within a milo of the murk at any time in its statements about those activities. In the present instance its fire 13 ?o wild as to be absolutely grotesque. Tf the oditor of the "Mouth" lias any idea that the statistician for Utah of the Unitod States Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture has anything to do with taxable values or with tho making up of the valuation o'f property in general in the Stato, he had better ask the prcscut incumbent in-cumbent of that position, who will undoubtedly un-doubtedly bo ablo to sot him right ou (.his question; that is, always provided tho editor of the "Mouth" desires lo bo right on auy question, which is really real-ly a matter of serious doubt. |