Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-18 | Page 6 | Borrowed Thought and Phrase

Borrowed Thought and Phrase. It appears that in the exercise of studied eloquence Senator Keed Smoot of Utah employed certain thoughts and phrases that had previously graced an oration delivered by Jasper T. Barling. Mr. Darling recognized his own and his comment is sarcastic. He intimates that the precious jewels were purloined. Senator Smoot replies with "ridiculous" "ridicu-lous" and adds: "It is true I used several paragraphs from Darling 's speech, but 1 prefaced them with the words, ' It has oeen well said,' so that everyone mizht know X was quoting." Injury piled upou injury. It reminds re-minds us of a reprehensible practice in the newspaper world of borrowing from some esteemed contemporary and crediting the extract not to the proud producer from whose body it wad torn, but to that vast aud vague unknown j called "exchange." So Senator Smoot i robs Darling of his personality, his separate entity, makes him less real than Mrs. Harris, denies his continuity before as well as after .death, returns him unmarked to the universal soul, uses him as an "exchange" by doing all of the taking aud none of the giving, giv-ing, classifies him as "it." Even an esteemed contemporary doesn't like such treatment. It speaks up occasionally to rebuke the intermediate interme-diate consumer. And the signers of "colyums" whose gems are appro- i priated' have beeu Known to go sick over the kidnaping. A certain nervous, ner-vous, anxious, prideful love, a jealous love that far transceuds that or com- j mon parenthood throws the despoiled authors into fearful agony. 'Twas ever thus from Sappho to the Sweet Singer of Michigan. When Senator Smoot orderB his next speech he should hire a more ingenious in-genious hack. Chicago Herald.