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Show JUST WHAT SMOOT SAID. Tho Smool organ in this city having claimed that Smoot was misrepresented or misunderstood in his speech at Og-den Og-den and at other placos in this Stato Tvhorc he spoko of pensions, it may-bo well to put tho rocord .straight and ! to i-how that (hoi'o was no garbling and no misreporting of him on that subject, lloro is a verljat.ini report of it: 1 why. he (Wilson) never thought ..of belli-- President. ' of the United SUaos.i never dreruTfed of It. and let mo toll you why. It wasn't but a few years npro tb'nt ho retired from Princeton, and what did he do? Made application to Andrew Carnegie Car-negie for a pension for life. Ami on What sioundV IJcenusc ho was a retired PUdfcSMor, nu awed .school teacher, and that wah' why he thought ho was entitled en-titled to a. pension from Andrew Carnegie. Carne-gie. Why, that wnan't but Just a fow ycara ago, and now a great party haa aakod the American people to toko and put him In as- President of tho United States. Why, what la the dlfCeronoo b- twoon a pension" for. llfo or golns to the workhoune only In degroo. nothing mdre. - Tho latter portion of this 'extract taken by itsolf might bear tho interpretation inter-pretation that- gave ofVcnso. It; was an awkward way to express binn-clf if ho meant as ho o'xplained afterwards, thntho had no reference to ponsions in general, but only to. the particular pension that Governor Wilson had applied ap-plied for. As, in a lotter Smoot Bays: "1 should have stated that all tho ditt'eronco between drawing a pension of tha.t character, etc.," in placo of' making the languugo general, as lie did in his speech as accurately reported report-ed in tho above extract. If Smoot is not ablo to express himself him-self in a way that convoys his meaning, mean-ing, he has no .particular reason to complain at what ho afterwards may-think may-think to bo a misinterpretation of his speech. If he had said, as he now claims ho ought to have said, that he referred to a poneion "of that character," char-acter," that is, of the character that Cnrnegio was offering to certain superannuated su-perannuated teachers in his teachers' pension fund, there would have been no misunderstanding and no comment on his expression, For, as to a particular par-ticular mattor of that kind, it is clear that any one has the right to his own opinions; but as to the government pensions to old soldiers, thero is no room for any such comment as might be the interpretation of tlio latter portion por-tion of tho remarks quoted above from Smoot. But when he is brought to book on account of awkward phraseology of his own, it is certainly no kindness to him. no relief lo the situation, to try to place tho burden upon a wrong report re-port of his speech. In fact, the speech was roported, in the Smoot organ pro-cisoly pro-cisoly as it was reported in tho other papers, and tho effort to throw the blame on the press, in place of upon the a"wkwardno33 of expression of Smoot, ia an attempted sheer imposturo upon the public. It has been fairly said that the worat sort of garbling of a speech of Smoot 's would bo to report it exactly as he delivers it; and it looks from the crawfishing and false allegations of misreporting of that speech as though tho saying were true. |